To assess the potential of micromachined silicon sieve electrodes for long term recordings from single afferent sensory fibers, we implanted them between the cut ends of rat glossopharyngeal nerves which innervate taste and somatosensory receptors on the posterior tongue. After the implants had been in place for an average of 101 days nerve regeneration was measured using histological and elect...

The Shape Selectivity of Paraffin Hydroconversion on TON-, MTT-, and AEL-Type Sieves Th. L. M. Maesen,∗,‡,1 M. Schenk,† T. J. H. Vlugt,† J. P. de Jonge,‡ and B. Smit† ∗Zeolyst International, PQ R and D Center, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428-2240; †Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and ‡Shell Research and T...

Many classiication problems use image or other high-dimensional data, and must be designed from training data. The design and analysis of such systems param-eterized by unknown functions, based on a method of sieves to regularize the function estimates, is described. The test statistic is assumed to be the ideal test statistic with estimated functions substituted for the truth. The test statist...