This paper presents an exhaustive method to characterize the interconnect capacitances with taking the floating dummy-tills into account. Results of the case study with typical floating dummy-fills show that the inter-layer capacitances are also an important factor in the electrical consideration for the dummy-fills. An efficient field solving algorithm is implemented into the 3D finite-differe...

The SC language system has been developed to provide a transformation-based language extension scheme for SC languages (extended/plain C languages with an S-expression based syntax). Using this system, many flexible extensions to the C language can be implemented by transformation rules over S-expressions at low cost mainly because of the pre-existing Common Lisp capabilities for manipulating S...

Age-period-cohort decomposition requires an identification assumption because there is a linear relationship among age, survey period, and birth cohort (age + cohort = period). This paper proposes new decomposition methods based on factor models such as principal components model and partial least squares model. Although factor models have been applied to overcome the problem of many observed v...

Nested canalyzing functions have been studied recently in the context of Boolean network models of gene regulatory networks. This paper provides a parametrization for the class of nested canalyzing functions by the points of an algebraic variety over the field with two elements. This variety is defined by the set of relations that the coefficients of such a function need to satisfy. This set of...

The study investigated the relationship between exchange rate and bank performance or profitability after Brexit. uses three measures (including return on equity, assets, ratio of capital to deposit) as dependent variables five various (government expenditure, GDP, inflation rate, Dummy—Brexit) independent variables. investigation is performed using data from two levels: one for a sample 34 ban...

Multiple linear regression analysis is frequently used in studies investigating the degree of Functional Independence Measure (FIM) improvement in stroke patients. However, the coefficient of determination R2 is about 0.46 to 0.73, meaning that the prediction accuracy is not necessarily high. In order to improve the prediction accuracy, the following methods are used; using appropriate explanat...

The last several years have seen a growth in the number of publications in economics that use principal component analysis (PCA), especially in the area of welfare studies. This paper gives an introduction into the principal component analysis and describes how the discrete data can be incorporated into it. The effects of discreteness of the observed variables on the PCA are overviewed. The con...

The importance of certain socio-demographic factors, which influence the attitudes and ideas regarding the mentally ill, were investigated in a resident population of a Greek region. An urban and a rural sample of 1,975 inhabitants were selected with an age range between 18 and 65 years. The Greek version of the Opinions about Mental Illness Questionnaire (OMIQ) was used for measuring the attit...

Forty 3-year-old dummy-sucking children (22 Swedes and 18 Norwegians) together with one of their parents, were shown a specially prepared videotape for 15 minutes The child had free access to its dummy while watching the video. The dummy-sucking time and sucking reactions to the different film sequences were registered. The presence or absence of a posterior crossbite was recorded as well as th...