Hardware Implementation of Successive-Cancellation Decoders for Polar Codes

The recently-discovered polar codes are seen as a major breakthrough in coding theory; they provably achieve the theoretical capacity of discrete memoryless channels using the low-complexity successive cancellation decoding algorithm. Motivated by recent developments in polar coding theory, we propose a family of efficient hardware implementations for successive cancellation (SC) polar decoders. We show that such decoders can be implemented with O(N) processing elements and O(N) memory elements. Furthermore, we show that SC decoding can be implemented in the logarithmic domain, thereby eliminating costly multiplication and division operations, and reducing the complexity of each processing element greatly. We also present a detailed architecture for an SC decoder and provide logic synthesis results confirming the linear complexity growth of the decoder as the code length increases.     

Automatic identification of bacterial types using statistical imaging methods

The objective of the current study is to develop an automatic tool to identify microbiological data types using computer-vision and statistical modeling techniques. Bacteriophage (phage) typing methods are used to identify and extract representative profiles of bacterial types out of species such as the Staphylococcus aureus. Current systems rely on the subjective reading of profiles by a human expert. This process is time-consuming and prone to errors, especially as technology is enabling the increase in the number of phages used for typing. The statistical methodology presented in this work, provides for an automated, objective and robust analysis of visual data, along with the ability to cope with increasing data volumes.     

Highly emissive nano rod-in-rod heterostructures with strong linear polarization

We report the synthesis of CdSe/CdS rod in rod core/shell heterostructures. These rods, synthesized using a seeded-growth approach, show narrow distributions of rod diameters and lengths and exhibit high emission quantum efficiencies and highly polarized emission. The degree of polarization is controlled by the inner core rod dimensions, and it is equal or up to 1.5 times higher than the polarization of equivalent sphere in rod systems. Using the method of photoselection we measure the polarization anisotropy at different excitation wavelengths and study the interplay between electronic contribution and dielectric effects in determining the absorption and emission polarization.     

Copolymerization of norbornene containing 3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxybenzoyl group with norbornene using metathesis catalyst

Summary The ring opening metathesis copolymerization of 5-{[(3,5-di-t-butyl-4-hydroxybenzoyl)oxy]methyl}-2-norbornene (BHBN) with norbornene was carried out using Ru and Os based catalysts. Analysis of the copolymers obtained during the initial stages of copolymerization revealed that both monomers were incorporated randomly and with the same reactivity, indicating that the steric effect of BHBN is not important. The molecular weights of copolymers were found to be in the order of 3×10⁵ with dispersity of around 2. Characterization and some properties of these copolymers are described.     

抑制微溶盐在供水过程中沉淀

本发明提供了一种通过抑制垢在供水过程中沉淀防止含水系统中垢沉淀的方法和装置,该装置包括：（1）一种电解电池流动连接到该系统,包括①接收供水的槽,该槽中的铜表面形成一种电池阴极;②在槽内具有被处理后的锌表面的元件,并且形成电池的阳极;（2）一种控制设备用于控制来自电源的电流（I）;（3）一个流量计,用于测量供水流速与进入系统的水流速有关的流速,其中控制设备被设计用于根据流速控制电流,     

Novel transparent hybrid polymer working stamp for UV-imprinting

Transparent stamps are an integral and crucial part of the UV-imprinting. Time consuming fabrication of quartz stamps increases the price of the technology. In the presented work a thermally stable transparent imprint stamp made of a novel hybrid polymer system is demonstrated. As a low-cost and highly efficient alternative the hybrid polymer stamp contributes to the acceptance and application of the nanoimprint technology. By using the UV-patternable inorganic–organic hybrid polymer quartz stamps might become superfluous in the UV-imprint process entirely, because transparent working stamps can be manufactured also with use of opaque silicon master stamps.