This paper reports the design, fabrication, packaging, and testing of a relay-type threshold accelerometer array. The array includes 15 different sense elements ranging from 10 to 150 g in 10 g increments, and triply redundant 20 and 100 g sense elements for a total of 19 elements. The devices were fabricated using a modified sacrificial LIGA technique that creates a 100–300 m thick nickel stru...

This paper deals with a CMOS based artificial neuron implemented by threshold elements. We consider the artificial neuron as a threshold element with controlled inputs having weights formed during a learning process. A so-called β-driven threshold element is used for in the scheme of the neuron. Functioning of this element is described in a specific ratio form. The β-driven implementation is ba...

Most grinding problems cannot be solved analytically, therefore extensive numerical solutions are required by using appropriate numerical techniques such as the finite element method (FEM). In this study, the well-known finite element software, ADINA, was used to predict the phase transformation of a workpiece subjected to surface grinding. The process was considered to be two-dimensional and t...

The paper studys the mathematical model between element marketization and technology progress though Chinese provinces data. Empirical test showed that capital and labor element marketization promote Chinese technology progress significantly. Finally, threshold model showed the existence of threshold range that capital and labor element marketization promoting TFP (total factor productivity) gr...

The main goal of this research is to analyse the effect of angular velocity on stability and vibration of a simply supported Rayleigh rotating shaft. To this end, non-dimensional kinetic and potential energies are written while lateral vibration is considered. Finite element method is employed to discrete the formulations and Linear method is applied to analyse instability threshold of a rotati...

In this article we study the implication of thresholds in preferences. To model this we extend the basic model of John and Pecchenino (1994) by allowing the current level of environmental quality to have a discrete impact on how an agent trades off future consumption and environmental quality. In other words, we endogenize the semi-elasticity of utility based on a step function. We motivate the...

Variable-threshold threshold elements (V-T threshold elements) are threshold elements in which the weights are fixed while the threshold may be varied. When the threshold is varied, a set of functions is generated. A concept termed complete uniformity, analogous to complete monotonicity, is shown to be a necessary condition for a set of functions to be realizable by a single V-T threshold eleme...

Among private set operations, the privacy preserving element reduction of a multiset can be an important tool for privacy enhancing technology as itself or in the combination with other private set operations. Recently, a protocol, over-threshold-set-union-protocol, for a privacy preserving element reduction method of a multiset was proposed by Kissner and Song in Crypto 2005. In this paper, we...

RNA polymerase (RNAP) melts promoter DNA to form transcription-competent open promoter complex (RPo). Interaction of the RNAP σ subunit with non-template strand bases of a conserved -10 element (consensus sequence T-12A-11T-10A-9A-8T-7) is an important source of energy-driving localized promoter melting. Here, we used an RNAP molecular beacon assay to investigate interdependencies of RNAP inter...

Most grid optimization methods for the boundary element method are based on a postieri error indicators and error estimators. The error indicators are a local estimate of error within each boundary element. The error estimator provides a global bound on the error and is calculated from the error indicators. Typically, a problem is run on a coarse grid and the local error indicators are calculat...