ABSTRACT In a fast breeder reactor, a slow power ramp accident could lead to a local melting of the fuel depending on design and assumptions. If we assume cladding failure in addition to the fuel melting, possibility of fuel ejection from the pin and subsequent consequences of such fuel ejection

after nerve injury in these mice. The results of the present study show that WldS neuromuscular junctions are also preserved and continue to release neurotransmitter and recycle synaptic vesicle membrane for at least 3 days and in some cases up to 2 weeks after nerve injury. Varying the site

, we conduct an in-depth case study of the co-evolution behavior of Android API and dependent applications using the version history data found in github. Our study confirms that Android is evolving fast at a rate of 115 API updates per month on average. Client adoption, however, is not catching up

Flash-based solid-state drives have revolutionized stor-age with their high performance. Their sophisticated in-ternal mechanisms have led to a plethora of research on how to optimize applications, file systems, and internal SSD designs. Due to the closed nature of commercial de-vices though, most research on the internals of an SSD, such as enhanced flash-translation layers, is performed using simulation or emulation. Without implementation in real devices, it can be difficult to judge the true benefit of the proposed designs. In this paper, we describe our efforts to implement two new SSD designs that change both the internal workings of the device and its interface to the host operating sys-tem. Using the OpenSSD Jasmine board, we develop a prototype of FlashTier’s Solid State Cache (SSC) and of the Nameless Write SSD. While the flash-translation layer changes were straightforward, we discovered un-expected complexities in implementing extensions to the storage interface. We describe our implementation process and extract a set of lessons applicable to other SSD prototypes. With our prototype we validate the performance claims of FlashTier and show a 45-52 % performance improvement over caching with an SSD and a 90 % reduction in erases. 1

the effectiveness and efficiency of Spectator through both large-scale simulations as well as a case study that observes the behavior of a real-life JavaScript worm propagating across a social networking site. Based on our case study, we believe that Spectator is able to detect all JavaScript worms released to date

The NITE XML Toolkit (NXT) provides library support for working with multimodal language corpora. We describe our experiences in using it to study discourse effects on syntactic choice using the parsed Switchboard Corpus as a starting point, as a case study for others who may wish to adopt similar

The NITE XML Toolkit (NXT) provides library support for working with multimodal language corpora. We describe our experiences in using it to study discourse effects on syntactic choice using the parsed Switchboard Corpus as a starting point, as a case study for others who may wish to adopt similar

tweez-ers experiments with the peptide Thiocoraline show-ing, for the first time, that bis-intercalation is driven by a very slow off-rate that steeply decreases with applied force. This feature reveals the existence of a long-lived (minutes) mono-intercalated intermedi-ate that contributes

the following regimes in the relaxation dynamics of the membrane. Tensed vesicles first relax to release the acquired stress due to stretching, ;100 ms. In the case of poration, membrane resealing occurs with a characteristic time of ;10 ms. Finally, for vesicles with excess area an additional slow regime

In view of the potential usefulness of fluorine-tagged fatty acids in the study of regional metabolism in the heart and liver, the time courses of uptake and release of 9,10-[18F)fluorostearic acid, 2-{18F]fluorostearic acid, 16-{18F]fluorohexadec-anoic acid, 17-[18F]fluoroheptadecanoic acid have