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An investigation on chloride ingress and macro-cell corrosion of steel bars in concrete made with recycled brick aggregate (RBA) was carried out. As control cases, virgin brick aggregate (BA) and stone aggregate (SA) were also investigated. Both cylindrical and cracked prism specimens were studied for 16 different cases. The prism specimens were made with a segmented steel bar providing electrical connection from outside of the specimens to measure macro-cell corrosion current continuously under seawater splash exposure for a period of 30 d using a data logger. Cylindrical specimens were submerged in 3% NaCl solution at a temperature of 40°C to investigate chloride ingress in concrete made with RBA, BA, and SA after 120 and 180 d. Half-cell potential, corrosion area, and depths of corrosion were also investigated. The chloride ingress as well as corrosion of steel bars in concrete made with the different types of aggregate is ordered as RBA > BA > SA.

Carbapenems are currently the only active beta-lactams effective against the ESBL producing pathogens; this has led to an increase in their use not only for documented infections but also for empirical treatment of acquired infections in ICU patients. Thus, there is a selective pressure for carbapenem resistance in intensive care units of tertiary care hospitals. Carbapenem resistant infections are associated with high morbidity & mortality. 1. To screen for carbapenem resistance among gram negative infections in ICU patients by disc diffusion & confirmation by Vitek 2 system; 2: To detect the carbapenemase production by phenotypic methods; 3: To confirm the presence of resistant gene by PCR; 4: To find out the attributable risk factors from the clinical history of such patients; 5: To follow up & estimate mortality rate in such infections and its statistical correlation A total of 160 gram negative isolates [E.coli(71), Klebsiella(63), Acinetobacter(10), Pseudomonas(9) and Enterobacter(7)] from patients of various intensive care units were screened by disc diffusion out of which 53(33.12%) were carbapenem resistant. Resistant isolates were further tested by Vitek 2 system for determination of MICs, Modified Hodge test(MHT) and Combined Disc test(CDT) for carbapenemase production and subjected to multiplex PCR for detection of resiatant gene i.e., bla NDM-1, bla VIM, bla IMP and bla KPC. Follow up of all the cases till the end of hospital stay was done and mortality rate was calculated.Results: 53 isolates(33.12%) were carbapenem resistant, 17 isolates were MHT positive while 39 were CDT positive. 24 isolates [E.coli(12), Klebsiella(7), Acinetobacter(3), Pseudomonas(1) and Enterobacter(1)] showed the presence of NDM-1 gene on PCR. Gentamicin(35%), Amikacin (45%), Tigecycline(88%) & Colistin(100%) were sensitive for carbapenem resistant GNBs. Mortality in carbapenem sensitive infections in ICUs was 21% whereas resistant infections showed 37% (p value Conclusion: 45% of carbapenem resistance is due to presence of NDM-1 gene, E.coli was the commonest isolate. Other mechanisms of resistance such as excessive ESBL production, porin loss may be responsible for resistance in remaining isolates. Effective infection control measures should be taken to prevent the spread of these super bugs in a ICU.

A new design of silicon photonics ring resonator based biosensor for the detection of the diseased cell is proposed. The proposed label-free and high-Q ring resonator has the potential to exhibit high sensitivity and selectivity for detecting different cancer cells, such as leukemia, cervical cancer, and breast cancer. The parameters of the ring resonator are optimized to make the biosensor suitable for detecting cancer cells in the pinch of blood with the sensitivity of more than 200 nanometers per Refractive Index Unit (nm/RIU) and quality factor of 1200. Through the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method, it is observed that the resonant wavelength of a ring resonator can be increased by escalating the refractive index of the modal present on the surface of the ring resonator. The simulation and analysis demonstrate that the outline sensitivity and quality factor of the proposed biosensing platform are acceptable for the cancer cell level detection in the blood sample present on the surface of the resonator. The proposed design also shows sufficiently separated resonant peaks for different cancer cells that open the possibility of highly selective label-free cancer cell detection.

