Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Three-dimensional CMOS IC's Fabricated by using beam recrystallization

A three-dimensional (3-D) CMOS integrated circuit with a structure, in which one type of transistor is fabricated directly above a transistor of the opposite type with separate gates and an insulator in between, has successfully been fabricated by using laser beam recrystallization. Seven-stage ring oscillators fabricated in the 3-D structure have a propagation delay of 8.2 ns. In the present experiment, a double-layer of silicon-nitride and phospho-silicate-glass (PSG) film has been used as an intermediate insulating layer between the top and the bottom devices. This CMOS structure and the process technology we have developed here can be the basis for realizing a multilayered 3-D device composed of vertically stacked transistors with separate gates and an insulating layer in between.
Detection and quantification of inverse spin Hall effect from spin pumping in permalloy/normal metal bilayers

Spin pumping is a mechanism that generates spin currents from ferromagnetic resonance over macroscopic interfacial areas, thereby enabling sensitive detection of the inverse spin Hall effect that transforms spin into charge currents in nonmagnetic conductors. Here we study the spin-pumping-induced voltages due to the inverse spin Hall effect in permalloy/normal metal bilayers integrated into coplanar waveguides for different normal metals and as a function of angle of the applied magnetic field direction, as well as microwave frequency and power. We find good agreement between experimental data and a theoretical model that includes contributions from anisotropic magnetoresistance and inverse spin Hall effect. The analysis provides consistent results over a wide range of experimental conditions as long as the precise magnetization trajectory is taken into account. The spin Hall angles for Pt, Pd, Au, and Mo were determined with high precision to be 0.013±0.002, 0.0064±0.001, 0.0035±0.0003, and ? 0.0005±0.0001, respectively.
THE STRATEGIC RATIONAL OF BANKING ACQUISITION IN EMERGING MARKET

The purpose of the research is to study the determinants of banks acquisitions in Indonesia over the period of 2004-2014. The banking industry is one of the fastest growing and well regulated industries during the last ten years. We analyzed seven financial ratios (current ratio, asset turnover, debt to equity ratio, return on asset, return on equity, earning before tax per revenue and earning after tax per revenue) determinants banks take over. This research used the binary Logit regression technique. The empirical results show that the determinants of bank targeted for all types of takeover are the current ratio. The higher current ratio, the higher possiblity be the target acquisitions. there is no significant of debt to equity ratio, asset turnonver, return on asset, return on equity, earning before tax per revenue and earning after tax per revenue as the determinants of the acquisition of banks in Indonesia.
All-optical phase-regenerative multicasting of 40 Gbit/s DPSK signal in a degenerate phase sensitive amplifier

We demonstrate all-optical 1-to-5 differential phase-shift keyed (DPSK) wavelength multicasting at 40 Gbit/s using a degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) based phase sensitive amplifier (PSA). Phase regenerative properties are reported with a sensitivity improvement of more that 10 dB.
Exploiting kernel-based feature weighting and instance clustering to transfer knowledge across domains

Learning invariant features across domains is of vital importance to unsupervised domain adaptation, where classifiers trained on the training examples (source domain) need to adapt to a different set of test examples (target domain) in which no labeled examples are available. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to find the invariant features in the original space and transfer the knowledge across domains. We extract invariant features of input data by a kernel-based feature weighting approach, which exploits distribution difference and instance clustering to find desired features. The proposed method is called the kernel-based feature weighting (KFW) approach and benefits from the maximum mean discrepancy to measure the difference between domains. KFW uses condensed clusters in the reduced domains, the domains that do not contain variant features, to enhance the classification performance. Simultaneous use of feature weighting and instance clustering increases the adaptation and classification performance. Our approach automatically discovers the invariant features across domains and employs them to bridge between source and target domains. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in the task of artificial and real world dataset examinations. Empirical results show that the proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods on the standard transfer learning benchmark datasets.
Financial Analysis of Textile Sector in Bangladesh: A Study on Selected Textile Companies

