Fracture Mechanics Models for Brittle Failure of Bottom Rails due to Uplift in Timber Frame Shear Walls by Joergen L. Jensen, Giuseppe Caprolu, Ulf Arne Girhammar

“…Since the force in the anchor bolts and the sheathing-to-framing joints do not act in the same vertical plane, the bottom rail is subjected to tensile stresses perpendicular to the grain and splitting of the bottom rail may occur. …”
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Protocols for translocation processes of flexible polymers through a pore using LAMMPS by Vrinda Garg, Rejoy Mathew, Arindam Chatterjee, Surya K. Ghosh

“…Here, we present a protocol for using LAMMPS to develop coarse-grained models of polymeric systems with macromolecular crowding, an integral part of any soft matter or biophysical system. …”
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Multi-authority attribute-based encryption scheme with policy dynamic updating by Xi-xi YAN, Yuan LIU, Zi-chen LI, Yong-li TANG

“…Attribute-based encryption (ABE) is a new cryptographic technique which guarantees fine-grained access control of outsourced encrypted data in the cloud environment.However,a key limitation remains,namely policy updating.Thus,a multi-authority attribute-based encryption scheme with policy dynamic updating was proposed.In the scheme,an anonymous key issuing protocol was introduced to protect users’ privacy and resist collusion attack of attribute authority.The scheme with dynamic policy updating technique was secure against chosen plaintext attack under the standard model and can support any types of policy updating.Compared to the existing related schemes,the size of ciphertext and users’ secret key is reduced and can significantly reduce the computation and communication costs of updating ciphertext.It is more effective in the practical application.…”
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Enhanced cloud storage access control scheme based on attribute by De-hua NIU, Jian-feng MA, Zhuo MA, Chen-nan LI, Lei WANG

“…By designing a common set of attributes, attribute-based encryption(ABE) was integrated into XACML (eXtensible access control markup language) framework and the goal to ensure the confidential-ity of sensitive data and to provide fine-grained access control was achieved. Considering the efficiency of ABE is very low when it is used to a large amount of data, symmetric cryptography was used to ensure the confidentiality of the vast amounts of sensitive data while ABE was used to protect the small number of symmetric keys. …”
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A Low-Cost PKC-Based RFID Mutual Authentication Protocol by Lili Wei, Qingkuan Dong, Wenxiu Ding

“…Based on the PKC-based RFID authentication protocol cryptoGPS which costs the least resource currently,a low-cost mutual authentication protocol which has a flexible key-management and can realize a mutual authentication was proposed.It adopted a new key-management scheme,an optimized fast Rabin encryption algorithm,low Hamming weight modulus and a lightweight stream cipher algorithm Grain V1,moreover,a new low-cost multiplier was designed to achieve the modulus multiplication on large numbers.The security analysis and simulation experiments carried out on Design Complier with Smic 0.25 μm technique show that this scheme is secure enough and in which the tag just needs 4 530 gates,it is suitable for RFID system.…”
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Core Microstructure and Strain State Analysis in MgB2 Wires with Different Metal Sheaths by C. E. Sobrero, M. T. Malachevsky, A. Serquis

“…We reduced commercial MgB2 powder by attrition milling in nitrogen atmosphere using tungsten carbide balls and obtained powders with grain sizes lower than 150 nm and different strain states through this process. …”
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Data sharing scheme supporting secure outsourced computation in wireless body area network by Wei-wei ZHANG, Yu-zhao ZHANG, Chao HUANG, Ru ZHANG, Yi-xian YANG

“…How to effectively protect the security of data sharing in WBAN was a key problem to be solved urgently.The traditional CP-ABE mechanism had a 〝one to many〝 data security communication function which was suitable for access control in WBAN,but it had high computational complexity and did not support attribute revocation.Fully considering of limitations on computation and storage of sensor nodes and dynamic user attribute in WBAN,a CP-ABE scheme was proposed which was provably secure against CPA under the standard model and supported attributes revocation,outsourced encryption and decryption.Compared with the proposed schemes,the computation burden on senor nodes is greatly reduced and the user's attribution can be revoked immediately and fine grained while meeting the demand of its security in the proposed scheme.…”
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Application of between- stand cooling in the production hot – rolled strips by U. Muhin, S. Belskij, E.Makarov, T. Koynov

“…Medium grain size has been uneven over the length of hot-rolled strips of austenite of low-carbon steel during rolling on continuous mill. …”
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Construction mechanism for service path over reconfigurable service-centric network by Dan ZHAO, Feng WEN, Xin XU, Peng WANG, Bo CHEN

“…In order to enhance the flexible and intelligent network's service ability,a novel architecture called recon-figurable service-centric network (ReSCNet) was proposed which decomposed traditional network capabilities and ser-vices into fine-grained network functional unit.Then based on service routing matrix algorithm to orchestrate and deploy atomic service flexibly,a service path was built which possess smaller cost,lower time delay,higher degree of load bal-ance and higher reliability.Finally,the performance of service routing matrix algorithm was evaluated on the innovation experiment platform NetFPGA-10G.The simulation results show that the algorithm has a better performance and can cus-tomize an optimal service path for users while meet the specific functions and performance constraints.…”
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Electrodeposition and Corrosion Resistance Properties of Zn-Ni/TiO2 Nano composite Coatings by B. M. Praveen, T. V. Venkatesha

