Understanding the Lucas Wedge: Definition, Function, and Example

Discover the Lucas Wedge, its impact on GDP, and how it depicts lost economic potential due to poor policy. Learn the key ...

Angstrom-scale plasmonic gap boosts nonlinear light output by 2,000% per volt

Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science (NINS, Japan) and SOKENDAI have demonstrated a more than 2000% voltage-induced enhancement of near-field nonlinear optical responses. To achieve this ...
Healio

Early to mid-prenatal air pollution exposure, lower offspring lung function linked

Elevated fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide exposure in the early to middle weeks of pregnancy had links to lower ...
Morningstar

NTT Research Collaboration Breaks the “One Device, One Function” Paradigm with World’s First Programmable Nonlinear Photonics Chip

New paper published in Nature details NTT Research’s development of the world’s first programmable nonlinear photonic waveguide in collaboration with Cornell University and Stanford University. A ...
Frontiers

Linear and nonlinear multidimensional functional connectivity methods reveal similar networks for semantic processing in EEG/MEG data

1 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom 2 Department of Psychology and York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York, York, United Kingdom ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Implementing AI Activation Functions

Activation functions play a critical role in AI inference, helping to ferret out nonlinear behaviors in AI models. This makes them an integral part of any neural network, but nonlinear functions can ...
Ars Technica

Getting an all-optical AI to handle non-linear math

A standard digital camera used in a car for stuff like emergency braking has a perceptual latency of a hair above 20 milliseconds. That’s just the time needed for a camera to transform the photons ...
IEEE

Finite-Time Adaptive Control of Nonstrict-Feedback Nonlinear Systems With Time-Varying Full State Constraints

Abstract: This paper proposes a finite-time adaptive tracking fuzzy control approach for nonlinear nonstrict-feedback systems with unknown disturbances and time-varying full state constraints. The ...
IEEE

Global Asymptotic Stabilization Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems With Input Quantization and Unknown Output Function

Abstract: In this article, a global output feedback control scheme is developed for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems subject to input quantization and unknown output function. By employing a ...