Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Robustness analysis and enhancement strategies for quantum-dot cellular automata structures

A nanotecnologia QCA (Quantum-dot Cellular Automata) tem sido apontada como possivel sucessora para o CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor). A transmissao e o processamento de informacao em circuitos QCA ocorrem sem o fluxo de eletrons, resultando em um baixo consumo de energia. Alem disso, altas frequencias de relogio sao esperadas para os circuitos QCA futuros, alem de uma menor area em relacao ao seus analogos em CMOS. Nao obstante as varias vantagens em comparacao ao CMOS, a nanotecnologia QCA precisa superar varios desafios, a maioria deles relacionados a fabricacao e a robustez. Por isso, a criacao de estruturas QCA robustas e metodologias para analise de erros para QCA sao passos obrigatorios para sua consolidacao. Este trabalho introduz um Simulador de Defeitos para QCA que emprega uma nova metodologia para analise de erros em estruturas. Tais erros podem ser causados por defeitos nas celulas ou desvios de fase inesperados nos sinais de relogio. O simulador oferece uma medida quantitativa do nivel de robustez de uma estrutura, denominada taxa de simulacoes sem erro. Alem disso, ele produz um mapa de calor atraves do qual epossivel identificar os pontos de polarizacao mais fracos de uma estrutura sob determinadas circunstâncias de teste. Depois da identificacao dos pontos fracos das estruturas por meio dos mapas de calor, mudancas estruturais estrategicas sao realizadas a fim de criar estruturas modificadas de robustez aumentada. Entao, o desempenho dessas estruturas modificadas e comparado ao desempenho das estruturas regulares atraves de uma nova rodada de simulacoes. Testesrealizados demonstraram a robustez superior dos componentes fundamentais modificados, na presenca de defeitos de classes combinadas. Alem disso, um leve aumento da robustez foi observado quando esses componentes foram usados para substituir componentes regulares dentro de circuitos e sistemas QCA mais complexos.Em relacao aos sinais de relogio QCA submetidos a desvios de fase, a estrategia de relogio assincrono e proposta como alternativa ao tradicional esquema de relogio sincrono para diminuir a ocorrencia de erros. O Simulador de Defeitos QCA foi usado para gerar desviosaleatorios, possibilitando a comparacao entre os esquemas de clock sincrono e assincrono. Os resultados para os testes realizados com os componentes fundamentais mostraram um aumento na taxa de simulacoes sem erro para desvios na faixa de 0 a /4 radianos.
Higher order modes and dampers for the LHC double quarter wave crab cavity

This thesis initially investigates the DQW crab cavity HOM couplers manufactured for tests in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN and proposed for the HL-LHC upgrade. The coupler’s are modelled using equivalent circuit analysis and ‘test-boxes’ are used to measured each of the six HOM couplers for the SPS test. The DQW crab cavity’s impedance spectra and resulting HOM power generation as a result of excitation by the high-current HL-LHC beam is quantified. Following this, HOM measurements are used to characterise the deviations from the simulated case. Evaluation of the DQW’s impedance spectra and stochastic analysis of the foreseeable HOM power generation in the HL-LHC highlights potential issues with the HOMs. To mitigate the issues, a re-design of the HOM coupler is presented; The impedance and HOM power are quantified and benchmarked. In parallel, a new ‘quarter wave’ rejection filter is designed and evaluated. The operation of the HOM couplers in the presence of the operating electromagnetic field is assessed, quantifying thermal and multipacting behaviour. Finally, first measurements of crab cavity HOMs with proton bunches are presented and compared with simulations. The measurements are used to evaluate the accuracy of the methods used to calculate impedance and HOM power. Several conclusions feed-back into ancillary design and acceptance criteria for future manufacture.
Condition index in three size classes of the smooth venus clam Chionista fluctifraga from a commercial fishery in Sonora, Mexico

This study shows the condition index (CI) of the clam Chionista fluctifraga in three different size groups (small <30 mm, medium 30 mm - 40 mm, and large > 40 mm) harvested monthly during one year in a commercial fishery (Sonora, Mexico). Temperature, salinity, oxygen, chlorophyll a, particulate organic and inorganic concentrations were recorded once-a-month at the study site. Significant differences of CI were detected; higher for small clams (26.5 ± 3.4), followed by medium (24.0 ± 3.0) and large clams (20.2 ± 3.0). High and moderate correlations (Pearson) of temperature and CI were observed in small and medium clams. Thus, temperature was the variable affecting CI the most and this was detected during the period corresponding to reproduction and nutrient storage of the species. In relation to these processes, the CI reflected a different nutritional value for each group of clams; high for small, moderate for medium animals, and low for large individuals. This may serve to producers when selecting clams with high condition and planning harvesting.
Topographic Mechanics and Applications of Liquid Crystalline Solids

