Chronically implanted electrode arrays have enabled a broad range of advances, particularly in the field of neural prosthetics. Those successes motivate development of prototype implantable prosthetic processors for l...
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As a group, we will explore issues related to the fact that engineering and computerscience is still very much a male dominated profession. We will explore these issues through a process of reflection and challenge. ...
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As a group, we will explore issues related to the fact that engineering and computerscience is still very much a male dominated profession. We will explore these issues through a process of reflection and challenge. An interactive format will be utilized with attendees assigned to smaller discussion groups each led by a facilitator. Facilitators will be both female and male. A series of open-ended questions will serve as the starting point for the discussions with each group then asked to report back to the entire session as a whole
On-going improvements in the scaling of FPGA device sizes and time-to-market pressures encourage the use of module-oriented design flows [3], while economic factors favour the reuse of smaller devices for high perform...
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On-going improvements in the scaling of FPGA device sizes and time-to-market pressures encourage the use of module-oriented design flows [3], while economic factors favour the reuse of smaller devices for high performance computational tasks. One of the core problems in proposing dynamic modular reconfiguration approaches is supporting the differing communications needs of the sequence of modules configured over time [2]. Proposals to date have not focussed on communications issues. Moreover, they have advocated the use of specific protocols [4], or they cannot be readily implemented [1], or they suffer from high overheads [5], or rely upon deprecated features such as tri-state lines [7]. In contrast, we propose a methodology for the rapid deployment of a communications infrastructure that provides the wires required by dynamic modules and allows users to implement the protocols they want. Our aim is to support new tiled dynamically reconfigurable architectures such as Virtex-4, as well as mature device families.
This article presents the application of meta-learning evolutionary artificial neural network (MLEANN) for a pharmaceutical research problem. Designing drugs is a current problem in the pharmaceutical research domain....
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This article presents the application of meta-learning evolutionary artificial neural network (MLEANN) for a pharmaceutical research problem. Designing drugs is a current problem in the pharmaceutical research domain. By designing a drug we mean to choose some variables of drug formulation (inputs), for obtaining optimal characteristics of drug (outputs). To solve such a problem we propose an evolutionary artificial neural network and the performance is compared with a neuro-fuzzy system and an artificial neural network trained using scaled conjugate gradient algorithm. This research used the experimental data obtained from the Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Techniques of the Faculty of Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Bootstrap techniques were used to generate more samples of data and the number of experimental data is reduced due to the costs and time durations of experimentations. We obtain in this way a better estimation of some drug parameters. Experiment results indicate that the proposed method is efficient
Artificial neural networks can be trained to predict outcomes in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). This paper expands on past research and shows that neural networks trained by the maximum likelihood estimation c...
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The work function of a material is a very important figure of merit in determining the material's applicability as an efficient electron emitter. Consequently, the work function of a variety of materials utilized ...
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The work function of a material is a very important figure of merit in determining the material's applicability as an efficient electron emitter. Consequently, the work function of a variety of materials utilized in both thermionic and field-assisted cathodes for electron emission was investigated computationally using ab-initio quantum mechanical modeling methods based on the density functional theory (DFT) approach (Hohenberg and Kohm, 1964). This approach enables the detailed and self-consistent treatment of a system utilizing quantum mechanical principles and yields accurate information pertaining to its electronic properties. Of particular interest are cesium-iodide (CsI) coated carbon-based cathodes (Shiffler et al., 2004), which comprise a very promising class of cold field emitters capable of operating at low global electric fields. However, the exact origin of their enhanced emission properties is not clear, and a better understanding is necessary for further improvement and optimization of this technology. We apply ab-initio quantum mechanical modeling for understanding the origin of the fundamental emission mechanisms of this material system
Diamond ultramicroelectrode arrays (D-UMEAs) have been fabricated and evaluated experimentally for chemical sensing. D-UMEAs were found to demonstrate higher current density per unit active area than planar diamond ma...
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Diamond ultramicroelectrode arrays (D-UMEAs) have been fabricated and evaluated experimentally for chemical sensing. D-UMEAs were found to demonstrate higher current density per unit active area than planar diamond macroelectrode and glassy carbon electrode. D-UMEAs could address new operating envelopes in electrochemical detection, and provide stable sensor electrodes for bio and extreme environments.
We have studied the temperature behavior of the electrical resistivities ρ(T) in a series of tin‐doped indium‐oxide films with different residual resistivities ρ0 varying from 218 to 568 μΩ cm. We found that the...
We have studied the temperature behavior of the electrical resistivities ρ(T) in a series of tin‐doped indium‐oxide films with different residual resistivities ρ0 varying from 218 to 568 μΩ cm. We found that the temperature dependence of ρ can be well described by the Bloch‐Grüneisen law from 300 K down to about 100 K. In particular, we observed that the strength of the electron‐phonon coupling, βBG (which characterizes a prefactor in the Bloch‐Grüneisen formula) increases linearly with increasing ρ0. This result is not understood in terms of current theoretical concept for electron‐phonon interaction in metals.
High-throughput generation of new types of relational biological datasets is creating a demand for network-based signal processing and pattern recognition to provide new insights. Such networks are often too large to ...
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High-throughput generation of new types of relational biological datasets is creating a demand for network-based signal processing and pattern recognition to provide new insights. Such networks are often too large to interpret visually and too complicated to be explained solely based on local topological properties. Just as signal processing and statistical techniques have been used in traditional, sequential-based biological datasets, so too are methodologies needed to automatically discern patterns in the huge, emerging networks. One way to do this is by transforming these very large networks into discernable epitomes, or abstracts, of the original networks. This work presents an approach for doing this via topological compression. Through capturing nodes' global topologies and subsequent compression, a new network epitome can be derived. Here, this is done with an E. Coli gene regulation network, resulting in biological findings that could not be derived from the local topology of the original network.
In this paper, we investigate the properties of lethal genes in E. coli, our model organism. Topological analysis of networks of functional interactions among genes has shown that lethal genes share common local conne...
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In this paper, we investigate the properties of lethal genes in E. coli, our model organism. Topological analysis of networks of functional interactions among genes has shown that lethal genes share common local connectivity properties. In this paper, we analyze cellular networks across three domains. We show that a stochastic global topological analysis, via random walks, is more effective at predicting gene lethality than simply looking at local topology using the standard hub-based method. We also introduce the possibility of using metabolic pathways to understand lethal genes, as regulating these pathways is among one of the most important functions of the gene-encoded proteins. Additionally, we analyze lethal genes in terms of the Gene Ontology (GO) and find that the graph forms two highly connected clusters that are each GO enriched for specific terms. We also find that lethal metabolic regulators are extremely enriched. Finally, we provide applications of the work and avenues for future research.
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