... technique and more importantly, its application to a low power andhigh speed flash ADC design 21 Chapter A Background Comparator Offset Calibration Technique Chapter A Background Comparator Offset Calibration ... revealing the ongoing trend in this aspect 2.1 Conventional Flash ADC A conventional flash ADC (figure 2.1) has a track and hold (T&H) frontend, a comparator array anda digital decoder that converts ... ADC designs *Calculated based on data given in paper 2.3 Flash ADC Designs with Calibration Techniques Rather than averaging and interpolating to reduce the comparator offset, another possible...
... fast on forest preservation and climate change are starting to look at bilateral deals whereby public funds can catalyse a sustainable development path and leverage ... performance A direct approachthat pays for delivery of forest preservation ex post around how to bring thatapproach to scale and how to make forest preservation sustained ... natural capital These state- level initiatives provide lessons and models upon which national and international policymakers can build The State of Acre in Brazil is a...
... reliability Local reliability of both spatial and temporal features is estimated using the local spatial gradient The estimation is based on the observation that the considered spatial features are more ... visual data representation of Section is generic and can deal with static as well as moving cameras, in the implementation of Section 3, we have assumed that the camera is fixed This scenario is valid ... dynamic layer representations,” IEEE Trans on Pattern Analysisand Machine Intelligence, vol 24, no 1, pp 75–89, 2002 [7] C Kim and J.-N Hwang, “Fast and automatic video object segmentation and...
... SYSTEMS (GIS) A GIS consists of computer hardware and software, data on locations and attributes, and data about the data—or metadata Rapid advances in computer hardware and software have vastly improved ... greater mapping accuracy & Changes in the database are immediately reflected in digital maps & Spatial analysis Digital spatial data are available in two forms: raster or vector Raster data are grid-cell ... impacts vary widely and affect a broad array of natural and cultural resources (Sanford and Farley, 2004) On-site impacts may diminish visual quality and reduce habitat for native vegetation and...
... Commercial Aviation Safety Team, the Aviation Safety Information Analysisand Sharing (ASIAS) executive board, the FAA Research, Engineering and Development Advisory Committee (REDAC), and the National ... Handbook of Human-Machine Interaction study a wide range of problems in the aviation domain such as handling qualities, display and control system designand analysis, and simulator designand ... physiological and safety impact of shift work and jet lag in aviation This work received a NASA Group Achievement Award in 1993 In 1998 she was awarded a BP International Chairman’s Award for Health, Safety,...
... in an attempt to identify correlations between individual ratios and financial distress using a univariate analysisapproach contemporary suggested that correlation that several laid the foundation ... Traditional Financial Ratio Analysis Ratio Analysis as a Predictor of Bankruptcy Weaknesses of Accrual-Based Ratios Growth Rates and Insolvency Analyzing the Statement of Cash Flows Capital Structure ... data is static and measures only a single point in time Income statement data includes many arbitrary non-cash allocations such as depreciation and amortizations Jang, 2004) required Capital asset...
... Palaiseau, Unie versitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Universitat de les Illes of Balears, Palma, and University of California at Los Angeles It is also being taught by Andr` s Almansa e at the Facultad ... grouping laws stated above work from local to global They are of mathematical nature, but must actually be split into more specific grouping laws to receive a mathematical and computational treatment: ... Paris-Dauphine (Ceremade) andat the Centre de Math´ matiques et Leurs Applicae tions, ENS Cachan and CNRS It was partially financed during the past years by the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales,...
... combining beamforming with monaural CASA into a novel approach called CASAEnhanced Beamforming (CASA-EB) The main reason for using beamforming rather than binaural CASA as the location-attribute ... is a mathematically derived approach Beamforming uses spatially sampled data from an array of two or more sensors to estimate arrival angles and waveforms of “dominant” signals in the wavefield ... from a statistics shareware package called R [41, 42] (R is a reimplementation of S [43, 44] using Scheme semantics S is a very highlevel language and an environment for data analysisand graphics...
... mathematical modeling andanalysis of biological systems and data (genomics, proteomics, DNA microarray, gene expression, gene regulatory networks, and computational biology.) He did work as an ... redundancy and gain in computational time, we need a strategy that prevents the algorithm from identifying a bicluster more than once The strategy should take into account the fact thata row ... proposed biclustering algorithm in Matlab and tested it on the yeast gene microarray data that can be found at [15] The data consists of 2884 genes and 17 conditions We have obtained the following...
... last larval instar, variation in the mechanisms that control growth and size in the last larval instar will have a greater effect on final body size than variation in the mechanisms that operate ... of peak weight of larvae of four different genetic strains of Manduca that differ in their growth parameters ‘Empirical data’ are from Table Bars are standard deviations (with standard deviations ... strain of Manduca), followed by a decreasing growth rate above that weight We assume that the integument poses an increasing resistance to growth as the larva increases in size, andthat this accounts...
