Best-first chart parsing utilises a figure of merit (FOM) to efficiently guide a parse by first attending to those edges judged better. In the past it has usually been static; this paper will show that with some extra information, a parser can compensate for FOM flaws which otherwise slow it down. Our results are faster than the prior best by a factor of 2.5; and the speedup is won with no sign...

In this paper two dimensional wave propagation is used for power combining in drain nodes of a distributed amplifier (DA). The proposed two dimensional DA uses an electrical funnel to add the currents of drain nodes. The proposed structure is modified due to gate lines considerations. Total gain improvement is achieved by engineering the characteristic impedance of gate lines and also make appr...

Memristor with memory properties can be applied to connection points (synapses) between cells in a cellular neural network (CNN). This paper highlights memristor crossbar-based multilayer CNN (MCM-CNN) and its application edge detection. An MCM-CNN is designed by adopting crossbar composed of pair memristors. based on the changeable weight suitable for detection binary image color considering c...

In this paper, analysis, simulation and design of a distributed amplifier (DA) with 0.13µm CMOS technology in the frequency range of 3-40 GHz is presented. Gain cell is a current reused circuit which is optimum in gain, noise figure, bandwidth and also power dissipation. To improve the noise performance in the frequency range of interest, a T-matching low pass filter LC network which is utilize...

Evaporation from porous structured surfaces is encountered in a variety of applications including electronics cooling, desalination, and solar energy generation. Of major interest the design thermal systems for such prediction heat mass transfer rates during evaporation these surfaces. The present study develops figure merit (FOM) that characterizes efficacy evaporative microstructured Geometri...

Full field digital mammography (FFDM) has been progressively introduced in medical centers in recent years. However, it is questionable which exposure parameters are suitable in order to reduce the glandular breast doses as they are related to induced carcinogenesis. The goal of this study was to compare the average glandular doses (AGD) and image quality of three FFDM systems namely Siemens Ma...

background: a boron neutron capture therapy (bnct) facility, based on a dt neutron generator, with the final goal to find out a potential, alternative, solution to existing bnct treatment facilities which are based on nuclear reactors is examined. materials and methods: with the aim of the mcnp4b monte carlo code different beam-shaping assembly (bsa) configurations were considered. lead was sel...

A nanoscale plasmonic temperature sensor via a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structure is proposed in this paper, and the waveguide composed of coin-like resonator. The finite element method (FEM) used to study structure’s transmission characteristics electromagnetic field distributions. calculated maximum sensitivity about 0.38 nm/°C, figure (FOM) merit can be as high 30,158, higher than most pu...

The change of land use/land cover has been known as an imperative force in environmental alteration, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. This research was mainly aimed to assess the validity of two major types of land change modeling techniques via a three dimensional approach in Birjand urban watershed located in an arid climatic region of Iran. Thus, a Markovian approach based on two suit...

A multiple-mode metal-insulator-metal plasmonic sensor with four coupled bowtie resonators containing two pairs of silver baffles is numerically investigated using the finite element method and verified by temporal mode theory. The proposed structure can function as a refractive index glucose sensors working in visible near-infrared wavelength ranges. Simulation results show that introducing ca...