Monostable to Bistable (MOBILE) gates are very suitable for the implementation of gate-level pipelines which can be achieved without resorting to memory elements. MOBILE operating principle is implemented using two series connected Negative Differential Resistance (NDR) devices with a clocked bias. This paper describes and experimentally validates a two-phase clock scheme for such MOBILE based ...

We demonstrate here that EL4-6.1 cells, a mouse thymoma that expresses high levels of membrane interleukin (IL)-l receptors, produce IL-IB as an autocrine regulatory factor. Endogenous IL-IB sustains both proliferation and apoptosis: during the exponential phase, it mainly promotes proliferation, while during the plateau phase of cell growth, it induces death by apoptosis. Additionally, we show...

We propose and investigate theoretically the use of bi-directional propagation light in silica integrated coupled waveguide structures for linear optical processing fiber-coupled photons. show that class operations can be implemented such a system is given by symmetric unitary matrices. present how an arbitrary 4 × coupler this form realized sequence more fundamental 2 couplers single-waveguide...

As transmedia franchises increasingly populate our cultural environment, many questions arise about the effect of the different media involved in the depiction of storyworlds. Through the analysis of different examples, with special emphasis on the particular case of The Walking Dead, and drawing primarily from Henry Jenkins’s concept of “transmedia aims to show how different media aesthetics c...

In this paper, an enhanced error protection scheme using flexible macroblock ordering in H.264/AVC is proposed. The algorithm uses a two-phase system. In the first phase, the importance of every macroblock is calculated based on its influence on the current frame and future frames. In the second phase, the macroblocks with the highest impact factor are grouped together in a separate slice group...