The glass transition of two-dimensional binary soft disk mixtures with large size ratios

We simulate binary soft disk systems in two dimensions, and investigate how the dynamics slow as the area fraction is increased toward the glass transition. The "fragility" quantifies how sensitively the relaxation time scale depends on the area fraction, and the fragility strongly depends on the composition of the mixture. We confirm prior results for mixtures of particles with similar sizes, where the ability to form small crystalline regions correlates with fragility. However, for mixtures with particle size ratios above 1.4, we find that the fragility is not correlated with structural ordering, but rather with the spatial distribution of large particles. The large particles have slower motion than the small particles, and act as confining "walls" which slow the motion of nearby small particles. The rearrangement of these confining structures governs the lifetime of dynamical heterogeneity, that is, how long local regions exhibit anomalously fast or slow behavior. The strength of the confinement effect is correlated with the fragility and also influences the aging behavior of glassy systems.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figure

Multilingual simultaneous sentence end and punctuation prediction

This paper describes the model and its corresponding setup, proposed by the Unbabel & INESC-ID team for the 1st Shared Task on Sentence End and Punctuation Prediction in NLG Text (SEPP-NLG 2021). The shared task covers 4 languages (English, German, French and Italian) and includes two subtasks: Subtask 1 - detecting the end of a sentence, and subtask 2 - predicting a range of punctuation marks. Our team proposes a single multilingual and multitask model that is able to produce suitable results for all the languages and subtasks involved. The results show that it is possible to achieve state-of-the-art results using one single multilingual model for both tasks and multiple languages. Using a single multilingual model to solve the task for multiple languages is of particular importance, since training a different model for each language is a cumbersome and time-consuming process.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Pembuatan Pc Game Endless Run “Zombie Run” Menggunakan Arduino Pro Micro Dan Gy-521 Sebagai Kontroler Gyroscope

“Zombie Run” is an endless running game that must played by two players on one computer or notebook and must be played using Arduino Pro Micro and GY-521 as controller. This game developed using Unity 3D game engine and controller developed using Arduino SDK. Player have to avoid as many obstacles to create highest score. Player can get uniquely exciting experience by tilting controller and pressing button in the controller to make character move. Testing has been done using blackbox method, alpha testing, and beta testing. The result show that this game have interesting concept by two players and gyroscope controlle

Electron-Induced Vibrational Spectroscopy. A New and Unique Tool To Unravel the Molecular Structure of Polymer Surfaces

Among the surface-sensitive spectroscopies used to characterize clean and surface-modified polymers, one technique has rather recently emerged as a very promising complementary tool. High-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy, or electron-induced vibrational spectroscopy, has potentially all the attributes of the well-known optical (infrared and Raman) spectroscopies; it clearly adds to X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy the possibility to go beyond surface elemental and chemical analysis and to unravel the molecular structure of an extremely thin surface layer of a polymer. This ultrahigh vacuum spectroscopy is shown here to gather information from the last 25 angstrom or so of the polymer surface, as deduced from the analysis of sandwich layers of normal and perdeuterated PMMA Langmuir-Blodgett films. Four case studies of molecular-type information are presented, illustrating (1) the preferential surface segregation of CH3 chain ends on a crystalline polyethylene, (2) selective surface segregation and dynamics of deuterated material in mixtures of normal and deuterated polystyrenes, (3) tacticity induced molecular orientation of PMMA's and polystyrene, and (4) metalization induced molecular reorientation on the surface of polyimide films.</p