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A new ATPG technique (MultiDetect) for testing of analog macros in mixed-signal circuits

A new test-set selection technique based on the frequency-domain testing of analog circuits is presented in this paper. We propose a new automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) method known as MultiDetect for testing linear time invariant (LTI) circuits. The proposed technique is best suited for use of existing building blocks in systems-on-chip for implementation of an on-chip test-signal generator and test-response analyzer. The generated test set with the MultiDetect method can effectively detect and diagnose both soft and hard faults and does not require any precision analog signal sources or signal measurement circuits when implemented as built-in self-test (BIST). Testing of analog blocks based on circuit-transfer function makes our ATPG a general purpose method for all kinds of LTI circuits. A new novel test method causing the device under test to saturate or get out of saturation, to detect a fault with simple detection hardware, is also introduced in this paper. In our proposed novel test scheme, usage of a single sinusoid as a test signal when compared to multitone signal, and detection of faults with digital counting technique, facilitate the test implementation with simple BIST hardware and make testing more cost effective. The sinusoid is a very useful waveform for testing and analyzing LTI circuits. In the steady state, both the input and output of a stable LTI circuit are sinusoids of the same frequency. The relationship between the amplitudes and phase angles of the input and output sinusoids is frequency-dependent. Identification of a sinusoid that detects more faults results in an optimized test signal set. The technique used in the MultiDetect method for identification of a sinusoid results in an efficient compacted test set. The search for fault diagnosis is restricted to a limited set of faults, making diagnosis fast in the MultiDetect method. A methodology for test-set compaction of the MultiDetect technique is described and results of experiments on various test circuits are discussed. The proposed method is seen to be efficient for low-power applications. The experimental results show that the testing of LTI circuits using the MultiDetect technique for the benchmark circuits achieves the required fault coverage with much shorter testing time.
Feature Based Automatic Multiview Image Registration

Automatic image registration is a vital yet challenging task, particularly for remote sensing images. A fully automatic registration approach which is accurate, robust, and fast is required. The registration process is divided into six main steps: feature detection, feature extraction, feature matching, outlier detection and removal, transform model estimation and resampling. In the feature detection, keypoints (PCA-SIFT), blob (SURF), region (MSER) features are detected. The features are then matched to produce point correspondences. The alignment process uses the RANSAC algorithm to estimate an outlier free transformation using point correspondences. The target image is transformed by using transformation function, which results in automatic image registration. Mutual information is used for fine tuning registration. In this thesis, feature descriptors used are SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features), MSER (Maximally Stable Extremal Regions) and PCA-SIFT. They are invariant to zoom, noise, scale, rotation and illumination, hence very useful. The analysis is conducted for various image transformations such as image rotation, scaling and change in illumination. For all these transformations, various quality checking parameters such as recall and RMSE error are evaluated to analyse the performance of registration. In the registration of multiview images, the affine transformation model applied is not suitable. So a more appropriate transformation models such as thin-plate spline is subtitled the affine model in the proposed work.
Formation Tracking for Multiple Quadrotor Based on Sliding Mode and Fixed Communication Topology

In this paper, the consensus and formation tracking control for multiple quad rotors are discussed. The dynamic model of the quad rotor is presented using the Newton-Euler formalism. Because the presence of the external disturbance in the quad rotor dynamic model, the design of the control law is Based on sliding mode control combined with fixed communication topology. With a good choice of parameters in the control law, the consensus and formation tracking are asymptotically achieved and the external disturbance is rejected. The system stability analysis is conducted through the Lyapunov theory and asymptotic tracking stability is demonstrated. The analytic results are supported by simulation tests.
Deep-etch visualization of proteins involved in clathrin assembly

