We dedicate this work to Wolfgang Pompe, a very good friend and a good friend of the Materials Faculty at UCSB where he and his wife, Gisela, shared their lives and fellowship. Three different zirconia–alumina laminates, AZ50, AZ80, and AZ95, were fabricated via tape-casting thick Zr(3Y)O2 layers, dip-coating the zirconia tapes in a slurry containing a mixture of zirconia and alumina, stacking ...

A linear threshold element computes a function that is a sign of a weighted sum of the input variables. The best known lower bounds on the size of threshold circuits are for depth-2 circuits with small (polynomial-size) weights. However, in general, the weights are arbitrary integers and can be of exponential size in the number of input variables. Namely, obtaining progress in lower bounds for ...

Abstract We thoroughly investigate both transverse momentum and threshold resummation effects on scalar-pseudoscalar pair production via quark-antiquark annihilation at the Large Hadron Collider QCD NLO+NLL accuracy. A factorization method is introduced to properly supplement soft-gluon (threshold) contribution from parton distribution functions resummed results ob...

BACKGROUND In many countries, the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) is used to assess whether an intervention is worth its costs. At the same time, policy makers often feel uncomfortable with refusing reimbursement of any intervention purely on the basis of the fact that the ICER exceeds a specific threshold value. Reluctance to define a single threshold value for the ICER seems to ha...

A (t,u)threshold public key encryption (TPKE) is a public key encryption where a private key is splitted among u decryption servers (insiders) and at least t decryption servers (insiders) are required to decrypt the ciphertext but no group of t− 1 or less malicious insiders can decrypt the message. Bendlin and Damgard [1] presented first lattice based threshold public key encryption scheme base...

Motivated by the numerical solution of the linearized incompressible Navier–Stokes equations, we study threshold incomplete LU factorizations for nonsymmetric saddle-point matrices. The resulting preconditioners are used to accelerate the convergence of a Krylov subspace method applied to finite element discretizations of fluid dynamics problems in three space dimensions. The paper presents and...

VIDEO ABSTRACT Gradual changes in the sensory environment can lead to abrupt changes in brain computations and perception. However, mechanistic understanding of the mediating microcircuits is missing. By sliding through light levels from starlight to daylight, we identify retinal ganglion cell types in the mouse that abruptly and reversibly switch the weighting of center and surround interactio...

The void percolation and conduction problems for equisized overlapping ellipsoids of revolution are investigated using the discretization method. The method is validated by comparing the estimated percolation threshold of spheres with the precise result found in literature. The technique is then extended to determine the threshold of void percolation as a function of the geometric aspect ratio ...

This paper offers a new methodology for designing in CMOS technology analog-digital artificial neurons training on arbitrary logical threshold functions of some number of variables. The problems of functional ability, implementability restrictions, noise stability, and refreshment of the learned state are formulated and solved. Some functional problems in experiments on teaching logical functio...