Liquid crystal elastomers and glasses suffer huge length changes on heating, illumination, exposure to humidity, etc. A challenge is to program these changes to give a complex mechanical response for micromachines and soft robotics. Also desirable can be strong response, where bend is avoided in favor of stretch and compression, even in the slender shells that are our subject. A new mechanics paradigm arises from such materials—spatially programmed anisotropy allows a spatially varying metric to develop upon stimulation, with evolving Gaussian curvature, topography changes, and superstrong actuation. We call this metric mechanics or topographical mechanics. Thus programmed, liquid crystalline solids meet the above aims. A frontier is the complete programming and control of topography, driving both Gaussian and mean curvature evolution. That, and smart shells, which sense and self-regulate, and exotic new realizations of anisotropic responsive structures, are our concluding themes.
Modeling low mass stellar populations

Abstract Modeling low mass stellar populations, like clusters and dwarf galaxies, with population synthesis models requires that we evaluate the role played by stochastic fluctuations in the sampling of the IMF on the spectro-photometric properties of these sparse populations. Interacting binaries may also modify the integrated spectra of these systems depending on the final product of the binary interaction and on the frequency of binary stars. In this work we compare the relative importance of stochastic fluctuations and binary evolution on low mass galaxy properties as a function of the population age and total mass. In most cases the effects of stochastic fluctuations dominate those produced by binary interactions. We explore and quantify the relative importance of these effects through cosmic times.
Study on Estimation Errors in ZUPT-Aided Pedestrian Inertial Navigation Due to IMU Noises

We present a study on the effects of the inertial measurement unit (IMU) noises on the navigation solution uncertainty during zero-velocity-update (ZUPT)-aided pedestrian inertial navigation. The analytically derived attitude, velocity, and position propagation errors reveal that among many IMU noise terms, the dominant factor affecting the accuracy of ZUPT-aided pedestrian navigation is rate random walk of gyroscopes. A numerical simulation has been conducted, showing the discrepancy of less than 10% between the numerical and analytical results, supporting fidelity of the analytical estimates. Experiments have also been conducted, and the results were on the same level of analytical and numerical predictions. This article offers a closed-form analytical prediction for the errors of ZUPT-aided pedestrian inertial navigation due to IMU noises.
An Effective Data-Driven Cloud Resource Procurement Scheme With Personalized Reserve Prices

The selection of cloud resources is important to users which influences their utility directly. To improve the users’ utility of purchased resources, according to the historical bidding information, we present data-driven cloud resource procurement (CRP) auctions which can help the resource buyer make an optimized selection for cloud resources. First, we design two procurement auction mechanisms with personalized reserve prices for CRP: Lazy-CRP and Eager-CRP, in which the reserve prices are set by the broker before the auction based on the broker’s knowledge about costs of cloud providers. Then, given the assumption that each cloud provider is myopic, we propose the optimal learning algorithms of personalized reserve prices for the Lazy-CRP approach, and 2-approximation learning algorithm for the Eager-CRP approach. Both of two algorithms can be performed even if the cost distribution functions of cloud providers are nonidentical. By comparing our mechanisms with Vickery–Clark–Groves CRP (VCG-CRP) in simulation, the results show that our proposed mechanism is very suitable for occasions where the number of providers is very small. According to the results of the simulation, the total utilities obtained by the data-driven procurement schemes are significantly higher than VCG-CRP when the number of cloud providers is less than four. When there are only two providers, the increased total utility of our mechanism can be up to 80% of that obtained by VCG-CRP.
UWB monopole antenna with dual‐band‐notched characteristics

A UWB planar monopole antenna with dual‐band notch characteristics is presented in this paper. Measured results show that the proposed antenna operates with a 2.76 to 11 GHz 10 dB return loss bandwidth with notch bands covering 3.45 to 4.81 and 5.24 to 6.21 GHz. The notch bands are suitably placed to eliminate interferences from WiMAX band (IEEE802.16), C‐band, INSAT band, and WLAN bands (IEEE802.11a/h/j/n). The lower notch band has been achieved by using 4 circular patch‐loaded stubs on the radiating structure, whereas 2 complementary split ring resonators have been used on ground plane to achieve the upper notch band. Necessary formulae for the design of the antenna have been provided. Measured |S11|, radiation patterns, gain, and group delay of the proposed antenna are presented. The results show that the proposed antenna is suitable for short‐range, high‐speed data communication using short pulses.
UWB antenna with sweeping dual notch based on metamaterial SRR fictive rotation