“…Scanning electron microscope images and X-ray diffraction patterns of coating revealed its fine-grain nature. Average crystalline size of the composite coating was calculated. …”
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Machine learning configuration-dependent friction tensors in Langevin heatbaths by Matthias Sachs, Wojciech G Stark, Reinhard J Maurer, Christoph Ortner

“…Dynamics of coarse-grained particle systems derived via the Mori–Zwanzig projection formalism commonly take the form of a (generalized) Langevin equation with configuration-dependent friction tensor and diffusion coefficient matrix. …”
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Effects of Welding Heat Input on Microstructure and Electrochemical Behavior of Flux-Cored Arc-Welded Q690 HSLA Steel by Kai Wang, Qinghua Lu, Yaoyong Yi, Jianglong Yi, Ben Niu, Zexin Jiang, Jinjun Ma

“…The effect of welding heat input on the relationship between the microstructural factors and the electrochemical behavior of the FCAW Q690 steel was studied. Due to the fine grain and acicular ferrite affected by the 10 kJ/cm low heat input, the WM presented similar electrochemical behavior to the Q690 base metal, which would minimize the risk of galvanic corrosion. …”
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Investigation of Failure Mechanism of Al2O3 Specimens Subjected to Three-Point Bending Test by Mikhail Olegovich Eremin, Igor Smolin, Alexey Kulkov, Valentina Mikushina

“…Recently the microscale models of representative volume of porous alumina ceramics were built on the basis of grain and pore distribution patterns and subjected to uniaxial loading in order to determine effective mechanical characteristics which are utilized for macroscopic simulation in this work. …”
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Nanocomposite permanent magnetic materials Nd-Fe-B type: The influence of nanocomposite on magnetic properties by Talijan Nadežda M., Stajić-Trošić Jasna, Grujić Aleksandar, Ćosović Vladan, Menushenkov Vladimir, Aleksić Radoslav

“…The influence on the magnetic properties of nanocristalline ribbons and powders has character of microstructure, between others – the grain size volume of hard and soft magnetic phases and their distribution. …”
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Multi-channel MAC protocol based on network partitioning for wireless sensor networks by Bin CHENG, Lin-lin CI, Cheng-ping TIAN, Ming-hua YANG

“…The limited amount of available orthogonal channels and noise interference are two major issues to constrain performances of multi-channel MAC protocols in wireless sensor networks (WSN).In conjunction with features of data gathering networks,a partitioning-based multi-channel MAC protocol was designed.Initially it partitioned network into several sub-trees with lower collision factor,without increasing the total value of interference around the whole network.Furthermore,it adopted a coarse-grained channel assignment strategy on basis of graph coloring theory,in order to ensure each sub-tree work on a relative optimal channel.Simulation results show that the proposed MAC protocol can significantly improve throughput and reduce end-to-end latency and packet loss.…”
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Impact of pathogenic mutations of the GLUT1 glucose transporter on solute carrier dynamics using ComDYN enhanced sampling [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reser... by K. Anton Feenstra, Akiko Higuchi, Kei Yura, Sanne Abeln, Halima Mouhib

“…Methods: We studied pathogenic and non-pathogenic mutations, using a newly developed coarse-grained simulation approach ‘ComDYN’, which captures the ‘COMmon constraints DYNamics’ between both states of the solute carrier protein. …”
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Characteristics of climate resource utilization and economic benefits in new planting pattern for fresh faba bean and fresh maize in Yangtze River Delta by Bo Li, Qingming Ren, Xiaoxu Shi, Wenyuan Shen, Yafeng Wei, Fei Xiong

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Adult-plant resistance and a suitable method of reaction determination to scald and net form net blotch in malt barley genotypes at a hot spot location in Ethiopia by Girma Ababa, Tigist Shiferaw, Wami Hailu, Wondimu Fekadu, Sentayehu Alamerew

“…Field trial was conducted using a simple lattice design. The grain yield of ten middle rows (5 m2) was evaluated, and the results were converted to t ha−1. …”
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Assessment of diversity of Indian aromatic rice germplasm collections for morphological, agronomical, quality traits and molecular characters to identify a core set for crop improv... by G. S. V. Prasad, G. Padmavathi, K. Suneetha, M. S. Madhav, K. Muralidharan

“…Conclusions Forty-six genotypes in the core set have different maturity periods, plant statures, grain types and grain quality traits. A parent can be selected from the core set to improve aromatic rice depending on the breeding objective. …”
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Response of Agronomic Characteristics and Yield of Garlic Plant (Allium sativum L.) to Different Levels of Planting Density and Nutrition by Hadi khavari, Masoud Rafiee

“…The results showed that the effect of different levels of Planting Density and Nutrition was significant on garlic grain yield. The highest mean of garlic grain yield as a provisioning service was obtained from 42 Plants per m-2 in nutrition with totalize fertilizer 20-20-20 (25756 kg. ha-1), and the lowest garlic grain yield was obtained in control treatment with non-fertilizer application and 32 plants per m-2 (14314 kg.ha-1). …”
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