XML has been extensively adopted in many modern data sharing applications. Following the relational setting, we might expect to directly use XQuery expressions to describe semantic mappings between schemas for transforming nested XML documents. Yet we observe that such an undecorated mapping representation is becoming one of the sources that complicate the ubiquitous tasks such as constructing,...

The phenomenon of icing, and the derived processes for its mitigation, are great importance in many applications, ranging from transportation energy to food refrigeration. This has been studied mostly with respect manifestation on rigid, homogeneous surfaces, soft materials being topic more recent investigations. Although, icing often occurs substrates that chemically mechanically heterogeneous...

The effect of shear stress on the dynamic failure ceramic materials is not sufficiently investigated in published literature. With use a bespoke split Hopkinson pressure bar, this paper presents an effort to investigate compressive response Macor, model material with zero porosity and light weight characteristics. A cone specimen cylindrical specimens varying inclined angles are used introduce ...

We present a biologically motivated computational model that is able to anticipate and evaluate multiple hypothetical sensorimotor sequences. Our Model for Anticipation based on Cortical Representations (MACOR) allows a completely parallel search at the neocortical level using assemblies of rate coded neurons for grouping, separation, and selection of sensorimotor sequences. For a vision-contro...

A number of devices in MEMS introduce frictional contacts between moving surfaces, resulting in particle generation. In this paper, we explore the nano-scale abrasion characteristics of four materials that are commonly encountered in MEMS devices and packages: aluminum (Al), silicon (Si), Pyrex glass, and glass-mica ceramic (Macor). A commercial scribing tool has been adapted to provide control...

Several different beam dumps using parallel groove structures were made for use in absorbing electron cyclotron radiation emitted from fusion plasmas. The materials used were Pyrex. Macor, alumina, and graphite. Broadband absorption measurements indicate more than 99 % power absorption for dumps made of Pyrex and Macor, while absorption by alumina and graphite dumps are noticeably less. Waves p...

L Ascione, F Antonini-Canterin, F Macor, E Cervesato, F Chiarella, P Giannuzzi, P L Temporelli, F Gentile, D Lucci, A P Maggioni, L Tavazzi, L Badano, I Stoian, R Piazza, E Bosimini, D Pavan, G L Nicolosi, on behalf of the Gissi-3 Echo Substudy Investigators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

XIAOLIANG ZHUO, RICHARD A. HARTZ, JOANNE J. BRONSON, HARVEY WONG*, VIJAY T. AHUJA, VIVEKANANDA M. VRUDHULA, JOHN E. LEET, STELLA HUANG, JOHN E. MACOR, YUE-ZHONG SHU Department of Biotransformation (X.Z., Y.-Z.S.), Neuroscience Chemistry (R.A.H., J.J.B., V.T.A., V.M.V., J.E.M.), Discovery Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (H.W.), Discovery Analytical Sciences (S.H.), Synthesis & Analysis Technolog...

Abstract A systematic comparison of the tensile and compressive response glass ceramic Macor, with zero porosity low density, is carried out by using flattened Brazilian disk cylindrical specimen from quasi-static to dynamic loading conditions. The experiments were performed on a screw driven Zwick machine an in-house built split Hopkinson bar synchronized high speed photographic system. Likewi...