Problem Statement. A very different way is needed to perform jitter testing of multi-Gbps physical layer ICs on a highvolume production line [1]. To perform high-volume production testing, several issues must be addressed. First, what measurements are required to characterize jitter in multi-Gbps physical layer ICs? Should the BER performance of the IC be tested or not? Secondly, as shown in Fi...

Activation of RNA-polymerase-II-dependent transcription involves conversion of signals provided by gene-specific activator proteins into the synthesis of messenger RNA. This conversion requires dynamic structural changes in chromatin and assembly of general transcription factors (GTFs) and RNA polymerase II at core promoter sequence elements surrounding the transcription start site of genes. On...

This textbook, published in 2008, gives advice to Final Year students applying for the National Foundation Training Programme for F1 and F2 doctors. The problems with this application process over the past several years are well known to senior students, junior doctors, programme directors, postgraduate Deans, universities, the public and indeed politicians. This book is timely and is an effort...

A prime number p is called elite if only finitely many Fermat numbers 2 n + 1 are quadratic residues of p. Previously only the interval up to 10 was systematically searched for elite primes and 16 such primes were found. We extended this research up to 2.5 · 10 and found five further elites, among which 1 151 139 841 is the smallest and 171 727 482 881 the largest.

Bindin plays a central role in sperm-egg attachment and fusion in sea urchins (echinoids). Previous studies determined the DNA sequence of bindin in two orders of the class Echinoidea, representing 10% of all echinoid species. We report sequences of mature bindin from five additional genera, representing four new orders, including the distantly related sand dollars, heart urchins, and pencil ur...

Low-lying singlet and triplet electronic excited states of ClOOCl are presented. Calculations of the excitation energies and oscillator strengths are reported using excited state coupled cluster response methods, as well as the complete active space self-consistent field method with the full Breit-Pauli spin-orbit operator. These calculations predict that for ClOOCl there should be a weakly abs...

We present an architecture which permits extraction of bunch trains from the NLC main linac at the 250 GeV point while preserving the quality of the beam.

In this report we analyzes two types of logistic regression models and carries out experiments using the UCI Adult dataset. We compare several factors that related to the prediction accuracy and discuss reasons of those correlations. Finally we propose a reasonable configuration of parameters and schemes for training models. Experiments show that for both models we achieved around 84% accuracy.

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a probabilistic, generative model designed to discover latent topics in text corpora, and it can be learned by collapsed Gibbs sampling. In this report, we evaluate the effectiveness of LDA by experiments on two dataset, Classic400 and BBC. We discuss related issues in Gibbs sampling, including goodness-of-fit criteria, parameter tuning, convergence, etc., a...