bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A Physics-Oriented Parameter Extraction Method for MOSFET Libraries Generation
Authors: Faria Lester de Abreu , D'Amore Roberto 
Published: December 2020

A novel method for MOSFET parameter extraction based on EKV 2.6 model is presented. The proposed method improves and updates the previous ones found in literature, since it describes setups and equations for the extraction of intrinsic DC parameters, not requiring any fitting procedures or optimization steps, as demanded by the previous ones. The physical approach used in the analysis allowed the achievement of these features, leading to the generation of libraries valid in all operating regions. Due to this approach, the method can be applied to new technologies or to harsh environments (such as cryogenic temperatures), where commercial libraries are not yet available. Validations of the method were done with data extracted from BSIM3v3 simulated curves, at room temperatures, and with experimental curves of an AMS 0.35μm transistor at 77K. In both cases, the EKV 2.6 generated libraries were able to reproduce the transistors behavior with errors less than 6%.
Plasma Parameters Obtained with Planar Probe and Optical Emission Spectroscopy
Authors: Daltrini Andre M. , Moshkalev Stanislav A. , Swart Laura , Verdonck Patrick B. 
Published: December 2020

A planar probe and optical emission spectroscopy were employed to analyze parameters in an inductively coupled plasma (ICP). The analyses were performed in Ar, Ar+SF6 and O2 plasmas at 40 mTorr. Typical probe results indicate an ion current of 10-3 A/cm2 and an electron temperature (high energy tail) between 1-2 eV in measurements at high powers. At low powers a distinct discharge regime is observed, typically with low density (low ion current) and high electron temperature. The optical emission studies also showed the presence of these two regimes. Moreover, the electron temperature determination using this diagnostic is also in good agreement with planar probe results.
Study of Matching Properties of Graded-Channel SOI MOSFETs
Authors: De Souza Michelly , Flandre Denis , Pavanello Marcelo A. 
Published: December 2020

In this paper an overall analysis on the matching properties of Graded-Channel (GC) SOI MOSFETs in comparison to conventional SOI transistors is performed. Experimental results show that GC devices present poorer matching behavior in comparison to conventional SOI counterpart for equal mask channel length, whereas for same effective channel length, almost the same matching behavior. The analytical model for the drain current of GC devices is used to investigate the reasons for this matching worsening. Two-dimensional numerical simulations are used to validate the modelbased analysis both in linear and saturation regions.
Table of Contents and Foreword
Authors: Martino João Antonio , Lubaszewski Marcelo 
Published: December 2020

This issue of the Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems (JICS) includes papers on analog design, design for yield, design for security and dynamically reconfigurable architectures. These papers have been selected from the presentations given at SBCCI2009 (22nd Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design), which has been held in Natal, Brazil in 2009. Among the contributions presented at SBCCI2009, only a few best rated by the reviewers were selected by the JICS Editorial Board and have been invited to submit an extended version. These papers have been submitted to usual reviewing process with the help of external experts. In this issue also spontaneous submissions have been considered. We would like to thank the authors for their effort in preparing these high quality papers, as well as the reviewers for their help on paper selection, which guarantees the scientific level of this issue.We sincerely hope that JICS readers will enjoy these contributions.João Antonio Martino - JICS Editor-in-chief Marcelo Lubaszewski - JICS Co-Editor
Reliability Concerns due to Self-Heating effects in GaN HEMTs
Authors: Padmanabhan B. , Vasileska D. , Goodnick S. M. 
Published: December 2020

Current collapse phenomenon that occurs in GaN HEMTs under a moderately large DC bias stress, poses serious problems for usage of GaN technology in high-power high-frequency applications from a reliability standpoint. Additional problem in these devices operated at high biases is the appearance of self-heating effects that degrade device characteristics and, as shown in this work further amplify the problem of current collapse by changing the device electrostatics.
INTERCULTURAL ASPECTS IN TEACHING INDONESIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (BIPA)
Authors: Diani Winasti Rahma , Halimi Sisilia Setiawati 
Published: December 2020

