Active fluids, such as bacterial suspensions and flowing tissues, often exhibit orientational order disrupted by topological defects. Much is understood about how internal driving powers ...

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As technology nodes shrink, end users are designing systems where each chip element is being targeted for a specific technology and manufacturing node. While designing chip functionality to address ...

As a highly complex man-machine-network integration system, the development, construction and operation of nuclear power plant are still facing many obstacles and risks. Firstly, plant instruments and ...

Defects can be introduced within a 2-D periodic lattice to realize phononic cavities or phononic crystal (PnC) waveguides at the ultrasonic frequency range. The arrangement of these defects within a ...

Abstract: Defects are prevalent in software systems. In order to understand defects better, industry practitioners often categorize bugs into various types. One common kind of categorization is the ...