In this article, a novel frequency switchable method for Ultra‐Wide‐Band (UWB) microstrip antenna with dual notches is presented and discussed. This method is based on hexagonal‐shaped Split Ring Resonator (SRR) metamaterial cells located close to the 50‐Ω feed line and ideal switches inserted at the inner and the outer SRR of each cell. The incorporation of these ideal switches helps in changing the location of the opening of the inner ring (inner ring fictive rotation) and in activating or deactivating the filtering introduced by the metamaterial cells. The resulting radiating structure has an impedance bandwidth extending from 2.8 GHz to more than 11GHz accompanied with dual notched bands characteristic. It offers several cases by opening or closing the ideal switches. The obtained simulation results agree well with measurements carried out on the fabricated prototypes.
immunity virus to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the presence of humoral Human mesenchymal stromal cells deliver systemic oncolytic measles

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Multi‐sensors in‐line inspection robot for pipe flaws detection

In-line inspection (ILI) robot has been considered as an inevitable requirement to perform non-destructive testing methods efficiently and economically. The detection of flaws that could lead to leakages in buried concrete pipes has been an area of great concern to the oil and gas industry and water resource-based industry. The major problem is the difficulty in modelling the detection of cracks as a result of its irregularity and randomness that cannot be easily detected. This work covers the study of defect detection of non-destructive testing methods using fusion inspect sensors, light detection and ranging, and optic sensors. Studies on ILI robots are also reviewed to construct an efficient gauge. Nevertheless, the study on current support vector machine (SVM) technique is centred as the main classification engine for the combined sensory data. The prototype robot has been designed and successfully operated in a lab-scale environment. Intuitively, the obtained data described the status of inspected pipe clearly. Sensors from the proposed list also well integrated as attaching to the robot. The experiments with SVM techniques to evaluate the feasibility of defects detection also achieved remarkable results.
Compact dual‐polarized dipole antenna with high isolation using hybrid balun circuit

In this article, a crossed dipole antenna with compact size (43 × 43 mm2) and high isolation (42 dB) is proposed using a hybrid balun circuit. The hybrid balun consists of a tapered balun and a Marchand balun. The tapered balun transforms the microstrip line into the parallel feeding lines for one pair of dipoles, and the Marchand balun transforms the stripline transmission line into a couple of out‐of‐phase feeding lines for the crossed pair of dipoles. Due to the low coupling between two different baluns, a high isolation of the antenna can be achieved when the crossed dipole antenna is cascaded with the hybrid balun. Moreover, these two baluns can improve impedance matching and therefore further miniaturize the size of the crossed dipole antenna. The impedance matching of two baluns can be controlled and adjusted independently. As a result, the proposed dual‐polarized antenna has the bandwidth of 1.7 to 2.8 GHz for S11 < −15 dB with compact size and high isolation. The proposed antenna with the hybrid balun circuit are fabricated, and the simulated and measured results meet well.
Two Reciprocal Power Theorems for Passive Linear Time-Invariant Multiports

We investigate a reciprocal and passive linear time-invariant multiport, having a port set coupled to a generator and a port set coupled to a load, in the harmonic steady state. Two configurations are considered, in which the port set at which the generator is connected and the port set at which the load is connected are exchanged. We establish a new reciprocal power theorem about the extrema of the set of the values of the transducer power gain obtained for all nonzero excitations, in the two configurations. For the case where the two port sets have the same number of ports, we also state and prove a new reciprocal power theorem about the extrema of the set of the values of the insertion power gain obtained for all nonzero excitations, in the two configurations.
A comparative study on 2D and 3D magnetic field analysis of permanent magnet synchronous motor using FEM simulations

ABSTRACT Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) have recently gained increasing industrial and research interest. The PMSM design and especially its performance evaluation through two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field analysis using finite element method (FEM) is not trivial, as it is a quite demanding and time consuming procedure. Furthermore, there has always been doubt on the accuracy of 2D analysis results and on which type of analysis is the most preferable one for the specific motor. This work aims to emphasize the difficulties and the advantages that arise from the 3D analysis. The aforementioned simulations were performed for the case of a four-pole PMSM. Several magnetic and electromechanical quantities have been determined. Additionally, various materials were utilized for the construction of stator and rotor cores and their effect on the motor’s behavior was investigated. Finally, the derived results are compared and useful conclusions regarding the solution accuracy are given.
Scaling study for positive magnetic shear ELMy H-mode plasmas in JT-60U

Scaling of the density peaking for positive magnetic shear ELMy H-mode plasmas in JT-60U has been developed. Although the density peaking generally depends on collisionality, a variation of the density peaking factor for the same collisionality exists, and the variation is different between plasmas with co-directed and ctr-directed toroidal rotation(co-VT plasmas and ctr-VT plasmas). The variation of the co-VT plasmas can be explained by particle source profile. As a result of scaling, the peaking factor of the co-VT plasmas depends on the particle source rate profile from neutral beams (NBs) as much as collisionality. The dataset of the ctr-VT plasmas has a larger variation of the peaking factor compared to that of the co-VT plasmas. The larger variation stems from that the peaking factor of the ctr-VT plasmas also depends on the normalized ion temperature gradient at the edge region. As a result of scaling, the normalized ion temperature gradient influences the peaking factor as much as or a little larger than collisionality. The parameter regime of the ctr-VT plasmas ranges from the trapped electron mode (TEM) to the ion temperature gradient mode (ITG mode). The plasmas with the positive correlation between the normalized density gradient and the normalized ion temperature gradient are dominated by the TEM. On the other hand, the plasmas with the negative correlation are dominated by the ITG mode.
Connecting Model-Based and Model-Free Control With Emotion Modulation in Learning Systems