Learners should be intercultural speakers in foreign language teaching that promotes the intercultural dimension. In mastering the intercultural competencies, students are expected to be able to position themselves based on the background of their origin cultures and the culture that they learn in intercultural situations. This study aimed to find out how teaching the intercultural competencies was implemented in the course of Indonesian as a Foreign Language (BIPA), especially at the beginner level. This study investigated the intercultural teaching through textbooks, classroom observation, cultural program, and assessment used for the beginner course at the Institution X. The results of the analysis showed that the textbooks used contain themes of intercultural learning for the survival needs of novice students. The results of the classroom observation also showed that intercultural teaching was well executed. However, the results of the field trip observations that were part of the cultural program showed that the activities were not integrated with language learning. Besides, the results of the assessment analysis indicated that the exercise books and the tests used were not considered as the intercultural aspects. Therefore, this study is expected to provide input for intercultural teaching in BIPA courses, especially at the beginner level.
Serum anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody in infertile Nepalese women: a hospital-based study
Authors: Tuladhar Eans Tara , Manandhar Sujina , Raut Mithileshwor , Bhattarai Aseem , Sharma Vijay Kumar , Yadav Binod Kumar 
Published: December 2020

Background: Infertility is a critical component of reproductive health that can precipitate agony for a couple. Antibodies against thyroid peroxidase can lead to not only autoimmune thyroiditis which is highly prevalent in women, but may also represent a generalized autoimmune milieu in our body that can be associated with infertility. This study aims to assess anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies in female patients with infertility.
Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study carried out in the Department of Biochemistry, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital over three months (November 2018 to January 2019). All women undergoing work up at the infertility clinic with reported normal thyroid function and otherwise normal levels of reproductive hormones were recruited for this study. Anti-thyroid peroxidase levels were estimated in their serum samples by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
Results: Of the eighty-seven females that were selected for the study, 54 were infertile females, 16 were pregnant women in their first trimester and 17 were non-pregnant females in their reproductive age. Four positive cases of anti-thyroid peroxidase were detected among infertile females (7.4% within the group), 2 amid non-pregnant females (11.76% within-group) while no positive cases were detected within the pregnant group. However, the occurrence was not statistically significant (p=0.4). The pregnant group showed higher mean anti-thyroid peroxidase levels compared to both infertile and non-pregnant females though statistical significance could not be established (p=0.066).
Conclusions: Functional autoimmune antibodies, like anti-thyroid peroxidase levels, do not have a significant primary association with infertility.
Immunophenotyping in incidental gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors: study at tertiary care centre
Authors: Lakhe Rachana R , Swami Ravi M , Kulkarni Purva , Doshi Preeti Rajeev , Mani Narayanan Subramanian 
Published: December 2020

Background: Gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors are rare slow-growing tumors with distinct histological, biological, and clinical characteristics that have increased in incidence and prevalence in the last few decades. This study is aimed to find out the incidence of neuroendocrine tumors among the gastrointestinal tumors and to grade gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors.
Materials and Methods: A total of 119 cases of gastrointestinal tumors of gastrointestinal neuroendocrine was included in the study. The paraffin blocks were retrieved and slides were stained with routine Hematoxylin and Eosin, synaptophysin, chromogranin, and Ki67. The histologic grading was done based on mitosis and Ki-67 index as per WHO 2017 classification.
Results: Out of 119 cases of Gastrointestinal Tract tumor, 13 (10.92%) constituted neuroendocrine tumors. Duodenum was the most common site (38%) followed by the appendix (23%). The majority (1.9%) of the cases were categorized as of grade 1 followed by 2.3% of grade 2 and 1.19% of grade 3. Immunohistochemically, chromogranin, and synaptophysin were strongly expressed in all ten cases of neuroendocrine tumors. The Ki67 labeling index was <3 % in 10 cases, while it was in the range of 3 – 20 % in 2 cases and >20 % in one case.
Conclusions: The incidence of gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors is on the rise. They should be considered in developing a differential diagnosis. Hence use of diagnostic modalities such as immunohistochemistry should be implemented for better treatment.
Evaluation of tumour infiltrating lymphocytes in core needle biopsies and resected specimens of breast carcinoma
Authors: Sangam Parinitha S , Parmesh Priyanka 
Published: December 2020

