Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Compact Device Models for FinFET and Beyond

Compact device models play a significant role in connecting device technology and circuit design. BSIM-CMG and BSIM-IMG are industry standard compact models suited for the FinFET and UTBB technologies, respectively. Its surface potential based modeling framework and symmetry preserving properties make them suitable for both analog/RF and digital design. In the era of artificial intelligence / deep learning, compact models further enhanced our ability to explore RRAM and other NVM-based neuromorphic circuits. We have demonstrated simulation of RRAM neuromorphic circuits with Verilog-A based compact model at NCKU. Further abstraction with macromodels is performed to enable larger scale machine learning simulation.
Estudo comparativo da ação anti-helmíntica da batata de purga (Operculina hamiltonii) e do melão de são caetano (Mormodica charantia) em caprinos (Capra hircus) naturalmente infectados

As helmintoses gastrintestinais ocupam lugar de destaque na producao de pequenos ruminantes como um fator limitante e o seu controle vem sendo realizado por meio do uso indiscriminado de anti-helminticos favorecendo o surgimento da resistencia a medicamentos. Com o objetivo de comparar a acao anti-helmintica das plantas Operculina hamiltonii (batata de purga), Marmodica charantia (Melao de Sao Caetano) e do moxedctin a 0,2% sobre as infeccoes helminticas naturais de caprinos, foram utilizados 40 caprinos, sem raca definida, femeas, com idade entre seis e 12 meses, naturalmente infectados, separados em quatro grupos: o GRUPO 1 (G1) - animais controle negativo tratados com agua destilada; o GRUPO 2 (G2) - animais tratados com o extrato alcoolico da O. hamiltonii; o GRUPO 3 (G3) - animais tratados com o extrato alcoolico da M. charantia e no GRUPO 4 (G4) - animais controle positivo tratados com moxidectina 0,2%. Todos os grupos receberam os tratamentos por tres dias consecutivos. As amostras fecais foram coletadas nos dias 0, 30 e 60 apos tratamento, para a realizacao da contagem de ovos por grama de fezes (OPG) e larvacultura. Para avaliar o efeito dos tratamentos, aplicou-se o teste de reducao na contagem de ovos por grama de fezes (RCOF). A RCOF do G2, G3 e G4 foram de 63 e 90; 40 e 40; 100 e 100%, respectivamente para 30 e 60 dias pos-tratamento respectivamente. Durante o periodo de estudo, observou-se que todas as amostras coletadas estavam positivas para larvas de helmintos da superfamilia Trichostrongyloidea, com excecao para o G4, nos dias 30 e 60 pos-tratamento. O Haemonchus foi o parasita mais prevalente nas coproculturas.
The [O iii]+H β equivalent width distribution at z ≃ 7: implications for the contribution of galaxies to reionization

We quantify the distribution of [OIII]+H line strengths at z 7 using a sample of 20 bright (M UV-21) galaxies. We select these systems over wide-area fields (2.3 deg 2 total) using a new colour-selection which precisely selects galaxies at z 6.63-6.83, a redshift range where blue Spitzer/IRAC [3.6]−[4.5] colours unambiguously indicate strong [OIII]+H emission. These 20 galaxies suggest a log-normal [OIII]+H EW distribution with median EW = 759 +112 −113 A and standard deviation = 0.26 +0.06 −0.05 dex. We find no evidence for strong variation in this EW distribution with UV luminosity. The typical [OIII]+H EW at z 7 implied by our sample is considerably larger than that in massive star forming galaxies at z 2, consistent with a shift toward larger average sSFR (4.4 Gyr −1) and lower metallicities (0.16 Z). We also find evidence for the emergence of a population with yet more extreme nebular emission ([OIII]+H EW>1200 A) that is rarely seen at lower redshifts. These objects have extremely large sSFR (>30 Gyr −1), as would be expected for systems undergoing a burst or upturn in star formation. While this may be a short-lived phase, our results suggest that 20% of the z 7 population has such extreme nebular emission, implying that galaxies likely undergo intense star formation episodes regularly at z>6. We argue that this population may be among the most effective ionizing agents in the reionization era, both in terms of photon production efficiency and escape fraction. We furthermore suggest that galaxies passing through this large sSFR phase are likely to be very efficient in forming bound star clusters.
Defoliation effects on grain filling of R-nj color-selected maize strains

