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Scanning nozzle plating system
A plating system is described in which a substrate to be plated is supported on a stationary platform. A nozzle assembly with a small nozzle is supplied with a plating solution under high pressure, so that a constant-flow stream of solution is directed to the substrate. The nozzle assembly is moved relative to the substrate at a selected rate and movement pattern. A potential difference (voltage) is provided between the substrate and the solution in the assembly. The voltage amplitude is modulated so that only when the amplitude is above a minimum known value plating takes place
Bounds for DNA codes with constant GC-content
We derive theoretical upper and lower bounds on the maximum size of DNA codes
of length n with constant GC-content w and minimum Hamming distance d, both
with and without the additional constraint that the minimum Hamming distance
between any codeword and the reverse-complement of any codeword be at least d.
We also explicitly construct codes that are larger than the best
previously-published codes for many choices of the parameters n, d and w.Comment: 13 pages, no figures; a few references added and typos correcte
Improved table for cutting and welding
Welding table covered with parallel inverted steel angles improves metal torch cutting of various types and thicknesses
Reference Points and the Theory of the Firm
In this article I argue that it has been hard to make progress on Coase's theory of the firm agenda because of the difficulty of formalizing haggling costs. I propose an approach that tries to move things forward using the idea of aggrievement costs, and apply it to the question of whether a transaction should be placed inside a firm (in-house production) or in the market place (outsourcing).
Parabolic Flows Renormalized by Partially Hyperbolic Maps
We consider parabolic flows on 3-dimensional manifolds which are renormalized
by circle extensions of Anosov diffeormorphisms. This class of flows includes
nilflows on the Heisenberg nilmanifold which are renormalized by partially
hyperbolic automorphisms. The transfer operators associated to the
renormalization maps, acting on anisotropic Sobolev spaces, are known to have
good spectral properties (this relies on ideas which have some resemblance to
representation theory but also apply to non-algebraic systems). The spectral
information is used to describe the deviation of ergodic averages and solutions
of the cohomological equation for the parabolic flow.Comment: Comments welcom
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