Electronics, Volume 11, Issue 15

For a d-regular $(k,s)$-CNF formula, a problem is to determine whether it has a (1,0)-super solution. If so, it is called (1,0)-d-regular ($k,s$)-SAT. A (1,0)-super solution is an assignment that satisfies at least two literals of each clause. When the v...

The use of non-linear power inductors, intended as devices exploited up to a current at which the inductance is halved, is of great interest in switched-mode power supplies (SMPSs). Indeed, it allows the use of lighter and cheaper inductors improving...

To overcome the problem of insufficiency of linear frequency modulation (LFM) radio fuzes against sweep-type jamming, a method is proposed to classify and identify radio fuze targets and interfering signals based on third-order spectrum features. Usi...

For diseases that affect brain function, such as strokes, post-onset rehabilitation plays a critical role in the wellbeing of patients. MEG is a technique with high temporal and spatial resolution that measures brain functions non-invasively, and it...

The increasing usage of wireless technology has prompted the development of a new generation antenna compatible with the latest devices, with on-body antennas (wearable antennas) being one of the revolutionary applications. This modern design is rele...

With the developing technology, the dimensions of electronic systems are becoming smaller, and their performance and the amount of energy they need increases. This situation causes the electronic components to heat up more and the existing cooling sy...

The Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) is currently developing a high-performance laser-communication terminal for CubeSats aimed at providing a high-datarate communication solution for LEO satellites requ...

Solar power systems have been growing globally to replace fossil fuel-based energy and reduce greenhouse gases (GHG). In addition to panel efficiency deterioration and contamination, the produced power of photovoltaic (PV) systems is intermittent due...

The solution of nonlinear Boolean equations in a binary field plays a crucial part in cryptanalysis and computational mathematics. To speed up the process of solving Boolean equations is an urgent task that needs to be addressed. In this paper, we pr...

Applying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to triangular meshes has always been a challenging task. Because of the complex structure of the meshes, most of the existing methods apply CNNs indirectly to them, and require complex preprocessing or tr...

Due to aggressive scaling down, multiple-node-upset hardened design has become a major concern regarding radiation hardening. The proposed latch overcomes the architecture and performance limitations of state-of-the-art double-node-upset (DNU)-resili...

In recent years, modern industry has been exploring the transition to cyber physical system (CPS)-based smart factories. As intelligent industrial detection and control technology grows in popularity, massive amounts of time-sensitive applications ar...

There are different bovine infectious diseases that show economic losses and social problems in various sectors of the economy. Most of the studies are focused on some diseases (for example, tuberculosis, salmonellosis, and brucellosis), but there ar...

The design of modern industrial products is further improved through the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation. Realistic simulation is enabled by the closed loop between the hardware under test (HUT) and real-time simulation. Such a system involves...

The hardware implementation of error-tolerant adders using the paradigm of approximate computing has considerably influenced the performance metrics, especially in applications that can compromise accuracy. The foundation for approximate processing i...

Intracranial hemorrhaging is considered a type of disease that affects the brain and is very dangerous, with high-mortality cases if there is no rapid diagnosis and prompt treatment. CT images are one of the most important methods of diagnosing intra...

Personalized travel recommendations propose locations of interest (LOIs) for users. The LOI sequence suggestion is more complicated than a single LOI recommendation. Only a few studies have considered LOI sequence recommendations. Creating a reliable...

Particle filters have been widely used in dim and small target tracking, which plays a significant role in navigation applications. However, their characteristics, such as difficulty of expressing features for dim and small targets and lack of partic...

Polar codes have become the channel coding scheme for control channel of enhanced mobile broadband in the 5G communication systems. Belief propagation (BP) decoding of polar codes has advantages of low decoding latency and high parallelism but achiev...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) and congestive heart failure (CHF) are the most prevalent types of cardiovascular disorders as the leading cause of death due to delayed diagnosis. Early diagnosis of these cardiac conditions is possible by manually analyzing...

Smart-city management systems use information about the environment, including the current values of weather factors. The specificity of the urban sites requires a high density of weather measurement points, which forces the use of low-cost sensors....

Iterative compilation based on machine learning can effectively predict a program’s compiler optimization parameters. Although having some limits, such as the low efficiency of optimization parameter search and prediction accuracy, machine lear...

A textile bandwidth-enhanced coupled-mode substrate-integrated cavity antenna with a slot is presented. The original coupled-mode substrate-integrated cavity antenna is of two close resonances for the odd and even coupled modes, and a rectangular slo...

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are intended to work without a fixed framework and provide dependable interchanges to ground vehicles, boats, airplanes, or people and structure a self-mending process that will empower persistent correspondences in an...

This paper presents the application of the concepts and approaches of linear graph (LG) theory in the modeling and simulation of a four-wheel skid-steer mobile robotic system. An LG representation of the system is proposed, and the accompanying state...