(.)Combined analyses of data over years indicated that source reduction (defoliation) reduced color intensity(CI), rate of dry matter accumulation (RDMA) and kernel weight. Strains selected for high color expression had higher RDMA and kernel weight than low color selections. (.) Color expression was positively correlated with RDMA and kernel weight. Results suggest that R-nj color expression is related to sugar concentration in the endosperm during kernel development and that selection for differences in color expression may be a simple, inexpensive means of modifying RDMA
Page Curve and the Information Paradox in Flat Space

Asymptotic Causal Diamonds (ACDs) are a natural flat space analogue of AdS causal wedges, and it has been argued previously that they may be useful for understanding bulk locality in flat space holography. In this paper, we use ACD-inspired ideas to argue that there exist natural candidates for Quantum Extremal Surfaces (QES) and entanglement wedges in flat space, anchored to the conformal boundary. When there is a holographic screen at finite radius, we can also associate entanglement wedges and entropies to screen sub-regions, with the system naturally coupled to a sink. The screen and the boundary provide two complementary ways of formulating the information paradox. We explain how they are related and show that in both formulations, the flat space entanglement wedge undergoes a phase transition at the Page time in the background of an evaporating Schwarzschild black hole. Our results closely parallel recent observations in AdS, and reproduce the Page curve. That there is a variation of the argument that can be phrased directly in flat space without reliance on AdS, is a strong indication that entanglement wedge phase transitions may be key to the information paradox in flat space as well. Along the way, we give evidence that the entanglement entropy of an ACD is a well-defined, and likely instructive, quantity. We further note that the picture of the sink we present here may have an understanding in terms of sub-matrix deconfinement in a large-$N$ setting.
Global torques and stochasticity as the drivers of massive black hole pairing in the young Universe

The forthcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will probe the population of coalescing massive black hole (MBH) binaries up to the onset of structure formation. Here we simulate the galactic-scale pairing of $\sim10^6 M_\odot$ MBHs in a typical, non-clumpy main-sequence galaxy embedded in a cosmological environment at $z = 7-6$. In order to increase our statistical sample, we adopt a strategy that allows us to follow the evolution of six secondary MBHs concomitantly. We find that the magnitude of the dynamical-friction induced torques is significantly smaller than that of the large-scale, stochastic gravitational torques arising from the perturbed and morphologically evolving galactic disc, suggesting that the standard dynamical friction treatment is inadequate for realistic galaxies at high redshift. The dynamical evolution of MBHs is very stochastic, and a variation in the initial orbital phase can lead to a drastically different time-scale for the inspiral. Most remarkably, the development of a galactic bar in the host system either significantly accelerates the inspiral by dragging a secondary MBH into the centre, or ultimately hinders the orbital decay by scattering the MBH in the galaxy outskirts. The latter occurs more rarely, suggesting that galactic bars overall promote MBH inspiral and binary coalescence. The orbital decay time can be an order of magnitude shorter than what would be predicted relying on dynamical friction alone. The stochasticity, and the important role of global torques, have crucial implications for the rates of MBH coalescences in the early Universe: both have to be accounted for when making predictions for the upcoming LISA observatory.
Differentiable Greedy Submodular Maximization with Guarantees and Gradient Estimators

We consider making outputs of the greedy algorithm for monotone submodular function maximization differentiable w.r. t. parameters of objective functions. Due to the non-continuous behavior of the algorithm, we must use some smoothing methods. Our contribution is a theoretically guaranteed and widely applicable smoothing framework based on randomization. We prove that our smoothed greedy algorithm almost recovers original approximation guarantees in expectation for the cases of cardinality and $\kappa$-extensible system constrains. We also show that unbiased gradient estimators of any expected output-dependent quantities can be efficiently obtained by sampling outputs. We confirm the utility and effectiveness of our framework by applying it to sensitivity analysis of the greedy algorithm and decision-focused learning of parameterized submodular models.
THE ABSORPTION OF INORGANIC PHOSPHATE FROM THE SMALL INTESTINE OF THE RAT