Background: Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes are important predictors of response to neoadjuvant therapy in breast cancer. It remains unclear whether Tumour infiltrating lymphocytes scores in core needle biopsies are closely representative of those in the whole tumour of surgically resected specimens.
The study aims to evaluate the concordance between tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes scores of core needle biopsies and surgically resected specimens as per recommendations and to assess the reliability of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes score in core needle biopsies.
Materials and Methods: Retrospective study from January 2016 to March 2019 done in tertiary care hospital. Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes scores were sub-classified as low (≤10%), intermediate (11–49%), and high (40-90%). Relevant statistical tests were used and reliability score was done by Fisher’s test.
Results: The mean value of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in 34 cases was 27.03% in core needle biopsies and 34.6% in surgically resected specimens. High tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes score was seen in 8 (23.6%) and 11 (32.4%) cases and low to intermediate score was seen in 26 (76.4%) cases and 23 (67.6%) in core needle biopsies and surgically resected specimens respectively. Intermediate and high tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes categories in core needle biopsies accounted for good agreement with surgically resected specimens (60%-intermediate, 87.5 %-high). More than three cores had a better agreement.
Conclusions: Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes score in core needle biopsies is of reliable value in breast cancer. Discrepancies may occur in tumours with HER2neu phenotype, PR status, and younger age.
Clichés and pragmatemes
Authors: Mel’čuk Igor 
Published: December 2020

In order to properly classify the phraseme (that is, a constrained, or non-free, expression) No parking, a universal typology of lexical phrasemes is proposed. It is based on the following two parameters:• The nature of constraints— Lexemic phrasemes: the expression is constrained with respect to freely constructed meaning.—  Semantic-lexemic phrasemes: the expression is constrained/non-constrained with respect to the meaning constrained by the conceptual representation.—  Pragmatemes: the expression is constrained with respect to pragmatic conditions, that is, to the extralinguistic situation of its use (in a letter, on a street sign, on a package of perishable food).• The compositionalityThe expression can/cannot be represented as regular “sum” of its components.As a result, we have, firstly, the following major classes of lexical phrasemes:1)  Non-compositional lexemic phrasemes: idioms (˹cold feet˺, ˹shoot the breeze˺)2)  Compositional lexemic phrasemes: collocations (rain heavily, pay a visit)3)  Non-compositional semantic-lexemic phrasemes: nominemes (Big Dipper, New South Wales)4)  Compositional semantic-lexemic phrasemes: clichés (See you tomorrow! | Absence makes the heart grow fonder.)For clichés, the least-studied class of phrasemes, a more detailed classification is proposed (as a function of the type of their denotation). Secondly, each phraseme (except a nomineme) and each lexemes can be pragmatically constrained, i.e. a pragmateme: ˹Fall out!˺ (idiom; a military command) | Take aim! (collocation; a military command) | Emphasis mine/added (cliché; in a printed text) | Rest! (lexeme; a military command).
Classement de métonymies et traduction automatique
Authors: Czekaj Anna 
Published: December 2020

The paper is a continuation of the author’s previous work regarding the legitimacy of metonymy classification for the needs of automatic translation. The author attempts to solve the problem presented in the paper entitled Classification of metonymy and its usefulness in automatic translation and proposes her classification of metonymic expressions, which could be a helpful tool in computer translation.
Innovazioni fraseologiche nei titoli della stampa italiana: una classificazione dei motivi delle innovazioni fraseologiche
Authors: Gadacz Joanna , Golda Paweł 
Published: December 2020

The purpose of this study is to investigate the phenomenon of phraseological innovations in titles of articles in one of the Italian newspapers La Stampa. In the first part of the article, key terms such as the phraseological norm and the phraseological innovation have been defined, taking into account various terms related to this process. Then, some innovation classifications have been presented. Finally, the analytical part describes 91 titles that are examples of innovations.
Du paradigme vers le syntagme — l’antonymie adjectivale : quelques remarques
Authors: Perz Magdalena 
Published: December 2020

This paper raises and discusses the relation of antonymy in adjectives. Antonymy is considered to play an important role in organizing mental lexicon. This relation defined often in logical terms stands for paradigmatic relation, as presented in WordNet. However, the category of antonymous adjectives can depend on more than just the semantic qualities of a word. It is often highly context dependent. Adjectives have different interpretation depending on the noun they modify — it is no surprising that they produce different antonyms in different contexts. On the basis of few examples of investigations of antonymy, this paper argues that antonymy is not only a paradigmatic but also a syntagmatic relation. The paradigmatic-syntagmatic distinction is not always relevant to all antonymous adjectives.
Vision(s) de la littérature québécoise en Italie. Révisions nécessaires?
Authors: Acerenza Gerardo 
Published: December 2020

Literary texts written in French-speaking areas out of France very often represent real challenges for translators, because they have to deal with a diatopically marked language and with a large number of realia which require the implementation of specific strategies for translate in the target language. In this article, we will try to understand the strategies used by Italian translators when translating the linguistic specificities of Quebec literary works in Italian. The practice of translation can orient the vision (or reception) of a Quebec literature in Italy which appears at first sight to be hermetic because of its linguistic regionalisms. Do Italian translations of Quebec literature require revisions?
(Re)visions télévisuelles de la colonisation du Nord – série médiatique d’Un homme et son péché de Claude-Henri Grignon
Authors: Wójcik Katarzyna 
Published: December 2020

Claude-Henri Grignon’s novel Un homme et son péché presents the life of French Canadian colonial settlers of the Laurentides region at the end of XIXth century. It depicts a realistic image of the colonisation period of Quebec history. The novel is at the origin of a media series that englobes a radio adaptation, three filmic adaptations, theater adaptations, a comic, and two television series. The aim of this article is to discuss the vision of colonisation by analysing two television series based on Un homme et son péché: Les Belles Histoires des pays d’en haut broadcast from 1956 to 1970 and Les Pays d’en haut broadcast from 2016 to 2019 on ICI Radio-Canada Télé 1. The analysis will try to trace modifications inherent to the process of adaptation on different levels (protagonists, representation of space, ideological discourse) and their influence on the vision of the colonisation period.
Le rôle de l’espace dans la littérature acadienne contemporaine Chacal, mon frère (2010) et L’Ombre de Chacal (2016) de Gracia Couturier
Authors: Żurawska Anna 
Published: December 2020

The aim of deportation and expulsion of the Acadians during the so-called Grand Dérangement, also known as the Great Upheaval, was to deprive them of their land, which is presented in their history and literature. The idea of space is in this case closely connected with the question of identity in Acadian literature. Not referring directly to the above-mentioned historical events, Garcia Couturier explores in her novelistic diptych the relation between identity and space. Although Couturier’s writing is largely based on categories which characterise Acadian literature, she is able to go beyond them in order to concentrate on individual identity and liberty. She also investigates metaphorical expulsion, which shows her desire for autonomy from tradition and underlines modern aspects of the two novels.The aim of the article is therefore to examine the narrative representation of the space, its symbolic function and its role in shaping both individual and collective identity in Couturier’s novels.
Unité d’analyse en traductologie descriptive. Une contribution à la méthodologie des DTS
Authors: Raková Zuzana 
Published: December 2020

This article aims to specify one method of descriptive analysis, which can be used in the epistemological framework of the Descriptive Translation Studies and the theory of the polysystem. The challenge is essentially to define the unit of analysis in relation to traditional translation methods (borrowing, tracing, literal translation, transposition, modulation, equivalence, adaptation), defined in 1958 by Jean-Paul Vinay and Jean Darbelnet. We aim to associate the comparative stylistics with polysystem theory on the descriptive studies of translation and to propose a method of qualitative and quantitative analysis on corpus of source and target texts. The method could be profitable especially for studies in the field of the history of translation (in the phase of “historical criticism” according to the taxonomy of the discipline formulated by A. Pym).
L’oeuvre romanesque de Loys Masson, ou l’écocritique mauricienne et indianocéanique au moyen d’une poétisation de la nature et de l’espace
Authors: Samboo Sachita R. 
Published: December 2020

