The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has become the dominant means for expressing traditional business processes as workflows. The widespread deployment of mobile devices like PDAs and mobile phones has created a vast computational and communication resource for these workflows to exploit. However, BPEL so far has been deployed only on relatively heavyweight server platfor...

A theoretical calculation is made to simulate the effect of drafting upon the sliver irregularity in two-zone drafting of three-over-three roller system. Two types of slivers, i.e., random sliver and optional sliver are considered. The effects of sliver count, staple fiber length, fineness of fiber, draft distribution between two drafting zones, maximal moving distance and distribution type of ...

The Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSES) at The Australian National University, with Origin Energy, has developed a novel cell fabrication process for single crystal silicon PV. The Sliver® cell fabrication process produces narrow and long cells. With some modifications to the current fabrication process it is possible to produce Sliver® cells suitable for concentrator systems with low ...

Thermophotovoltaic systems are direct conversion heat engines that use photovoltaic cells to convert radiant energy from a heated object to electrical energy. Sources of heat for thermophotovoltaic (TPV) systems include sunlight, the combustion of fossil fuels, radioactive decay and industrial waste heat. Previous modelling indicated that thin photovoltaic cells were optimal for use in TPV syst...

We derive an oscillator form for the Butterflies in terms of Sliver matrix S and its twisted version T as was already done for the Wedges in term of T . We write a General Squeezed state depending on a matrix U and we show in a compact way the interpolation between Identity state and the Sliver and between the Nothing state and the Sliver, growing in powers of T and S matrices, respectively, in...

We consider “sliver” states which act as projection operators in the matter star product of Witten’s cubic string field theory. These sliver states, which might be associated with Dp-branes, are not finite norm states in the matter string Hilbert space. We describe the singularities of these states, and demonstrate that the sliver states are composed of strings having singular geometric feature...

We study ghost number one excitations on the sliver to investigate the solution of string field actions around the tachyon vacuum. The generalized gluing and resmoothing theorem is used to develop a method for evaluating the effective action for excitations on both the wedge states and the sliver state. We analyze the discrete symmetries of the resulting effective action for excitations on the ...

We show that the D25 sliver wavefunction, just as the D-instanton sliver, factorizes when expressed in terms of half-string coordinates. We also calculate analytically the star-product of two zero-momentum eigenstates of x̂ using the vertex in the oscillator basis, thereby showing that the star-product in the matter sector can indeed be seen as multiplication of matrices acting on the space of f...

A basic and an improved ear-clipping based algorithm for triangulating simple polygons and polygons with holes are presented. In the basic version, the ear with smallest interior angle is always selected to be cut in order to create fewer sliver triangles. To reduce sliver triangles in further, a bound of angle is set to determine whether a newly formed triangle has sharp angles, and edge swapp...

In previous papers we built (multiple) D-branes in flat space-time as classical solutions of the string field theory based on the tachyon vacuum. In this paper we construct classical solutions describing all D-branes in any fixed space-time background defined by a two dimensional CFT of central charge 26. A key role is played by the geometrical definition of the sliver state in general boundary...