SBLOCA long term cooling procedure for the integral type PWR

An advanced integral-type pressurized water reactor (IPWR) with a maximum thermal power of 65 MW has been developed at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). This 65 MW IPWR enhances the safety and reliability by adopting inherent safety design characteristics and an advanced passive design feature.     

To secure XML documents with the extension function of XSLT

XSLT is a very popular and flexible language for transforming XML documents which provides a powerful implementation of a tree‐oriented transformation language for transmuting instances of XML using a single vocabulary into a desired output. In this paper, we propose a processing model that enables the XSLT processor to encrypt and decrypt XML documents. The details of the implementation are presented. Our model supports a more general encryption scope than previous models. The implementation and experimental results demonstrate the practicality of the proposed model. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Microstructure of aragonite grown at an air–liquid interface

Aragonite particles dispersed in a bioresorbable polymer matrix are considered to be a good candidate for bone prosthesis materials. It is important to characterize the microstructure of synthetic aragonite used for biomedical applications, since the microstructure may influence its integration, resorption and replacement by bone. We studied late stages of aragonite growth, at an air–liquid interface, from a solution not doped with additives. Comparison was made between the types of synthetic aragonite microstructure and that of aragonite which is found in nature (mollusc shells, gallstones, Earth's crust). The microstructure of natural aragonite is unique to certain classes of living organisms and the understanding of its structure/function relationships may help to select the types of synthetic aragonite for specific biomedical applications. Three types of synthetic aragonite were observed based on grain size and grain morphology. This revised version was published online in November 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Progressive familial leukodystrophy of late onset

We report a family in which three siblings developed dementia between the ages of 40 and 70 years. Two of the siblings developed symptoms of depression, abnormal behavior, and an inability to function, progressing to severe dementia. The third sibling had a severe dementia, the clinical details of which are not available. In the two deceased siblings neuropathologic examinations demonstrated severe demyelination, axon loss, and gliosis in cerebral white matter. Cerebellar and brainstem white matter were unaffected. Cerebral gray matter was negligibly affected. The disorder, histopathologically classified as a pigmented orthochromatic leukodystrophy, is extremely rare. Its etiology is unknown, but the pathology and familial occurrence imply that it represents a genetic defect in a function localized in the cerebral white matter.     

Support NNEF execution model for NNAPI

The Journal of Supercomputing - With growing applications such as image recognition, speech recognition, ADAS, and AIoT, artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks are becoming popular in various...     

High-performance simulations of turbulent boundary layer flow using Intel Xeon Phi many-core processors

The Journal of Supercomputing - Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent flows have increasing importance because they not only provide fundamental understanding of turbulent flows but also...     

Adaptive load balancing algorithm for multiple homing mobile nodes

In places where mobile users can access multiple wireless networks simultaneously, a multipath scheduling algorithm can benefit the performance of wireless networks and improve the experience of mobile users. However, existing literature shows that it may not be the case, especially for TCP flows. According to early investigations, there are mainly two reasons that result in bad performance of TCP flows in wireless networks. One is the occurrence of out-of-order packets due to different delays in multiple paths. The other is the packet loss which is resulted from the limited bandwidth of wireless networks. To better exploit multipath scheduling for TCP flows, this paper presents a new scheduling algorithm named Adaptive Load Balancing Algorithm (ALBAM) to split traffic across multiple wireless links within the ISP infrastructure. Targeting at solving the two adverse impacts on TCP flows, ALBAM develops two techniques. Firstly, ALBAM takes advantage of the bursty nature of TCP flows and performs scheduling at the flowlet granularity where the packet interval is large enough to compensate for the different path delays. Secondly, ALBAM develops a Packet Number Estimation Algorithm (PNEA) to predict the buffer usage in each path. With PNEA, ALBAM can prevent buffer overflow and schedule the TCP flow to a less congested path before it suffers packet loss. Simulations show that ALBAM can provide better performance to TCP connections than its other counterparts.     

Minimal-drift heading measurement using a MEMS gyro for mobile robots: Fused with odometry

To achieve the goal of low-cost MEMS gyros for the precise self-localization of mobile robots, this paper presents a simple, yet effective method to minimize drifts on the heading angle by combining measurements from a gyro with measurements from wheel encoders (odometry). The main idea of the proposed approach is to estimate the accuracy of both sensors as a function of the actual maneuver being carried out, and then the output of both sensors are fused by the complementary filter taking into account the maneuvering conditions. The proposed method is applied to a mobile robot and the experimental data demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach.