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A Negative R-Assisted Amplifier on the Virtual Ground and Its Applications slides
Creators: Youngcheol Chae
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2021

Webinar Slides
Abstract: An active network with the property that the impedance on a terminal pair is negative is called as a negative impedance, and many active circuits, such as amplifiers, filters, and oscillators, contain the negative impedance. A negative resistor (negative R) has been used since the days of the vacuum tube oscillators, in which the negative R compensates for resistive leakage of an inductor. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, an amplifier with a negative R on its virtual ground was proposed. The idea of using the negative R-assisted amplifier has been used in recent state-of-the-art works, as it turns out that the negative R compensates for the finite gain, bandwidth, noise and distortion of the amplifier. Despite many advantages, the negative R-assisted amplifier did not get the attention it deserves. The aim of this talk is, therefore, to reconsider some of these early concepts, and to evaluate the benefits of negative R-assisted amplifiers in the light of recent advances. Several design examples including amplifiers, PGAs, TIAs, and CT ?? modulators will be discussed.

Bio: Youngcheol Chae received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea in 2009. During 2009-2011, he was a post-doctoral researcher at TU Delft in The Netherlands. Since 2012, he has been on the faculty at Yonsei University, where he is an associate professor. His work has focused on data converters and sensor interfaces. This results in 100+ technical papers, including 60+ SSCS conference and journal papers. He is a member of the technical program committees of International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC). He has served as a Guest Editor of the Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) and a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (2018 to 2019). He received the Best Young Professor Award in Engineering from Yonsei University in 2018, the Hae-Dong Young Engineer Award from IEIE Korea in 2017, the Outstanding Research Award of Yonsei University (2017, 2019, 2020) and the Outstanding Teaching Awards of Yonsei University (2013, 2014).
Basic Principles of Asset Pricing Theory: Evidence from Large-scale Experimental Financial Markets
Creators: name: Bossaerts, Peter L.
name: Plott, Charles R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2000
Subjects: General Equilibrium Theory, Capital Asset Pricing Model, Complete Mar- kets, Experimental Economics, Ecient Markets Hypothesis, Price Discovery
JEL classsification numbers: G12, C92, D59

description: We report on two sets of large-scale financial markets experiments that were designed to test the central proposition of modern asset pricing theory, namely, that risk premia are solely determined by covariance with aggregate risk. We analyze the pricing within the framework suggested by two theoretical models, namely, the (general) Arrow and Debreu's complete-markets model, and the (more specific) Sharpe-Lintner-Mossin Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Completeness of the asset payoff structure justifies the former; the small (albeit non-negligible) risks justifies the latter. We observe swift convergence towards price patterns predicted in the Arrow and Debreu and CAPM models. This observation is significant, because subjects always lack the information to deliberately set asset prices using either model. In the first set of experiments, however, equilibration is not always robust, with markets temporarily veering away. We conjecture that this reflects our failure to control subject' beliefs about the temporal independence of the payouts. Confirming this conjecture, the anomaly disappears in a second set of experiments, where states were drawn without replacement. We formally test whether CAPM and Arrow–Debreu equilibrium can be used to predict price movements in our experiments and confirm the hypothesis. When multiplying the subject payout tenfold (in real terms), to US $ 500 on average for a 3-h experiment, the results are unaltered, except for an increase in the recorded risk premia.
description: Financial support was provided by the Caltech Laboratory of Experimental Economics and Political Science, the National Science Foundation, the International Center For Finance at Yale University. We thank Bill Brown (Claremont), Peter DeMarzo (Berkeley), Will Goetzmann (Yale), Mark Johnson (Tulane), Tony Kwasnica (Penn State), Claude Montmarquette and Claudia Keser (CIRANO, Montréal), William Sharpe (Stanford), Woody Studenmund (Occidental College), and Ivo Welch (UCLA), for allowing us to involve their students in our experimental financial markets. The paper benefited from comments in a joint UCLA-Caltech workshop, at CEPR's 1999 Financial Markets Summer Symposium in Gerzensee, and during seminars at the Norwegian School of Management, the Claremont Graduate University, the University of Antwerp, and the University of Louvain
description: Published as Bossaerts, Peter and Plott, Charles (2004) Basic Principles of Asset Pricing Theory: Evidence from Large-scale Experimental Financial Markets. Review of Finance, 8 (2). pp. 135-169.
Measurement and Simulation of the Magnetic Fields from a 555 Timer Integrated Circuit using a Quantum Diamond Microscope and Finite Element Analysis
Creators: name: Kehayias, P.
name: Levine, E. V.
name: Basso, L.
name: Henshaw, J.
name: Ziabari, M. Saleh
name: Titze, M.
name: Haltli, R.
name: Okoro, J.
name: Tibbetts, D. R.
name: Udoni, D. M.
name: Bielejec, E.
name: Lilly, M. P.
name: Lu, T. M.
name: Schwindt, P. D. D.
name: Mounce, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum Diamond Microscope (QDM) magnetic field imaging is an emerging interrogation and diagnostic technique for integrated circuits (ICs). To date, the ICs measured with a QDM were either too complex for us to predict the expected magnetic fields and benchmark the QDM performance, or were too simple to be relevant to the IC community. In this paper, we establish a 555 timer IC as a "model system" to optimize QDM measurement implementation, benchmark performance, and assess IC device functionality. To validate the magnetic field images taken with a QDM, we used a SPICE electronic circuit simulator and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to model the magnetic fields from the 555 die for two functional states. We compare the advantages and the results of three IC-diamond measurement methods, confirm that the measured and simulated magnetic images are consistent, identify the magnetic signatures of current paths within the device, and discuss using this model system to advance QDM magnetic imaging as an IC diagnostic tool.
description: 12 pages main text (8 figures), 4 pages supplementary information (5 figures)
Slides for: Utility Business Case to Support Light Duty EV Charging
Creators: Benoit (Ben) Marcoux
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2021

