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Holography in artificial neural networks
The dense interconnections that characterize neural networks are most readily implemented using optical signal processing. Optoelectronic 'neurons' fabricated from semiconducting materials can be connected by ...
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Epitaxial Growth of CoSi2/Si Hetero-Structure by Solid State Interaction of Co/Ti/Si Multilayer
A new method of epitaxial growth of CoSi2 film on Si substrate by ternary solid state interaction is investigated. XRD, RBS and TEM show that single-crystalline CoSi2 can be formed on both Si (111) and (100) subs...
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Study on Thermal Stability of Thin CoSi2 Film
The thermal stability of thin CoSi2 films formed from four layered structures: Co/Si, TiN/Co/Si, Co/Ti/Si and TiN/Co/Ti/Si has been studied using four-point-probe (FPP), TEM and RBS/channeling. It is found that t...
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Do** properties of the Ion-Beam-Sputtered SiGe Film
The ion-beam-sputtered polycrystalline SiGe film and its do** properties have been studied. Boron and phosphorus have been doped into the sputtered poly-SiGe film by ion implantation and diffusion. To activa...
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Vivre sa vieillesse en Suisse. Les transformations des modes de résidence des personnes âgées
We analyse here the household situation of the elderly in Switzerland. The study is based on an original analytical framework applied to the 1991 and 1994 round of the Swiss Labour Force Survey and a secondary...
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A Sensitive Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Method for Detection of Polyimide Degradation by Microorganisms
An electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) technique was evaluated for monitoring microbial degradation of electronic packaging polyimides. The microbial inoculum was a mixed culture of fungi isolated pre...
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Knob-associated tandem repeats on mitotic chromosomes in maize, Zea diploperennis and their hybrids
Knob-associated tandem repeats, 180-bp repeats and TR-1 elements, together with 45S rDNA were located on mitotic chromosomes of Zea diploperennis (DP), maize inbred line F102 and their hybrid. In DP, knobs on the...
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Methods Currently Used in Testing Microbiological Degradation and Deterioration of a Wide Range of Polymeric Materials with Various Degree of Degradability: A Review
Biodegradation of polymeric materials affect a wide range of industries, information on degradability can provide fundamental information facilitating design and life-time analysis of materials. Among the meth...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An XML Query Mechanism with Ontology Integration
Ontology Integration plays a key role in information integration systems, especially in the semi-structured information integration systems. This paper develops an ontology integration mechanism which is based...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
XML Based Semantic Query Mechanism on Grid
Semantic heterogeneity and few compatible data sources are two problems in data grid service. This paper introduces a novel wrapper-mediator based semantic data grid service mechanism, it uses ontology based s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Ontology Fusion with Complex Map** Patterns
Ontology map** plays a key role in information integration systems. This paper discusses the patterns of complex ontology map**. It proposes the definition and properties of ontology map**s, and discusse...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Semantic Query Planning Mechanism on XML Based Web Information Systems
To enable accessing web information at semantic level, this paper develops a semantic query planning mechanism on XML based web information system with complex ontology map** technology. It discusses the pat...
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Ontology based Query Rewriting on Integrated XML based Information Systems
The paper mainly discusses the extension of querying on integrated XISs with wrapped ontologies. It discusses the complex ontology map** patterns with semantically enhanced similarity, such as subsumption ma...
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Degradability of atrazine, cyanazine, and dicamba in methanogenic enrichment culture microcosms using sediment from the Pearl River of Southern China
Degradation of three herbicides, atrazine, cyanazine and dicamba, was assessed in laboratory microcosms incubated under simulated methanogenic conditions using sediment from Pearl River of Southern China as an...
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Improved production of ethanol by deleting FPS1 and over-expressing GLT1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
To improve ethanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, two yeast strains were constructed. In the mutant KAM-3, the FPS1 gene, which encodes a channel protein responsible for glycerol export, was deleted. The...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A New Reputation-Based Trust Management Mechanism Against False Feedbacks in Peer-to-Peer Systems
The main challenge in reputation system is to identify false feedbacks. However current reputation models in peer-to-peer systems can not process such strategic feedbacks as correlative and collusive ratings. ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Semantic Fusion for Query Processing in Grid Environment
To enable accessing web information at semantic level, this paper develops a semantic fusion mechanism in Mediator-Wrapper based grid environment to support ontology-based query planning with GAV style queryin...
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Establishment of novel human dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma cell line with osteoblastic differentiation
Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma is a rare, highly malignant variant of chondrosarcoma in which a high-grade sarcoma coexists with a low-grade chondroid tumor. We herein review a case of dedifferentiated chondr...
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Cadmium tolerance and accumulation by two species of Iris
Seedlings of Iris lactea var. chinensis (Fisch.) Koidz. and I. tectorum Maxim. were subjected to 0–160 mg l−1 Cd in hydroponic system and harvested after 42 days to determine effects on root and shoot dry mass. A...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Neural Information Encoding Based on a Bifurcation Machinery
Neural information encoding mechanism based on a bifurcation machinery was proposed based on the results on two experimental models and theoretical models. The framework structures of bifurcation scenarios of ...
