In this article three well known singleelectron tunnelling (SET) circuits are discussed. Both measurement results and simulation results on the three SET circuits are shown. The simulation results were obtained using a SPICE model for a single SET junction. The experimental data from SET circuits is used for validation purposes of the SPICE model. The SPICE model performed good on all experimen...

Evidence indicates that sleep plays an important role in learning and memory, and disruption of sleep especially seems to interfere with hippocampal memory processes. Social transmission of food preference (STFP), a natural test of paired associative learning, has been shown to be dependent on the hippocampus. While social transmission of food preference is not a novel task, it has not been use...

This chapter presents an introduction to the area of accelerated transistorlevel (‘fast-SPICE’) simulation for automated verification and characterization of integrated circuits (ICs) from technologist’s perspective. It starts with outlining goals, expectations and typical usage models for fast-SPICE simulators, stressing how they differ from regular SPICE tools. It continues with presenting an...

In the last thirty years, there has been a dramatic growth in the trading of options, which are contracts between two parties giving one party the right but not the obligation to partake in a financial transaction with the other party at or before a specified date in the future. The majority of options involve the right to buy or sell an underlying asset at a prescribed price, known as the stri...

We study optimal hedging of barrier options using a combination of a static position in vanilla options and dynamic trading of the underlying asset. The problem reduces to computing the Fenchel-Legendre transform of the utility-indifference price as a function of the number of vanilla options used to hedge. Using the well-known duality between exponential utility and relative entropy, we provid...

Copyright: 2014 The PLOS ONE Staff. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Figure 3. Topics learnxled by Red-LDA (top) and Vanilla LDA (bottom) on the EHR corpus. Both topics are about breast cancer (...

We consider the calibration of a Lévy process with American vanilla options. The price of an American vanilla option as a function of the maturity and the strike satisfies a forward in time linear complementarity problem involving a partial integro-differential operator. It leads to a variational inequality in a suitable weighted Sobolev space. Calibrating the Lévy process amounts to solving an...

The SPICE project aims to deliver an international standard for software process assessment by the end of 1996. As part of this project there is an empirical trials phase whose purpose is to ascertain the effectiveness of the prospective SPICE standard. Two of the objectives of the trials phase are: (a) to determine the extent to which SPICEconformant assessments are repeatable (i.e., reliabili...

SPICE (SParse Iterative Covariance-based Estimation) is a recently introduced method for sparse-parameter estimation in linear models using a robust covariance fitting criterion that does not depend on any hyperparameters. In this paper we revisit the derivation of SPICE to streamline it and to provide further insights into this method. LIKES (LIKelihood-based Estimation of Sparse parameters) i...