Modern systems must be adaptable | to changing requirements, bug-xes, new technologies and reconnguration. For critical applications this must be possible at run-time; for complex applications it should be limitable to major subdivisions of the system. The DRASTIC architecture addresses these goals by exploiting object persistence and distributed systems implementation techniques. It enables ru...

the performance of msu-s and its forms modified with phosphotungstic acid (hpw) and nickel (ni) for the desulfurization and denitrogenation of model diesel fuel were studied. according to the results of the characteristic tests (n2 adsorption-desorption, xrd, sem, and nh3-tpd), heteropoly acid incorporation causes higher acidity along with a negligible loss of structural aspects, while ni impre...

A series of alkynylplatinum(ii) terpyridine complexes functionalized with polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) moieties has been demonstrated to exhibit drastic color changes and give various distinctive nanostructures with interesting multi-stage morphological transformations from spheres to nanoplates in response to solvent conditions through the interplay of various intermolecular int...

We explore the possibilities of obtaining compression in video through modified sampling strategies using multichannel imaging systems. The redundancies in video streams are exploited through compressive sampling schemes to achieve low power and low complexity video sensors. The sampling strategies as well as the associated reconstruction algorithms are discussed. These compressive sampling sch...

A modified quadric error metric (QEM) for simplification of Loop subdivision surfaces is presented. The suggested error metric not only measures the geometric difference but also controls the smoothness and well-shapedness of the triangles that result from the decimation process. Minimizing the error with respect to the original limit surface, our method allows for drastic simplification of Loo...