With predefined schedule, this paper presents a mathematical formulation for synthesis of water-using networks in batch plants with a central reservoir for targeting freshwater consumption. A superstructure that considers all water reuse/recycle possibilities is presented for modeling the time-dependent water-using network. The proposed superstructure-based representation for synthesis of batch...

The formation of moiré superstructures between graphene and its underlying substrate has attracted significant attention because it significantly influences the morphology and properties of graphene. Through the density functional theory (DFT) calculations conducted on graphene/Re(0001) and graphene/Ir(111) moiré superstructures, we found that in contrast to the strain-driven moiré superstructu...

The optimal synthesis and design of thermal power plants is best addressed using mathematical optimization techniques. However, conventional optimization methods require the user to manually define a priori the potential solution space through the modeling of a superstructure, which is a timeconsuming, complex, and error-prone task. More importantly, the final superstructure model can not guara...

Crystals, free from twinning, ofthe monoclinic phase oftricalcium silicate exhibiting superstructure reflections have been obtained. Crystal data are: a = 33.083(8), b = 7.027(2), e = 18.499(4) A, f3 = 94.12(2)°, Z = 36 x CaZ.89Mgo.ll0Si04, V = 4289 A3. The structure analysis was carried out using 3886 independent reflection intensities measured on a single-crystal diffractometer. The unit cell...

Maintenance following implant treatment is essential to ensure long-term stability. Accordingly, the objective of this study was to investigate the factors leading patients to discontinue maintenance following implant treatment. Among the 729 patients that underwent implantation at the Department of Oral Implantology, Osaka Dental University Hospital from January 2008 to December 2012, 41 patie...

Abstract—It is a major challenge to build a bridge superstructure that has long-term durability and low maintenance requirements. A solution to this challenge may be to use new materials or to implement new structural systems. Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composites have continued to play an important role in solving some of persistent problems in infrastructure applications because of its hi...

Themajor revision work for UML 2.0 is complete, and it is now an OMG Final Adopted Specification. This is a good time to reflect on UML’s future, and the future of modeldriven development. In April 2003 the U2 Partners submission team completed the final editing changes to the third revision of its Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0 Superstructure proposal, and submitted it to the Object Manag...

We extract from sentences a superstructure made of argumentative operators and connectives applying to the remaining set of terminal sub-sentences. We found the argumentative interpretation of utterances on a semantics defined at the linguistic level. We describe the computation of this particular semantics, based on the constraints that the superstructure impels to the argumentative power of t...

Periodic Adsorption Processes (PAPs) have gained increasing commercial importance as an energy-efficient separation technique over the past two decades. Based on fluid-solid interactions, these systems never reach steady state. Instead they operate at cyclic steady state, where the bed conditions at the beginning of the cycle match with those at the end of the cycle. Nevertheless, optimization ...