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Des vues de Spinoza (2001)

Ce livre met au jour et analyse certaines implications formelles de la philosophie de Spinoza créatrices de difficultés d’interprétation. Il s’agit, en premier lieu, de l’établissement par le système lui-même d’une relation nécessaire entre des ensembles de thèses disjoints qui aboutit à ce que l’un de ces ensembles impose à un ou plusieurs autres des orientations ou des caractéristiques problématiques voire aporétiques ; en second lieu, toujours à propos de ce qui ressort d’implications formelles aux conséquences incertaines, des relations qui interviennent entre des ensembles de thèses et des figures. Les figures sont des représentations de choses ou d’états de chose – de l’eau, du sang, une chandelle et sa flamme – auxquelles Spinoza attribue la fonction d’appuyer un argument précis. Leur singularité tient à ce qu’elles prolongent ou accompagnent l’enchaînement de propositions philosophiques qui n’ont pas un rapport immédiatement évident ou explicite avec leur fonction première. Une figure nous renseigne sur autre chose que son objet premier et, par conséquent, ou bien éclaire d’un jour neuf des arguments théoriques auxquelles elle était liée de manière inapparente, ou bien nous oriente vers des confins où le système se perd certes un peu, mais, au moins autant, rencontre les conditions de son extension à des expériences ou à des manières d’être imprévues et, à bien des égards, surprenantes. Dans son enquête, l’auteur examine quelles formes peut prendre la constitution d’une linguistique spinoziste à même de rendre possible l’expression par la langue de ce qui est de l’ordre de la Pensée ; quels sont les tenants et aboutissants d’une interprétation des Lemmes de l’Éthique II ; enfin, quels longs cheminements conduisent du thème de la suppression de l’extériorité – condition pour un être quelconque d’une existence d’une durée illimitée – au thème de la complète altérité des natures respectives de celui qui vénère et de celui qui est l’objet de cette vénération – condition d’un sentiment d’amour extatique voire sacré.
Actin nucleation at the centrosome controls lymphocyte polarity (2016)

Cell polarity is required for the functional specialization of many cell types including lymphocytes. A hallmark of cell polarity is the reorientation of the centrosome that allows repositioning of organelles and vesicles in an asymmetric fashion. The mechanisms underlying centrosome polarization are not fully understood. Here we found that in resting lymphocytes, centrosome-associated Arp2/3 locally nucleates F-actin, which is needed for centrosome tethering to the nucleus via the LINC complex. Upon lymphocyte activation, Arp2/3 is partially depleted from the centrosome as a result of its recruitment to the immune synapse. This leads to a reduction in F-actin nucleation at the centrosome and thereby allows its detachment from the nucleus and polarization to the synapse. Therefore, F-actin nucleation at the centrosome--regulated by the availability of the Arp2/3 complex--determines its capacity to polarize in response to external stimuli.
Interpretation of Hydraulic Fracture Mapping Experiments (1994)

Abstract Simple mechanical models of the response of a reservoir to hydraulic fracturing have been developed in order to interpret the response of microseismic and downhole-tilmeter diagnostic systems and determine the important reservoir and treatment parameters that influence the response. For microseisms, results of this study can be used to delineate the width of the seismically active zone and possibly distinguish different types of signals. For downhole tiltmeters, the results can be used to interpret the measured tilt response and provide information on height growth, closure pressure and proppant placement.
Polyclonal enzyme immunoassay method for detection of motile and non-motile Salmonella in foods: comparative study. (1993)

A new enzyme immunoassay (EIA) method for detection of motile and non-motile Salmonella was examined in a comparative study. This method uses a proprietary formulation of polyclonal antibodies to Salmonella and is controlled to maintain specificity. Sensitivity is enhanced with an additional antibody reaction designed to minimize false-negative reactions attributable to steric interference that can occur during conjugate binding in immunoassay procedures. Twenty food types representative of a wide variety of food products were analyzed by both the EIA method and the AOAC/Bacteriological Analytical Manual (BAM) method, 967.26. Of the 1000 samples analyzed, there was a 95.6% agreement rate between the EIA method and the AOAC/BAM method. False-negative rates for the 2 methods were comparable for all foods and all Salmonella levels except ground poultry, where the EIA method detected significantly more confirmed positive samples than did the AOAC/BAM method. Twenty-seven samples were positive by EIA but negative by the culture method, and 17 samples were negative by EIA but positive by the culture method. There were no false-positive isolates detected in the comparative study.
Registration of Lung CT Images Using B-spline Based Free-Form Deformation (2018)

Image registration of lung CT images plays a crucial role in estimating lung motion that is of great significance in image guided radiation therapy. However, the respiratory-induced deformation makes registration of lung CT images rather difficult and challenging. In this study, we present a deformable image registration framework in which the B-spline method is taken for transformation of registration and the compressible flow theory with L <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> norm of displacement vectors is used for similarity measure. Results show that our method obtains more accurate registration of lung CT images than the often used SSD, CC and some other state-of-the-art methods.
Organic LED full‐color passive‐matrix display (1999)

Abstract— A full‐color 5.2‐inch 1/4‐VGA passive‐matrix organic LED display has been developed, adopting selective deposition for the different emitting materials. The display features 320 (×3) × 240 pixels with an equivalent pixel size of 0.33 × 0.33 mm, white peak luminance of over 150 cd/m 2 , and power consumption of 6 W.
Development of the CU-HTK 2004 Broadcast News Transcription Systems (2006)

The paper describes our recent work on improving broadcast news transcription and presents details of the CU-HTK broadcast news English (BN-E) transcription system for the DARPA/NIST rich transcription 2004 speech-to-text (RT04) evaluation. A key focus has been building a system using an order of magnitude more acoustic training data than we have previously attempted. We have also investigated a range of techniques to improve both minimum phone error (MPE) training and the efficient creation of MPE-based narrow-band models. The paper describes two alternative system structures that run in under 10/spl times/RT and a further system that runs in less than 1/spl times/RT. This final system gives lower word error rates than our 2003 system that ran in 10/spl times/RT.
Loss of Canonical Insulin Signaling Accelerates Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation and Migration Through Changes in p27Kip1 Regulation (2010)

Insulin resistance is associated with an accelerated rate of atherosclerosis. Vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) migration and proliferation are important components of atherosclerosis. To elucidate the effects of the loss of normal insulin receptor (IR) signaling on VSMC function, we compared the proliferation and migration of murine VSMCs lacking the IR (L2-VSMCs) with wild type (WT-VSMCs). We also examined changes in the response of L2-VSMCs to insulin stimulation and to inhibition of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), a kinase critical in VSMC proliferation and migration. The L2-VSMCs exhibit greater proliferation and migration rates compared with WT-VSMCs. L2-VSMCs also exhibit a resistance to the effects of rapamycin, an mTOR inhibitor, on proliferation, migration, and cell cycle progression. The resistance to mTOR inhibition is coupled with a loss of effect on the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27(Kip1), an inhibitor of cell cycle progression and VSMC migration. In response to stimulation with physiological insulin, the L2-VSMCs exhibit a loss of Akt phosphorylation and a significantly increased activation of the ERK-1/2 compared with WT-VSMCs. Insulin stimulation also decreased p27(Kip1) mRNA in L2-VSMCs but not in WT-VSMCs. The effect of insulin on p27(Kip1) mRNA was blocked by pretreatment with an ERK-1/2 pathway inhibitor. We conclude that loss of canonical insulin signaling results in increased ERK-1/2 activation in response to physiological insulin that decreases p27(Kip1) mRNA. These data demonstrate a potential mechanism where changes in IR signaling could lead to a decrease in p27(Kip1), accelerating VSMC proliferation and migration.
KVM/ARM: Experiences Building the Linux ARM Hypervisor (2013)

As ARM CPUs become increasingly common in mobile devices and servers, there is a growing demand for providing the benefits of virtualization for ARMbased devices. We present our experiences building the Linux ARM hypervisor, KVM/ARM, the first full system ARM virtualization solution that can run unmodified guest operating systems on ARM multicore hardware. KVM/ARM introduces split-mode virtualization, allowing a hypervisor to split its execution across CPU modes to take advantage of CPU mode-specific features. This allows KVM/ARM to leverage Linux kernel services and functionality to simplify hypervisor development and maintainability while utilizing recent ARM hardware virtualization extensions to run application workloads in guest operating systems with comparable performance to native execution. KVM/ARM has been successfully merged into the mainline Linux 3.9 kernel, ensuring that it will gain wide adoption as the virtualization platform of choice for ARM. We provide the first measurements on real hardware of a complete hypervisor using ARM hardware virtualization support. Our results demonstrate that KVM/ARM has modest virtualization performance and power costs, and can achieve lower performance and power costs compared to x86-based Linux virtualization on multicore hardware.
Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (2018)

This book focuses on heat and mass transfer, fluid flow, chemical reaction, and other related processes that occur in engineering equipment, the natural environment, and living organisms. Using simple algebra and elementary calculus, the author develops numerical methods for predicting these processes mainly based on physical considerations. Through this approach, readers will develop a deeper understanding of the underlying physical aspects of heat transfer and fluid flow as well as improve their ability to analyze and interpret computed results.
Associations of Genetic Variants in ATP-Binding Cassette A1 and Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein and Differences in Lipoprotein Subclasses in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (2009)