Slides for the webinar Utility Business Case to Support Light Duty EV Charging
In this webinar, we offer some fact-based thoughts to fuel utilities’ push toward developing sound Electric Vehicle (EV) charging strategies, focusing here on light-duty passenger vehicles (such as cars and sport-utility vehicles) in North America. The bottom line is that, done right, EVs may prove to be good for utilities and their ratepayers.
Observation of Goos-Hänchen shifts in metallic reflection
Creators: name: Merano, M.
name: Aiello, A.
name: Hooft, G. W. 't
name: van Exter, M. P.
name: Eliel, E. R.
name: Woerdman, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first observation of the Goos-H$\rm \ddot{\textbf{a}}$nchen shift of a light beam incident on a metal surface. This phenomenon is particularly interesting because the Goos-H$\rm \ddot{\textbf{a}}$nchen shift for $p$ polarized light in metals is negative and much bigger than the positive shift for $s$ polarized light. The experimental result for the measured shifts as a function of the angle of incidence is in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions. In an energy-flux interpretation, our measurement shows the existence of a backward energy flow at the bare metal surface when this is excited by a $p$ polarized beam of light.
description: The parer was published on Optics Express. The new version is modified according to the reviewers suggestions
Precision BAW oscillators for low power, high performance applications Slides
Creators: Danielle Griffith
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2021

Webinar Slides
Abstract: The first crystal oscillator was designed approximately 100 years ago, and today there are few electronic devices without at least one crystal oscillator to generate an accurate clock reference. Despite being ubiquitous, crystal oscillators have drawbacks, including cost, large size, degraded frequency stability at temperature extremes, and sensitivity to shock and vibration. In the quest for further reducing the footprint of electronic systems to enable new applications, it is desirable have a high stability resonator that can be integrated into an SoC, while ideally also reducing some of the drawbacks of crystals. Bulk acoustic wave resonators (BAW) are one type of device that has been suggested for this application, with the first BAW oscillator built 40 years ago. The first prototypes suffered from inaccurate frequency and relatively large size. Since then, many advances have been made, and BAW oscillators are now a commercial reality. This presentation will cover the physics of BAW resonators, including frequency selection and passive temperature compensation, and circuits design considerations, such as oscillator topologies, frequency tunability, jitter reduction, and active temperature compensation. Finally, system level advantages will be presented, including improved security and resistance to tampering.
Bio: Danielle Griffith received the B.S.E.E. and M.Eng. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge in 1996 and 1997, respectively. She joined Motorola in Tempe, AZ in 1997 and worked in the area of RF circuit design. In 2003, she joined Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas and is a Fellow in the Connectivity business unit developing circuits and techniques for reducing cost, power consumption, and circuit board area for low power wireless connectivity products. Her current focus areas are architectures for efficient wireless systems, low power oscillators and MEMS circuitry. She is also actively involved in initiatives within Texas Instruments to increase diversity in senior technical roles. She has published >50 papers, most of them in IEEE journals or conferences. She has written a book chapter titled “Synchronization Clocks for Ultra-Low Power Wireless Networks” which was published by Springer as a part of the book “Ultra-Low-Power Short-Range Radios”. Danielle holds 19 issued US patents and has given multiple university and IEEE conference tutorial and workshop sessions. She was a member of the Technical Program Committees for the IEEE RFIC Symposium for conferences years 2014 and 2015, the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference for conference years 2015-2019, and the IEEE VLSI Symposium since 2019. She is a senior member of the IEEE, an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits since 2020, and has been selected as Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society for 2021–2022.
Addressing Extreme Weather Events:Impact of Cold Weather, Hurricanes and Wildfires on Transmission and Distribution Systems (Slides)
Creators: Tom Pierpoint
Dan Kline
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2021

Electric utilities have been working to improve existing processes and develop new solutions to address challenges and impact of climate-related extreme events and improve their preparation and response strategies to these events. Since such events have not only significant reliability impact, but societal consequences, implementing an effective strategy and roadmap on how to best perform planning and operation of the system during occurrence of these events, and recover from their consequences becomes of utmost importance to the industry. The panelists will discuss utility experience and lessons learned on how to maintain reliability and resilience of the transmission and distribution grids in the anticipation of and following extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, wild fires and extreme cold events.
Electric utilities have been working to improve existing processes and develop new solutions to address challenges and impact of climate-related extreme events and improve their preparation and response strategies to these events. Since such events have not only significant reliability impact, but societal consequences, implementing an effective strategy and roadmap on how to best perform planning and operation of the system during occurrence of these events, and recover from their consequences becomes of utmost importance to the industry. The panelists will discuss utility experience and lessons learned on how to maintain reliability and resilience of the transmission and distribution grids in the anticipation of and following extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, wild fires and extreme cold events.
Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Power Converter for More Efficient Data Center-Slides
Creators: Zichao Ye
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2021

PELS Webinar Slides
Abstract: This webinar presents some of the latest research and development of hybrid and resonant switched-capacitor (SC) power converters. In the context of data center power delivery, we showcase a few high-performance hybrid SC works with superior efficiency and power density. As an example, our latest 48V-to-12V resonant SC converter achieves 99.0 percent peak and 97.7 percent full-load system efficiency, with 6000 W-in3 power density. Various facets of the hybrid converter design will be discussed, including the analysis of topological benefits, the design of gate drive circuit and magnetics, the control techniques for soft-charging and soft-switching, and the considerations of component nonidealities. Furthermore, the concept of “multiple-operating-phase” is introduced to reduce the circuit complexity of hybrid SC converters at high conversion ratios, such as 48 V to 8 V, 6 V, and directly down to point-of-load voltages.

The objective of this webinar is to show that, while more mature topologies have seen diminishing returns in the last few years, hybrid-resonant SC solutions have demonstrated great promise with rapid improvement and outstanding performance in hardware prototypes.
JUSTIFICATION OF PARAMETERS OF RUNNING WHEELS OF AN OVERHEAD CRANE OF VARIOUS DESIGNS
Creators: name: Slepuzhnikov, E.
Publisher: name: Sciences of Europe
Year: 2021
Subjects: running wheel
bridge crane
taper
movement resistance.

description: The article discusses the issues of substantiating the optimal parameters of traveling wheels of overhead cranes of various designs. The estimation of the optimal taper of bevel running wheels is given and the resistance of movement is determined.
USAGE OF EDGE SELECTION METHODS TO REFINE CANDIDATE BLOCKS IN THE MOTION COMPENSATION PROCESS, BASED ON THE SAD ALGORITHM USING CHARACTERISTIC POINTS.
Creators: name: Dibrivniy, O.
name: Grebenyuk V
Publisher: name: Sciences of Europe
Year: 2021
Subjects: edge detection
Laplacian of gaussian
Canny
motion compensation
Sum of absolute differences
video compressing
SSD
PSNR.

description: Video compression is one of the most important parts in video distribution process. The main goal of this article is to illustrate and evaluate usage of algorithms for selecting edges in the image, to optimize the algorithm for estimating the similarity of video sequence frames when using as a metric the sum of absolute differences (SAD) in video compressing trough motion compensation.
The Virtuous Circle of 5G - IoT and Energy Harvesting-Slides
Creators: Brian Zahnstecher & Mike Hayes
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2021

PELS Webinar Slides
Abstract: 5G, IoT and Energy Harvesting are converging in a perfect storm providing unprecedented opportunities to enhance power management and optimize energy efficiency (mostly in the lower-power, IoT space, but also at network level in things like base stations).  IoT and sensor network thingies are projected to scale into the 100s of billions (eclipsing a trillion according to some sources) devices this decade, which makes for a direct linkage between all the tiny, powered devices at the network’s edge and the utility grid that powers the network…a linkage spanning 18+ orders of magnitude!  These tiny loads cumulatively may put excessive stress on a network that may neither be sized and scaled to handle the energy disparities between edge and core nor architected to facilitate the bidirectional communication required to efficiently optimize such disparities into harmonious balance.  Energy harvesting can mitigate these major service continuity (data and/or energy) disruptions by autonomously supplementing power budgets at the point of consumption, which is absolutely fundamental to a system optimized for energy efficiency.  Mitigation of primary (non-rechargeable) battery replacement is another key motivator for application pragmatics, commercial viability and hazardous waste/sustainable containment.

This webinar shall explore the energy relationships between IoT devices, their power sources, and how they interact with the communication and energy networks that link them. We shall present an assortment of industry gaps/challenges, outline some terminology/metrics/framework for assessment, best practices for identifying issues to converge on optimal deployments, and share a wealth of industrial and academic resources to enable attendees to very quickly go from philosophical design techniques to prototyping/optimizing a real design.  Moreover, attendees should gain an enhanced understanding of how electrical sources and loads impact each other be it the package, board, system, grid, or global domains.
Dust-driven Winds and Mass Loss of C-rich AGB Stars with subsolar Metallicities
Creators: name: Wachter, A.
name: Winters, J. M.
name: Schröder, K. -P.
name: Sedlmayr, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the mass loss of highly evolved, low- and intermediate mass stars and stellar samples with subsolar metallicity. We give a qualitative as well as quantitative description which can be applied to LMC/SMC-type stellar populations. For that purpose we apply the same approach as we did for solar metallicity stars and calculate hydrodynamical wind models including dust formation with LMC and SMC abundances under consideration of an adapted model assumption. In particular, we improved the treatment of the radiative transfer problem in order to accommodate larger non-local contributions occurring with smaller opacities. For each wind model we determine an averaged mass-loss rate. The resulting, approximate mass-loss formulae are then applied to well-tested and calibrated stellar evolution calculations in order to quantify the stellar mass loss. The dynamical models for LMC and SMC metallicity result in mass-loss rates of the same order of magnitude as the solar metallicity models which is in this basic approach in agreement with observations. The hydrodynamical properties like e.g. the outflow velocity differ (for fixed C/O abundance ratio) noticeably, though. While critical luminosities of LMC and solar metallicity models fairly coincide, the SMC models need higher luminosities to develop dust-driven winds.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Online Pedagogical Resources on Control and Tuning Methods in Switched Mode Power Converters-Slides
Creators: Santanu Kapat
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2021

PELS Webinar Slides
Abstract: Switch mode power converters (SMPCs) play the central role in energy-efficient power conversion in emerging applications, such as electric vehicles, data centres, renewable energy, industrial automation, etc. In this context, selection of suitable modulation and control techniques of SMPCs is very important to meet challenging requirements in terms of transient performance, efficiency, stability, line and load regulation, disturbance rejection, etc. Majority of commercial controller implementations are still based on pulse width modulation and small-signal analysis. However, increasing switching frequencies using wide band-gap devices provides the opportunity to improve dynamic performance, energy efficiency and size reduction. This talk presents large-signal based control and tuning methods in existing current and voltage mode control methods, which can significantly improve performance along with improved energy efficiency in SMPCs under fixed and variable frequency modulators. Moreover, it is important to understand existing modulation, control, and tuning methods in SMPCs, to identify practical limits using small-signal based design and to formulate control and tuning methods using large-signal based approaches to achieve performance up to the slew rate limits.

Keeping this in mind, this talk will introduce a new online course which (i) presents an overview of conventional modulation and control methods, (ii) identifies small-signal performance limits, (iii) discusses large-signal based control approaches and (iv) compares strategies for controller tuning. Comparison among tuning methods illustrate how large-signal based control tuning methods can significantly improve performance and efficiency of SMPCs followed by the need for digital and mixed-signal control implementation for future power electronics converters.
From substantive due process to substantive principles of fundamental justice
Creators: name: Tremblay, Luc
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In April 1982, Canada entrenched in its constitution a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Section 7 of this new document provides that "everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice". The Canadian Bill of Rights (1960), and the British and American constitutions, safeguarded those fundamental rights through the phrase "due process of law" instead of "principles of fundamental justice". The phrase "due process of law" has often been analysed in terms of the dichotomy between "substantive due process" and "procedural due process". There is evidence that the drafters of the Charter rejected the phrase "due process" to avoid any introduction in Canada of the American concept of substantive due process. In their minds, "principles of fundamental justice" protect what is called "procedural due process". The purpose of this thesis is to suggest an interpretation of the phrase "principles of fundamental justice" which fits into our Anglo-Canadian tradition of constitutional law. This interpretation has nothing to do with the American interpretation of "due process of law". The approach that I suggest should lead to the abandonment of the traditional dichotomy borrowed from the United States between "procedural due process" and "substantive due process". It does not mean that section 7 of the Charter will never give the same result as the American jurisprudence, but the reasoning to reach such a result will be in accordance with our Canadian constitutional tradition. I conclude that the British and the Canadian courts have been reluctant to adopt "substantive due process" because of the doctrine of supremacy of Parliament. I then examine in detail the evolution of "substantive due process" in the United States.and show that the American interpretation arose out of a constitutional tradition different from that of Canada. I argue that it was unlikely that Canada could have imported the American interpretation of "substantive due process" without doing violence to its own constitutional tradition. I then suggest an interpretation of the phrase "principles of fundamental justice" which conforms to Canadian constitutional tradition. I argue that those principles of justice exist at common law and were already protected through the fiction of several "presumptions" created from time to time by the courts to interpret statutes. Those principles of justice encompass both procedural and substantive matters, but the proposed approach-makes that distinction irrelevant. The only relevant question in regard to section 7 is whether a "principle of fundamental justice" arising out of the Anglo-Canadian legal system is at stake in a given case.
Ab initio no-core full configuration calculations of light nuclei
Creators: name: Maris, P.
name: Vary, J. P.
name: Shirokov, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform no-core full configuration calculations for a set of light nuclei including $^{16}$O with a realistic NN interaction, JISP16. We obtain ground state energies and their uncertainties through exponential extrapolations that we demonstrate are reliable in $^2$H, $^3$H and $^4$He test cases where fully converged results are obtained directly. We find that $^6$He, $^6$Li and $^8$He are underbound by about 600 keV, 560 keV and 1.7 MeV, respectively. $^{12}$C is overbound by about 1.7 MeV and $^{16}$O is overbound by about 16 MeV. The first excited $0^+$ states in $^{12}$C and $^{16}$O are also evaluated but their uncertainties are significantly larger than the uncertainties for the ground states.
description: 16 pages, 31 figures, minor changes made according to referee's suggestions
Entangling power of symmetric two-qubit quantum gates
Creators: name: Morachis, D.
name: Maytorena, Jesús A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The capacity of a quantum gate to produce entangled states on a bipartite system is quantified in terms of the entangling power. This quantity is defined as the average of the linear entropy of entanglement of the states produced after applying a quantum gate over the whole set of separable states. Here we focus on symmetric two-qubit quantum gates, acting on the symmetric two-qubit space, and calculate the entangling power in terms of the appropriate local-invariant. A geometric description of the local equivalence classes of gates is given in terms of the $\mathfrak{su}(3)$ Lie algebra root vectors. These vectors define a primitive cell with hexagonal symmetry on a plane, and through the Weyl group the minimum area on the plane containing the whole set of locally equivalent quantum gates is identified. We give conditions to determine when a given quantum gate produces maximally entangled states from separable ones (perfect entanglers). We found that these gates correspond to one fourth of the whole set of locally-distinct quantum gates. The theory developed here is applicable to three-level systems in general, where the non-locality of a quantum gate is related to its capacity to perform non-rigid transformations on the Majorana constellation of a state. The results are illustrated by an anisotropic Heisenberg model, the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model, and two coupled quantized oscillators with cross-Kerr interaction.
Symétrie des grandes solutions d'équations elliptiques semi linéaire
Creators: name: Porretta, Alessio
name: Veron, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J60

description: We prove that, if $g$ is a continuous asymptotically convex function, any solution $u$ of $-Δu+g(u)=0$ in a ball B which tends to infinity on $\partial B$ is radially symmetric.
Formation and morphology of closed and porous films grown from grains seeded on substrates: Two-dimensional simulations
Creators: name: Janssens, Stoffel D.
name: Vázquez-Cortés, David
name: Fried, Eliot
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional simulations are used to explore topological transitions that occur during the formation of films grown from grains that are seeded on substrates. This is done for a relatively large range of the initial value $Φ_s$ of the grain surface fraction $Φ$. The morphology of porous films is captured at the transition when grains connect to form a one-component network using newly developed raster-free algorithms that combine computational geometry and network theory. Further insight on the morphology of porous films and their suspended counterparts is obtained by studying the pore surface fraction $Φ_p$, the pore over grain ratio, the pore area distribution, and the contribution of pores of certain chosen areas to $Φ_p$. Pinhole survival is evaluated at the transition when film closure occurs using survival function estimates. The morphology of closed films ($Φ= 1$) is also characterized and is quantified by measuring grain areas and perimeters. The majority of investigated quantities are found to depend sensitively on $Φ_s$ and the long-time persistence of pinholes exhibits critical behavior as a function of $Φ_s$. In addition to providing guidelines for designing effective processes for manufacturing thin films and suspended porous films with tailored properties, this work may advance the understanding of continuum percolation theory.
title: Das Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Eine Diskursnetzwerkanalyse
Creators: name: Friedrich, Anna
Publisher: name: Universität Innsbruck
Year: 2018

description: Anhand des Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) wurde untersucht, durch welche Frames sich Koalitionen im Diskurs rund um das Freihandelsabkommen CETA bildeten und wie diese Koalitionen auf den damit zusammenhängenden politischen Prozess eingewirkt haben. Dabei wird davon ausgegangen, dass die BefürworterInnen und GegnerInnen des Abkommens verschiedene Frames im Bereich des diagnostic framing und prognostic framing verwenden. Es wird die Hypothese geprüft, ob stärkere Frames oder story lines einer Diskurskoalition mehr Bedeutung entfalten können und damit den gesamten Diskurs und den politischen Prozess beeinflussen. Methodisch wird dabei eine qualitative Inhaltsanalyse auf 644 Artikel aus der österreichischen Kronen Zeitung, der Presse und des Standards aus dem Zeitraum des 11. Februar 2014 bis zum 1. Juli 2017 angewendet. Den deduktiven Aspekt der Analyse stellen die drei core framing tasks, also das diagnostic framing, prognostic framing und motivational framing dar, die Generierung der einzelnen Codes erfolgte jedoch induktiv. Die Ergebnisse zeigen dass in der Kronen Zeitung CETA negativ geframed wurde und einen großen Anteil an den Statements CETA-kritischer Akteure aufweist. Diese konnten den Diskurs dahingehend ändern, dass die Verantwortlichen nachträgliche Änderungen vornehmen mussten, sollte das Abkommen zur Wirkung gelangen. Die KritikerInnen CETAs schafften es mit ihrer story line, viele Teile der Gesellschaft abzufangen und das öffentliche Stimmungsbild aufgrund des starken Narrativs, der während der Nachwehen der Wirtschaftskrise auf fruchtbaren Boden stieß, zu ihren Gunsten zu drehen. Dennoch konnte eine CETA-kritische Koalition beim prognostic framing keine Diskurshoheit erlangen und die Implementierung des Abkommens somit nicht verhindern.
Raman-induced limits to efficient squeezing in optical fibers
Creators: name: Dong, Ruifang
name: Heersink, Joel
name: Corney, Joel F.
name: Drummond, Peter D.
name: Andersen, Ulrik L.
name: Leuchs, Gerd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report new experiments on polarization squeezing using ultrashort photonic pulses in a single pass of a birefringent fiber. We measure what is to our knowledge a record squeezing of -6.8 +/- 0.3 dB in optical fibers which when corrected for linear losses is -10.4 +/- 0.8 dB. The measured polarization squeezing as a function of optical pulse energy, which spans a wide range from 3.5-178.8 pJ, shows a very good agreement with the quantum simulations and for the first time we see the experimental proof that Raman effects limit and reduce squeezing at high pulse energy.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures
Landouria leucochila Nurinsiyah & Neiber & Hausdorf 2019, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Nurinsiyah, Ayu Savitri
name: Neiber, Marco T.
name: Hausdorf, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Camaenidae
Landouria
Landouria leucochila

description: Landouria leucochila (Gude, 1905) comb. nov.
Fig. 81; Tables 3–4
Plectotropis leucochila Gude, 1905: 14, pl. 3, figs 1a–c (“ Java ”).
Landouria rotatoria – van Benthem Jutting 1950: 461 (in part). (not Pfeiffer, 1842)
Diagnosis
Landouria leucochila is characterized by a large, depressed conical, yellowish shell with an angular body whorl, a wide umbilicus and scales all over the teleoconch.
Material examined
Holotype
INDONESIA • holotype; Java; NHM 1922.8.29.87.
Description
SHELL (Fig. 81; Tables 3–4). Depressed conical, with 5.25 hardly convex whorls; protoconch almost smooth; teleoconch with irregular wrinkles; apical side with indistinct incised spiral lines, umbilical side with more distinct spiral lines; scaly processes all over teleoconch; tuberculate around umbilicus; yellowish; body whorl angular; aperture oval; upper insertion of peristome descending; peristome expanded, reflexed and distinctly thickened; umbilicus eccentric, wide, comprising 30% of shell diameter, hardly obscured by columellar edge.
GENITALIA. Unknown.
Distribution
The type locality and the distribution of L. leucochila in Java remain unknown.
description: Published as part of Nurinsiyah, Ayu Savitri, Neiber, Marco T. & Hausdorf, Bernhard, 2019, Revision of the land snail genus Landouria Godwin-Austen, 1918 (Gastropoda, Camaenidae) from Java, pp. 1-73 in European Journal of Taxonomy 526 on pages 58-60, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.526, http://zenodo.org/record/3152217
Effect of Zn substitution on the suppression of Tc of Y1-xCaxBa2(Cu1-yZny)3O7-delta superconductors: pseudogap and the systematic shift of the optimum hole content
Creators: name: Naqib, S. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of Zn substitution on the superconducting transition temperature, Tc, was investigated for the sintered Y1-xCaxBa2(Cu1-yZny)3O7-delta compounds over a wide range of hole concentration per CuO2 plane, p. Ca substitution enabled us to study the deeply overdoped region. p was changed by changing the oxygen deficiency (delta). A strongly p-dependent rate of suppression of Tc with Zn (dTc/dy) was found. From the analysis of the dTc(p)/dy and Tc(p,y) data, we found that the optimum hole content, popt, shifts to higher values with increasing Zn and superconductivity is at its strongest when p = 0.185 +/- 0.005. Various complementary experiments have identified this as the hole content where the pseudogap vanishes quite abruptly. We have discussed the possible relevance to these ideas with our findings.
description: Replacement with some minor corrections
Toward Generating Sufficiently Valid Test Case Results: A Method for Systematically Assigning Test Cases to Test Bench Configurations in a Scenario-Based Test Approach for Automated Vehicles
Creators: name: Steimle, Markus
name: Weber, Nico
name: Maurer, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To successfully launch automated vehicles into the consumer market, there must be credible proof that the vehicles will operate safely. However, finding a method to validate the vehicles' safe operation is a challenging problem. While scenario-based test approaches seem to be possible solutions, they require execution of a large number of test cases. Several test benches, ranging from actual test vehicles to partly or fully simulated environments, are available to execute these test cases. Each test bench provides different elements, which in turn, have different parameters and parameter ranges. The composition of elements with their specific parameter values at a specific test bench that is used to execute a test case is referred to as a test bench configuration. However, selecting the most suitable test bench configuration is difficult. The selected test bench configuration determines whether the execution of a specific test case provides sufficiently valid test case results with respect to the intended purpose, for example, validating a vehicle's safe operation. The effective and efficient execution of a large number of test cases requires a method for systematically assigning test cases to the most suitable test bench configuration. Based on a proposed method for classifying test bench configurations, we propose and illustrate a method for systematically assigning test cases to test bench configurations in a scenario-based test approach for automated vehicles. This assignment method allows for the effective and efficient execution of a large number of test cases while generating sufficiently valid test case results.
description: Published in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 6260-6285, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3141198
Likelihood for generally coarsened observations from multi-state or counting process models
Creators: name: Commenges, Daniel
name: Gégout-Petit, Anne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider first the mixed discrete-continuous scheme of observation in multistate models; this is a classical pattern in epidemiology because very often clinical status is assessed at discrete visit times while times of death or other events are observed exactly. A heuristic likelihood can be written for such models, at least for Markov models; however, a formal proof is not easy and has not been given yet. We present a general class of possibly non-Markov multistate models which can be represented naturally as multivariate counting processes. We give a rigorous derivation of the likelihood based on applying Jacod's formula for the full likelihood and taking conditional expectation for the observed likelihood. A local description of the likelihood allows us to extend the result to a more general coarsening observation scheme proposed by Commenges & Gégout-Petit. The approach is illustrated by considering models for dementia, institutionalization and death.
Dynamics of barred galaxies: effects of disk height
Creators: name: Klypin, A.
name: Valenzuela, O.
name: Colin, P.
name: Quinn, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study dynamics of bars in models of disk galaxies embeded in realistic dark matter halos. We find that disk thickness plays an important, if not dominant, role in the evolution and structure of the bars. We also make extensive numerical tests of different N-body codes used to study bar dynamics. Models with thick disks typically used in this type of modeling (height-to-length ratio hz/Rd=0.2) produce slowly rotating, and very long, bars. In contrast, more realistic thin disks with the same parameters as in our Galaxy (hz/Rd= 0.1) produce bars with normal length Rbar approx R_d, which rotate quickly with the ratio of the corotation radius to the bar radius 1.2-1.4 compatible with observations. Bars in these models do not show a tendency to slow down, and may lose as little as 2-3 percent of their angular momentum due to dynamical friction with the dark matter over cosmological time. We attribute the differences between the models to a combined effect of high phase-space density and smaller Jeans mass in the thin disk models, which result in the formation of a dense central bulge. Special attention is paid to numerical effects such as the accuracy of orbital integration, force and mass resolution. Using three N-body codes -- Gadget, ART, and Pkdgrav -- we find that numerical effects are very important and, if not carefully treated, may produce incorrect and misleading results. Once the simulations are performed with sufficiently small time-steps and with adequate force and mass resolution, all the codes produce nearly the same results: we do not find any systematic deviations between the results obtained with TREE codes (Gadget and Pkdgrav) and with the Adaptive-Mesh-Refinement (ART) code.
description: 15 pages, 14 plots, submitted to MNRAS
ANALYSIS OF THE RANGE OF SEMISOLID MEDICINES IN THE FORM OF GELS ON THE PHARMACEUTICAL MARKET OF UKRAINE AND EXCIPIENTS IN THEIR COMPOSITIONS
Creators: name: Blazhko І.
name: Hroshovyi, T.
name: Chubka, M.
name: Pavliuk, B.
Publisher: name: Sciences of Europe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Soft dosage forms
gels
excipients
pharmaceutical market
range.

description: As of December 2019, 133 gels were registered on the pharmaceutical market of Ukraine. When analyzing the range of gels by composition, it was determined that monocomponent gels prevail over combined ones, the share of which is 60.2 %. It is determined that in the domestic pharmaceutical market the share of imported gels is higher (63.2 %) compared to the number of domestic gels (36.8 %). Gels for dermal use occupy 78.2 % of the pharmaceutical market of all semisolid medicines in the form of gels. In the analysis of excipients used in gel formulations, it was determined that their technology uses gelling agents, solvents, stabilizers, emulsifiers (such as o/w and w/о), pH regulators, solubilizers, preservatives, flavor and odor correctors
December - Year in Review
Creators: Kaveh Aflaki
Panos Moutis
Peter Wung
Mike Dood
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2021