1. The net absorption of inorganic phosphate has been measured in the jejunum and ileum of male albino rats. 2. The net absorption rate of inorganic phosphate increased with decreasing hydrogen-ion concentration. No optimum value for absorption was found in the pH range 4·4 to 7·9. 3. Increasing the concentration of phosphate in the intestinal lumen increased the net absorption rate linearly. No evidence for a rate-limiting process was found. 4. The absorption rate of phosphate was relatively uninfluenced by the tonicity of the intestinal contents, but was greatly diminished in the presence of low concentrations of sodium. 5. The presence of 37 mM/l. glucose in the intestinal contents had no effect on the net absorption of phosphate. 6. Inorganic phosphate was absorbed more rapidly from the jejunum than from the ileum: the difference in rate may be accounted for by the difference in mucosal area between the two regions.
THE INFLUENCE OF VAPOUR PRESSURE DEFICIT ON LEAF WATER RELATIONS OF COCOS NUCIFERA IN NORTHEAST BRAZIL

SUMMARY Daily courses of leaf gas exchange and leaf water potential (Ψleaf) of green dwarf coconut palm (Cocos nucifera) were measured in irrigated plantations on the wet coastal plateau and in a dry semi-arid area of northeast Brazil. At both sites, significant correlations were obtained between stomatal conductance (gs) and vapour pressure deficit (VPDair), Ψleaf and VPDair, leaf transpiration (E) and gs, and E-Ψleaf. Despite these similar relationships between sites, stronger correlations involving gs-VPDair and E-Ψleaf were found at the semi-arid site, where whole-plant hydraulic conductance (gp) was correlated significantly with VPDair. In addition, at the semi-arid site, only, the net photosynthesis (PN) was not correlated with E and Ψleaf, and the intrinsic water use efficiency (WUEi) was disconnected from VPDair and Ψleaf. The different behaviour of leaf gas exchange and Ψleaf between sites was probably caused by low gs in response to high VPDair at the semi-arid site. Our results indicate potential for significant alterations in the pattern of leaf gas exchange during future climatic changes with increasing temperature and concomitant increases in VPDair. The atmospheric water stress will probably reinforce the strength of connection among water relation variables (E, Ψleaf, gs, gp, and VPDair), but it will disrupt the linear relationship between net CO2 assimilation and leaf water relations such as PN-E, PN-Ψleaf, WUEi-VPDair and WUEi-Ψleaf.
Un Nouveau Cymothoadien, Meinertia Capri N. Sp. (Isopoda), Parasite De Capros Aper Lacépède, 1803 (Téléostéens, Caproidae) En Méditerranée

[So far, the following species of Cymothoid parasitic isopods have been recorded from the Mediterranean : Meinertia parallela (Otto), M. italica (Schioedte & Meinert), M. gobii (Schioedte & Meinert), M. oestroides (Risso), M. steindachneri (Koelbel), M. collaris (Koelbel) and M. oxyrrhynchaena (Koelbel). Now a new species is added to this list, namely, Meinertia capri n. sp. , parasitic on Capros aper Lacepede in the Mediterranean. Of this new species individuals in the female phase, in the male phase, and the larvae from the brood pouch ("pulli") are described. Some ecological observations are given, such as the observed index of parasitism. The paper ends with a critical taxonomic discussion. , So far, the following species of Cymothoid parasitic isopods have been recorded from the Mediterranean : Meinertia parallela (Otto), M. italica (Schioedte & Meinert), M. gobii (Schioedte & Meinert), M. oestroides (Risso), M. steindachneri (Koelbel), M. collaris (Koelbel) and M. oxyrrhynchaena (Koelbel). Now a new species is added to this list, namely, Meinertia capri n. sp. , parasitic on Capros aper Lacepede in the Mediterranean. Of this new species individuals in the female phase, in the male phase, and the larvae from the brood pouch ("pulli") are described. Some ecological observations are given, such as the observed index of parasitism. The paper ends with a critical taxonomic discussion. ]
Importance Filtered Cross-Domain Adaptation

