Defect avoidance methods are likely to play a key role in overcoming the challenge of mask blank defectivity in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. In this work, we propose an innovative EUV mask defect avoidance method. It is the first approach that allows exploring all the degrees of freedom available for defect avoidance (pattern shift, rotation and mask floorplanning). We model the defec...

We compared implementation of systematic airway assessment with existing practice of airway assessment on prediction of difficult mask ventilation. Twenty-six departments were cluster-randomised to assess eleven risk factors for difficult airway management (intervention) or to continue with their existing airway assessment (control). In both groups, patients predicted as a difficult mask ventil...

Converting a Boolean mask to an arithmetic mask, and vice versa, is often required in implementing side-channel resistant instances of cryptographic algorithms that mix Boolean and arithmetic operations. In this paper, we describe a method for converting a Boolean mask to an arithmetic mask that runs in constant time for a fixed order. We propose explicit algorithms for a second-order secure Bo...

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An automatic method for synthesizing MEMS mask-layouts is presented. This method uses evolutionary algorithm techniques to optimize the mask-layouts for a forward simulation of fabrication. Initially, a random population of masklayouts is generated. The fabrication of each layout is simulated through a digital process simulator to produce a 3D fabricated shape, which is compared to a user-speci...

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We consider the role of nonlinear inhibition in physiologically realistic multineuronal models of V1 to predict the dipper functions from contrast discrimination experiments with sinusoidal gratings of different geometries. The dip in dipper functions has been attributed to an expansive transducer function, which itself is attributed to two nonlinear inhibitory mechanisms: contrast normalizatio...