Lightweight pedestrian structures constructed with high strength-to-weight ratio materials, such as fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP), may experience large accelerations due to their lightness, thus overcoming the serviceability limit state. Additionally, uncertainties associated human–structure interaction phenomena become relevant. Under these circumstances, variations in actions could modify m...

Current top-performing object detectors depend on deep CNN backbones, such as ResNet-101 and Inception, benefiting from their powerful feature representation but suffering from high computational cost. Conversely, some lightweight model based detectors fulfil real time processing, while their accuracies are often criticized. In this paper, we explore an alternative to build a fast and accurate ...

MOTIVATION RNA-Seq experiments have revealed a multitude of novel ncRNAs. The gold standard for their analysis based on simultaneous alignment and folding suffers from extreme time complexity of [Formula: see text]. Subsequently, numerous faster 'Sankoff-style' approaches have been suggested. Commonly, the performance of such methods relies on sequence-based heuristics that restrict the search ...

We propose that the concept of liquids characterized by a given locally preferred structure (LPS) could help in understanding the observed phenomenon of polyamorphism. “True polyamorphism” would involve the competition between two (or more) distinct LPS, one favored at low pressure because of its low energy and one favored at high pressure because of its small specific volume, as in tetrahedral...

Zhang Shi-Yi, Wang Yong-juan, Gao Yang, Wang Tao Corresponding author: Wang Yong-juan, E-mail: [email protected] Abstract: The 4 4  MDS matrix over 2 F is widely used in the design of block cipher's linear diffusion layers. However, considering the cost of a lightweight cipher's implementation, the sum of XOR operations of a MDS matrix usually plays the role of measure. During the research on t...

In social bookmark tools users are setting up lightweight conceptual structures called folksonomies. Currently, the information retrieval support is limited. We present a formal model and a new search algorithm for folksonomies, called FolkRank, that exploits the structure of the folksonomy. The proposed algorithm is also applied to find communities within the folksonomy and is used to structur...

In this paper we introduce FELICS, a free and open-source benchmarking framework designed for fair and consistent evaluation of software implementations of lightweight cryptographic primitives for embedded devices. The framework is very flexible thanks to its modular structure, which allows for an easy integration of new metrics, target devices and evaluation scenarios. It consists of two modul...

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have established themselves in the scientific literature, and are also gaining ground in commercial applications. Recently, however, several attacks on PUF core properties have been reported. They concern their physical and digital unclonability, as well as their assumed resilience against invasive or side channel attacks. In this paper, we join some of thes...

Solid Isotropic Microstructure with Penalization(SIMP) in topology optimization was deeply analyzed, and thus SIMP topology optimization criteria algorithm was deduced. Simulation analysis to the results was also conducted by Ansys, so as the structural lightweight design to machine crossbeams of the HTM series gantry. By verifying, the structure was 3.8% lower than the traditional structure qu...

Developer-supplied data structure specifications are important to shape analyses, as they tell the analysis what information should be tracked in order to obtain the desired shape invariants. We observe that data structure checking code (e.g., used in testing or dynamic analysis) provides shape information that can also be used in static analysis. In this paper, we propose a lightweight, automa...