this article addresses a multi-stage flowshop scheduling problem with equal number of unrelated parallel machines. the objective is to minimize the makespan for a given set of jobs in the system. this problem class is np-hard in the strong sense, so a hybrid heuristic method for sequencing and then allocating operations of jobs to machines is developed. a number of test problems are randomly ge...

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), including Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), have become the state-of-the-art methods in machine learning and achieved amazing success in speech recognition, visual object recognition, and many other domains. There are several hardware platforms for developing accelerated implementation of ANN models. Since Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) architectures are flex...

A flexible nitride p-n photodiode is demonstrated. The device consists of a composite nanowire/polymer membrane transferred onto a flexible substrate. The active element for light sensing is a vertical array of core/shell p-n junction nanowires containing InGaN/GaN quantum wells grown by MOVPE. Electron/hole generation and transport in core/shell nanowires are modeled within nonequilibrium Gree...

We illustrate the effectiveness of medium-sized carefully tagged bilingual core corpus, that is, “semantic typology patterns” in our term together with some examples to give concrete evidence of its usefulness. The most important characteristic of these semantic typology patterns is the bridging mechanism between two languages which is based on sequences syntactic codes and semantic codes. This...

The programming construct mixin was invented to implement modules that provide the mechanism of abstracting uniform extensions and modifications to superclasses. One approach to implement a mixin is to parameterize a superclass of a generic class using a type parameter; however, this approach lacks the ability to declare a mixin that is also used as a type. In this paper, we propose a programmi...

Xilinx CORE Generator System generates and delivers parameterizable cores optimized for Xilinx FPGAs. CORE Generator is mainly used to create high density, high performance designs in Xilinx FPGAs in less time. The CORE Generator is included with the ISE WebPack and ISE Foundation software and comes with an extensive library of Xilinx LogiCORE IP. These include DSP functions, memories, storage ...

We introduce a novel heuristic global optimization method, energy landscape paving (ELP), which combines core ideas from energy surface deformation and tabu search. In appropriate limits, ELP reduces to existing techniques. The approach is very general and flexible and is illustrated here on two protein folding problems. For these examples, the technique gives faster convergence to the global m...

This paper describes SMES, an information extraction core system for real world German text processing. The basic design criterion of the system is of providing a set of basic powerful, robust, and efficient natural language components and generic linguistic knowledge sources which can easily be customized for processing different tasks in a flexible manner.

Acenaphtho[1,2-k]fluoranthene derivatives DPAF-n as new building blocks for one-dimensional (1D) structure assembly have been developed and employed to fabricate luminescent twisted nano/micro-wires; and the DPAF rigid core attached via flexible alkyl chains with suitable lengths is critical for the formation of twisted architectures.

A biotinylated heparosan hexasaccharide was synthesized using a one-pot multi-enzyme strategy, in situ activation and transfer of N-trifluoroacetylglucosamine (GlcNTFA) to a heparin backbone significantly improved the synthetic efficiency. The biotinylated hexasaccharide could serve as a flexible core to diversify its conversion into heparan sulfate isoforms with potential biological applicatio...