We develop a string comparator based on edit distance that uses variable edit-step costs derived from training data. Using first and last name data from Census files, we compare the performance of this string comparator with one without variable edit step costs and with the JaroWinkler string comparator, which is standardly used in the Census Bureau’s record linkage software.

OBJECTIVES Metformin is an established first-line treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients but intensification of oral anti-diabetic therapy is usually required over time. The effectiveness of diabetes control with vildaGliptin and vildagliptin/mEtformin (EDGE) study compared effectiveness and safety of vildagliptin and other oral anti-diabetic drugs (OAD) in 45,868 patients world...

Nano Magnetic Logic (NML) has been attracting application in optical computing, nanodevice formation, and low power. In this paper nanoscale architecture such as the decoder, multiplexer, and comparator are implemented on perpendicular-nano magnetic logic (pNML) technology. All these architectures with the superiority of minimum complexity and minimum delay are pointed. The proposed architectur...

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is an emerging and promising technology that provides significant improvements over CMOS. Recently QCA has been advocated as an applicant for implementing reversible circuits. However QCA, like other Nanotechnologies, suffers from a high fault rate. The main purpose of this paper is to develop a fault tolerant model of QCA circuits by redundancy in hardware a...

The blocking effect, canonical in the study of associative learning, is often explained as a failure of the blocked cue to become associated with the outcome. However, this perspective fails to explain recent findings that suggest learning about a blocked cue is superior to a different type of redundant cue. We report an experiment designed to test the proposal that blocking is not a failure of...

This post hoc analysis of a phase 3 trial explored the effect of pixantrone in patients (50 pixantrone, 47 comparator) with relapsed or refractory aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) confirmed by centralized histological review. Patients received 28-d cycles of 85 mg/m(2) pixantrone dimaleate (equivalent to 50 mg/m(2) in the approved formulation) on days 1, 8 and 15, or comparator. The...

The fast growing electronics industry is pushing towards high speed low power analog to digital converters. Comparator is electronic devices which are mainly used in Analog to Digital converter (ADC). In ADC they are used for quantization process, and are mainly responsible for the delay produced and power consumed by an ADC. A high speed low power comparator is required to satisfy the future d...

State measurements of flux-based superconducting quantum bits (qubits) require the sensitive discrimination of small differences of magnetic flux, with measurement times short compared to the timescales of coherent quantum mechanical behaviour. The single-fluxquantum (SFQ) superconducting comparator may be the best device for this purpose. An SFQ comparator design using a quasi-one-junction SQU...

The overall performance of two-step flash A/D converters hinges on the second-stage fine comparator. This paper descibes the design of a 60 MHz fully differential comparator, intended for use in a 12-bit two-step flash converter. The comparator consists of four pre-amplifier stages followed by a regenerative latch. It uses a combination of output offset cancelation and input offset cancelation ...