The Textile sector of Bangladesh has got a greater facet than any other sector in terms of growth and foreign exchange earnings. It makes a significant contribution to the national economy by creating generous employment opportunities and reducing poverty through socioeconomic development. The paper focuses on the financial strength of the textile sector in Bangladesh. And to know that up to what extent textile sector has used their available resources effectively. For this purpose profitability, liquidity and solvency position of textile companies has been examined. In this paper comparative ratio analysis technique has been used to know the financial soundness of textile companies. The result shows the profitability margins is slightly different due to volatile textiles market and volatility in raw material prices. The Liquidity and solvency position is almost the same in all the textile companies. Keywords: Textile Sector, profitability, liquidity, volatility and solvency.
Smoking fish at home

Introduction Producing high quality home-smoked fish is a popular recreational activity and a point of pride for many Alaskans. In earlier times, smoking was a form of food preservation; large amounts of salt and long smoking times were used to help preserve the fish. Now fish is smoked more for flavor and appearance. Today’s lightly salted and smoked fish is not a preserved product; the amounts of salt and smoke used are NOT sufficient to prevent bacterial spoilage. Most food poisoning bacteria can and will grow under the conditions normally found in preparation and storage of smoked fish. Clostridium botulinum, the bacteria that may cause botulism, is the most harmful of these bacteria.
Simple saturated designs for ANCBC systems and extension to feedforward nonlinear systems

This article re-examines the robust stabilisation of the asymptotically null-controllable with bounded controls (ANCBC) systems, and extends the established algorithm to a wide class of feedforward nonlinear systems whose nominal dynamics contains both multiple integrators and multiple oscillators. Based on the notion of ‘converging-input bounded-state’ (CIBS) rather than ‘small-input small-state’ (SISS), the computation burden in Sussmann et al. (Sussmann, H.J., Sontag, E.D., and Yang, Y. (1994), ‘A General Result on the Stabilization of Linear Systems using Bounded Controls’, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 39, 2411–2425) is reduced and a class of simple saturated control laws is presented for the CIBS stabilisation of ANCBC systems. Then, by combining the technique of dealing with higher-order terms, the algorithm for ANCBC systems is extended to feedforward nonlinear systems.
Designed heterodimerizing leucine zippers with a ranger of pIs and stabilities up to 10−15 M

We have designed a heterodimerizing leucine zipper system to target a radionuclide to prelocalized noninternalizing tumor‐specific antibodies. The modular nature of the leucine zipper allows us to iteratively use design rules to achieve specific homodimer and heterodimer affinities. We present circular‐dichroism thermal denaturation measurements on four pairs of heterodimerizing leucine zippers. These peptides are 47 amino acids long and contain four or five pairs of electrostatically attractive g ↔ e′ (i, i′ +5) interhelical heterodimeric interactions. The most stable heterodimer consists of an acidic leucine zipper and a basic leucine zipper that melt as homodimers in the micro (Tm = 28°C) or nanomolar (Tm = 40°C) range, respectively, but heterodimerize with a Tm >90°C, calculated to represent femtamolar affinities. Modifications to this pair of acidic and basic zippers, designed to destabilize homodimerization, resulted in peptides that are unstructured monomers at 4 μM and 6°C but that heterodimerize with a Tm = 74°C or Kd(37) = 1.1 × 10−11 M. A third heterodimerizing pair was designed to have a more neutral isoelectric focusing point (pI) and formed a heterodimer with Tm = 73°C. We can tailor this heterodimerizing system to achieve pharmacokinetics aimed at optimizing targeted killing of cancer cells.
Effect of sodium arsentie on the induction and turnover of ornithine decarboxylase activity in erythroleukemia cells

Sodium arsenite proved effective in preventing the induction of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity elicited by dilution of Friend erythroleukemia cells in fresh medium. A 50 per cent inhibition was produced at approximately 1 μM arsenite and complete inhibition was obtained at concentrations above 10 μM. However, addition of arsenite 5 h after cell dilution, i.e. when ODC was already induced, appeared to stabilize the enzyme. The half‐life of ODC activity, measured after cycloheximide treatment, increased almost six‐fold after addition of sodium arsenite. Agents known to provoke oxidative alteration of the thiol‐redox status in cells, also caused a similar effect on the induction and stability of ODC.
A MEMS Doubly Decoupled Gyroscope With Wide Driving Frequency Range

