Precision analog-to-digital converters are popularly used in many applications, such as instrumentation and measurement, PLM, process control, and motor control. Current SAR ADCs go up to 18-bit or even higher resolution at x-MSPS, while Σ-Δ ADCs can be 24or 32-bit resolution at hundreds of kSPS. Users are facing more and more difficulties in limiting the signal chain noise, like in implementin...

We determine explicitly the formal moduli space of certain complete topological modules over a topologically finitely generated local k-algebra R, not necessarily commutative, where k is a field. The class of topological modules we consider include all those of finite rank over k and some of infinite rank as well, namely those with a Schauder basis in the sense of §1. This generalizes the resul...

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Background Patients consult rheumatologists for symptoms which may result from inflammatory activity (INF), joint or other organ damage (DAM) and/or distress (STR), e.g., fibromyalgia, depression. However, quantitative assessment in routine rheumatology care is directed primarily (often exclusively) to INF, DAS28, CDAI, SLEDAI, ASDAS, and DAPSA. DAM STR are recognized many patients, but general...

23 24 Large rounded pyrite grains (>1 mm), commonly referred to as ‘buckshot’ pyrites, are a characteristic feature of 25 the auriferous conglomerates (reefs) in the Witwatersrand and Ventersdorp supergroups. Detailed petrographic 26 analyses of the reefs indicated that the vast majority of the buckshot pyrites are of reworked sedimentary origin, 27 i.e., that the pyrite originally formed in th...

Perovskite-type oxides of LaFe(1+x)O(3+δ) (x = 0.0, 0.2, 0.5 and 0.7) were synthesized by citrate sol–gel methodto ensure the formation of nanosized perovskites. The physicochemical properties of these LaFe(1+x)O(3+δ)materials were characterized by thermal gravimetric/differential analyses, Fourier transform infraredspectroscopy, X-ray powder diffraction, scanning electron and...

Zinc coating is formed by the heterogeneous assembly of the Γ, Γ1, δ, ζ and η phases whose mechanical properties greatly differ from each other. Thermal strains resulting from large differences between thermal expansion coefficients are partially relaxed by the formation of a crack network. In order to model this phenomenon, initial hardness, thermal expansion coefficient αi and toughness (KIC)...

Our previous studies with clinical data analysis have shown that the proinflammatory factor IL-32 is activated in response to influenza virus infection. However, little is known about how influenza virus induces IL-32 production, and the role of IL-32 in the host immune responses during viral infection remains unclear. In this study, we show that IL-32 production is stimulated by influenza A vi...