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    Sy Montgomery and Matt Patterson: 2024 Cook Prize Gold Medal Winners

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    Author Sy Montgomery and illustrator Matt Patterson\u27s video for The Book of Turtles (Clarion)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1012/thumbnail.jp

    Photometric study of a marginal contact binary SY Hor

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    32nd International Physics Congress of Turkish-Physical-Society (TPS) -- SEP 06-09, 2016 -- Bodrum, TURKEYIn this study, we present light curve analysis of a southern contact binary SY lior. Photometric parameters of the system and its components are derived using the Wilson and Devinney code based on the data taken from the SuperWASP public data archive. Photometric solutions indicate that SY Hai is a marginal contact binary system with a mass ratio of q = 1.59 and a contact degree of f = 6%.Turkish Phys So

    The study of CMOS based VCO with active inductor and its design methodology

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    Active Inductors are useful in reducing the large chip area typically consumed by spiral inductors, as well as providing larger inductance values and higher quality factors that otherwise cannot be achieved by spiral inductors. Integrated inductors find application in many radio frequency (RF) front end integrated circuits, including impedance matching, filtering, biasing and in oscillator circuits. Nonetheless, because of the interdependent relationship of the self-resonant frequency and quality factor it is often difficult to meet desired circuit requirements. Additionally, active devices pose problems of higher power consumption , noise figure and potential instability. This thesis begins with the study of active inductors, the Wu active inductor in particular, and considers tuning methods based on the Wu active inductor topology. Starting with the small-signal model, the emulated inductance and quality factor expressions are derived. Next, the operation of active inductors under large-signal is closely examined. Comparisons between a passive and an active VCO are made. The active inductor based voltage-controlled oscillator (Active VCO) is studied extensively, and the methods of improving the performance under large signal-behavior are discussed. Then a design procedure based on gm/ID methodology is proposed. A Matlab script that can be applied to gyrator-C based active inductors is developed to determine the sizing of the transistors for a desired inductance and resonant frequency. Cadence Virtuoso is used for simulations, and extraction based on an IBM 8RF technology file. Finally, a low power active VCO is designed, simulated and laid out.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Sy-Min Chuen

    Stability and Convergence Analysis of Second-Order Schemes for a Diffuse Interface Model with Peng-Robinson Equation of State

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    In this paper, we present two second-order numerical schemes to solve the fourth order parabolic equation derived from a diffuse interface model with Peng-Robinson Equation of state (EOS) for pure substance. The mass conservation, energy decay property, unique solvability and L-infinity convergence of these two schemes are proved. Numerical results demonstrate the good approximation of the fourth order equation and confirm reliability of these two schemes.We are grateful to Prof. Zhizhong Sun of Department of Mathematics of Southeast University and Prof. Hehu Xie of Institute of Computational Mathematics of Chinese Academy of Sciences for providing useful suggestions and many helpful discussions. The research of Zhonghua Qiao is partially supported by the Hong Kong Research Grant Council GRF grant 15302214, NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme N_HKBU204/12 and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University internal grant 1-ZE33. Shuyu Sun gratefully acknowledges that the research reported in this publication was supported by funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
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