Access control is a fundamental and essential mechanism to maintain security in ubiquitous computing (UbiComp). Flexibility is an important property for general access control system, which can be achieved by access or authority delegation. Existing delegation mechanisms are "subject-centered", thus in order to make sure that the unavailability of some users does not prevent the syste...

Alternative crystal structures are possible for all lipids and each different crystal structure is called a polymorphic form. Inter-conversion between polymorphisms would imply the possibility of leaning crystal formation toward the most effective polymorphism for adipocyte destruction. Food industry has been tempering lipids for decades. Tempering technology applied to lipocryolysis gave birth...

We propose a new stochastic global optimization method by accelerating the simulated tempering scheme with random walks executed on a temperature ladder with various transition step sizes. By suitably choosing the length of the transition steps, the accelerated scheme enables the search process to execute large jumps and escape entrapment in local minima, while retaining the capability to explo...

In complex systems with many degrees of freedom such as spin glass and biomolecular systems, conventional simulations in canonical ensemble suffer from the quasi-ergodicity problem. A simulation in generalized ensemble performs a random walk in potential energy space and overcomes this difficulty. From only one simulation run, one can obtain canonical-ensemble averages of physical quantities as...

Abstract Lath martensite substructures in as-quenched plain carbon steels exhibit dislocation-like contrast the transmission electron microscope. More recent observations reported internal twins and nanoscale auto-tempered intra-lath carbides as additional lath ultra-low-C binary Fe–C steels. Modern microalloyed often have similar ultra-low C contents besides microalloying elements like Ti, Nb ...

Introduction The concentration of ion H (pH) in solution plays very important role in chemical, biological and physical processes. Since Cremer (1906) first reported the pH response of oxide glasses, many theoretical researches about the glass electrode and its applications have been carried out. The glass electrode is stable mechanically and chemically and can be used in the wide range of solv...

The paper considers the issues of technology for soldering a terminal (contactor) to auto-glass heating systems cars, i.e. metal non-metal bodies. A technique conducting an experiment measuring temperature on setup specially designed this system is described. results experimental studies using various solder compositions are presented. optimal variants technologies auto glass determined and Pur...

In complex systems with many degrees of freedom such as spin glass and biomolecular systems, conventional simulations in canonical ensemble suffer from the quasi-ergodicity problem. A simulation in generalized ensemble performs a random walk in potential energy space and overcomes this difficulty. From only one simulation run, one can obtain canonical ensemble averages of physical quantities as...

We discuss multidimensional generalizations of multicanonical algorithm, simulated tempering, and replica-exchange method. We generalize the original potential-energy function E0 by adding any physical quantity V of interest as a new energy term with a coupling constant lambda. We then perform a multidimensional multicanonical simulation where a random walk in E0 and V spaces is realized. We ca...