Ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (PE) filaments were reinforced with 2 wt.% of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). The solution spinning method was used to produce both neat and reinforced PE filaments. Tensile tests and strain hardening through repeated loading-unloading cycles of the filaments revealed a spectacular contribution of the SWCNTs in enhancing the elastic properties, e...

The creation of a general architecture for the use of agents in production planning is addressed. The modularity and flexibility provided by an agent-oriented system proves itself useful in dynamic scenarios. The anthropomorphic features of the agents make them suitable for Electronic Commerce systems. Agents enable the interconnection of already existent web-based systems with the production l...

The protocol by which “contactless” (NFC) credit cards operate is insecure. Previous work has done much to protect this protocol from malicious third parties, e.g. eavesdroppers, credit card skimmers, etc. However, most of these defenses rely on the retailers being honest, and on their Points of Sale following the credit card protocol faithfully. In this paper, we extend the threat model to inc...

mobiTopp is an agent-based travel demand modelling framework designed in a modular fashion, so that exchange of individual modules is easy. This offers the possibility to start with quite simple models and implement the system in practice while at the same time providing the opportunity to develop more sophisticated models for research that can eventually be transferred into practice. Also, pra...

The conflict between strength and toughness is a long-standing challenge in advanced materials design. Recently, a fundamental bottom-up material design strategy has been demonstrated using cellulose nanopaper to achieve significant simultaneous increase in both strength and toughness. Fertile opportunities of such a design strategy aside, mechanistic understanding is much needed to thoroughly ...

This study aimed to explore the mechanisms of bridging integrator-3 dysregulation, its prognostic value, and related signaling pathways in colorectal cancer . Bioinformatic analysis was performed based on the data from The Cancer Genome Atlas–colorectal cancer and Human Protein Atlas. Colorectal cancer cell lines, LoVo and HT29 cells, were used as in vitro cell model to assess the effect of dem...

Biomine and ProbLog are two frameworks to implement bisociative information networks (BisoNets). They combine structured data representations with probabilities expressing uncertainty. While Biomine is based on graphs, ProbLog’s core language is that of the logic programming language Prolog. This chapter provides an overview of important concepts, terminology, and reasoning tasks addressed in t...

There is an emerging consensus that an explicit architectural model would be invaluable for large evolving software systems, providing them with a framework within which such a system can be reasoned about and maintained. But the great promise of architectural models has not been fulfilled so far, due to a gap between the model and the system it purports to describe. It is our contention that t...

This paper presents a novel method for designing TSC m-out-ofn code checkers taking into account a realistic fault model including stuck-at, transistor stuck-on, transistor stuck-open, resistive bridging faults and breaks. The proposed design method is the first method in the open literature that takes into account a realistic fault model and can be applied for all practical values of m and n. ...

Model-driven development of user interfaces has become increasingly powerful in recent years. Unfortunately, model-driven approaches have the inherent limitation that they cannot handle the informal nature of some of the artifacts used in truly multidisciplinary user interface development such as storyboards, sketches, scenarios and personas. In this chapter, we present an approach and tool sup...