Large-Scale Variability Characterization and Robust Design Techniques for Nanoscale SRAM

Recent changes in higher education, especially associated with its massification, have led to calls for more accountability and to an increasing need to evaluate universities' performance. However, comparing universities with different subject mixes poses some significant problems. In this article, a linear mixed effect model methodology allowing for random effects at university level is used t...

Land cover changes significantly influence vegetation greenness in different regions. Dense Landsat time series stacks provide unique opportunity to analyze land cover change and vegetation greenness trends at finer spatial scale. In the past three decades, large reclamation activities have greatly changed land cover and vegetation growth of coastal areas. However, rarely has research investiga...

[1] This paper investigates the effect of fine-scale spatial variability in carbon fluxes upon regional carbon flux inversion estimates in North America using simulated data from 1 May through 31 August 2004 and a hypothetical sparse network of eight towers in North America. A suite of random smooth regional carbon flux patterns are created and then obscured with random fine-scale spatial flux ...

The variable generalised stochastic epidemic (VGSE) model which allows for variability in both the susceptibility and infectivity of individuals is analysed. A very different epidemic model which exhibits variable susceptibility and infectivity is the random graph epidemic model. A suitable coupling of the two epidemic models is derived, which enables us to show that, whilst the epidemics are v...

Given any two vertices u, v of a random geometric graph, denote by dE(u, v) their Euclidean distance and by dG(u, v) their graph distance. The problem of finding upper bounds on dG(u, v) in terms of dE(u, v) has received a lot of attention in the literature [1, 2, 6, 8]. In this paper, we improve these upper bounds for values of r = ω( √ logn) (i.e. for r above the connectivity threshold). Our ...

Invasions in oscillatory systems generate in their wake spatiotemporal oscillations, consisting of either periodic wavetrains or irregular oscillations that appear to be spatiotemporal chaos. We have shown previously that when a finite domain, with zero-flux boundary conditions, has been fully invaded, the spatiotemporal oscillations persist in the irregular case, but die out in a systematic wa...

background: a variable resolution x-ray (vrx) ct scanner provides a great increase in the spatial resolution. in vrx ct scanners, the spatial resolution of the system and its field of view (fov) can be changed according to the object size. one of the main factors that limit the spatial resolution of vrx ct scanner is the effect of the x-ray focal spot. materials and methods: a theoretical study...