Our study of the influence of ABCA1 and CETP genetic variants on lipoprotein subclasses demonstrates the importance of interpreting lipoprotein subclasses within the context of the biochemical processes involved in the alterations. In the case of HDL, the study of subclass particle numbers and sizes may not be sufficiently informative. Assays for HDL function may be needed to supplement quantification of HDL cholesterol and HDL particle numbers and sizes.
The MAC - A miniature atomic clock (2006)

The authors are developing a chip-scale atomic clock (CSAC), more than two orders of magnitude smaller and lower power than any existing technology. As an intermediate milestone, en route to the ultimate CSAC objectives, we have developed a miniature atomic clock (MAC), combining the low-power CSAC physics package with a low-parts count, low-power digital control and microwave system. The MAC is a complete packaged atomic clock, with overall size of 10 cm/sup 3/, power consumption >200 mW, and short-term stability /spl sigma//sub y/(/spl tau/)/spl sim/4/spl times/10/sup -10//spl tau//sup - 1/2 /. The MAC provides a valuable testbed for the further development and refinement of the CSAC physics package as well as for the development of the CSAC control electronics prior to undertaking the costly and time-consuming size-reduction effort which will be necessary to meet the ultimate CSAC objectives. The MAC itself may find applications in commercial and military timing systems which require the relatively small size and power consumption of the MAC now, rather than wait for the evolution of the 1 cm/sup 3/, 30 mW CSAC.
Moiré alignment technique for the mix and match lithographic system (1988)

This paper represents theoretical and experimental results using the moiré alignment technique to projection photolithography, as part of the mix and match lithographic system to go with the proximity x-ray lithography. Such a system is advantageous because the same alignment marks on the wafer are used both for photo- and x-ray lithography. The moiré signals are detected at the reverse image point of reflected beams from the moiré interference field between the wafer marks and the projection image of reticle marks through a reduction lens on the wafer marks. The basic experimental values agreed with theoretical results calculated from a grating pitch of 4 μm on the wafer. This paper also represents an alignment method which permits both fine and rough alignment simultaneously by using single alignment optical system eventually giving a wide alignment zone. These moiré alignment techniques were applied to an actual step-and-repeat photolithographic system, resulting in outstanding precision.
Aggregation Dynamics of Active Rotating Particles in Dense Passive Media (2017)

Active matter systems are able to exhibit emergent non-equilibrium states due to activity-induced effective interactions between the active particles. Here we study the aggregation and dynamical behavior of active rotating particles, spinners, embedded in 2D passive colloidal monolayers, which constitutes one such non-equilibrium process. Using both experiments and simulations we observe aggregation of active particles or spinners whose behavior resembles classical 2D coarsening. The aggregation behavior and spinner attraction depends on the mechanical properties of the passive monolayer and the activity of spinners. Spinner aggregation only occurs when the passive monolayer behaves elastically and when the spinner activity exceeds a minimum activity threshold. Interestingly for the spinner concentrations investigated here, the spinner concentration doesn't seem to change the dynamics of the aggregation behavior. There is also a characteristic cluster size at which the dynamics of spinner aggregation is maximized as drag through the passive monolayer is minimized and the stress applied on the passive medium is maximized. We also show that a ternary mixture of passive particles, co-rotating, and counter-rotating spinners also aggregates into clusters of co and counter-rotating spinners respectively.
The impact of visual appearance on user response in online display advertising (2012)

Display advertising has been a significant source of revenue for publishers and ad networks in the online advertising ecosystem. One of the main goals in display advertising is to maximize user response rate for advertising campaigns, such as click through rates (CTR) or conversion rates. Although %in the online advertising industry we believe that the visual appearance of ads (creatives) matters for propensity of user response, there is no published work so far to address this topic via a systematic data-driven approach. In this paper we quantitatively study the relationship between the visual appearance and performance of creatives using large scale data in the world's largest display ads exchange system, RightMedia. We designed a set of 43 visual features, some of which are novel and some are inspired by related work. We extracted these features from real creatives served on RightMedia. Then, we present recommendations of visual features that have the most important impact on CTR to the professional designers in order to optimize their creative design. We believe that the findings presented in this paper will be very useful for the online advertising industry in designing high-performance creatives. We have also designed and conducted an experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of visual features by themselves for CTR prediction.
Anesthesia and the developing brain (2011)

Although clinical importance remains to be substantiated, results to date do indicate that exposure of animals to general anesthesia during active synaptogenesis is most detrimental. Accordingly, it is essential to determine when synaptogenesis begins and ends in developing humans. It is also imperative that effective preventive techniques be developed so that existing anesthetics can be used with minimum risk of neurotoxic side-effects of anesthesia.
Microvascular Integrity and the Time Course of Myocardial Sodium Accumulation After Acute Infarction (2000)