In Domain Adaptation (DA), the category-relevant losses usually occupy a dominant position, while they are usually built with hard or soft labels in existing models. We observed that hard labels are overconfident due to hard samples existed, and soft labels are ambiguous as too many small noisy probabilities involved, and both of them are easily to cause negative transfer. Besides, the category-irrelevant losses in Closed-Set DA (CSDA) paradigm fail to work in Open-Set DA (OSDA), and they also have to be in a category-relevant form, since target data samples are split into shared and private classes. To this end, we propose a newly-unified DA framework (i.e., Importance Filtered Cross-Domain Adaptation, IFCDA). Firstly, an importance filtered mechanism is devised to generate filtered soft labels to mitigate negative transfer desirably. Specifically, the soft labels are divided into confident and ambiguous ones. Then, only the maximum probability in each confident label is retained, and a threshold value is set to truncate each ambiguous label so that only prominent probabilities are reserved. Moreover, a general graph-based label propagation is contrived to attain soft labels in both CSDA and OSDA, where an extra component is embedded into label vector, so that it could detect target novel classes. Finally, the category-relevant losses in both scenarios are reformulated using filtered soft labels, while the category-irrelevant MMD loss in CSDA is reformulated as a form like class-wise MMD using newly-designed importance filtered soft labels. Notably, CSDA paradigm is a special case when all extra components are set to 0, thus the proposed approach is geared to both CSDA and OSDA. Comprehensive experiments on benchmark cross-domain object recognition datasets verify that the proposed approach outperforms several state-of-the-art methods in both scenarios.
Transport across twist angle domains in moiré graphene

Many of the experiments in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) differ from each other in terms of the details of their phase diagrams. Few controllable aspects aside, this discrepancy is largely believed to be arising from the presence of a varying degree of twist angle inhomogeneity across different samples. Real space maps indeed reveal TBG devices splitting into several large domains of different twist angles. Motivated by these observations, we study the quantum mechanical tunneling across a domain wall (DW) that separates two such regions. We show that the tunneling of the moire particles can be understood by the formation of an effective step potential at the DW. The height of this step potential is simply a measure of the difference in twist angles. These computations lead us to identify the global transport signatures for detecting and quantifying the local twist angle variations. In particular, Using Landauer-Buttiker formalism we compute single-channel conductance ($dI/dV$) and Fano factor for shot noise (ratio of noise power and mean current). A zero-bias, sub-meV transport gap is observed in the conductance which scales with the height of the step potential. One of the key findings of our work is that transport in presence of twist angle inhomogeneity is "noisy", though sub-Poissonian. In particular, the differential Fano factor peaks near the van Hove energies corresponding to the domains in the sample. The location and the strength of the peak is simply a measure of the degree of twist angle inhomogeneity.
Arctic Amplification of Anthropogenic Forcing: A Vector Autoregressive Analysis

Arctic sea ice extent (SIE) in September 2019 ranked second-to-lowest in history and is trending downward. The understanding of how internal variability amplifies the effects of external $\text{CO}_2$ forcing is still limited. We propose the VARCTIC, which is a Vector Autoregression (VAR) designed to capture and extrapolate Arctic feedback loops. VARs are dynamic simultaneous systems of equations, routinely estimated to predict and understand the interactions of multiple macroeconomic time series. Hence, the VARCTIC is a parsimonious compromise between fullblown climate models and purely statistical approaches that usually offer little explanation of the underlying mechanism. Our "business as usual" completely unconditional forecast has SIE hitting 0 in September by the 2060s. Impulse response functions reveal that anthropogenic $\text{CO}_2$ emission shocks have a permanent effect on SIE - a property shared by no other shock. Further, we find Albedo- and Thickness-based feedbacks to be the main amplification channels through which $\text{CO}_2$ anomalies impact SIE in the short/medium run. Conditional forecast analyses reveal that the future path of SIE crucially depends on the evolution of $\text{CO}_2$ emissions, with outcomes ranging from recovering SIE to it reaching 0 in the 2050s. Finally, Albedo and Thickness feedbacks are shown to play an important role in accelerating the speed at which predicted SIE is heading towards 0.
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Detection and Cross-Document Coreference Resolution of Militarized Interstate Disputes

