A 900 MHz low-noise amplifier (LNA) utilizing three monolithic transformers to implement on-chip tuning networks and requiring no external components has been integrated in 2.88 mm in a standard digital 0.6 m CMOS process. A bias current reuse technique is employed to reduce power dissipation, and process-, voltage-, and temperature-tracking biasing techniques are used. At 900 MHz, the LNA diss...

Monolithic columns are a special type of chromatography column, which can be used for the purification of different biomolecules. They have become popular due to their high mass transfer properties and short purification times. Several articles have already discussed monolith manufacturing, as well as monolith characteristics. In contrast, this review focuses on the applied aspect of monoliths ...

In the DESIRE project an autonomous robot capable of performing service tasks in a typical kitchen environment has been developed. The overall system consists of various loosely coupled subcomponents providing particular features like manipulating objects or recognizing and interacting with humans. To bring all these subcomponents together to act as monolithic system, a high-performance plannin...

One of the most crucial challenges to Nigeria’s ailing fiscal federalism is the inability of states to raise, retain and manage revenue. Revenue bases at both national and sub national levels are small, volatile and monolithic. But it seems Nigeria suffers the most at its subnational levels. Sub national governments in the country perennially complain of lean resource base relative to their hug...

A highly integrated frequency quadrupler MMIC that uses three-dimensional MMIC (3D-MMIC) technology is presented. It consists of four driver amplifiers, two doublers, and a 2-band elimination filter. These seven circuits are integrated in only a 2.36 mm2 area. The filter sufficiently suppresses spurious output components. The third and fifth harmonic components, which are the spurious component...

in “buying health: the costs of commercialization and an alternative philosophy”, larry r. churchill and shelley c. churchill discuss the commercialization of health and, in particular, the commercialization of nutrition. in this commentary on their article, i draw a connection between churchill and churchill’s account of the commercialization of nutrition and michael pollan’s critique of “nutr...

The monolithic approach to policy representation in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) looks for a single policy that can be represented as a function from states to actions. For the monolithic approach to succeed (and this is not always possible), a complex feature representation is often necessary since the policy is a complex object that has to prescribe what actions to take all over the state...

A method is developed toward high sequence coverage of proteins isolated from human breast cancer MCF10 cell lines using a 2-D liquid separations. Monolithic-capillary columns prepared by copolymerizing styrene with divinylbenzene are used to achieve high-resolution separation of peptides from protein digests. This separation is performed with minimal sample preparation directly from the 2-D li...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Ideally, tooth preparation for complete crowns should require the removal of the smallest amount possible of sound tooth structure to maximize the strength of the remaining tooth. Some preparation designs, such as the feather-edge margin, are less invasive. However, limited data are available regarding monolithic lithium disilicate crowns for molars and premolars with this ...

One of the more recent avenues towards more flexible installations and execution is the transition from monolithic architecture to microservice architecture. In such architecture, where microservices can be more liberally updated, relocated, and replaced, building liquid software also becomes simpler, as adaptation and deployment of code is easier than when using a monolithic architecture where...