Code commenting is a common programming practice of practical importance to help developers review and comprehend source code. However, there is a lack of thorough specifications to help developers make their commenti...
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We investigated the hindered rotation and nuclear spin isomer separation of H-2 on Pd(210) for various pre-adsorbed atomic hydrogen coverages (Theta), by total energy calculations based on density functional theory. O...
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We investigated the hindered rotation and nuclear spin isomer separation of H-2 on Pd(210) for various pre-adsorbed atomic hydrogen coverages (Theta), by total energy calculations based on density functional theory. Our results revealed that H-2 is in the molecularly chemisorbed state and the adsorption is characterized by a highly anisotropic potential energy surface. Further, we found that J = 1 degenerate level splitting is insensitive to the increase in Theta from 1 to 2 ML. This is due to the comparable potential strengths hindering/restricting the polar rotations in both coverages. On a fully H passivated (3 ML) Pd(210), H-2 is in a weakly physisorbed state with a negligible potential anisotropy. Our findings suggest that the activation barrier for polar rotational motion does not strongly depend on the adsorption energy but rather on the surface-molecule bond. The estimated rotational state desorption energies show a separation of ortho and para isomers by around 7.0 meV. Published by AIP Publishing.
Watershed models such as the Hydrological Simulation Program in FORTRAN (HSPF) are frequently used to analyze large-scale water quantity and water quality issues. The construction of HSPF models is a difficult and tim...
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Watershed models such as the Hydrological Simulation Program in FORTRAN (HSPF) are frequently used to analyze large-scale water quantity and water quality issues. The construction of HSPF models is a difficult and time-consuming process, because it requires compilation of extensive quantities of data into formatted files followed by a simultaneous fitting of many uncertain parameters. Because of these complications, studies are often limited to calibration periods of only a few years even when analyzing long time-scale issues such as climate and land-use changes that are difficult or impossible to reproduce. High-level, open source programminglanguages provide an environment for automating the extraction and processing of various sources of data in addition to the calibration process required by HSPF. Recently developed software can be used to build HSPF input files, run simulations, and postprocess simulation results using the Python programming language. The combination of tools in Python, public data sets on the Internet, and software extensions enables rapid development of long-term, reproducible, and sophisticated models for new hydrologic insight. Herein, the utility of these tools is illustrated by developing an automated 30-year HSPF model with a Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency of 0.88 for monthly flows and 0.75 for daily flows in a simulation time of approximately 3h. The integration of HSPF with a high-level programming language creates opportunities to more rigorously explore model assumptions, calibration methods, and alternative data sets.
Rapid advancements in the multidisciplinary field of biomedical engineering (BME) require competitive engineers with skill sets in a broad range of subjects including biology, physiology, mechanics, circuits, and prog...
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Rapid advancements in the multidisciplinary field of biomedical engineering (BME) require competitive engineers with skill sets in a broad range of subjects including biology, physiology, mechanics, circuits, and programming. Accordingly, such a need should be reflected in the training of BME students. Among those skills, computerprogramming is an essential tool that is used in a wide variety of applications. in this paper, we have provided our experience in incorporating project-based learning, a promising approach in active learning, for teaching computerprogramming to BME students. We describe a low-cost method for using physical, hands-on computing that directly relates to BME. Additionally, we detail our efforts to teach multiple programminglanguages in one semester and provide a detailed analysis of the outcomes. We also provide basic materials for other instructors to adapt to fit their own needs.
Plant tissue represents cellular material with multiple structural hierarchies enabling a wide range of multifunctionalities and extraordinary mechanical properties. However, it is yet to be elucidated how subcellular...
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Plant tissue represents cellular material with multiple structural hierarchies enabling a wide range of multifunctionalities and extraordinary mechanical properties. However, it is yet to be elucidated how subcellular-scale mechanical properties and cell-to-cell interactions by a middle lamella (ML) layer are translated to larger scale responses. In this study, we examined an onion epidermal cell wall profile as a representative multicellular material system and developed a novel framework for a multiscale finite element analysis (FEA) model that allows two-scale coupling in a commercial FEA package. The core of this multiscale approach is a 3D repetitive volume element (RVE), which is composed of four cell wall fragments from four adjacent cells attached by a distinct ML layer. We parameterized ML mechanical properties and cell shape anisotropy at RVE to investigate resulting mechanical responses, which were then scaled up to the tissue level. It was observed that, within the elastic limit, the RVE- and tissue-scale mechanical responses are barely affected by ML modulus value;however, they are moderately affected by cell shape factor. The detailed 3D feature of ML interface was found critical for creating anisotropic mechanical behavior and localized stress concentration at RVE scale. Based on the observed results, a soft nanoscopic ML layer with its specified 3D architecture was suggested as the key mediator for attributing multifunctionality in plant cellular material system. The reported computational model framework offers new insight into how different length scales may affect the material properties of multicellular materials exhibiting hierarchical multiscale structures.
The submonolayer adsorption of Na onto the Cu(110) surface is studied. At small Na coverages (Iy = 0.16-0.25 ML), the substrate surface subjected to missing-row reconstruction (1 x 2) is shown to be most stable dynami...
