Recombinant Human La/SSB Antigen [His]

We experimentally demonstrate high-speed metro-scale optical transmission of a single sideband (SSB) 4-ary pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) signal based on a silicon photonic dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM). We propose a novel, to the best of our knowl-edge, artificial neural network (ANN) structure of soft combined ANN (SC-ANN) to compensate for both lin-ear and nonlinear impairments of the signal. SC-ANN obtains the enhanced performance by averaging the out-puts of conventional ANN with different sizes. With the help of the SC-ANN, we achieve a 320 km standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) transmission of 184 Gb/s (92Gbaud) PAM-4 with a bit-error rate (BER) below the 20% soft-decision forward error-correction (SD-FEC) threshold of 2.4 x 10(-2), and the optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) penalty is only 0.3 dB compared to the back-to-back (BTB) results. (C) 2020 Optical Society of America

This study investigates the impact of the Board characteristics, Chief Executive Officer's (CEO) power and Shariah supervision on Earnings Management (EM) within conventional and Islamic banks. We provide evidence that EM levels do not significantly differ between Islamic and conventional banks. Contrary to public belief, additional value-based attributes such as the Shariah Supervisory Board (SSB) that promotes ethical and religious values, do not help in the restriction of opportunistic behaviour in Islamic banks. Additionally, attributes such as board size, firm size and leverage have a significant negative influence on EM of both Islamic and conventional banks. Our results are important in deliberating that the word `Islamic' must not be used merely as a profit manifestation, but instead must promote a value-based business, which in turn could ensure reliability and sustainability.