Layered composite materials have become an increasingly interesting topic in industrial development. Cold roll bonding (CRB), as a solid phase method of bonding same or different metals by rolling at room temperature, has been widely used in manufacturing large layered composite sheets and foils. In this paper, we provide a brief overview of a technology using layered composite materials produc...

The evolutionarily conserved Crumbs (Crb) complex is crucial for photoreceptor morphogenesis and homeostasis. Loss of Crb results in light-dependent retinal degeneration, which is prevented by feeding mutant flies carotenoid-deficient medium. This suggests a defect in rhodopsin 1 (Rh1) processing, transport, and/or signaling, causing degeneration; however, the molecular mechanism of this remain...

This contribution considers carrier phase recovery in turbo receivers. We point out that the resulting Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) is close to its high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) asymptote, even at the typical low operating SNR of turbo systems. We show that ‘code-unaware’ phase estimators are unable to perform closely to the CRB at the normal operating SNR of powerful codes. The advantage of ‘code...

Despite an increased interest in complex independent component analysis (ICA) during the last two decades, a closed form expression for the Cramér-Rao bound (CRB) for the demixing matrix is not known yet. In this paper, we fill this gap by deriving a closed-form expression for the CRB of the demixing matrix for instantaneous noncircular complex ICA. It contains the CRB for circular complex ICA ...

Mitosis is a fundamental process for chromosome segregation in all multicellular organisms. Misregulation of mitosis can cause genetic instability and cancer. Thus, identification of the genes involved in the regulation of mitosis is important for understanding the mechanism of chromosome segregation and genome instability. Unbiased genetic screens are powerful tools for identifying new gene fu...