A needle stick injury (NSI) is an accidental skin‑penetrating stab wound from a hollow‑bore needle containing another person’s blood or body fluid, leading to transmission of blood borne infections such as hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus. Nurses are the core care providers for patients in the hospital and thus have the highest rate of needle stick injury among all the health care workers. This is possibly be due to performance of invasive and non-invasive procedures to the patients besides injection administration more often than any other staff. a) To assess the knowledge of Needle stick injuries (NSI) among nursing staffs, b) To determine the practices of Needdle stick injury prevention (NSI) among nursing staffs of a tertiary care teaching hospital.M A cross sectional study was conducted by using a structured questionnaire having close ended and multiple choice questions, 10 in knowledge parameters and 15 in practice parameters respectively, designed from previously published literature. Informed verbal consent was taken prior to distribution of the self reporting Questionnaire and 100 nursing staffs were included. Minitab software version 19 was used for data analysis. 1st Jan 2020 to 31st March, 2020 (3 months).Response rate was 80%, Incidence of NSI was 45%, Only 24% of the nurses were aware of the definition of NSI, about 90% of them were aware of the infections transmitted, 85% of them are unaware of ‘no-recapping’ technique of disposal, 90% of them were aware of standard precautions, Overall knowledge is adequate among 65% nurses. Only 35% nurses reported their NSI after incident, 24% knew post exposure prophylaxis, 98% of the reported NSI incidents NSI were due to recapping of needles. NSIs were highly prevalent among nurses. Injection practices needs improvement. Procedures associated with higher risks of NSIs such as recapping of needles, non-wearing of gloves, improper disposal of sharps and others should be strongly discouraged.

A detailed experimental investigation was carried out to understand the effect of ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV) in concrete made with recycled brick aggregate (RBA). For this, cylindrical concrete specimens of 100 mm × 200 mm size were prepared where s/a ratio were 0.36, 0.40, and 0.44 and W/C ratio were 0.45, 0.50, and 0.55. Some cylindrical mortar specimens were also prepared by sieving fresh concrete through a 4.75 mm sieve. The compressive strength, modulus of elasticity, and UPV in mortar specimens and concrete made with RBA were tested at 7, 28, 60, and 90 days. UPV in concrete is influenced by the old mortar adhered to the surface of coarse aggregate in concrete. The results were compared to that of the control concrete specimens made with virgin brick aggregate and concrete made with virgin stone aggregate. Relationships between UPV and compressive strength, and UPV and modulus of elasticity of concrete are proposed and compared.

Shear strength of reinforced concrete (RC) beams made with recycled brick aggregate (RBA) was investigated. As control specimens, RC beams made with virgin brick aggregate (BA) were also investigated. For the investigation, 32 reinforced concrete beams of size 200 mm by 300 mm by 2100 mm and 200 mm by 300 mm by 2400 mm were made. The variables were steel ratio (0.82% and 1.23%), shear span to depth ratio (2.04 and 2.45), and compressive strength of concrete (24 MPa and 29 MPa). In the shear span of the beam specimens, shear reinforcements were not provided and the beams were designed to ensure shear failure according to ACI 318-14. Shear strength of the beams without shear reinforcement was evaluated by four-point loading test. Shear strength of concrete beams was also evaluated by using different codes and fracture mechanics approaches. These results were compared with the experimental results. The results obtained from this study were also compared with the shear database. It is revealed that the RC beams made with RBA show similar shear strength as of RC beams made with virgin BA. Existing code provisions, as well as fracture mechanics approach, can be used for predicting shear strength of concrete beams made with RBA.

The static random access memory (SRAM) has a significant impact on the overall power consumption and energy efficiency of any micro and nanoelectronics application or system. SRAM consumes a considerable amount of power in the idle state. As a consequence, the leakage power is one of the most critical metrics in SRAM designs. This brief evaluates the standby leakage power in the tunnel FET (TFET)-based 6T SRAM cell for different pull-up, pull-down, and pass-gate transistors ratios (PU: PD: PG) and compared to 10-nm FinFET-based 6T SRAM designs. It is observed that the 10-nm TFET-based SRAMs have 60.7, 65.22, and 59.7 times less standby leakage power compared to the 10-nm FinFET-based SRAMs when the PU: PD: PG ratios are 1:1:1, 1:5:2, and 2:5:2, respectively. This brief also presents an analysis of the stability and reliability of TFET-based 6T SRAM circuit with a reduced supply voltage of 500 mV. The static noise margin, which is a critical measure of SRAM stability and reliability, is determined for hold, read and write operations of the 6T TFET SRAM cell. The robustness of the optimized TFET-based 6T SRAM circuit is also evaluated at different supply voltages. Simulations were done in HSPICE and cadence tools.

SUPPLEMENTARY DATA Single Cell Transcriptomics Trajectory and Molecular Convergence of Clinically Relevant Mutations in Brugada Syndrome

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Within industry, piping is a systems of pipes used convey fluids (liquids and gases) from one location to another. The engineering discipline of piping design studies the efficient transport of fluid. Various piping materials used in industry are Carbon Steel, Mild Steel, Plastic, Stainless Steel, Cupro Nickel, HDPE, LDPE, Tantalum, Tempered Glass, Cement and Asbestos pipes etc., Various areas of piping are refineries, power plants, petrochemicals, hydro power plants, water treatment and distribution, municipalities etc. However in most of the above areas there will be requirement of laying 100’s of kilometers of large pipe laying which is one of the most laborious and time taking process. As a part of our project work we are planning to fabricate a land cutting and pipe laying machine which makes the process faster., {"references":["1.\tIrizarry, J., D.M. Abraham, R.D. Wirahadikusumah, and C. Arboleda. 2002. Analysis of Safety Issues in Trenching Operations. 10th Annual Symposium on Construction Innovation and Global Competitiveness, September 9-13, 2002. sConstruction. 2.\tLee, S., and D.W. Halpin. 2003. Predictive tool for estimating accident risk. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). 129(4):431-36. Lew, J., D.M. Abraham, R.D. Wirahadikusumah, J. Irizarry, and C.A. Arboleda. 2002. Excavation and trenching safety: Existing standards and challenges. Proceedings of Triennial Conference CIH WO99 Implementation of Safety and Health on Construction Sites, May 7-10, 2002, Hong Kong. 3.\tJiya .Y.J, Zhu .X.H, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, PR China,\"3D mechanical modeling of soil orthogonal cutting under a single reamer cutter based on Drucker– Prager criterion\", International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology. 4.\tSrinivasan. K, Viswanath R. P , College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India \"Design and Optimisation of Blades for Rotavators\" , International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology [6] Md. Aqib Naque ,Akhtar Ali Rizvi ,Amogh v. Tijare , P. C. E. Nagpur, Maharashtra, India\" Development and Fabrication of SoilTiller and Weeder\", International journal for innovation in engineering and technology. 5.\tAuthor P. Parthiban et al, \"Machine design and analysis to land long narrow way cutting (digging) for significant of bury by cable line, pipe and sewage line\", International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, 2014. 6.\tAmal M. S.et al, \"Design and Fabrication of Trenching Machine\", International Journal of Advanced Engineering and Global Technology, March 2016, vol.4 Issue 2. 7.\tChitralekha Dey et al, \"Development of Rotavator in Soil Trenching Applications\" Proc. Of International Conference on Advances in Robotic, Mechanical Engineering and Design, 2011. 8.\tBhaveshkumar P. Patel et al, \"Evaluation of Bucket Capacity, Digging Force Calculations and Static Force Analysis of Mini Hydraulic Backhoe Excavator\", Machine Design, Vol. 4, 2012, pp. 59-66. 9.\tBhaveshkumar P. Patel, J. M. Prajapati, \"Evaluation of Resistive Force using Principal of Soil Mechanics for Mini Hydraulic Backhoe Excavator\", International Journal of Machine Learning and computing, Vol. 2, No. 4, August 2012."]}

A parallel coupled two-ring resonator in cascaded configuration integrated with coupling linear waveguide is proposed as a label-free biosensor for breast cancer cell detection. The parameters of ring resonator are characterized to demonstrate high-quality factors.

Numerical predictions of blood flow and hemodynamic properties through a stenotic and aneurysmal rigid artery are studied in the presence of blood clot at constricted area. Finite element method has been used to solve the steady partial differential equations of continuity, momentum, Oldroyd-B and bioheat transport in two dimensional cartesian coordinates system.The present investigation carries the potential to compute blood velocity, pressure and drag coefficient with major significance at the throat of stenosis and aneurysm. The models are also employed to study of simulation, influence of blood clot and hemodynamical characteristics for all modifications. The back flow and recirculation zones are found at stenotic and aneurysmal region for the model. The quantitative analysis is completed by numerical calculation having physiological significance of hemodynamical factors of blood flow depends on the dimensionless parameters which show the validity of present model.

