Solar energy is highly appreciated among different renewable sources due to its limitless potential and affordable conversion technologies. Conventionally, solar has multiple thermal applications, but now with the onset of photovoltaics (PV), there massive momentum for electricity generation. However, PV module faces a major challenge efficiency decrement an increased working temperature. Hence...

Electrical ac conductivity measurements on alkali triborate glasses ( M2O x 3B2O3, M = Li, Na, K, and Rb) were performed at temperatures down to 8 K and frequencies up to 1 GHz. All samples show a nearly constant dielectric loss (NCL), at the limit of high frequencies and/or low temperatures. The magnitude of the NCL is found to decrease as m(-1/3) with increasing alkali ion mass m. This quanti...

The neuronal ceroid ipofuscinoses (NCL) are a group of heritable, neurodegenerative, storage diseases, typically with an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. Cytoplasmic accumulation of storage material in cells of the nervous system and, variably in other tissues, characterizes NCL. NCL has been reported in many animal species, but to the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of the...

BACKGROUND Pleiotrophin (PTN) is a heparin-binding growth factor with significant role(s) in tumour growth and angiogenesis. Although implication of endogenous PTN has been studied in several in vivo models of tumour angiogenesis, its role in physiological angiogenesis has not been addressed. In the present work, we studied expression and functional significance of endogenous PTN during angioge...

The avian caudolateral neostriatum (NCL) was first identified on the basis of its dense dopaminergic innervation. This fact and data from lesion studies have led to the notion that NCL might be the avian equivalent of prefrontal cortex (PFC). A key feature of the PFC is the ability to integrate information from all modalities needed for the generation of motor plans. By using antero- and retrog...

In this paper the effect of diversity caused by Negative Correlation Learning (NCL) in the combination of neural classifier is investigated and an efficient way to improve combining performance is presented. Decision Templates and Averaging, as two non-trainable combining methods and Stacked Generalization as a trainable combiner are selected as base ensemble learner and NCL version of them are...

Visual evoked potentials (VEPs) in the associative neostriatum caudolaterale (NCL) have shorter latencies than those recorded in other visual forebrain areas. Therefore visual input into NCL probably stems from a subtelencephalic relay. Tracing experiments revealed a projection of the nucleus dorsolateralis posterior thalami (DLP) into those portions of NCL in which visual, auditory, and somato...

A delay-insensitive asynchronous design methodology, named NULL Convention Logic (NCL), is one of mainstream asynchronous design techniques for low-power robust circuit operation. It offers many advantages over synchronous circuit design having scaling issues in nanometer region such as severe process variations, short channel effects, aging effects, and etc. Therefore, this paper proposes a ne...

The EENCL algorithm [1] automatically designs neural network ensembles for classification, combining global evolution with local search based on gradient descent. Two mechanisms encourage diversity: Negative Correlation Learning (NCL) and implicit fitness sharing. This paper analyses EENCL, finding that NCL is not an essential component of the algorithm, while implicit fitness sharing is. Furth...

To address and overcome these barriers, the NCI established the Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL) at its NCI-Frederick facility. The NCL is a formal collaboration with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Its charter is “to perform the pre-clinical characterization of nanomaterials and to facilitate the de...