Loss of membrane permeability caused by ischemia leads to cellular sodium accumulation and myocardial edema. This phenomenon has important implications to left ventricular structure and function in the first hours after myocardial infarction. We hypothesized that during this period of time, after prolonged coronary occlusion and complete reflow, the rate of myocardial sodium accumulation is governed by microvascular integrity. We used 3-dimensional (23)Na MRI to monitor myocardial sodium content changes over time in an in vivo closed-chest canine model (n=13) of myocardial infarction and reperfusion. Infarcts with microvascular obstruction (MO) defined by both radioactive microspheres and contrast-enhanced (1)H MRI showed a slower rate of sodium accumulation as well as lower blood flow at 20 minutes and 6 hours after reperfusion. Conversely, the absence of MO was associated with faster rates of sodium accumulation and greater blood flow restoration. In addition, infarct size by (23)Na MRI correlated best with infarct size by triphenyltetrazolium chloride and contrast-enhanced (1)H MRI at 9 hours after reperfusion. We conclude that in reperfused myocardial infarction, sodium accumulation is dependent on microvascular integrity and is slower in regions of MO compared with those with patent microvasculature. Finally, (23)Na MRI can be a useful tool for monitoring in vivo myocardial sodium content in acute myocardial infarction.
Preparation of Highly-Oriented Co2MnSi Films on a Non-Single-Crystalline Substrate Using a Titanium–Nitride Buffer Layer (2011)

Highly-oriented titanium–nitride films were prepared on a non-single-crystalline substrate as a buffer layer of a Co 2 MnSi film. Co 2 MnSi films prepared on the titanium–nitride buffer layer showed a high (001)-orientation and at least a B2-ordered phase even for room temperature preparation. The magnetization curve of the Co 2 MnSi film annealed at 600 °C showed an extremely low coercivity of 1.4 Oe in addition to a high saturation magnetization, which indicated no interdiffusion between a Co 2 MnSi layer and a buffer layer. These results indicate that titanium nitride is a potential material for applications based on Co 2 MnSi.
Gain Bandwidth Engineering in Polymer Blends for Full‐Color‐Tunable Lasers (2022)

Adv. Optical Mater. 2022, 10, 2102472 DOI: 10.1002/adom.202102472 In article number 2102472, published in Volume 10, Issue 7 (April 4, 2022) of Advanced Optical Materials, the assignment of corresponding authors was incomplete. In addition to Kok Wai Cheah, the following author needs to be indicated as corresponding author, too: Gui-Chuan Xing (e-mail: gcxing@um.edu.mo). The complete affiliations part of the article reads as follows: Y. Jiang, K. F. Li, H. L. Tam, K. W. Cheah Department of Physics and Institute of Advanced Materials Hong Kong Baptist University Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, China E-mail: kwcheah@hkbu.edu.hk Q. Wei, G.-C. Xing Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering University of Macau Macao SAR 999078, China E-mail: gcxing@um.edu.mo K. F. Li, M. Jin, G. Li Department of Materials Science and Engineering Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen 518055, China
Dirichlet based Bayesian multivariate receptor modeling (2007)

Abstract We propose a simple, fully Bayesian approach for multivariate receptor modeling that allows for flexible and consistent incorporation of a priori information. The model uses a generalization of the Dirichlet distribution as the prior distribution on source profiles that allows great flexibility in the specification of prior information. Heavy‐tailed lognormal distributions are used as priors on source contributions to match the nature of particulate concentrations. A simulation study based on the Washington, DC airshed shows that the model compares favorably to Positive Matrix Factorization, a standard analysis approach used for pollution source apportionment. A significant advantage of the proposed approach compared to most popularly used methods is that the Bayesian framework yields complete distributional results for each parameter of interest (including distributions for each element of the source profile and source contribution matrices). These distributions offer a great deal of power and versatility when addressing complex questions of interest to the researcher. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.
A sign-bit auto-correlation architecture for fractional frequency offset estimation in OFDM (2010)

This paper presents an architecture of an autocorrelator for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing systems. The received signal is quantized to only the sign-bit, which dramatically simplifies the frequency offset estimation. Hardware cost is reduced under the assumption that synchronization during acquisition does not have to be very accurate, but sufficient for coarse estimation. The architecture is synthesized towards a 65nm low-leakage high threshold standard cell CMOS library. The proposed architecture results in area reduction of 93% if compared to typical 8-bit implementation. The area occupied by the architecture is 0.063 mm2. The architecture is evaluated for WLAN, LTE and DVB-H. Power simulations for DVB-H transmission shows a power consumption of 4.8µW per symbol.