Ammonium hydroxide (NH4OH) is a chemical used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, and must therefore be analyzed for trace metal impurities. The direct analysis of undiluted (20%) NH4OH using ICP-MS is challenging because its high vapor pressure causes plasma instability. However, dilution of the samples would degrade detection limits, so the ability to directly analyze 20% NH4OH is im...

In this paper, we present a new texture representation of face image using a robust feature from the Trace transform. The masked Trace transform (MTT) offers “texture” information for face representation which is used to reduce the within-class variance. We first transform the image space to the Trace transform space to produce the MTT. Weighted Trace transform (WTT) identifies the tracing line...

This paper presents: (i) an operational semantics, based on a functional framework, for a concurrent and distributed extension of the Scheme programming language, (ii) a coherency protocol taking care of shared mutable objects, (iii) a new coherency protocol to imperatively control hierarchical groups of cooperating tasks. These two protocols do not require broadcast, nor FIFO communications, n...

Resting state networks (RSNs) are sets of brain regions exhibiting temporally coherent activity fluctuations in the absence of imposed task structure. RSNs have been extensively studied with fMRI in the infra-slow frequency range (nominally <10(-1)Hz). The topography of fMRI RSNs reflects stationary temporal correlation over minutes. However, neuronal communication occurs on a much faster time ...

We realize a fiber Bragg grating InGaN-based laser diode emitting at 400 nm and demonstrate its high coherency. Thanks to the fabrication of narrowband in near-UV, we can reach single-mode single-frequency regimes for self-injection locked diode. The device exhibits 44 dB side-mode suppression ratio mW output power. Detailed frequency noise analysis reveals sub-MHz integrated linewidth 16 kHz i...

The presence of temporal locality in web request traces has long been recognized, and has been incorporated in synthetic web trace generators. However, the close proximity of requests for the same le in a trace can be attributed to two orthogonal reasons: long-term popularity and short-term correlation. The former re ects the fact that requests for a popular document simply appear \very frequen...

Titanium and its alloy are known as important load-bearing biomaterials. The major drawbacks of these metals are fibrous formation and low corrosion rate after implantation. The surface modification of biomedical implants through various methods such as plasma spray improves their osseointegration and clinical lifetime. Different materials have been already used as coatings on biomedical implan...

To measure the levels of Zn, Mn, Cu, Pb, Cd, As and other trace elements in bodies of the mother and the fetus and to perform correlation analysis among trace elements. Total of 180 pregnant women hospitalized between October 2008 and Apr 2009 were continuously recruited in this study.

A rich formalization of measure and probability theory is a prerequisite to analyzing probabilistic program behaviour in interactive theorem provers. When using probability theory it is important to have the necessary tools (definitions and theorems) to construct measure spaces with the desired properties. This thesis presents the formalization of a rich set of constructions. We start with disc...

Simulation is indispensable in computer architecture research. Researchers increasingly resort to detailed architecture simulators to identify performance bottlenecks, analyze interactions among different hardware and software components, and measure the impact of new design ideas on the system performance. However, the slow speed of conventional execution-driven architecture simulators is a se...