This article microstructurally tailors an exceptionally high-strength titanium alloy, Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-6Mo (Ti6246) through friction stir processing (FSP) in order to provide enhanced weight savings and improved fuel efficiency. The specific strength attained in one of the conditions is close to 450 MPa m³/mg, which is about 22% to 85% greater than any commercially available metallic material. This novel nano particle strengthened Ti alloy is a potential replacement for many structural alloys, enabling significant weight reduction opportunities.

This article performs X-ray photoelectron, Raman, and diffraction studies of few-layered pulsed laser deposited WS₂ films as a function of laser fluence and frequency to understand the impact on structure and properties.

Article investigates a novel genetically themed hierarchical algorithm (GTHA) to design Fresnel lens solar concentrators that match with the distinct energy input and spatial geometry of various thermal applications.

Data management plan for the grant "Integrating multi-omics datasets to infer phenotype-specific driver genes, regulatory interactions and drug response." Research to develop open source integrative computational tools that perform secondary analysis of publicly available multi-omics biological, clinical and environmental exposure datasets to infer context-specific regulatory interactions and modules, and to predict disease associated genes and patient-specific drug response.

Article describes precession electron diffraction (PED), which makes possible the very accurate and automated quantitative characterization of technically interesting materials that historically have been difficult to analyze due to their dimensions and/or degree of deformation, including specifically ultrafine-grained metallic structures with high dislocation densities.

Article describes a study in which a micro milling process was used to manufacture AISI 316L stainless steel needles arrays with a conical geometry (i.e., a base diameter and height of 1 mm by 1 mm, respectively), and an analysis of tool wear on ball nose micro end milling tools with a diameter of ~200 μm was performed to evaluate the use of lubricant in the manufacture of those conical surfaces.

Article presents several process planning guidelines as a result of a selective laser melting (SLM) process calibration for a selected material (stainless steel 316L), with the intention of contributing in process parameters selection in net shape manufacturing.

Article proposes a strategy called Dynamic Bank Partitioning (DBP), which allocates memory banks to different applications based on their memory access characteristic, and also proposes an adaptive method to dynamically select an optimal page policy for each bank according to the characteristics of memory accesses that each bank receives to further reduce power consumption.

Article describes experiment where researchers synthesized a PEGylated isoniazid (PEG-g-INH or PEG–INH) by gamma radiation-induced polymerization for the first time.

Article describes study evaluating the electro-catalytic behavior of recently developed Pt-, Pd-, and Pt/Pd-based metallic glasses using scanning electrochemical microscopy.

Article describes an experiment where various chemical exfoliation routes for semiconducting two-dimensional (2D) layered material WS2 were explored, including magnetic stirring (MS), shear mixing (SM), and horn-tip (HT) sonication.

Paper explores the possibility of the capacity of private information retrieval (PIR) from databases coded using maximum distance separable (MDS) codes to be broken through joint encoding and storage of messages.

Paper presents a model that simulates the 2013–2014 French Polynesia Zika outbreak, incorporating the temperature dependent mosquito ecology and the local transit network (flights and ferries), highlighting the importance of human travel patterns and mosquito population dynamics in a disease outbreak.

This article highlights the development of a flexible long-chain starch with a hyper-branched structure (HD), and incorporating it with SM and a crosslinking agent to prepare a novel SM adhesive. Results showed that this adhesive exhibited both excellent water resistance and enhanced toughness. The wet bond strength of plywood fabricated using this adhesive was 354.5% higher than that of SM adhesive.

This article presents a comprehensive view on corrosion, erosion, and wear behavior of complex concentrated alloys.

This article presents a brief review of the microstructures and mechanical properties of selected metallic alloys processed by additive manufacturing (AM).

This article proposes a one-step wood modification method by combining the deposition of ZnO particles on wood surface and heat treatment.

This paper complements semantic role representations with spatial knowledge beyond indicating plain locations.

This paper proposes a novel code-based threshold ring signature scheme with a leader-participant model.

This paper analyses user messages on an online cancer support community, Cancer Survivors Network (CSN), to identify the two types of social support present: emotional support and informational support.

This paper describes an approach to determine whether people participate in the events they tweet about.

This paper proposes PositionRank, an unsupervised model for keyphrase extraction from scholarly documents that incorporates information from all positions of a word's occurrences into a biased PageRank.

This article examines elevation trends and their control by seasonality, dominant geochemical processes, and season dynamics in these supraglacial ponds at elevations ranging between 3989 and 4292 m above sea level in the debris-covered area of Lirung glacier in central Nepal Himalayas, from November 2010 to October 2011 on a bimonthly basis.

This paper from the 9th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications, FNC 2014 conference proceedings presents a low-cost indoor air quality monitoring wireless sensor network system developed using Arduino, XBee modules, and micro gas sensors.