... Interpersonal Values associated with directed pathways are standardized path coefficients; values over the double-arrowed arches are correlations; asterisks indicate statistical significance at *p < ... this analysis can be found in Table The majority of patients were male with an average age of approximately 39 years of age The average age of onset of the disease was approximately 23.1 years ... instrumental, intrapsychic, and interpersonal, at baseline and following 24 weeks of antipsychotic drug treatment in patients with schizophrenia We used a path analytic approach to evaluate both...
... the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (IGH / ICRH), the Canadian Lung Association, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Authors' contributions All authors have made substantial intellectual ... indicate that smoking may also have a greater (negative) impact on lung growth in female than male youngsters Gold et al [31] found that among adolescents, smoking five or more cigarettes a day, as ... is at the heart of the pathobiology of COPD andthat the inflammatory process involves both the lung (airways and parenchyma) and the systemic circulation [32-34] The intensity of the inflammatory...
... motivation in language learning, demotivation, demotivating factors, previous studies and demotivation and ULSA 1.1 Motivation Among various factors that affect teaching and learning a foreign language ... motivated They also participate willingly, actively and pay more attention to a certain learning task or activity and gain more success andhigh marks Gardner (1985) stated that positive attitude ... study, participants and setting of the study, data collection instruments, data collection procedure, and data analysis procedure Chapter presents data analysisand discussion This chapter analyses,...
... large basin of attraction [63] in the strategy space is more realistic and pragmatic than mapping optimal ones that have low chances of adoption The analysis of strategies should suffice as a ... entity that is participating in the strategic interaction, has a nontrivial set of strategies (more than one) and selects among possible strategies based on payoffs Strategy: A complete plan that ... 95 4.7 (a) AGS and (b) ACR for MA, GA and ILS when each plays with TFT, ALLD and ALLC over 20 runs 99 4.8 Strategy specific AGS and ACR for MA, GA and ILS as each plays with (a) itself,...
... Common Market Bahrain Kuwait Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates Argentina Brazil Paraguay Uruguay MSG NAFTA SAPTA Melanesian Spearhead Group Fiji Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Vanuatu ... Namibia Rwanda Seychelles Sudan Swaziland Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe East African Cooperation Kenya Tanzania Uganda Eurasian Economic Community Belarus Kazakhstan Kyrgyz Republic Russian Federation Tajikistan ... Participating Countries AFTA ASEAN Free Trade Area Brunei Darussalam Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam BAFTA CEFTA Baltic Free-Trade Area Central...
... “such as greater control and coordination over administration, a higher level of governmental responsiveness, and fewer communication problems (25) The lack of natural disasters anda favourable ... 3) availability of 4) quality and 5) affordable housing 6) ata good location, 7) absence of corruption, 8) fair compensation, 9) a measured approach to eviction, 10) social and cultural factors, ... Singapore” (Quah, 1975: 1) Singapore was made a member of the United Nations Committee on Building, Housing and Planning in January 1967, a remarkable feat considering that Singapore was a small...
... (Specify pages 11–15) Print Format: Landscape Page Size: Fit to Page Save Presentation format or Paper-saver format Back | Paper-saver format DesignTalk2 Powerful Cover CD Calendar Business card ... get a photo that doesn’t have a natural place for text? Or it’s atand needs some depth? Or it doesn’t fill the space? Try this Copy a part, scale it up, and carefully blend it in, creating a natural ... Design Talk Five Design Ideas Layout The power of a focal point After ZION • BRYCE • CAPITOL REEF • ARCHES • CANYON LANDS UTAH’s National Parks Hiking, Camping, and Vacationing in Utah’s Canyon...
... following situations in a herd (e.g scoring a cow and initiating a metritis treatment), would you please elaborate on that specific situation?' Data Analysis The qualitative analysis is based on a phenomenographic ... motivation The model shows that veterinarians work on the cow, farm or population level They generate data between the cow level (scoring and treating metritis) and the population level (data analysis) , ... recording data on metritis' that relate to the quality of the data that are produced We analyse and build 'a model of understanding' based on DBL's observations and the individual veterinarians' perceptions...
... decontamination in composting oily waste, Ecotoxicol Environ Saf., 47, 156-166 Liu R., Kameya T., Sawai Aand Urano K (2007) Application of a larval medaka assay to evaluate the fish safety level ... sampling sites (Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) Preparation of Samples for Analysis All water samples were filtrated using a μm glass fiber filter, and then concentrated by solid-phase extraction (SPE) ... inhibition ratio for algae, immobilization ratio for daphnia, and mortality ratio for fish) of river water samples are shown in Fig (a) , (b), and (c) respectively In total, 149 data were obtained from...