AUTO-CALIBRATION has been used in monolithic ADCs to extend the limits of accuracy and stability imposed bl processing, packaging, temperature, and aging’.’. This paper describes a self-calibrating. 18-bit. serial-output. lOOksps ADC which is implemented on two chips: a ?BV BiCMOS analog chip, and a 5V 2@ CMOS digital chip. This partitioning allows a larger input signal for better dynamic range...

Birch and Tverberg partitions are closely related concepts from discrete geometry. We show two properties for the number of Birch partitions: Evenness, and a lower bound. This implies the first non-trivial lower bound for the number of Tverberg partitions that holds for arbitrary q, where q is the number of partition blocks. The proofs are based on direct arguments, and do not use the equivaria...

If a1, a2, . . . , ak and n are positive integers such that n = a1+a2+· · ·+ak, then the sum a1 + a2 + · · ·+ ak is said to be a partition of n of length k, and a1, a2, . . . , ak are said to be the parts of the partition. Two partitions that differ only in the order of their parts are considered to be the same partition. Let Pn be the set of partitions of n, and let Pn,k be the set of partitio...

In 2009, Blagojević, Matschke & Ziegler established the first tight colored Tverberg theorem. We develop a colored version of our previous results (2008): Evenness and non-trivial lower bounds for the number of colored Tverberg partitions. Both properties follow from similar results on the number of colored Birch partitions.

We have used first principles methods to calculate the partitioning of water between perovskite and ringwoodite under lower mantle and Fe-free conditions. We find that incorporation of water into ringwoodite is more favourable than into perovskite by about 0.25 eV per formula unit, or about 24 kJ/mol. This translates to a ringwoodite to perovskite partition coefficient of between 10 and 13, dep...

Multimedia environmental fate models are valuable tools for investigating potential changes associated with global climate change, particularly because thermodynamic forcing on partitioning behavior as well as diffusive and nondiffusive exchange processes are implicitly considered. Similarly, food-web bioaccumulation models are capable of integrating the net effect of changes associated with fa...

A kinetic cluster method enables us to analyze biopolymer folding kinetics with discrete rate-limiting steps by classifying biopolymer conformations into pre-equilibrated clusters. The overall folding kinetics is determined by the intercluster transitions. Due to the complex energy landscapes of biopolymers, the intercluster transitions have multiple pathways and can have kinetic intermediates ...

A study was made to find out maximum partitioning of Bacillus licheniformis alkaline phosphatase in different ATPSs composed of different molecular weight of PEG X (X=2000, 4000, 6000) with salts (magnesium sulphate, sodium sulphate, sodium citrate) and polymers (dextran 40, dextran T500). Physicochemical factors such as effect of system pH, system temperature and production media were evaluate...