The economic feasibility of a facility producing monosaccharides, hydrogen and transportation fuels via fast pyrolysis and upgrading pathway was evaluated by modeling a 2000 dry metric ton biomass/day facility using Aspen Plus®. Equipment sizing and cost were based on Aspen Economic Evaluation® software. The results indicate that monosaccharide production capacity could reach 338 metric tons/da...

We derive harmonic superspaces for N = 2, 3, 4 SYM theory in four dimensions from superstring theory. The pure spinors in ten dimensions are dimensionally reduced and yield the harmonic coordinates. Two anticommuting BRST charges implement Grassmann analyticity and harmonic analyticity. The string field theory action produces the action and field equations for N=3 SYM theory in harmonic supersp...

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ be an open and bounded set with Lipschitz boundary outward unit normal $\nu$. For $1<p<\infty$ we establish improved version of the generalized $L^p$-Korn inequality for incompatible tensor fields $P$ in new Banach space $$ W^{1,\,p,\,r}_0(\operatorname{dev}\operatorname{sym}\operatorname{Curl}; \Omega,\mathbb R^{3\times3}) = \{ P \in L^p(\Omega,\mathbb \mid \o...

SYM-1219, a novel oral granule formulation of secnidazole, is under development as single-dose treatment for bacterial vaginosis. This 4-way, randomized, crossover study evaluated the effects of SYM-1219 on electrocardiographic (ECG) parameters in 52 healthy subjects. Subjects were administered single doses of SYM-1219, 2 g (proposed therapeutic dose), 6 g (supratherapeutic dose), placebo, and ...

It is shown that the first order (Palatini) variational principle for a generic nonlinear metric-affine Lagrangian depending on the (symmetrized) Ricci square invariant leads to an almost-product Einstein structure or to an almost-complex anti-Hermitian Einstein structure on a manifold. It is proved that a real anti-Hermitian metric on a complex manifold satisfies the Kähler condition on the sa...

Attackers continually innovate and craft attacks that penetrate existing defenses. New security product purchasing decisions are key in order to keep organizations as secure as possible. Current information available to inform these decisions is often limited to individual security product detection/blocking rates for some test set of attacks. Actual security performance, however, depends on ho...

The Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem (UFLP) is one of the most widely studied discrete location problems, whose applications arise in a variety of settings. We tackle the UFLP using probabilistic inference in a graphical model an approach that has received little attention in the past. We show that the fixed points of max-product linear programming (MPLP), a convexified version of the ma...

The increasing emphasis on quality software has prompted the need for better software quality management using data driven and statistical methods. Various measures of development and released software quality have been created to make the process measurable, repeatable, and continuously improving. Defect Removal Efficiency (DRE) is one of the commonly used metrics for measuring the efficiency ...