Assembly proteins were extracted from bovine brain clathrin-coated vesicles with 0.5 M Tris and purified by clathrin-Sepharose affinity chromatography, then adsorbed to mica and examined by freeze-etch electron microscopy. The fraction possessing maximal ability to promote clathrin polymerization, termed AP-2, was found to be a tripartite structure composed of a relatively large central mass flanked by two smaller mirror-symmetric appendages. Elastase treatment quantitatively removed the appendages and clipped 35 kD from the molecule's major approximately 105-kD polypeptides, indicating that the appendages are made from portions of these polypeptides. The remaining central masses no longer promote clathrin polymerization, suggesting that the appendages are somehow involved in the clathrin assembly reaction. The central masses are themselves relatively compact and brick-shaped, and are sufficiently large to contain two copies of the molecule's other major polypeptides (16- and 50-kD), as well as two copies of the approximately 70-kD protease-resistant portions of the major approximately 105-kD polypeptides. Thus the native molecule seems to be a dimeric, bilaterally symmetrical entity. Direct visualization of AP-2 binding to clathrin was accomplished by preparing mixtures of the two molecules in buffers that marginally inhibit AP-2 aggregation and cage assembly. This revealed numerous examples of AP-2 molecules binding to the so-called terminal domains of clathrin triskelions, consistent with earlier electron microscopic evidence that in fully assembled cages, the AP's attach centrally to inwardly-directed terminal domains of the clathrin molecule. This would place AP-2s between the clathrin coat and the enclosed membrane in whole coated vesicles. AP-2s linked to the membrane were also visualized by enzymatically removing the clathrin from brain coated vesicles, using purified 70 kD, uncoating ATPase plus ATP. This revealed several brick-shaped molecules attached to the vesicle membrane by short stalks. The exact stoichiometry of APs to clathrin in such vesicles, before and after uncoating, remains to be determined.
Deriving age and gender from forenames for consumer analytics

This paper explores the age and gender distributions of the bearers of British forenames and identifies key trends in British naming conventions. Age and gender characteristics are known to greatly influence consumption behaviour, and so extracting and using names to indicate these characteristics from consumer datasets is of clear value to the retail and marketing industries. Data representing over 17 million individuals sourced from birth certificates and market data have been modelled to estimate the total age and gender distributions of 32,000 unique forenames in Britain. When aggregated into five year age bands for each gender, the data reveal distinctive age profiles for different names, which are largely a product of the rise and decline in popularity of different baby names over the past 90 years. The names database produced can be used to infer the expected age and gender structures of many consumer datasets, as well as to anticipate key characteristics of consumers at the level of the individual. & 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Suicide attempters' memory traces of exposure to suicidal behavior: a qualitative pilot study.

BACKGROUND In the course of their lives individuals may encounter the phenomenon of suicide in various ways, for example, directly through suicidal behavior in the family or among peers; or indirectly through hearsay, the media, literature, etc. AIMS The study investigates such memory traces (engrams) in patients with and without a suicide attempt. METHODS Ten patients from a psychiatric crisis unit who had attempted suicide and ten patients without a history of suicidal behavior were interviewed with a narrative/semistructured interviewing technique. Interviews were video-recorded and fully transcribed. Stepwise reduction of the content was used to develop categories of recurrent memories and models of suicidal behavior. RESULTS Suicide attempters reported more memories of direct exposure to suicidal behavior (e.g., witnessing a suicidal act) than did patients who had no history of attempted suicide. They also reported more own suicidal crises, but associated them more often with interpersonal problems than with depression. They considered suicide more often as normal behavior than nonattempters. The total number of suicide-related memories and their origins was remarkably similar in both groups. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that direct exposure to suicidal behavior may leave engrams (memory traces) that increase an individual's susceptibility to suicidal behavior.
Performance analysis of distributed and centralized scheduling in two-hop relaying cellular system

We consider the resource allocation of centralized and distributed scheduling in the two-hop relaying cellular system. The limited spectrum resource is one of the obstacles which conflicts with the evolution of being wider coverage and larger capacity in the wireless system. In this paper, system performance and signaling overhead are analyzed and compared. Then we propose a novel routing strategy for choosing the access link and three practical scheduling strategies. Simulation results are provided and analyzed in several scenarios, which show the benefit of adopting the relay technique.
Strategic Management for Global Firms: A Conceptual Discussion

Global organizations have to proceed with a global and strategic perspective in order to be effective. This is in contrast to domestically or regionally focused organizations. Global organizations would benefit from simultaneously pursuing: (a) led by headquarters (HQ) selectively-fostered integrative, global and strategic approaches, and, (b) decentralized foreign subsid­iary tactical and operational initiatives. The simultaneous pursuits of the two divergent approaches require capable management teams at both levels: (a) the global HQ, as well as, (b) the foreign subsidiary units. The unique task environments of each foreign subsidiary make it compelling for the HQ to delegate the operational decision making to the foreign subsidiary. For the combined and well-coordinated global vision, choices, goals and strategy, the HQ must take the strategic leadership role.The partnership and collaborative efforts among the HQ and foreign subsidiaries’ executives will foster a together-ness feeling and better ownership of the responsibility among the foreign subsidiaries’ executives. The hierarchical, top-down approach would then be replaced by a joint, information-sharing approach that would engender an era of trust and mutual respect. There would be closer to power equality rather than disproportionate distribution of power. Power would then be posited to where most information and direct skills reside.
Dynamin and clathrin-dependent endocytosis in African 1 swine fever virus entry 2 3