Due to the scarcity of natural sources of stone in Bangladesh, crushed brick chips are predominantly used as coarse aggregate in concrete. The production process of bricks is not environment-friendly. In this study, the potential of waste induction furnace slag (IFS) as a replacement of brick aggregate was investigated. The effects of replacing crushed brick aggregate by IFS aggregate on properties of concrete were studied, for varying mix design parameters including W/C ratio (0.45 and 0.50), cement content (340, 375, and 400 kg/m3), and fine aggregate to total aggregate volume ratio (0.40, 0.44, and 0.48). Concrete mechanical properties were assessed using conventional means and ultrasonic pulse velocity through concrete was measured. Aggregate-matrix interfaces were examined using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Results indicate that any replacement of brick aggregate by IFS enhances concrete mechanical performance and workability compared to 100% brick aggregate concrete, while the best mechanical performance is achieved at 50% replacement. Relationships between different hardened-state properties of concrete have been proposed for 0%, 50%, and 100% replacements. A 35% reduction in the CO2 footprint of concrete can be achieved by fully replacing brick aggregate with IFS, with at least a 30% reduction in cost.

An exponential rise in transistor count, have increased the power consumption of the modern digital system. Moreover, at lower technology node, the performance of conventional CMOS designs degrades because of the short channel effects (SCEs). In sub-10 ​nm technologies, FinFET devices have good gate control and achieve superior performance than CMOS designs. FinFET devices possess high ION current and improved scalability compared to conventional CMOS. Among numerous double gate (DG) devices, the quasiplanar FinFET structure gained huge attention because of the simple fabrication process [4]. However, FinFET based designs have a major width quantization issue. The width of FinFET device varies only in quanta of silicon fin height (HFIN) [4]. This is a critical issue for ratioed designs like Static Random-Access Memory (SRAMs), where proper sizing of transistors is essential for correct functionality. With process variations, this issue becomes even worse and affect the performance of SRAM cell. The SRAM has a significant performance impact on current nanoelectronics systems. Next-generation devices overcome the short-channel effects (SCE) of CMOS technology and can be used to improve the efficiency of SRAM designs. FinFETs are promising emerging devices, which can improve the performance of SRAM designs at lower technology nodes. This review paper presents different types of SRAM bitcells and memory system architectures. It also discusses the detailed analysis of SRAM bitcells based on various highly explored FinFET devices in sub-10nm domain. The read stability and write ability of SRAM cells are determined using Static Noise Margin (butterfly) and N-curve methods. Moreover, this manuscript presents a benchmarking between the Underlapped FinFET based SRAM and Design Technology Optimized FinFET Based SRAM. In addition to this, Monte Carlo simulations are performed on the SRAM cells to evaluate process variations to determine the robustness of SRAM designs. Simulations were done in HSPICE using 7 ​nm technology.

An investigation on the flexural performance of reinforced concrete beams made with recycled brick aggregate was conducted. For this, 24 reinforced concrete beam specimens of width 200 mm, height 250 mm and length 2100 mm were made with recycled brick aggregate, picket brick aggregate, and brick aggregate. Other variables include steel ratio, doubly reinforced, and singly reinforced concrete beams. Flexural tests of the beams were performed by four-point loading test. During loading, deflections of the beams at the middle and middle-third locations were recorded. Crack widths and crack spacing were also recorded. The beams were loaded gradually till failure. The results of beams made with recycled brick aggregate were compared with the same results of beams made with virgin brick aggregates, i.e. picket brick aggregate and brick aggregate. It is revealed that the design equations proposed in ACI 318-14 for design of reinforced concrete beams can be used for design of beams made with recycled brick aggregate.

The Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) has huge impact on the overall power consumption of any digital design. SRAM consumes a significant amount of power in the idle state. Therefore, the leakage power is one of the most critical metrics in SRAM designs. This paper evaluates the standby leakage power of GNRFET based 6T SRAM bitcell and compared to 10nm FinFET based 6T SRAM bitcell. It is observed that the 10nm GNRFET based SRAMs have 16.43 times less standby leakage power compared to the 10nm FinFET based SRAMs. The paper also presents an analysis of the stability and reliability of GNRFET based 6T SRAM circuit with a reduced supply voltage of 500mV. The static noise margin (SNM), which is a critical measure of SRAM stability and reliability, is determined for hold, read and write operations of the 6T GNRFET SRAM cell. Simulations were performed in HSPICE and Cadence tools.

The Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) consumes a significant amount of energy in any digital design. Therefore, it is necessary to design an energy efficient SRAM cell to improve overall energy consumption of the system. This paper evaluates the energy efficiency of double gate SB-GNRFET based 6T SRAM cell and compare to 10nm FinFET based 6T SRAM cell. It is observed that the double gate SB-GNRFET based SRAM consumes 1.35E+03 times less energy compared to the 10nm FinFET based SRAM during write. However, during read double gate SB-GNRFET based SRAM consume slightly more energy than FinFET based SRAM. It is also observed that GNRFET based SRAM is more stable and reliable than FinFET based SRAM. The paper also presents stability analysis of GNRFET based SRAM circuit under process variation to determine the robustness.

Performance of the Rasch analysis of the WHOQOL-BREF domains (other four sub-samples of size nâ =â 300 each) (DOCX 36 kb)

Scarcity of natural aggregates in Bangladesh has led the construction industry to rely prominently on crushed brick coarse aggregates. The crushing procedure involves material waste and lacks means to control the grading, which results in poor quality concrete. These drawbacks could be addressed if graded aggregates could be made by burning clay. With this background, suitable soil was sampled, molded and burnt at high temperatures (850°C, 900°C, and 950°C) to make clay-burnt coarse aggregates (CBCA) of different sizes (20 mm, 15 mm, 10 mm and 5 mm). Physical properties of the aggregates were investigated and cylindrical concrete specimens were made with both CBCA and other locally available aggregates. Aggregates produced at 950°C showed better aggregate properties compared to first class brick aggregates. CBCA made concrete resulted in higher compressive strength compared to stone and brick aggregates. Direct production of CBCA has the potential to enhance overall construction quality in Bangladesh.

Associations of socio-demographic characteristics with the combined awareness score of common MHCs items. (DOCX 18 kb)

Supplementary Information. Table S1. Detail of BRCA1 primers used. Table S2. Detail of BRCA2 primers used. Table S3. Detail of ERBB2 primers used. Table S4. Detail of TP53 primers used. Table S5. Detail of multiplex PCR. Table S6. Detail of primers for Sanger sequencing. Table S7. Detail of the history of study cases who have mutations. (DOCX 41 kb)

Threshold maps of the WHOQOL-BREF domains (other four sub-samples of size nâ =â 300 each) (DOCX 226 kb)

An experimental investigation was carried out to understand the variation of ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV) in concrete with the types of coarse aggregate and sand-to-aggregate volume ratio (s/a). The types of aggregate investigated were brick chips, crushed stone, round shaped stone and black stone. Sand-to-aggregate ratios were 0.36, 0.40, and 0.44 and W/C ratios were 0.45, 0.50, and 0.55. Concrete specimens were made and tested for UPV, compressive strength, and modulus of elasticity. UPV in concrete is significantly influenced by the types of aggregate and s/a ratio in addition to the compressive strength of concrete. UPV in concrete is reduced with the increase of s/a ratio. Relationships between UPV and compressive strength, and UPV and modulus of elasticity are proposed for aggregates investigated.

Power saving techniques have become essential for modern digital systems. Large on-chip SRAM memories are used in these systems and therefore it is necessary to optimize SRAM bitcell circuit to minimize the power consumption. In addition to this, it is equally important to design SRAM cell with high reliability and stability. Power gating technique with sleep transistor if applied to SRAM cell will degrade the performance of the cell. In this paper, Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FDSOI) device based SRAM designs are proposed which eliminate the requirement of sleep transistors to reduce the power consumption. This reduces overall complexity and overheads of power gating memory designs. Based on this approach seven SRAM bitcell configurations are presented in the paper. Performance metrics of different SRAM configurations are evaluated and compared in HSPICE.

