This study presents a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) in cross-coupled pair configuration using multi-tapped switched inductor with two switch-loaded transformers 0.5 µm GaN technology. Two are placed at the inner and outer portions of inductor. All switches turned off to obtain lowest sub-band. The transformer three pairs is on alternately provide sub-band modes. A high-frequency band. hig...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Recently, laparoscopic and/or endoscopic full-thickness resection (FTR) has been reported to be a useful technique for the treatment of superficial duodenal neoplasms (SDNs). In the current study, we evaluated clinical outcomes in 5 consecutive patients who underwent resection of nonampullary SDNs using laparoscopy-assisted endoscopic full-thickness resection with liga...

We examined the freeze tolerance of bakers' yeast loaded with exogenous trehalose. Freeze-tolerant and freeze-sensitive compressed bakers' yeast samples were soaked at several temperatures in 0.5 M and 1 M trehalose and analyzed. The intracellular trehalose contents in both types of bakers' yeast increased with increasing soaking period. The initial trehalose-accumulation rate increased with in...

This study investigates financial contagion among seven international stock markets around the October 19, 1987 crash. Building on a recent advance in vector autoregression analysis by [Swanson, N., Granger, C.W.J., 1997. Impulse response functions based on a causal approach to residual orthogonalization in vector autoregression. Journal of the American Statistical Association 92, 357–367], dat...

A novel market design is proposed and developed that uses the energy-balance services for transmission-congestion relief. In this proposed market, all generators and customers have the ability to submit their offers to increase/decrease their generation/consumption, respectively. Each participant provides a ‘price–quantity’ offer to the independent system operator (ISO) which is independent of ...

The recent financial turmoil has underlined the importance of analyzing the link between banks’ balance sheets and economic activity. We develop a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which bank capital mitigates an agency problem between banks and their creditors. As a result, the capital position of banks affects their ability to attract loanable funds and therefore influences the ...

The presumed dangers presented by sex offenders who have absconded from authorities have played a prominent role in public discourse surrounding state and federal sex offender management policy. The current study is the first to empirically investigate the characteristics of absconded sex offenders and explore how this group compares to other groups of sex offenders. Utilizing data from the Flo...

This paper describes a machine learning technique, fuzzy theory revision (FTR), that improves the performance of classiiers in the presence of background eeects such as weather patterns, solar loading, etc. The technique allows existing knowledge bases to be adapted for use in new situations and revised to include new sensors and/or features without retraining over the original training set. Le...