Dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR) allows one region of an field-programmable gate array (FPGA) fabric to be reconfigured without affecting the operations on the rest of the fabric. To use an FPGA as a dynamically shared compute resource, one could partition and manage an FPGA fabric as multiple DPR partitions that can be independently reconfigured at runtime with different application funct...

Group sequential stopping rules are often used during the conduct of clinical trials in order to attain more ethical treatment of patients and to better address efficiency concerns. Because the use of such stopping rules materially affects the frequentist operating characteristics of the hypothesis test, it is necessary to choose an appropriate stopping rule during the planning of the study. It...

Prominent features of differentiated product markets are segmentation and proliferation blurring the boundaries between segments. I develop a tractable demand model, Ordered Nested Logit, which allows for asymmetric substitution apply model to automobile market where segments ordered from small luxury. find that consumers, when substituting outside their vehicle segment, more likely switch neig...

These studies examined the role of ontological beliefs about category boundaries in early categorization. Study 1 found that preschool-age children (N= 48, ages 3-4) have domain-specific beliefs about the meaning of category boundaries; children judged the boundaries of natural kind categories (animal species, human gender) as discrete and strict, but the boundaries of other categories (artifac...

We study the motion of a camphor disk on the water surface in a system with flexible boundaries. The boundaries can be dynamically modified by non-uniform surface tension resulting from the nonhomogeneous surface concentration of the camphor molecules dissipated by the disk. We investigate the geometry of the boundaries that forces unidirectional motion of the disk. The studied system can be re...

A Lagrangian method that combines vortices and impulse elements (vortex dipoles) is introduced. The applications addressed are flows induced by the motion of thin flexible boundaries immersed in a two-dimensional incompressible fluid. The impulse elements are attached to the boundaries and are used to account for the forces affecting the motion. The vortices occupy a region surrounding the boun...

We deduce the qualitative phase diagram of a long flexible neutral polymer chain immersed in a poor solvent near an attracting surface using phenomenological arguments. The actual positions of the phase boundaries are estimated numerically from series expansion up to 19 sites of a self-attracting self-avoiding walk in three dimensions. In two dimensions, we calculate phase boundaries analytical...

In this work, we performed molecular dynamics simulations to study the of a shock wave-induced single nanobubble collapsing near one flexible and two rigid boundaries. The boundary consisted polyethylene, boundaries were made aluminum iron. waves impinging on inside system generated using momentum mirror approach. For relative wall distances, studied shock-induced its collapse atomic velocity c...

The Rycroft-Malone paper states that co-production relies on ‘authentic’ collaboration as a context for action. Our commentary supports and extends this assertion. We suggest that ‘authentic’ co-production involves processes where participants can ‘see’ the difference that they have made within the project and beyond. We provide examples including: the use of design in health projects which see...