As technology scales down, the effects of power supply noise and ground bounce are becoming significantly important. In the existing literature, it has been shown that excessive power supply noise can affect the path delay, while ground bounce is either neglected or assumed similar to power supply noise [1-2]. Our work performs a detailed study of combined and uncorrelated power supply noise an...

Abstract. We consider the possibility of using dark matter particle’s mass and its interaction cross section as a smoking gun signal of the existence of a Big Bounce at the early stage in the evolution of our currently observed universe. A study of dark matter production in the pre-bounce contraction and the post bounce expansion epochs of this universe reveals a new venue for achieving the obs...

Microscopic imaging ellipsometry is an optical technique that uses an objective and sensing procedure to measure the ellipsometric parameters ? and ? in the form of microscopic maps. This technique is well known for being noninvasive and label-free. Therefore, it can be used to detect and characterize biological species without any impact. Microscopic imaging ellipsometry was used to measure th...

Objective Serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) is commonly used to evaluate treatment response after definitive radiation therapy (RT). However, PSA levels can temporarily rise without a clear reason, termed "PSA bounce", and often engender great anxiety for both patients and physicians. The present study aimed to determine the prevalence and factors that predict "PSA bounce" after intensity-m...

In this study, we proposed a novel scheme for the implementation of the no-slip boundary condition in thelattice Boltzmann method (LBM) . In detail , we have substituted the classical bounce-back idea by the direct immersed boundary specification . In this way we construct the equilibrium density functions in such a way that it feels the no-slip boundaries . Therefore , in fact a kind of equili...

INTRODUCTION Tasmania's aquaculture industry produces over 40,000 tonnes of fish annually, valued at over AUD500M. Aquaculture divers perform repetitive, short-duration bounce dives in fish pens to depths up to 21 metres' sea water (msw). Past high levels of decompression illness (DCI) may have resulted from these 'yo-yo' dives. This study aimed to assess working divers, using Doppler ultrasoni...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to characterize benign prostate-specific antigen (PSA) bounces of at least 2.0 ng/mL and biochemical failure as defined by the Phoenix definition after prostate brachytherapy at our institution, and to investigate distinguishing features between three outcome groups: patients experiencing a benign PSA bounce, biochemical failure, or neither. MATERIAL AND ...

We address the main shortcomings of the voxel-based multi-bounce global illumination method of Chatelier and Malgouyres (2006), by introducing an iterated cached method which allows increasing sampling coarseness at each bounce for improved efficiency, and by introducing a ray-tracing based reconstruction process for a better final image quality. The result is a competitive accurate multi-bounc...

PURPOSE To evaluate predictive factors for PSA bounce after 125I permanent seed prostate brachytherapy and identify criteria that distinguish between benign bounces and biochemical relapses. MATERIALS AND METHODS Men treated with exclusive permanent 125I seed brachytherapy from November 1999, with at least a 36 months follow-up were included. Bounce was defined as an increase ≥ 0.2 ng/ml abov...