We present a numerical study of stretching monodomain smectic-A elastomer sheets, computed using the finite element method. When stretched parallel to their smectic layer normal the smectic layers are unstable to a transition to a buckled state. We model macroscopic deformations by replacing the microscopic energy with a coarse grained effective free energy that accounts for the fine-scale laye...

In this research, we build a Wikification corpus for advancing Japanese Entity Linking. This corpus consists of 340 Japanese newspaper articles with 25,675 entity mentions. All entity mentions are labeled by a fine-grained semantic classes (200 classes), and 19,121 mentions were successfully linked to Japanese Wikipedia articles. Even with the fine-grained semantic classes, we found it hard to ...

Li4SiO4 has been widely studied as tritium breeder and high temperature CO2 capture material. Tritium breeding rate adsorption capacity are closely related to lithium content microstructure. Since sintering temperatures result in grain coarsening sublimation, it is a great challenge prepare ceramics with satisfactory mechanical strength at low temperature. In this work, mesoporous silica was us...

Abstract Bacillus cereus ( B. ) is observed to have varying effects on the stress corrosion cracking (SCC) sensitivity of different microstructures in simulated heat-affected zone (HAZ) X80 steel. At open circuit potential (OCP), SCC increased from 3.40–7.49% an abiotic medium 10.22–15.17% a biotic medium. −0.9 V (SCE), it 22.81–26.51% 35.76–39.60%. The increment upon exposure was highest coars...

In a Grid environment applications are executed on distributed resources. Applications can be divided into separate parts for distributed and sequential execution. Typically, complete applications consisting of many parts may be executed on both local and remote resources. Computing resources may expect some form of payment in exchange for services used. In this situation there are two scenario...

Brain age prediction based on neuroimaging data could help characterize both the typical brain development and neuropsychiatric disorders. Pattern recognition models built upon functional connectivity (FC) measures derived from resting state fMRI (rsfMRI) data have been successfully used to predict the brain age. However, most existing studies focus on coarse-grained FC measures between brain r...