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The submonolayer adsorption of Na onto the Cu(110) surface is studied. At small Na coverages (Iy = 0.16-0.25 ML), the substrate surface subjected to missing-row reconstruction (1 x 2) is shown to be most stable dynamically. When the coverage increases to Iy = 0.5 ML, the unreconstructed substrate surface with a c(2 x 2) sodium adlayer becomes dynamically stable. For an analysis, we used data on the equilibrium atomic configuration, the adsorption energy, the phonon spectra, the local density of phonon states, and the polarization of localized vibrational modes. All calculations were performed using the interatomic potentials obtained in terms of the embedded-atom method. The calculated frequencies of localized vibrational modes agree well with the existing experimental data.
We have investigated the stability and electronic properties of GaN nanowires photocathode based on first-principle calculations. The most stable adsorption configuration of Cs adatoms on the (001) surface of [001]-or...
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We have investigated the stability and electronic properties of GaN nanowires photocathode based on first-principle calculations. The most stable adsorption configuration of Cs adatoms on the (001) surface of [001]-oriented GaN nanowires changes accordingly as Cs coverage increases. The work function of Cs-only-covered surface falls off with increasing Cs coverage. For the nanowire surface covered with either excessive or minor Cs coverage, the work function surprisingly increases slightly after O activation;however, for Cs coverage of 0.5 (monolayer) ML and 0.75 ML, O activation process still works for the nanowires photocathode. A downward band bending region is formed after Cs adsorption and will further bend downward after O adsorption only for models with Cs coverage of 0.5 ML and 0.75 ML. The optimized atomic ratio of Cs/O is 3:1. The diversification of the band structures is mainly attributed to the orbital hybridization between Cs-5 s, Cs-5p, O-2p states and Ga-4 s, N-2p states.
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Riniker, SereinaETH
Phys Chem Lab Vladimir Prelog Weg 2 CH-8093 Zurich Switzerland
While the use of machine-learning (ML) techniques is well established in cheminformatics for the prediction of physicochemical properties and binding affinities, the training of ML models based on data from molecular ...
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While the use of machine-learning (ML) techniques is well established in cheminformatics for the prediction of physicochemical properties and binding affinities, the training of ML models based on data from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations remains largely unexplored. Here, we present a fingerprint termed MDFP which is constructed from the distributions of properties such as potential -energy components, radius of gyration, and solvent-accessible surface area extracted from MD simulations. The corresponding fingerprint elements are the first two statistical moments of the distributions and the median. By considering not only the average but also the spread of the distribution in the fingerprint, some degree of entropic information is encoded. Short MD simulations of the molecules in water (and in vacuum) are used to generate MDFP. These are further combined with simple counts based on the 2D structure of the molecules into MDFP+. The resulting information-rich MDFP+ is used to train ML models for the prediction of solvation free energies in five different solvents (water, octanol, chloroform, hexadecane, and cyclohexane) as well as partition coefficients in octanol/water, hexadecane/water, and-cyclohexane/water. The approach is easy to implement and computationally relatively inexpensive. Yet, it performs similarly well compared to more rigorous MD-based free-energy methods such as free -energy perturbation (FEP) as well as end-state methods such as linear interaction energy (LIE), the conductor-like screening model for realistic solvation (COSMO-RS), and the SMx family of solvation models.
Visual programming has transformed the art of programming in recent years. Several organizations are in race to develop novel ideas to run visual programming in multiple domains with Internet of Things. IoT, being the...
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Visual programming has transformed the art of programming in recent years. Several organizations are in race to develop novel ideas to run visual programming in multiple domains with Internet of Things. IoT, being the most emerging area of computing, needs substantial contribution from the visual programming paradigm for its technological propagation. This paper surveys visual programminglanguages being served for application development, especially in Internet of Things field. 13 such languages are visited from several popular research-electronic databases (e. g., IEEE Xplore, Science Direct, Springer Link, Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Postscapes) and compared under four key attributes such as programming environment, license, project repository, and platform supports. Grouped into two segments, open source and proprietary platform, these visual languages pertain few crucial challenges that have been elaborated in this literature. The main goal of this paper is to present existing VPLs per their parametric proforma to enable na " ive developers and researchers in the field of IoT to choose appropriate variant of VPL for particular type of application. It is also worth validating the usability and adaptability of VPLs that is essential for selection of beneficiary in terms of IoT.
Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn weed has the tendency to grow in patches. In order to perform site-specific weed management, determining the spatial distribution of weeds is important for its eradication. Remote sensing ...
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Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn weed has the tendency to grow in patches. In order to perform site-specific weed management, determining the spatial distribution of weeds is important for its eradication. Remote sensing has been used to perform species discrimination and it offers promising techniques for operational weed mapping. In the present study, the feasibility of high-resolution imaging for S. marianum detection and mapping is reported. A multispectral camera (green-red-near-infrared) mounted on a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was used for the acquisition of high-resolution images with pixel size of 0.1 m. The maximum likelihood (ML) classifier was used to classify the S. marianum among other weed species present in a field, with Avena sterilisL. being predominant. As input to the classifier, the three spectral bands and the texture were used. The scale of the mapping was varied by degrading the image resolution to evaluate classification performance, with 1 m resolution providing the highest classification accuracy. The classification rates obtained using ML reached an overall accuracy of 87.04% with a K-hat statistic of 74%. The results prove the feasibility of operational S. marianum mapping using UAV and multispectral imaging.
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