The study of Mauritian Literature and the environment from an interdisciplinary perspective arouses various concerns and questionings such as the protection of planet Earth, the relation between characterisation and natural settings, the nature-culture dichotomy and nature writing. The fictionalisation and poeticization of Mauritian and Indian Ocean islands’ natural spaces in Loys Masson’s novels depict both man as Nature’s saviour and Nature as man’s saviour, in such a way that Nature’s raison d’être becomes Literature and aesthetics. Nature exists because it will eventually turn into a Book. Born at the end of the 20th century in American universities and closely linked to geocriticism and ecopoetics, ecocriticism thus provides new insights into Masson’s novels while reviving traditional French philosophical thoughts by Jean-Jacques Rousseau or Michel Serres.
Phytochemical Investigation of the Aerial Part of Iraqi Convolvulus arvensis
Authors: Alwan Mustafa H. , N.  Hamad Maha 
Published: December 2020

Convolvulus arvensis is a species of bindweed that is rhizomatous and is in the morning glory family (Convolvulaceae) native to Europe and Asia. The plant is naturally grown in Iraq. The plant was reported to be used in traditional medicine from as early as 1730s.
The Aerial parts of Convolvulus arvensis were macerated in 80% ethanol for 6 days. The concentrated extract was partitioned with n-hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate- and n-butanol successively. The n-hexane and ethyl acetate, fractions were examined for the presence of phytochemicals by thin layer chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography and its steroid and flavonoid contents were investigated. Stigmasterol was isolated from n-hexane fraction and identified by liquid chromatography/mass spectroscopy. Rutin was isolated from the ethyl acetate fraction and identified by liquid chromatography/mass spectroscopy. The aim is to examine the phytochemical constituents of the aerial parts of Convolvulus arvensis, literature survey available so far revealed that there were no studies about the phytochemical investigation for Convolvulus arvensis in Iraq.
Different chromatographic techniques like Thin Layer Chromatography and mass spectroscopy were used and the presence of Stigmasterol and Rutin in aerial parts of Convolvulus arvensis was indicated.
Synthesis and evaluation of B-cyclodextrin Based Nanosponges of 5- Fluorouracil by Using Ultrasound Assisted Method
Authors: Jasim Ihsan K. , N. Abd Alhammid Shaimaa , A. Abdulrasool Alaa 
Published: December 2020

CD-nanosponges were prepared by crosslinking B-CD with diphenylcarbonate (DPC) using ultrasound assisted technique. 5-FU was incorporated with NS by freeze drying, and the phase solubility study, complexation efficiency (CE) entrapment efficiency were performed. Also, the particle morphology was studied using SEM and AFM. The in-vitro release of 5-FU from the prepared nanosponges was carried out in 0.1N HCl.
5-FU nanosponges particle size was in the nano size. The optimum formula showed a particle size of (405.46±30) nm, with a polydispersity index (PDI) (0.328±0.002) and a negative zeta potential (-18.75±1.8). Also the drug entrapment efficiency varied with the CD: DPC molar ratio from 15.6 % to 30%. The SEM and AFM showed crystalline and porous nature of the nanosponges. The in vitro drug release study of the selected formula 5-FUNS2 exhibited the fastest dissolution rate which is 56% in the first hr.
Different molar ratios of (cyclodextrin to crosslinker) (CD: DPC) has a proficient effect on complexation efficiency (CE), apparent stability constant (Kst) and entrapment efficiency of 5-FU. 5-FUNS2 with (1:4) molar ratio showed the best result of CE, Kst and entrapment efficiency. 5-FUNS2 gave a higher release rate than the 5-FU-BCD inclusion complex and 5-FU solution. Surface morphology of the prepared nanosponges by SEM, AFM indicate that nanosized and highly porous nanosponges was obtained. The overall results suggest that cyclodextrin nanosponges could be a promising 5-FU delivery system utilizing the suitable formula.