Newsletter
An issue of the Smart Grid eNewsletter reviewing the activity of the past year featuring "Year in Review - Panel Program," "Reviewing the 2021 IEEE Smart Grid Publications Committee Activities," "Year in Review - Life Long Learning," "Year in Review - New Education Chair"
Field Equation of Correlation Function of Mass Density Fluctuation for Self-Gravitating Systems
Creators: name: Zhang, Yang
name: Chen, Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the mass density distribution of Newtonian self-gravitating systems. Modeling the system as a fluid in hydrostatical equilibrium, we obtain from first principle the field equation and its solution of correlation function $ξ(r)$ of the mass density fluctuation itself. We apply thid to studies of the large-scale structure of the Universe within a small redshift range. The equation tells that $ξ(r)$ depends on the point mass $m$ and the Jeans wavelength scale $λ_{0}$, which are different for galaxies and clusters. It explains several longstanding, prominent features of the observed clustering : that the profile of $ξ_{cc}(r)$ of clusters is similar to $ξ_{gg}(r)$ of galaxies but with a higher amplitude and a longer correlation length, and that the correlation length increases with the mean separation between clusters as a universal scaling $r_0\simeq 0.4d$. Our solution $ξ(r)$ also yields the observed power-law correlation function of galaxies $ξ_{gg}(r)\simeq (r_0/r)^{1.7}$ valid only in a range $1
description: 11 pages, 4 figures,. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1408.5237; text overlap with arXiv:2107.09425
CONNECTION OF NEWTON'S FORMULA FOR KINETIC ENERGY AND EINSTEIN FORULA
Creators: name: Parthentiev, N.
name: Partfenteva, N.
Publisher: name: Sciences of Europe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Force of inertia
relation of mass and energy
model of elementary particles.

description: Interaction of temporary states of the moving body is now an experimental fact. The patterns of this interaction are easily determined by the assumption that time is the imaginary coordinate. As a result, the force of inertia can be presented along with other forces as a form of interaction of time states. The result confirms the universality of Newton's third law. General expressions for the force of inertia for the case of equal accelerated movement and movement in circumference, leading to classical formulas in non-religious interval of velocities. Based on the resulting patterns, a model of elementary particle is proposed. The total energy of the particle is determined by Einstein's formula, which is the sum of equal shares of classical kinetic energy and energy of the moving charge. A model of an elementary particle has been built.
Diffusion versus absorption in semilinear parabolic equations
Creators: name: Shishkov, Andrey
name: Veron, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the limit, when $k\to\infty$, of the solutions $u=u_{k}$ of (E) $\prt_{t}u-Δu+ h(t)u^q=0$ in $\BBR^N\ti (0,\infty)$, $u_{k}(.,0)=kδ_{0}$, with $q>1$, $h(t)>0$. If $h(t)=e^{-\gw(t)/t}$ where $\gw>0$ satisfies to $\int_{0}^1\sqrt{\gw(t)}t^{-1}dt1$ and $\prt_{t}u-\Gd u+ h(t)e^{u}=0$.
$K$-selective percolation: A simple model leading to a rich repertoire of phase transitions
Creators: name: Kim, Jung-Ho
name: Goh, K. -I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose the $K$-selective percolation process as a model for the iterative removals of nodes with the specific intermediate degree in complex networks. In the model, a random node with degree $K$ is deactivated one by one until no more nodes with degree $K$ remain. The non-monotonic response of the giant component size on various synthetic and real-world networks implies a conclusion that a network can be more robust against such selective attack by removing further edges. In the theoretical perspective, the $K$-selective percolation process exhibits a rich repertoire of phase transitions, including double transitions of hybrid and continuous, as well as reentrant transitions. Notably, we observe a tricritical-like point on Erdős-Rényi networks. We also examine a discontinuous transition with unusual order parameter fluctuation and distribution on simple cubic lattices, which does not appear in other percolation models with cascade processes. Finally, we perform finite-size scaling analysis to obtain critical exponents on various transition points, including those exotic ones.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
DIAGNOSTIC OF INTERMITTENT RADIO EMISSION FROM PULSARS
Creators: name: Losovsky, B.
name: Losovsky, A.
Publisher: name: Sciences of Europe
Year: 2021
Subjects: pulsars
timing noise
glitches
magnetosphere
pulsar wind.

description: The following types of anomalous phenomena of radio emission from pulsars are considered: variations in residual deviations, changes in the pulse shape, switching on and off radio emission, period failures, changes in the measure of dispersion and scattering. Numerous data from observations of radio emission from pulsars, including observations of the pulsar in the Crab Nebula, indicate that they are all caused by processes occurring in the pulsar's magnetosphere. The considered phenomena do not require the involvement of a starquake model. A technique for probing active processes in the Crab Nebula by observing giant pulses and measuring their scattering is proposed and tested