In this paper, the performance and reliability of optimized 6T and 8T SRAM circuits using high I ON /I OFF ratio Asymmetrical Underlapped FinFETs are determined at a reduced supply voltage of 500mV. Performance of both SRAM designs are evaluated during read and write operations. 6T SRAM achieves 44.97% improvement in the read energy compared to 8T SRAM. However, 6T SRAM write energy degraded by 3.16% compared to 8T SRAM. Read stability and write ability of SRAM cells are determined using Static Noise Margin and N-curve methods. Moreover, Monte Carlo simulations are performed on the SRAM cells to evaluate process variations. Simulations were done in HSPICE using 7nm Asymmetrical Underlap FinFET technology.

This paper presents a high quality biosensor based on silicon photonics optical ring resonator for breast cancer detection. The sensor function by detecting the changes in interaction between light circulating inside the sensor and matter, which is antibody used for breast cancer on the sensor surface. The performance of optical ring resonator is investigate from the sensing point of view by measuring the change in resonance wavelength of ring resonator due to the change in refractive index. We reciprocate the process of binding of breast cancer antibody with respective antigen by changing the radius of ring resonator in simulations.

Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FDSOI) and Fin Field Effect Transistor (FinFET) are replacing the bulk MOSFET processes for lower technology nodes. Bulk MOSFETs suffer from severe short channel effects and leakage issues. Sleep transistor based power gating circuits are typically used to address leakage power. In this paper, data retention transistor along with sleep transistor is used to improve the performance. The proposed technique is implemented in 20nm FDSOI and 20nm FinFET technology. Simulations are performed in HSPICE and 2-input NAND gate is used for test purpose. It is observed that FinFET-NAND gate consumes 3.75 times less energy compared to FDSOI-NAND gate during active mode. However, FinFET-NAND gate consumes 1.05 times more energy than FDSOI-NAND gate during hold mode.

In this paper, the performances of 6T SRAM designs implemented by different FinFET devices are compared for different pull-up, pull down and pass gate transistor (PU:PD:PG) ratios to identify the best FinFET device for high speed and low power SRAM applications. Underlapped FinFETs (UF) and Design/Technology Co-Optimized FinFETs (DTCO_F) are used for the design and analysis. It is observed that with the PU:PD:PG ratios of 1:1:1 and 1:5:2 for the UF-SRAMs the read energy has degraded by 3.31% and 48.72% compared to the DTCO_F-SRAMs, respectively. However, the read energy with 2:5:2 ratio has improved by 32.71% in the UF-SRAM compared to the DTCO_F-SRAMs. The write energy with 1:1:1 configuration has improved by 642.27% in the UF-SRAM compared to the DTCO_F-SRAM. On the other hand, the write energy with 1:5:2 and 2:5:2 configurations has degraded by 86.26% and 96% in the UF-SRAMs compared to the DTCO_FSRAMs. The stability and reliability of different SRAMs are also evaluated for 500mV supply.

This paper presents new 8T SRAM design that avoids the stability and reliability issues of the conventional 6T and other existing SRAM cells. The proposed 8T SRAM is as good as the 10T design without the overheads of the 10T cell. In the proposed design, the virtual ground technique weakens the positive feedback and improves the writeability of the cell. The read operation does not require any precharging circuit leading to reduced area overheads for the SRAM memory system. The design isolates the storage node from the read path, which improves the read stability. For reliability study, we have investigated the static noise margin (SNM) of the proposed 8T SRAM and compared with the conventional designs at different process corners. The delay of the proposed bitcell is reduced to 69.67% during write and 52.87% during the read compared to conventional 6T bitcell. In addition to this, leakage currents of the proposed 8T bitcell reduced to 4.24%, 9.5% and 18.65% in the hold, read and write operations in contrast to conventional 6T bitcell. We have also analyzed the impact of the process and parametric variations in the proposed 8T SRAM using Monte Carlo simulations.

