Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a prominent paradigm that is considered to continue its dominance in thecomputation at deep sub-micron regime in nanotechnology. The QCA realizations of five-input Majority Voter based multilevel parity generator circuits have been introduced in recent years. However, no attention has been paid towards the QCA instantiation of the generic (n-bit) even and ...

In the last half decade, application integration via Unidirectional Security Gateways has emerged as a secure alternative to firewalls. The gateways are deployed extensively to protect the safety and reliability of industrial control systems in nuclear generators, conventional generators and a wide variety of other critical infrastructures. Unidirectional Gateways are a combination of hardware ...

The digitalization of nuclear power plants, with the rapid growth information technology, opens door to development new methods condition-based maintenance. In this work, a semi-supervised method for characterizing level degradation plant components using measurements collected during operational transients is proposed. It based on fusion selected features extracted from monitored signals. Feat...

INTRODUCTION Although nuclei are often spherical, nuclear shape can change significantly between cell types and during cell differentiation or aging (Dauer and Worman, 2009). The nuclear envelope (NE) is a key determinant of nuclear morphology. The nuclear lamina, a meshwork underlying the inner nuclear membrane in metazoa, is crucial for the structural integrity of nuclei (Stuurman et al., 199...

Based on the idea of a dynamical symmetry group, algebraic models of nuclear structure have proven to be quite successful in describing a variety of collective nuclear spectra [1]. A common element in these models is the su(3) ⊃ so(3) reduction that defines a relation between the quadrupole degree of freedom of the system and its angular momentum, which is used to classify levels of the system ...

Low-grade waste heat conversion to electricity has drawn much attention toward reduction of production cost (Matsuura, Rowe et al. 1992, Rowe 1995, Ebrahimi, Jones et al. 2014). Organic Rankine cycle has been recently proved as a feasible solution with about 7% thermal efficiency and initial cost of about $2/watt for a high temperature of 116 °C and low temperature of 25 °C (Imran, Park et al. ...