Previous efforts to automate the detection of social and political events in text have primarily focused on identifying events described within single sentences or documents. Within a corpus of documents, these automated systems are unable to link event references—recognize singular events across multiple sentences or documents. A separate literature in computational linguistics on event coreference resolution attempts to link known events to one another within (and across) documents. I provide a data set for evaluating methods to identify certain political events in text and to link related texts to one another based on shared events. The data set, Headlines of War, is built on the Militarized Interstate Disputes data set and offers headlines classified by dispute status and headline pairs labeled with coreference indicators. Additionally, I introduce a model capable of accomplishing both tasks. The multi-task convolutional neural network is shown to be capable of recognizing events and event coreferences given the headlines’ texts and publication dates.
Calcium-rich Transient SN 2019ehk in a Star-forming Environment: Yet Another Candidate for a Precursor of a Double Neutron-star Binary

We present optical and near-infrared observations of SN 2019ehk, which was initially reported as a Type Ib supernova (SN). We show that it evolved to a Ca-rich transient according to its spectral properties and evolution in late phases. However, it shows a few properties distinct from those of the canonical Ca-rich transients: a short-duration first peak in the light curve, high peak luminosity, and association with a star-forming environment. Indeed, some of these features are shared with iPTF14gqr and iPTF16hgs, which are candidates for a special class of core-collapse SNe: the so-called ultra-stripped envelope SNe, i.e., a relatively low-mass He (or C+O) star explosion in a binary as a precursor of short-period double neutron star (NS) binaries. The estimated ejecta mass (0.4M ⊙) and explosion energy (1.7 × 1050 erg) are consistent with this scenario. The analysis of the first peak suggests the existence of dense circumstellar material in the vicinity of the progenitor, implying a CCSN origin. Based on this analysis, we suggest SN 2019ehk is another candidate for a low-mass He star explosion. It might create a double NS binary, but with a wide separation. These candidates for low-mass stripped envelope SNe, including ultra-stripped envelope SN candidates, seem to form a subpopulation among Ca-rich transients, associated with young population. We propose that the key to distinguishing this population is the early first peak in their light curves.
Rastreabilidade da farinha de carne e ossos bovinos em ovos de poedeiras alimentadas com ingredientes alternativos

The objective of this work was to detect traces of the bovine meat and bones meal in eggs of laying hens fed on commercial diets including alternative plant ingredients and yeast. The bovine meal detection was performed through carbon and nitrogen stable isotope technique. Three hundred eighty-four laying hens were randomly distributed in eight treatments. Treatments consisted of one control diet - a corn-and-soybean based meal - and seven diets with bovine meat and bone meal, including or not other ingredients (wheat bran, rice, cottonseed meal, corn gluten meal, sugarcane yeast and brewer yeast). At the 35th day, 24 eggs per treatment were randomly collected, 12 for egg analyses and 12 for yolk and albumen analyses. After isotopic analysis of carbon and nitrogen, the results were submitted to multivariate analysis of variance. The average isotopic pairs of egg, yolk and albumen of all treatments differed from those of the control. The stable isotope technique allowed detection of bovine meat and bone meal in eggs, yolk and albumen, produced by laying hens fed on diets with inclusion of plant ingredients and yeast.
Pfaffian Point Processes from Free Fermion Algebras: Perfectness and Conditional Measures

The analogy between determinantal point processes (DPPs) and free fermionic calculi is well-known. We point out that, from the perspective of free fermionic algebras, Pfaffian point processes (PfPPs) naturally emerge, and show that a positive contraction acting on a ''doubled'' one-particle space with an additional structure defines a unique PfPP. Recently, Olshanski inverted the direction from free fermions to DPPs, proposed a scheme to construct a fermionic state from a quasi-invariant probability measure, and introduced the notion of perfectness of a probability measure. We propose a method to check the perfectness and show that Schur measures are perfect as long as they are quasi-invariant under the action of the symmetric group. We also study conditional measures for PfPPs associated with projection operators. Consequently, we show that the conditional measures are again PfPPs associated with projection operators onto subspaces explicitly described.