In this work a new resistance model has been presented based on that of Henis-Tripodi which can be used for interpretation of gas permeation data in composite and asymmetric membranes. In contrast to the previous works, in this model the fraction of the support layer surface that includes the pores filled with coating material has been taken into account. The influences of the filled pores on s...

Smart actuators, such as shape memory alloy (SMA) and magnetostrictive actuators, exhibit saturation nonlinearity and hysteresis that may be symmetric or asymmetric. The Prandtl–Ishlinskii model employing classical play operators has been used to describe the hysteresis properties of smart actuators that are symmetric in nature. In this study, the application of a generalized play operator capa...

Bit interleaved coded modulation employing asymmetric turbo codes is investigated. An asymmetric turbo code uses two different constituent codes. The benefit of using different constituent codes is that they may complement each other during iterative decoding of the asymmetric turbo code. This can be visualized using the input-output extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) chart based on mutual i...

We consider generalizations of depolarizing channels to maps of the form Φ(ρ) = ∑ k akVkρV † k + (1 − a)(Tr ρ) 1 dI with Vk unitary and ∑ k ak = a < 1. We show that one can construct unital channels of this type for which the input which achieves maximal output purity is unique. We give conditions on Vk under which multiplicativity of the maximal p-norm and additivity of the minimal output entr...

For many discriminative classifiers, it is desirable to convert an unnormalized confidence score output from the classifier to a normalized probability estimate. Such a method can also be used for creating better estimates from a probabilistic classifier that outputs poor estimates. Typical parametric methods have an underlying assumption that the score distribution for a class is symmetric; we...

This paper analyzes the dynamic eff ects of anticipated and unanticipated oil price increases in a small two-country monetary union, which is simultaneously characterized by asymmetric wage adjustments and asymmetric interest rate sensitivities of private absorption. Common external oil price disturbances lead in this asymmetric macroeconomic setup to temporary divergences in output development...

Ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) is one key component in high-performance networking applications. An asymmetric TCAM cell consists of a binary content addressable memory (BCAM) bit and a mask bit. In this paper, we analyze comparison faults of the asymmetric TCAM cell based on BCAM comparison faults. Then march-like test algorithms T are proposed to cover the comparison faults of the ...