Mechanical testing of materials at the microscales is challenging. It requires delicate procedures not only for producing and handling the specimen to be tested, but also for applying an accurate and controlled force. This endeavor is even more challenging when it comes to investigating the behavior of brittle materials such as glass. Here, we present a microtensile tester for investigating sil...

by MOHAMMAD AKRAM HOSSAIN

......This special issue is the seventh in an important tradition in the computer architecture community: IEEE Micro’s Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences. This tradition, started by IEEE Micro’s then editor in chief, Pradip Bose, provides a means for sharing a sample of the best papers published in computer architecture during the past year with the IEEE Micro readership and r...

In the last issue of IEEE Micro (Jan.-Feb. 2000, pp. 9-12), Micro Law addressed the Kodak, Intel, and Xerox cases, largely from the vantage point of tactics. All of these cases involved a powerful manufacturer’s refusal to sell patented parts, or to license its intellectual property rights, to a rival. Kodak was unsuccessful in the San Francisco federal court of appeals and the US Supreme Court...

Final quality of products/services starts with suppliers in the supply chain. Problems can occur if suppliers do not deliver the quantities requested in full, on time, or buyers select suppliers solely on the basis of lowest price. Supplier selection has been studied for large businesses but not for very small (micro) businesses. Therefore, a survey was administered to micro-businesses to deter...

Micro-expression is gaining more attention in both the scientific field and the mass media. It represents genuine emotions that people try to conceal, thus making it a promising cue for lie detection. Since micro-expressions are considered almost imperceptible to naked eyes, researchers have sought to automatically detect and recognize these fleeting facial expressions to help people make use o...

This research examines a chronic problem in academic settings – inappropriate copying or misuse of source materials–i.e., plagiarism. We conduct a computer-based writing experiment to examine the effects of psychological and situational characteristics on subjects’ propensity to misappropriate text. Specifically, we examine to what extent such misappropriations may be explained by available tec...

Using 3.3 pb of data collected with the CMD-2 detector in the 720 – 840 MeV c.m. energy range, the branching fraction of the conversion decay ω → πee has been measured: B(ω → πee) = (8.19 ± 0.71± 0.62) · 10. The upper limits for the branching fractions of the following conversion decays have been obtained at the 90% confidence level: B(ρ → πee) < 1.6 · 10, B(ρ → ηee) < 0.7 · 10 and B(ω → ηee) <...