This study developed a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) doubly decoupled gyroscope with a wide driving frequency range. The gyroscope increases the resonance bandwidths of both the drive and sense oscillators without sacrificing their Q factors. This bandwidth enhancement ensures good frequency matching between the drive and sense oscillators even if fabrication imperfections are present. Additionally, no in-operation frequency tuning mechanism is needed. The gyroscope can be driven at any frequency within the overlapping region of the resonance bands of the drive and sense oscillators. Experiments showed that the gyroscope driving voltage can be of any frequency within a ~240-Hz bandwidth. The wide bandwidth provides flexibility and ease of use. The device is fabricated by the MetalMUMPs process developed by MEMSCAP, Inc. Its doubly decoupled structure minimizes the interference/coupling between the drive and sense units. Performance tests under rotation rates equal to or smaller than 18.71 rad/s showed that the gyroscope has a sensitivity of 4.28 mV/(rad/s).
Contribution à la modélisation et à la gestion dynamique du risque des marchés de l'énergie

Cette these est consacree a des problematiques numeriques probabilistes liees a la modelisation, au controle et a la gestion du risque et motivees par des applications dans les marches de l'energie. Le principal outil utilise est la theorie des algorithmes stochastiques et des methodes de simulation. Cette these se compose de trois parties. La premiere est devouee a l'estimation de deux mesures de risque de la distribution L des pertes d'un portefeuille: la Value-at-Risk (VaR) et la Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR). Cette estimation est effectuee a l'aide d'un algorithme stochastique combine avec une methode de reduction de variance adaptative. La premiere partie de ce chapitre traite du cas de la dimension finie, la deuxieme etend la premiere au cas d'une fonction de la trajectoire d'un processus et la derniere traite du cas des suites a discrepance faible. Le deuxieme chapitre est dedie a des methodes de couverture du risque en CVaR dans un marche incomplet operant a temps discret a l'aide d'algorithmes stochastiques et de quantification vectorielle optimale. Des resultats theoriques sur la couverture en CVaR sont presentes puis les aspects numeriques sont abordes dans un cadre markovien. La derniere partie est consacree a la modelisation conjointe des prix des contrats spot Gaz et l'Electricite. Le modele multi-facteur presente repose sur des processus d'Ornstein stationnaires a coefficient de diffusion parametrique.
Towards Detecting Compromised Accounts on Social Networks

: Identity crime is well known, prevalent and costly, where in that credit application fraud is a specific case of identity crime. The existing non data mining detection system of business rules and scorecards and known fraud matching have limitations. To address these limitations and combat identity crime in real time and to deal with the security issue in the early stage of system development, this paper presents a formal method for modeling and verification of online shopping business processes with malicious behavior patterns considered based on User Personal Details. We propose a formal model called E-commerce Business Process Net to model a normal online shopping business process that represent intended functions and malicious behavior patterns representing a potential attack that violates the security goals at the requirement analysis phase. Incidents of this nature put the identity of customers at risk as hackers are able to access their personal data, sometimes including credit card details, email addresses their password, If an incoming credit card transactions is not accepted by the trained value with sufficiently high probability, it is considered to be fraudulent. At the same time, we try to ensure that genuine transaction is not rejected. We focus on the complex malicious behavior patterns that can be used to identify theft and illegitimate behaviors caused by card. It can lead to substantial financial loss to the credit card company. In the second kind of the purchase, only some important information about the card (card number, expiration date, secure code) is required to make the payment. Such purchases
Control strategy of Li-Ion Battery module in Super UPS

