Applying a configuration-theoretic approach to study multiple channels, the authors hypothesize that multiplechannel systems make their greatest contributions to firm performance when their structures are properly aligned with their firms’ business-level strategies and with environmental conditions. A conceptual model incorporating these variables is supported in an empirical study of responses...

During recent years we have been gathering information about interatomic distances, bond angles, and other properties of simple substances related to proteins, and have been attempting to formulate configurations of the polypeptide chain that are compatible with this information and that might constitute a structural feature of proteins. We have reported the discovery of two helical configurati...

Programmable logic devices enable users to exploit the tremendous concurrency benefits of hardware in their compute solutions without requiring them to go through a silicon production process. The most powerful among these devices are fieldprogrammable gate arrays (FPGAs) that provides hundreds of thousands of logic slices, each one of the capable of computing any arbitrary boolean 6-input func...

We report on the directed self-assembly of sub-10 nm gold nanoparticles confined within a template comprising channels of gradually varying widths. When the colloidal lattice parameter is mismatched with the channel width, the nanoparticles rearrange and break their natural close-packed ordering, transiting through a range of structural configurations according to the constraints imposed by the...

Millstream systems have been proposed as a non-hierarchical method for modelling natural language. Millstream configurations represent and connect multiple structural aspects of sentences. We present a method by which the Millstream configurations corresponding to a sentence are constructed. The construction is incremental, that is, it proceeds as the sentence is being read and is complete when...

Simulation is a useful tool for engineering systems, and it is used in numerous and diverse fields. Simulation of large systems can result in better designs, and make the design process more efficient. One important use of simulation lies in comparing different simulation models that represent competing or alternative designs before the actual deployment and implementation. Simultaneous Simulat...