Multi-valued logic (MVL) gates are expected to be the future platforms for the beyond-binary circuits and systems. We propose a novel standard ternary inverter (STI) design based on carbon nanotube FET (CNTFET) and memristor. There have been many approaches like resistive load and multi-threshold designs to implement ternary logic gates. The implementation of the MVL technologies is challenging using the existing standard CMOS technology due to its scaling related issues in the sub-nanoscale regime. For example, the resistive load MVL implementations would consume excessive chip area. One of the advantages of the proposed design is the fact that the threshold voltage of the CNTFET can be adjusted by varying the chirality vector. Memristor behaves like a resistor outside a specific frequency range, and it has the potential to offer significantly lower leakage and power dissipation compared to the conventional resistor. Performance and stability of the proposed design have been compared to the existing CNTFET based design. The proposed STI offers 16.37 times and 65.48 times improvement of the power delay product and 96.28% and 95.43% of improvement of the static noise margin, respectively, compared to the STI designs presented in [4] and [7].

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This letter presents a device-to-device (D2D) enabling cellular full-duplex (FD) cooperative protocol using non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), where an FD relay assists in relaying NOMA far user's signal and transmits a D2D receiver's signal simultaneously. The ergodic capacity, outage probability, and diversity order of the proposed protocol are theoretically investigated under the realistic assumption of imperfect self and known interference cancellation. The Outcome of the investigation demonstrates the performance gain of the suggested protocol over conventional FD cooperative NOMA system., Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, Journal Paper

An experimental investigation was carried out on chloride induced corrosion of steel bars in concrete under marine environment with the variation of micro-structure of steel-concrete interface. To create the variation of micro-structure of steel-concrete interface, steel bars coated with cement paste of different W/Cs and cement types were used. For investigation, cylindrical concrete specimens were made with steel bars (with and without cement paste coating). W/C ratios of cement paste coat were 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 and 1.0. The specimens were exposed to an accelerated seawater exposure controlled with automatic wetting and drying. The specimens were tested till 45 cycles in the exposure. Test items include compressive strength of concrete, chloride ingress into concrete, electrochemical evaluation of corrosion, microscopic investigations of steel-concrete interface by optical microscope, scanning electron microscope (SEM), and linear traverse. It is revealed that the initiation of corrosion is significantly influenced by the nature of micro-structure of the steelconcrete interface, such as size of voids at the steel-concrete interface.

Coordinates [hg19] of CNVs overlapping DPP10 in chromosome 2 in Marshall et al., Girirajan et al., and the DECIPHER database. (DOCX 19 kb)

Coordinates in [hg19] of similar CNVs overlapping DPP10 in the Database of Genomic Variants (DGV) study, cohort in the study by Itsara et al., Singapore Genome Variation Project (SGVP) (43), Singapore Prospective Study Program (SP2), and a Chinese individual described by Park et al. (DOCX 19 kb)

Regions of variants of uncertain clinical significance found in our cohort. Genomic coordinates were listed in the human assembly GRCh37/hg19. (DOCX 18 kb)

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Indications of testing in non-ASD individuals with CNVs overlapping DPP10 in TYH database. (DOCX 15 kb)

Coordinates [hg19] of CNVs overlapping DPP10 in chromosome 2 in Marshall et al., Girirajan et al., and the DECIPHER database. (DOCX 19 kb)

Coordinates in [hg19] of similar CNVs overlapping DPP10 in the Database of Genomic Variants (DGV) study, cohort in the study by Itsara et al., Singapore Genome Variation Project (SGVP) (43), Singapore Prospective Study Program (SP2), and a Chinese individual described by Park et al. (DOCX 19 kb)

Regions of variants of uncertain clinical significance found in our cohort. Genomic coordinates were listed in the human assembly GRCh37/hg19. (DOCX 18 kb)

Investigation was carried out to study the effects of maximum aggregate size (MAS) (12.5mm, 19.0mm, 25.0mm, 37.5mm, and 50.0mm) on ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV) of concrete. For investigation, first class bricks were collected and broken to make coarse aggregate. The aggregates were tested for specific gravity, absorption capacity, unit weight, and abrasion resistance. Cylindrical concrete specimens were made with different sand to aggregate volume ratio (s/a) (0.40 and 0.45), W/C ratio (0.45, 0.50, and 0.55), and cement content (375kg/m(3) and 400kg/m(3)). The specimens were tested for compressive strength and Young's modulus. UPV through wet specimen was measured using Portable Ultrasonic Non-destructive Digital Indicating Tester (PUNDIT). Results indicate that the pulse velocity through concrete increases with an increase in MAS. Relationships between UPV and compressive strength; and UPV and Young's modulus of concrete are proposed for different maximum sizes of brick aggregate.