Li-Ion Battery (LB) stack with bi-directional DC-DC converter is used as an energy storage module in Super Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS). In this paper, the operating mode of the LB module with bi-directional converter is analyzed. The control scheme of the bi-directional DC-DC converter for LB Stack is introduced. A power management strategy for the LB module in super UPS is investigated. The LB module is used to co-ordinate with Gas Turbine (GT) or Fuel Cell (FC) source under grid fault, and co-ordinate with the photovoltaic (PV) unit to achieve maximal energy harvest. Experimental results on a 30kW parallel Buck/Boost converter is represented to verify the effectiveness of the power management strategy.
Chronic Hexosamine Flux Stimulates Fatty Acid Oxidation by Activating AMP-activated Protein Kinase in Adipocytes*

The hexosamine biosynthesis pathway (HBP) serves as a nutrient sensor and has been implicated in the development of type 2 diabetes. We previously demonstrated that fatty acid oxidation was enhanced in transgenic mouse adipocytes, wherein the rate-limiting enzyme of the HBP, glutamine:fructose-6-phosphate amidotransferase (GFA), was overexpressed. To explore the molecular mechanism of the HBP-induced fatty acid oxidation in adipocytes, we studied AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), an energy sensor that stimulates fatty acid oxidation by regulating acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) activity. Phosphorylation and activity of AMPK were increased in transgenic fat pads and in 3T3L1 adipocytes treated with glucosamine to stimulate hexosamine flux. Glucosamine also stimulated phosphorylation of ACC and fatty acid oxidation in 3T3L1 adipocytes, and these stimulatory effects were diminished by adenovirus-mediated expression of a dominant negative AMPK in 3T3L1 adipocytes. Conversely, blocking the HBP with a GFA inhibitor reduced AMPK activity, ACC phosphorylation, and fatty acid oxidation. These changes are not explained by alterations in the cellular AMP/ATP ratio. Further demonstrating that AMPK is regulated by the HBP, we found that AMPK was recognized by succinylated wheat germ agglutinin, which specifically binds O-GlcNAc. The levels of AMPK in succinylated wheat germ agglutinin precipitates correlated with hexosamine flux in mouse fat pads and 3T3L1 adipocytes. Moreover, removal of O-GlcNAc by hexosaminidase reduced AMPK activity. We conclude that chronically high hexosamine flux stimulates fatty acid oxidation by activating AMPK in adipocytes, in part through O-linked glycosylation.
Correlations between chemical composition and canning quality attributes of navy bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

The canning quality and chemical composition of 11 genotypes of navy beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) from two locations were determined. The correlations between chemical composition (soluble pectin content of raw navy beans) and canning quality traits of the navy bean genotypes were : splitting r = -0.64 (P < 0.05), firmness r = -0.84 (P < 0.01), and overall acceptance of canned bean r = -0.70 (P < 0.05). The lightness (L value) of canned beans was significantly correlated with the calcium content of the raw navy beans (r = 0.60, P < 0.05). The drained weight of canned beans showed correlation with the viscosity of canned bean medium (r = 0.73, P < 0.01). These correlations supply bean breeders statistically useful information that could be applied to screen early generation lines of navy beans for improved canning quality.
The use of the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) in rehabilitation outcomes.

The Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) is a common form of response option in health outcome studies, often used to measure pain, amongst other things, and is generally presented as a single line of 100 mm with anchor words at either end (e.g. no pain – worst possible pain). It was first published in the early 1920's (1, 2) though not widely used at that time (3). There are variations on the VAS theme, sometimes with shorter lines (e.g. 65 mm), and whatever the length, while they are typically presented in horizontal format, they can also be presented as vertical lines (4), and the two forms of presentation have been considered as equivalent (5). Another alternative is where it is presented as a thick line of blocks (looking much like bricks laid end-to-end) with 11 categories, ranging from 0–10, which is called a Numeric Rating Scale (NRS). VAS and NRS formats have also been shown to be equivalent (6, 7). The VAS has a long history of use in medical outcome studies, and is ubiquitous across all specialities , including Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (8–10). It is used either in the form of a single Item scale (e.g. for pain), or as a type of response option for multiple item scales (11,12). A VAS is considered to reduce the confounding effect of variation between individual interpretations of the graduations used for rating scales; is preferred by participants who perceive their desired response as not corresponding with rating scale graduations (16) and enables a finer distinction between subjective states to be made (3). However, it has also been found that patients find it difficult to judge how to rate their pain on the pain VAS line, finding it 'not very accurate', 'sort of random', 'almost guesswork' or having to 'work it into numbers first' (17). Consequently, in some studies, very low test-retest reliability has been reported (18). An implicit assumption made by the majority of people who use a VAS (or NRS) in either their clinical practice or research, is that the scale is interval in nature, or even ratio (7, 19–21). Thus, all sorts of mathematical and parametric procedures are applied. For example Bland and Altman plots have been used together with intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC), two-way mixed effects analysis of variance model with patients random and rating method fixed (7). Means and standard deviations are all commonly reported for VAS …
The Influence of Constrictor Drugs on the Distensibility of the Splanchnic Venous System, Analyzed on the Basis of an Aortic Model

The distensibility of the aorta was measured in anesthetized dogs by injecting blood at controlled rates into an isolated segment. Constrictor drugs produce a moderate increase in distensibility of the aorta at low pressure ranges and a more marked increase in distensibility at normal pressures. Studies of the splanchnic venous system of intestinal loops by the same method, and also by a method which does not require interruption in blood flow, gave evidence of the same type of distensibility phenomena as seen in the aorta, although at low pressures the venous distensibility tends to be actually decreased by vasoconstriction. The splanchnic venous system also differs from the aorta in that it is very dependent upon the rate of pressure-volume change. These results are analyzed in terms of the basic mechanisms involved and their physiologic implications.
Impact of Behavior Clustering on Web Surfer Behavior Prediction

We investigate Web surfer behavior prediction by building generative and discriminative models on the entire history of navigation paths and on behavior clustering of the history. The underlying question that we try to answer is: Does behavior clustering improve behavior prediction? For behavior clustering, we adapt the k-modes clustering algorithm by incorporating a new similarity measure that gives greater weight to matches at the beginning of the navigation path. The initial cluster representatives are selected from the set of most dissimilar paths which also fixes the number of clusters. For generative prediction, we adopt Markov chain Bayesian classification models whereas for discriminative prediction we build SVM models. Experiments are performed on two realworld data sets. Surprisingly, the results show that behavior clustering has no significant impact on Web surfer behavior prediction. We also investigate the impact of time of visit, the number of relevant clusters used in prediction models, and the use of cluster modes on Web surfer behavior prediction. We find that for limited scope data simpler approaches such as prediction using cluster modes can produce highly accurate predictions (less than 1% drop from the best prediction) with greater efficiency.
A Study on Variable Length Channel Coding for State Feedback in Wireless Control Systems

Packet losses degrade the performance of wireless feedback control systems. The use of channel coding may decrease the packet loss rate; however, its redundancy decreases the packet transmission rate under the same bit rate and thus degrades the control quality. In this paper, we propose a variable length channel coding scheme for state feedback without decreasing the packet transmission rate. The proposed scheme reduces the number of state variables to be fed back and instead adds redundant bits of channel coding on the basis of state estimation error. We show that the proposed scheme improves the control quality without decreasing the packet transmission rate.
Interference alignment based coordinated scheduling for uplink small cell enhancement

Interference has been an important performance limiting problem for wireless networks, especially for LTE networks where frequency reuse factor is 1. Interference alignment is a promising method to mitigate interference and achieve larger degrees of freedom. With only one single antenna equipped at UE, an uplink interference alignment exploiting degrees of freedom on frequency domain was introduced. Two straightforward scheduling strategies, PF and minimum interference scheduling, were proposed and analyzed. Based on the analysis, an interference alignment based coordinated scheduling (IACS) was proposed to combine the benefits of PF scheduling and minimum interference scheduling. Simulation results verified the analysis, and showed that IACS could achieve better performance for high interference scenarios.