The class of weak parallel machines is interesting, because it contains some realistic parallel machine models, especially suitable for pipelined computations. We prove that a modification of the bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) machine model, called decomposable BSP (dBSP), belongs to the class of weak parallel machines if restricted properly. We will also correct some earlier results about pip...

In this paper it has been shown that the neutrino bulk viscous stresses can give rise to the late time acceleration of the universe. It is found that a number of spatially flat FRW models with a negative deceleration parameter can be constructed using neutrino viscosity and one of them mimics a ΛCDM model. This does not require any exotic dark energy component or any modification of gravity.

Thermotropic properties of liposome membranes prepared of bulk bovine erythrocyte membrane lipids, native, or aldolase-modified, were investigated by the ESR method. Breaks were observed in the log 2T parallel vs 1/T plots for two spin labels: tempopalmitate and 5-doxyl-palmitate methyl ester. These phenomena have been interpreted as reflecting structural changes near the lipid bilayer polar he...

We describe a modification of a fourth-order accurate “moving puncture” evolution code, where by replacing spatial fourth-order accurate differencing operators in the bulk of the grid by a specific choice of sixth-order accurate stencils we gain significant improvements in accuracy. We illustrate the performance of the modified algorithm with an equal-mass simulation covering nine orbits. PACS ...

By charge neutralization of carboxylic acid groups in graphene oxide (GO) with Cs(2)CO(3) to afford Cesium-neutralized GO (GO-Cs), GO derivatives with appropriate modification are used as both hole- and electron-extraction layers for bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. The normal and inverted devices based on GO hole- and GO-Cs electron-extraction layers both outperform the corresponding sta...

1. Introduction Clusters and nanocomposites belong to so-called nanostructured materials. Properties of such materials may be dramatically different from those of bulk materials with identical chemical composition. Confinement of atoms, electrons, phonons, electric fields, etc., in a small spatial region modifies spectral properties (shifts quantum levels, changes transition probabilities), and...

A bstract We study the properties of quarkonia inside a bulk-viscous quark gluon plasma. The non-equilibrium nature medium is encoded in deformed distribution functions thermal quarks and gluons, with which we compute dielectric permittivity within hard loop approximation at one-loop. modified used to calculate in-medium heavy potential, using potential spectral functions, reflect physical quar...

We investigate the ability of a focused helium ion beam to selectively modify and mill materials. The sub nanometer probe size of the helium ion microscope used provides lateral control not previously available for helium ion irradiation experiments. At high incidence angles the helium ions were found to remove surface material from a silicon lamella leaving the subsurface structure intact for ...

In this article we examine four objections to the genetic modification of human beings: the freedom argument, the giftedness argument, the authenticity argument, and the uniqueness argument. We then demonstrate that each of these arguments against genetic modification assumes a strong version of genetic determinism. Since these strong deterministic assumptions are false, the arguments against g...