Introduction: Micrometeorites (MMs) are large (>25 µm) interplanetary dust particles that survive atmospheric entry to be recovered from the Earth's surface. Amongst those particles that escaped significant heating during atmospheric entry two groups have been identified [1]: (i) fine-grained MMs (fgMMs), which are similar to the fine-grained matrices of hy-drated carbonaceous chondrites (CCs),...

Dependency parsing is a way of syntactic parsing and a natural language that automatically analyzes the dependency structure of sentences, and the input for each sentence creates a dependency graph. Part-Of-Speech (POS) tagging is a prerequisite for dependency parsing. Generally, dependency parsers do the POS tagging task along with dependency parsing in a pipeline mode. Unfortunately, in pipel...

Entity Recognition (ER) is a key component of relation extraction systems and many other natural-language processing applications. Unfortunately, most ER systems are restricted to produce labels from to a small set of entity classes, e.g., person, organization, location or miscellaneous. In order to intelligently understand text and extract a wide range of information, it is useful to more prec...

Fine-grained multithreading can be used to hide longlatency operations encountered in parallel computers during remote memory access. Instead of using special processor hardware, the emulation of fine-grained multithreading on standard processor hardware is investigated. While emulation of coarse-grained multithreading is common in modern operating systems, in the fine-grained case research on ...

Fine-grained, more or less cohesive carbonate materials are extremely widespread in terms of surface area and are, therefore, commonly used as materials to construct impermeable cores for dams. However, it has not been adequately documented whether the carbonate content in fine-grained soils significantly affects their engineering behaviour. The present study shows that the carbonate content su...

The availability of high-energy X-rays from 3rd-generation synchrotron sources offers new approaches to study internal stresses in the bulk of crystalline materials. A method with a wide application potential is the transmission technique introduced by Daymond and Withers, which however has so far been limited to fine-grained materials. In the present work, the reasons for the currently existin...

As a software system evolves, its test suite can accumulate redundancies over time. Test minimization aims at removing redundant test cases. However, current techniques remove whole test cases from the test suite using test adequacy criteria, such as code coverage. This has two limitations, namely (1) by removing a whole test case the corresponding test assertions are also lost, which can inhib...

We present a concurrent Completion procedure based on the use of a SOUR graph as data structure. The procedure has the following characteristics. It is asynchronous, there is no need for a global memory or global control, equations are stored in a SOUR graph with maximal structure sharing, and each vertex is a process, representing a term. Therefore, the parallelism is at the term level. Each e...

Fine-grained cryptographic primitives are ones that are secure against adversaries with an apriori bounded polynomial amount of resources (time, space or parallel-time), where the honest algorithms use less resources than the adversaries they are designed to fool. Such primitives were previously studied in the context of time-bounded adversaries (Merkle, CACM 1978), space-bounded adversaries (C...

In theory, join points can be arbitrary places in the structure or execution of a program. However, most existing aspect languages do not support the full expressive power of this concept, limiting their pointcut languages to a subset of the theoretically possible join points. In this paper we explore a minimal language design based on only three built-in fine-grained pointcuts, which enable ex...