Partitioning of circuit netlists is important in many phases of VLSI design, ranging from layout to testing and hardware simulation. The ratio cut objective function [29] has received much attention since it naturally captures both mincut and equipartition, the two traditional goals of partitioning. In this paper, we show that the second smallest eigenvalue of a matrix derived from the netlist ...

Agarwood is a kind of important and precious traditional Chinese medicine. With the decreasing of natural agarwood, artificial cultivation has become more and more important in recent years. Quantifying the formation of agarwood is an essential work which could provide information for guiding cultivation and controlling quality. But people only can judge the amount of agarwood qualitatively by ...

In order to understand the relationships between understory bamboo and soil properties, we compared microbial community structures in the soil of a Betula ermanii boreal forest with Sasa kurilensis present and removed using high-throughput DNA sequencing. The presence of understory S. kurilensis strongly affected soil properties, including total carbon, total nitrogen, nitrate, and the C:N rati...

In this paper we derive closed-form expressions for the single-user capacity of Maximum Ratio Combiner (MRC) system system, taking into account the effect of imperfect channel estimation at the receiver. The channel considered is a slowly varying spatially independent flat Rayleigh fading channel. The complex channel estimate and the actual channel are modelled as jointly Gaussian random variab...

For the retrieval of chlorophyll concentrations or the total absorption coefficients of oceanic waters based on water color, there are algorithms that use either band ratios or spectral curvatures of remote-sensing reflectance or water leaving radiance. We show that band-ratio algorithms have the potential to be applied to a wider dynamic range of oceanic waters, whereas spectral-curvature algo...

We propose a new method to construct confidence intervals for spectral mean and related ratio statistics of a stationary process, that avoids direct estimation of their asymptotic variances. By introducing a bandwidth, a self-normalization procedure is adopted and the distribution of the new statistic is asymptotically nuisance-parameter free. The bandwidth is chosen using information criteria ...

Confidence scoring is an important component in speaker diarization systems, both for offline speech analytics and for online diarization that are required to produce the speaker segmentation from very little audio. This paper proposes a confidence measure for speaker diarization based on the spectral ratio of the eigenvalues of the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) transformation computed on ...

Montero et al. do report the 95% limits on the Bland-Altman plot, perhaps the authors could have reported the 95% limits of agreement for a specific number of thresholds of proteinuria for example <300mg, <3.5 grams or >3.5 grams individually which would be useful for clini-cians trying to interpret spot urine pro-tein/creatinine ratio. I worry that readers of this excellent study may be left f...

Fractional factorial split-plot designs are widely used when it is impractical to perform fractional experiments in a completely random order. When there too many subplots per whole plot, or few plots, with replicated settings of the plot factors preferred. However, such an important study undeveloped literature. This paper considers WP from viewpoint clear effects. We investigate sufficient an...

In some experiments, the levels of factors are difficult to change; then fractional factorial split-plot (FFSP) designs suitable for selection. an FFSP design, divided into two classes—the whole plot (WP) and subplot (SP) factors. selection WP can affect that SP factors, which attracts much attention Paying more a new optimality criterion selecting such is proposed. The robustness proposed meth...