Departamento de Biotecnologia Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia 6 Agraria y Alimentaria, INIA, Autovia A6 km 7, 28040 Madrid, Spain. 7 hernaez@inia.es; calonso@inia.es 8 9 Abbreviations: ASFV, African swine fever virus; CTX, cholera toxin; EM, electron 10 microscopy; Dyn, dynamin; TF, transferrin. 11 Running title: Dynamin and clathrin-mediated endocytosis of ASFV. 12
Structural Change in Turkish External Trade: Evidence from BEC Sectors

This study investigates export and import dynamics of Turkey in the context of the main Broad Economic Classification (BEC) sectors. Our results suggest that the trade equations do not remain stable when an endogenously estimated regime change is taken account. According to our results, consistent with the elasticity pessimism literature, real exchange rate elasticities of exports and imports are considerably low in absolute value. Exports and imports are basically determined by world real output and domestic real income, respectively, with substantially high elasticities. Consistent with the fact that Turkish integration to global value chains has substantaily increased during the post-2000 period especially in intermediate and capital goods sectors, the real exchange elasticities of exports and imports decrease (in absolute value) during the recent period. Our results suggesting that the external income elasticity of exports, for all sectors, is substantially higher than the domestic income elasticity of imports support that the Houthakker and Magee findings still remains a puzzle even under case of the higher participation in the global value chains.
A STATISTICAL CRITIQUE OF THE WITZTUM et al PAPER

This paper examines whether the significance test described in the paper Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis by Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg was carried out in accordance with accepted procedure, and whether the distance metric used accomplishes its stated purpose. In the light of that examination, it appears that the conclusion of the paper is unfounded.
15 RUSTWOL : A Tool for Automatic Russian Word Form Recognition

The purpose of this paper is to describe the earlier version of RUSTWOL as a tool for automatic Russian word form recognition. The theoretical foundation of the RUSTWOL program is the two-level model, a language-independent model of morphological analysis and synthesis by Kimmo Koskenniemi (1983). My description is based on a document written by me, when I was working as a linguist at Lingsoft (Vilkki 1997). This earlier version of RUSTWOL was later used at Lingsoft as a basis for a new format. The newer version of RUSTWOL, representing the new format, and its documentation, written by me, are currently available at Lingsoft for customers only. The main motivation for turning back to history and describing the first quasi-final version of RUSTWOL is that RUSTWOL is one of the most largescale morphological programs in the tradition of the two-level formalism yet my document at Lingsoft (Vilkki 1997) is the only presentation of it. The second motivation is that this earlier version has been useful at the Department of Slavonic and Baltic Language s and Literatures at University of Helsinki for the purposes of research and teaching. In 2000, I used this version of RUSTWOL for the morphological analysis of the Russian Corpus of Newspaper Articles, which is available in the University of Helsinki Language Corpus Server (UHLCS) and, in addition, at the University of Tampere. Recently, some changes in the RUSTWOL lexicon and rules have been made by Alexander Paile (2003) for the purposes of the HANCO project (Kopotev, Mustajoki 2003).
An energy efficient topology control scheme with connectivity learning in wireless networks

In wireless networks, due to the variation in environmental and link characteristics, the network topology will change over time. The foremost feature that affects the connectivity and lifetime of a network is the distributed topology control. Nodes in a wireless network are resource constrained. Topology control algorithms should be helpful to improve the energy utilization, reduce interference between nodes and extend lifetime of the networks operating on battery power. This paper proposes a topology control and maintenance scheme while learning the network link characteristics. The system learns the varying network link characteristics using reinforcement learning technique and gives an optimal choice of paths to be followed for packet forwarding. The algorithm calculates the number of neighbors a node can have, which helps to reduce power consumption and interference effects. The algorithm also ensures strong connectivity in the network so that reachability between any two nodes in the network is guaranteed. Analysis and simulation results illustrate the correctness and effectiveness of our proposed algorithm.
Toward a Confocal Subcellular Atlas of the Human Proteome*S

Information on protein localization on the subcellular level is important to map and characterize the proteome and to better understand cellular functions of proteins. Here we report on a pilot study of 466 proteins in three human cell lines aimed to allow large scale confocal microscopy analysis using protein-specific antibodies. Approximately 3000 high resolution images were generated, and more than 80% of the analyzed proteins could be classified in one or multiple subcellular compartment(s). The localizations of the proteins showed, in many cases, good agreement with the Gene Ontology localization prediction model. This is the first large scale antibody-based study to localize proteins into subcellular compartments using antibodies and confocal microscopy. The results suggest that this approach might be a valuable tool in conjunction with predictive models for protein localization.
Wi-Fi butterfly effect in indoor localization: The impact of imprecise ground truth and small-scale fading