This paper presents the design and simulation of a single-chip integrated MEMS accelerometer gyroscope by integrating a Coriolis vibratory ring gyroscope and a differential resonant accelerometer into one single-chip structure, measuring both the acc...

This article presents a four-element multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna design for next-generation millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems. The single antenna element of the MIMO systems consists of a T-shaped and plow-shaped patch...

Task-space cooperative tracking control of the networked multiple Euler–Lagrange systems is studied in this paper. On the basis of establishing kinematic and dynamic modeling of a Euler–Lagrange system, an innovative task-space coordinati...

The results presented in this article relate to the study of the impact of gamma radiation on the breakdown voltage of gas-filled surge arrester manufactured by CITEL, Littelfuse and EPCOS at an operating voltage of 230 V. Radium was considered as a...

Image denoising has been a knotty issue in the computer vision field, although the developing deep learning technology has brought remarkable improvements in image denoising. Denoising networks based on deep learning technology still face some proble...

Binary function similarity analysis evaluates the similarity of functions at the binary level to aid program analysis, which is popular in many fields, such as vulnerability detection, binary clone detection, and malware detection. Graph-based method...

Nonclinical measurements of a seismocardiogram (SCG) can diagnose cardiovascular disease (CVD) at an early stage, when a critical condition has not been reached, and prevents unplanned hospitalization. However, researchers are restricted when it come...

Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly popular tool in more and more areas of technology. New challenges in control systems design and application are related to increased productivity, control flexibility, and processing of big data. So...

Recently, video streaming services consumption has grown massively and is foreseen to increase even more in the future. The tremendous traffic usage has negatively impacted the network’s quality of service due to network congestion and end-to-e...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a trend that manifests on a global level. The positive effects of CSR initiatives depend on the reaction of stakeholders, among which customers represent an important category. The purpose of this paper was to...

With the increasing trend in the energy demand, power networks are transitioning from conventional generation systems to renewable energy sources (RESs). The energy is harvested from these RESs and fed to grid-connected inverters (GCIs), as the outpu...

This research aims to develop a conceptual model to establish the influence of digital core investment and digital innovation on digital resilience at the enterprise level. The data were collected through a questionnaire-based survey of managers and...

In recent years, machine learning (ML) algorithms have become of paramount importance in computer science research, both in the electronic and biomedical fields [...]

Recent studies on inverse tone mapping (iTM) have moved toward indirect mapping, which generates a stack of low dynamic range (LDR) images with multiple exposure values (multi-EV stack) and then merges them. In order to generate multi-EV stack(s), se...

Spectrum sensing is a crucial technology for cognitive radio. The existing spectrum sensing methods generally suffer from certain problems, such as insufficient signal feature representation, low sensing efficiency, high sensibility to noise uncertai...

A delay locked loop (DLL) based on a Phase Detector, which Measures the Delay of the Voltage-controlled delay line (PD-MDV), which is t_VCDL, with efficient and stable locking performance was proposed. In contrast to conventional phase detectors, the...

In this paper, we proposed an effective and efficient approach to the classification of breast cancer microcalcifications and evaluated the mathematical model for calcification on mammography with a large medical dataset. We employed several semi-aut...

Silicon quantum dots (Si-QDs) with luminescent downshifting properties have been used for the efficiency enhancement of solar cells. In this study, Phenylacetylene-capped silicon quantum dots (PA Si-QDs) have been fabricated and applied as luminescen...

Traffic flow prediction provides support for travel management, vehicle scheduling, and intelligent transportation system construction. In this work, a graph space–time network (GSTNCNI), incorporating complex network feature information, is pr...

The last two decades have faced a significantly increased number of telecommunication antennas emitting electromagnetic radiation in residential areas. The theoretical simulation of the dispersion of the energy flux density of the electromagnetic fie...

This paper introduces a multi-class hand gesture recognition model developed to identify a set of hand gesture sequences from two-dimensional RGB video recordings, using both the appearance and spatiotemporal parameters of consecutive frames. The cla...

Checking that requirements written in natural language hold for a formally implemented system is a complex task. Test steps are commonly implemented manually from the requirements. This process is inherently prone to mistakes, as test cases are compl...

The hierarchical structure of the data center network is more and more unsuitable for increasing east-west traffic from virtual machines. Reconfigurable circuit switching is utilized to reduce regional hotspots, which causes the problem of routing os...

In order to reduce power failures caused by lead sealing defects, it is necessary to carry out nondestructive testing of cable lead sealings. However, previous studies have focused on the detection of surface and near-surface defects of lead sealings...

Privacy amplification is an important step in the post-processing of quantum communication, which plays an indispensable role in the security of quantum key distribution systems. In this paper, we propose a Cellular Automata-based privacy amplificati...