We consider the locally repairable codes (LRC), aiming at sequentially recovering multiple erasures; in particular, we propose and study the so-called (n, k, r, t)-SLRC (Sequential Locally Repairable Codes) as an [n, k] linear code where any t (≤ t) erasures can be sequentially recovered, each by r (2 ≤ r < k) other code symbols. Here, a sequential recovering means that the erased symbols are r...

Piston plays a vital role in almost all types of vehicles. The present study discusses the behavioral study of a piston manufacturing plant. Manufacturing plants are complex repairable systems and therefore, it is difficult to evaluate the performance of a piston manufacturing plant using stochastic models. The stochastic model is an efficient performance evaluator for repairable systems. In...

The design space of fabric multitouch surface interaction is explored with emphasis on novel materials and construction techniques aimed towards reliable, repairable pressure sensing surfaces for musical applications.

Liying Wang, Xujie Jia and Jie Zhang Department of Mathematics & Physics, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang, China School of Science, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China The 54 Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Shijiazhuang, China (Received March 2012, accepted November 2012) ___________________________________________________________________...

A series of bisbenzoxaphospholes and a trisbenzoxaphosphole have been prepared and characterized. These extended π-conjugated heterocyclic phosphaalkenes display significant fluorescence in solution having quantum yields between 0.12 and 0.85. The solid state structure of a bisbenzoxaphosphole reveals evidence for extended conjugation, as do DFT calculations.

INTRODUCTION SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) represents the second-dimension separation of two-dimensional (2D)-PAGE. Large-scale proteome analysis usually requires simultaneous electrophoresis of batches of second-dimension SDS-PAGE gels to maximize the reproducibility of 2D electrophoresis protein profiles. This requirement is most easily met using multiple, vertical second-...

Multiple document summarization is becoming increasingly important as a way of reducing information overload, particularly in the context of the proliferation of similar accounts of events that are available on the Web. Removal of similar sentences often results in either partial or unwanted elimination of important information. In this paper, we present an approach to split sentences into thei...