This article proposes a novel decision-making framework that bridges a gap between model-based (MB) and model-free (MF) control processes through only adjusting the planning horizon. Specifically, the output policy is obtained by solving a model predictive control problem with a locally optimal state value as terminal constraints. When the planning horizon decreases to zero, the MB control will transform into the MF control smoothly. Meanwhile, inspired by the neural mechanism of emotion modulation on decision-making, we build a biologically plausible computational model of emotion processing. This model can generate an uncertainty-related emotional response on the basis of the state prediction error and reward prediction error, and then dynamically modulates the planning horizon in the tasks. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed decision-making framework can produce better policies than traditional methods. Emotion modulation can shift the MB and MF control well to improve the learning efficiency and the speed of decision-making.
Grown Ups With Pediatric Diseases: Your Pediatric Anesthesiologist to the Rescue!

Advances in the care of childhood conditions have resulted in the need for those previously not familiar with many of these problems to add them to their encyclopedia of knowledge. When considering this topic, one could reach broadly and include discussions of a variety of typical childhood diseases that increasingly persist into adulthood. This list includes such conditions as cerebral palsy, metabolic disorders, cystic fibrosis (CF), congenital heart disease (CHD), sickle cell anemia, muscular dystrophies and myopathies, as well as many of the childhood cancers that may leave both physical and psychological scars even when completely cured. Therefore, this review is limited to topics most relevant to the day-to-day practice of anesthesiology in the ‘‘real world’’ setting. Specifically, it will focus on the adult with repaired or palliated CHD, the adult with CF, and the increasingly common adult with a myopathy or dystrophy such as Duchenne or Becker. There are an infinite number of congenital disorders, chromosomal abnormalities, malformations, associations, and defects that even those of us devoted to tertiary pediatric anesthesia cannot possibly commit to memory. For those patients there are excellent resources that can provide focused information to assist in the anesthetic care. Although in everyday practice there is a tendency to focus on the concrete or nuts and bolts of the care of patients, it is important to provide a foundation for the discussion of the adult with a pediatric disease. By definition these ‘‘children’’ have chronic conditions that have required that they be involved repeatedly with the healthcare system; both as surgical and medical patients. As a consequence, they are very savvy as to the system and how to make it work best for them. They also have very clear preferences and are active participants in decisions regarding their healthcare management. Even though they are now young adults they are frequently accompanied by parents who also have an enormous amount of experience within the healthcare setting. To make the care of these patients and their families with success, it is critical to keep in mind the following: Often the patient and family know more about the rare disease that they have than you do. Two things are helpful: (1) Take a moment to read about the disorder to gain a basic familiarity with it here are excellent books and web sites that are helpful. (2) Admit to the family and the patient that this is a disorder that is not common in your practice. Patients and families will often test you to find out if you know anything about the rare condition. Having a fundamental knowledge and admitting the limits of that knowledge will be reassuring to the patient and family.
Integrating thermal‐concentration smoothed profile with lattice Boltzmann methods for simulating sedimentation of nonisothermal circular particles

A thermal‐concentration smoothed profile‐lattice Boltzmann method is proposed to study the effect of the concentration field on the dynamic behavior of nonisothermal cylindrical particles during the sedimentation process. The velocity, temperature, and concentration equations are solved using the lattice Boltzmann method. Moreover, the smoothed profile method is employed to enforce the nonslip boundary condition as well as constant temperature and constant concentration boundary conditions at the particles surfaces. Moreover, the Boussinesq approximation is used to couple the velocities, temperatures, and concentrations fields. The proposed combined method is validated by comparing the present numerical results with those found in the literature, showing good consistency. Then, the effect of the concentration buoyancy on the behavior of nonisothermal particles is discussed. In addition, the effect of Prandtl, Schmidt, and thermal Grashof numbers on the settling process is investigated. The results show that, by adding the effect of concentration, the maximum settling velocity of hot particles is reduced more relative to the cold ones; accordingly, the cold particles are settled faster than the hot ones. Finally, the sedimentation of two particles in a container at high thermal Grashof is investigated. It is shown that, at high thermal Grashof, there is an intense competition between the buoyancy force and gravity for the hot particles. The buoyancy flow generated leads to the reversal of the drafting‐kissing‐tumbling motion of the hot particles, making the particles move upward.