The increasing accuracy of indoor positioning systems makes their evaluation an increasingly challenging task. A number of factors are already known to affect performance of fingerprint-based systems: hardware diversity, device orientation, environment dynamics. This paper presents a new butterfly-like effect in localization experiments. The effect is caused by minor ground truth (GT) errors — that is, small deviations between calibration and test positions. While such deviations are widely considered as purely additive and thus negligible, we demonstrate that even centimeter-scale GT errors are amplified by small-scale radio fading and lead to severe multi-meter Wi-Fi positioning errors. The results show that fingerprint-based localization accuracy quickly deteriorates as GT errors increase towards 0.4 wavelength (5 cm for 2.4 GHz). Beyond that threshold, system's accuracy saturates to about one-third of its original level achievable with precise GT. This effect challenges the impact of the already known accuracy-limiting factors (such as cross-user tests, receiver diversity, device orientation and temporal variations), as they can be partially explained by minor GT errors. Moreover, for smartphone-in-a-hand experiments, this effect directly associates the evaluation outcomes with experimenters' diligence.
DEMAND, INFORMATION, AND THE MARKET FOR SCHOOLING: EVIDENCE ON REVEALED PREFERENCES FROM POST-KATRINA NEW ORLEANS

We analyze families’ revealed preferences for schools leveraging post-Katrina policy changes in New Orleans. Families prefer schools with higher test levels and value-added. However, extracurricular activities and indirect costs such as distance appear relatively important compared with these academic metrics. Also, while all New Orleans families gained greater access to schools with higher academic performance, the lowest-income families face more constrained choices and have stronger preferences for certain extracurricular programs. The findings may explain why the competitive effects of market-based school reforms on test scores have been mixed and why income-based achievement gaps are growing despite expanded choice.
The Significance of Main Constructs of Theory of Planned Behavior in Recent Information Security Policy Compliance Behavior Study: A Comparison among Top Three Behavioral Theories

For a decade since year of 2000 until 2010, Theory of Planned Behavior [TPB] and its main construct of Attitude, Normative belief and Self-efficacy have been considered as a significant theory and factors in the area ISP compliance behaviour study. However, there are still some questions exist particularly on to what extent this theory is significant in recent studies compared to other competing theories. This paper presents a comparison on main constructs of top three behavioral theories in predicting and explaining the recent ISP compliance studies. The studies on ISP compliance published from 2010 until 2016 will be used to analyse the significance of this TPB compared to General Deterrence Theory [GDT] and Protection Motivation Theory [PMT]. Criteria of comparisons are based on the significance of main constructs towards dependent variable and the comprehensiveness of a theory’s main constructs usage in a research model from the selected studies. The results have confirmed that TPB is still relevant as the most significant in the area of ISP compliance study and its main constructs are the strongest predictors of dependent variables in most of ISP compliance models compare to GDT and PMT. This paper provides a clear status on the significance of TPB and its main constructs of Attitude, Normative belief and Self-efficacy in predicting and explaining ISP compliance behavior in recent studies. It could be used by academicians as references for statistical evidences on the comparison of the top behavioral theories.
Phase transitions in random graphs

The phase transition of a system is a phenomenon for which a particular property of a system changes at a critical moment. The transition from solid to liquid to gases, by letting the temperature reach critical values, are well known examples of phase transitions. Random graphs also display phases and phase transitions. When the expected degree of a random graph is smaller than one, the random graph consist of small clusters. The moment the expected degree passes through the critical value of one, a giant connected component emerges and hence provides a structured view of the random graph. Similarly, if the expected degree grows slower or faster then the logarithm of the size of the graph, the resulting random graph is, respectively, disconnected or connected with high probability. In this thesis we examine both regimes, the regime where the giant connected component emerges and the regime of connectedness, in detail. Title: Phase transitions in random graphs Author: Hamza Ahmadan, hamzaahmadan@student.uva. nl, 10483276 Supervisor: dr. Bas Kleijn Second Examiner: dr. Sonja Cox Examination date: January 16, 2019 Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics University of Amsterdam Science Park 105-107, 1098 XG Amsterdam http://kdvi.uva. nl Source image front page: https://blogs.harvard. edu/michaellaw/2013/11/29/the-economics-profession-why-are-there-stareconomists/