In the present paper, an experimental assessment was performed on the transient thermal performance of a heat sink filled by a phase change material (PCM) and PCM embedded with carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and titania (TiO2) nanoparticles as nanostructured materials. In order to enhance the thermal conductivity of PCM, CNFs and TiO2 nanoparticles at different loadings (0.5wt. % and 2 wt.% of CNFs a...

A centrosome consists of two barrel-shaped centrioles embedded in a matrix of proteins known as the pericentriolar material (PCM). The PCM serves as a platform for protein complexes that regulate organelle trafficking, protein degradation and spindle assembly. Perhaps most important for cell division, the PCM concentrates tubulin and serves as the primary organizing centre for microtubules in m...

The specification of workloads is required in order to evaluate performance characteristics of application systems using performance prediction approaches like the Palladio Component Model (PCM). One of the biggest challenges in workload modeling is to ensure that the modeled user behavior adequately resembles the real user behavior. However, PCM offers limited support to model such complex use...

Phase Change Memory (PCM) is a promising alternative to DRAM to achieve high memory capacity at low cost per bit. Adding to its better projected scalability, PCM can also store multiple bits per cell (called multi-level cell, MLC), offering higher bit density. However, MLC requires precise sensing and control of PCM cell resistance, which incur higher memory access latency and energy. We propos...

IJPRES ABSTRACT─ PCM is rapidly developed as a promising candidate for next-generation storage class memory (SCM) because of its non-volatility, byte-addressability, and high access performance. In recent years, researchers have studied how to use PCM as main memory or hybrid main memory to improve the system performance and energy efficiency. Although some studies have explored the read/write ...

Background and study aims  Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is a technically advanced procedure for colorectal tumors. Hayashi et al. invented the "pocket-creation method (PCM)," and reported that Is-type lesions with fibrosis could be efficaciously and safely resected. However, only case studies have been published, and there are no previous reports on the usefulness of PCM in colorectal...

For component-based performance engineering, software component developers individually create performance specifications of their components. Software architects compose these specifications to architectural models. This enables assessing the possible fulfilment of performance requirements without the need to purchase and deploy the component implementations. Many existing performance models d...

A new zero-forcing block diagonalization (ZF-BD) scheme that enables both a more simplified ZF-BD and further increase in sum rate of MU-MIMO channels is proposed this paper. The provides the improvement BER performance for equivalent SU-MIMO channels. consists two components. First, permuted channel matrix (PCM), which given by moving submatrix related to target user bottom downlink MIMO matri...

Centrosomes comprise a pair of centrioles surrounded by a matrix of pericentriolar material (PCM). In vertebrate cells, Pericentrin plays an important part in mitotic PCM assembly, but the Drosophila Pericentrin-like protein (PLP) appears to have a more minor role in mitotic fly cells. Here we investigate the function of PLP during the rapid mitotic cycles of the early Drosophila embryo. Unexpe...

The application of thermal energy storage with phase change materials (PCMs) for energy efficiency of buildings grew rapidly in the last few years. In this research, octadecane paraffin was served as a PCM, and a structural concrete with the function of indoor temperature control was developed by using a macro-encapsulated PCM hollow steel ball (HSB). The macro-encapsulated PCM-HSB was prepared...