Abstract. Dual threshold voltage and forward body bias techniques are effective ways to optimally balance the standby leakage power and performance. In this paper, we propose a novel fine-grained forward body biasing scheme for monotonic static logic circuits. In the proposed scheme, the forward body bias is applied to high threshold voltage of either the pull-up or the pull-down network based ...

Many operative approaches have been described for the open reduction of subcondylar fractures and rigid fixation. However, fracture portions are deep and embedded among facial nerves so that visual surgery in this region is extremely limited. Once the operative field is exposed, the displacement of the condylar head is often dislocated by the anteromedial pull of the lateral pterygoid muscle an...

NULL Convention Logic (NCL) is one of the mainstream asynchronous logic design paradigms. NCL circuits use threshold gates with hysteresis. In this chapter, the transistor-level CMOS design of NCL gates is investigated, and various gate styles are introduced and compared to each other. In addition, a novel approach to design static NCL gates is introduced. The new approach is based on integrati...

activity and mRNA expression (NOX1, NOX4, p67, p47, p22). Inhibitors of AP-1 significantly diminished the Ang II or TNF-stimulated p22 promoter activity and protein level. Transient overexpression of c-Jun/c-Fos upregulated p22 promoter activity. Transcription factor pull-down assay and chromatin immunoprecipitation demonstrated the physical interaction of c-Jun protein with predicted AP-1–bind...

Advancing the quest for new drug targets demands the development of innovative plasma membrane proteome research strategies applicable to small, functionally defined tissue samples. Biotinylation of acute tissue slices and streptavidin pull-down followed by shotgun proteomics allowed the selective extraction and identification of >1,600 proteins of which >60% are associated with the plasma memb...

The static pull-in instability of beam-type micro-electromechanical systems is theoretically investigated. Two engineering cases including cantilever and double cantilever micro-beam are considered. Considering the mid-plane stretching as the source of the nonlinearity in the beam behavior, a nonlinear size-dependent Euler-Bernoulli beam model is used based on a modified couple stress theory, c...