Superamphiphobic nanofibrous membranes exhibiting robust water/oil proof and breathable performances were prepared by the combination of a novel synthesized fluorinated polyurethane (FPU) containing a terminal perfluoroalkane segment and incorporated SiO(2) nanoparticles (SiO(2) NPs). By employing the FPU/SiO(2) NPs incorporation, the hybrid membranes possess superhydrophobicity with a water co...

There is much debate regarding whether pornography use has positive or negative associations with sexuality-related measures such as sexual functioning problems. The present study aimed to examine differential correlates between quantity (frequency of use–FPU) and severity (problematic use–PPU) respect problems among both males females. Multi-group structural equation modeling was conducted inv...

Because the inductive noise Ldi/dt is induced by the power change and can have disastrous impact on the timing and reliability of the system, high-performance CPU designs are more concerned with the step power reduction instead of the average power reduction. The step power is defined as the power difference between the previous and present clock cycles, and represents the Ldi/dt noise at the m...

The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam α-model of harmonic oscillators with cubic anharmonic interactions is studied from a statistical mechanical point of view. Systems of N = 32 to 128 oscillators appear to be large enough to suggest statistical mechanical behavior. A key element has been a comparison of the maximum Lyapounov coefficient λmax of the FPU α-model and that of the Toda lattice. For generic initial...

This paper presents vectorization techniques tailored to meet the specifics of the twoway single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) double-precision floating-point unit, which is a core element of the node ASICs of IBM's 360 Tflop/s supercomputer BlueGene/L. The paper focuses on the general-purpose basic-block vectorization methods provided by the Vienna MAP vectorizer. In addition, the paper int...

We show that, in the pure-quartic systems, modulation instability (MI) undergoes heteroclinic-structure transitions (HSTs) at two critical frequencies of {\omega} c1 and c2 ( > ), which indicates that there are significantchanges spatiotemporal behavior system. The complicated heteroclinic structure obtained by mode truncation method reveals all possible dynamic trajectories nonlinear waves, al...