1,722,271 research outputs found
Replication Data for: Hormone therapy associated interstitial lung disease
No full textData for "Analysis of interstitial lung disease in men with prostate cancer receiving hormone therapy using the FDA adverse event reporting system
Efficient VLSI Implementation of Soft-input Soft-output Fixed-complexity Sphere Decoder
Full text linkFixed-complexity sphere decoder (FSD) is one of the most promising techniques for the implementation of multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) detection, with relevant advantages in terms of constant throughput and high flexibility of parallel architecture. The reported works on FSD are mainly based on software level simulations and a few details have been provided on hardware implementation. The authors present the study based on a four-nodes-per-cycle parallel FSD architecture with several examples of VLSI implementation in 4 × 4 systems with both 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and 64-QAM modulation and both real and complex signal models. The implementation aspects and details of the architecture are analysed in order to provide a variety of performance-complexity trade-offs. The authors also provide a parallel implementation of loglikelihood- ratio (LLR) generator with optimised algorithm to enhance the proposed FSD architecture to be a soft-input softoutput (SISO) MIMO detector. To the authors best knowledge, this is the first complete VLSI implementation of an FSD based SISO MIMO detector. The implementation results show that the proposed SISO FSD architecture is highly efficient and flexible, making it very suitable for real application
The landscapes of Wu Bin (c. 1543-c. 1626) and a seventeenth-century discourse of originality.
No full textThrough reassessment of biographical information, this study finds that Wu Bin (c. 1543-c. 1626) served as a low-level scholar-official whose talents as a calligrapher, painter, and poet brought him to the attention of the emperor and the most influential intellectuals of his period. These intellectuals shared a critical vocabulary with the Gong'an theorists, a group whose ideas in turn drew upon the thought of Neo-Confucianists Wang Yangming and Li Zhi, particularly as regards issues of authenticity and originality. These issues emerge as primary concerns of seventeenth-century literary and art critics, for whom the key term in the discourse of originality was qi. Qi, a term of wide semantic range including strange, extraordinary, and unusual, is used in late Ming literary and art criticism to indicate issues of originality. This thesis provides a history of the term in critical literature. The usage of the term is examined in art criticism as well, and compared with other art critical terms to further distinguish its meaning, application, and nuances. As a participating and respected member of this group of intellectuals, Wu Bin addressed this shared concern in his paintings and inscriptions, giving visual form to a highly-charged critical concept. Examination of Wu's stylistic development provides a case study of late Ming shifts in artistic values as his paintings evolve from embracing the normative tradition in his formative years, to a radical expression of personal uniqueness at the end.PhDArt historyAsian historyAsian literatureBiographiesCommunication and the ArtsLanguage, Literature and LinguisticsSocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/129674/2/9610088.pd
Assessment of the Interatomic Potentials of Beryllium for Mechanical Properties
No full textBeryllium finds widespread applications in nuclear energy, where it is required to service under extreme conditions, including high-dose and high-dose rate radiation with constant bombardments of energetic particles leading to various kinds of defects. Though it is generally known that defects give rise to mechanical degradation, the quantitative relationship between the microstructure and the corresponding mechanical properties remains elusive. Here we have investigated the mechanical properties of imperfect hexagonal close-packed (HCP) beryllium via means of molecular dynamics simulations. We have examined the beryllium crystals with void, a common defect under in-service conditions. We have assessed three types of potentials, including MEAM, Finnis–Sinclair, and Tersoff. The volumetric change with pressure based on MEAM and Tersoff and the volumetric change with temperature based on MEAM are consistent with the experiment. Through cross-comparison on the results from performing hydrostatic compression, heating, and uniaxial tension, the MEAM type potential is found to deliver the most reasonable predictions on the targeted properties. Our atomistic insights might be helpful in atomistic modeling and materials design of beryllium for nuclear energy
- …
