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A method for fabricating nano-structures comprising providing a substrate for the growth of the nano-structures; providing a template having predetermined nano-patterns; providing at least one layer of mask material between the template and the substrate; transferring the nano-patterns from the template to the layer of mask material; and growing the nano-structures on the substrate in areas exposed through the nano-patterns in the layer of mask material by a bottom-up growth process.

Provided is a poly(amino ester) having a polymer backbone comprising at least one secondary amine linkage and at least one tertiary amine linkage in the polymer backbone. Poly(amino ester)s are prepared via the Michael addition of a bis(acrylate ester)monomer to a diamine monomer, wherein the diamine monomer has one primary amino group and one secondary amino group, and can be end-capped by reaction with a suitable reagent. The inventive poly(amino ester)s may be used as vectors for delivery of a bioactive agent, such as DNA, to a cell.

A drug delivery system that includes a hydrogel formed from cyclodextrin and an amphiphilic copolymer that includes an A polymer block comprising a poly(alkylene oxide) and a B polymer block comprising a poly(hydroxyalkanoate), and a therapeutically effective amount of at least one therapeutic agent intimately contained within the hydrogel. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the A polymer block is poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and the B polymer block is poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] (PHB), and the copolymer is the triblock ABA copolymer PEO-PHB-PEO. A method of synthesizing the amphiphilic triblock copolymer is also provided.

An embodiment is related to automatic summarization for digital audio raw data ( 12 ), more specifically, for identifying pure music and vocal music ( 40,60 ) from digital audio data by extracting distinctive features from music frames ( 73,74,75,76 ), designing a classifier and determining the classification parameters ( 20 ) using adaptive learning/training algorithm ( 36 ), and identifying music into pure music or vocal music according to the classifier. For pure music, temporal, spectral and cepstral features are calculated to characterise the musical content, and an adaptive clustering method is used to structure the musical content according to calculated features. The summary ( 22,24,26,48,52,70,72 ) is created according to clustered result and domain-based music knowledge ( 50,150 ). For vocal music, voice related features are extracted and used to structure the musical content, and similarly, the music summary is created in terms of structured content and heuristic rules related to music genres.

An optical equalizer circuit for a light source, the optical equalizer circuit comprising M optical couplers linked by differential delay lines, wherein coupling ratios for the respective M optical couplers of the equalizer circuit are calculated based on an input signal from the light source and a designed profile the optical input is to be equalized to.

A wafer level package formed on an integrated circuit chip having bondpads and a fabrication method therefor is disclosed. The wafer level package comprises at least one first, second and third separation layer having at least one first and second conductive layer formed in-between the separation layers. The at least one first conductive layer is formed on the at least one first separation layer and is coupled to the bondpads. The at least one second conductive layer is formed on the at last one second separation layer wherein the at least one second conductive layer is electrically coupled to the at least one first conductive layer. The at least one third separation layer allows solder to be attached to the at least one second conductive layer for electrically coupling the solder to the bondpads. A chip ground plane is laid in the integrated circuit chip for providing a ground to the at least one first conductive layer and the solder.

A biasing circuit for a CMOS passive mixer core to stabilize its conversion gain, linearity and noise figure. The RF inputs are fed differentially from the two RF ports, the LO inputs are fed differentially from the two LO ports, and the IF outputs are obtained at the two IF ports. The biasing circuit comprises a reference current derived from the bandgap voltage and a n-channel MOSFET transistor. The conversion gain is stabilized by keeping the Vgs-Vth value of the passive mixer core almost constant at all process corners, temperature and power supply changes. This is achieved by implementing Vs in such a way that it will increase the same amount as VDD decreases, and that Vs will decrease the same amount as Vth increases.

The present invention relates to nanocrystals consisting of a homogeneous ternary or quaternary alloy having the composition M11-xM2xA and M11-xM2xAyB1-y, respectively, a process for its production, as well as to uses of such nanocrystals such as as short wavelength light-emitting devices, and in the detection of analytes, in particular biomolecules.

A method for retrieving medical images from at least one image archive and creating at least one teaching file; the method including the steps of retrieving at least one medical image from the image archive; storing the at least one medical image in a database; generating a database record for the teaching file; generating the teaching file; saving the teaching file into the database; and generating at least one index of the teaching file.

A direct current (DC) offset estimation, frequency offset estimation, and compensation system ( 200 ), receives data packet ( 204 ) with preamble ( 206 ). A DC offset estimator ( 210 ) and a frequency offset estimator ( 212 ) operate concurrently to produce estimates of DC and frequency offsets of the data packet ( 204 ), which are determined from a portion of the preamble ( 206 ) as it is received. As the data packet ( 204 ) is received, a compensator ( 214 ) receives the estimates of DC and frequency offsets and compensates the remaining portion of the data packet ( 204 ) to produce a DC and frequency compensated data packet ( 218 ). Concurrent operation of the DC estimator ( 210 ) and the frequency offset estimator ( 212 ) advantageously allows more time to produce the estimates of DC and frequency offsets.