Cognitive control is the process of employing executive functions, such as attention, planning or working memory, to guide appropriate behaviors in order to achieve a specific goal. Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies suggest a superordinate cognitive control network, comprising the dorsal regions of the lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and parietal ...

Abstract A new high-speed and low-power threshold detector is proposed to realize high-performance arithmetic VLSI systems. In a conventional threshold detector with a single supply voltage, the input signal swing of a differential-pair circuit (DPC) is too large, which causes large power dissipation together with a long switching delay. The use of two kinds of supply voltages makes the input s...

We introduce the notion of implicit predictors, which characterize input-(state)-output prediction behavior underlying a predictive control scheme, even if it is not explicitly enforced as an equality constraint (as in traditional model or subspace control). To demonstrate this concept, we derive and analyze predictors for some basic data-driven (DPC) schemes, offers new perspective on popular ...

Preeclampsia is characterized by reduced placental perfusion with placental ischemia and hypertension during pregnancy. Preeclamptic women also exhibit a heightened inflammatory state and greater number of neutrophils in the vasculature compared to normal pregnancy. Since neutrophils are associated with tissue injury and inflammation, we hypothesized that neutrophils are critical to placental i...

Understanding the atomic-scale structure of surfaces and interfaces is essential to control the functional properties of many materials and devices. Recent advances in aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) have made possible the direct characterization of localized atomic structure in ceramic materials, especially grain boundaries and heterointerfaces. In STEM, a...