Fuel cell hybrid vehicles represent an alternative to battery electric vehicles and will gain importance in the future as they do not need large battery capacities and thus require less critical raw materials. Depending on the electric architecture,...
I/O is often a performance bottleneck in global ocean circulation models with fine spatial resolution. In this paper, we present an asynchronous parallel I/O framework and demonstrate its efficacy in the Mass Conservation Ocean Model (MaCOM) as a cas...
Recently, the demand for small, low-cost electronics has increased the use of cost-effective tiny inductors in power-management ICs (PMICs). However, the conduction loss caused by the parasitic DC resistance (RDCR) of a small inductor leads to low ef...
The piezoelectric energy-harvesting system with double-well characteristics and hysteresis in the restoring force is studied. The proposed system consists of a bistable oscillator based on a cantilever beam structure. The elastic force potential is m...
A dynamic wireless power transfer (WPT) system is an effective method, which can reduce charging time and extend the driving range of the electric vehicles. In the dynamic WPT systems, the output voltage may fluctuate when the receiver moves along th...
This paper proposes a bidirectional dc–dc converter for residential micro-grid applications. The proposed converter can operate over an input voltage range that overlaps the output voltage range. This converter uses two snubber capacitors to re...
The exhaust back pressure of diesel engines is becoming increasingly higher nowadays. In order to keep discharging exhaust unhindered and operating smoothly under high exhaust back pressure, a large reduction in engine maximum brake output is often o...
An innovative design of a magnetic coupler for shaft speed amplification is proposed and verified by experiments. The structure of the proposed magnetic coupler is similar to an infinite-stage gearbox. In addition, the mathematical model of flux dens...
Spectral lines can be analysed to determine the physical properties of molecular clouds and the astrochemical processes in the formation area of massive stars. To improve the observation technology of radio astronomy, this paper proposes and compares...
Universities and journals increasingly rely on software tools for detecting textual overlap of a scientific text with the previously published literature to detect potential plagiarism. Although software outputs need to be carefully reviewed by compe...
The volume hologram printer is useful for 3D display, because it is selective to the wavelength and be able to reconstruct with the natural illumination. There are many studies of a volume hologram printer been studied to output a volume hologram fro...
While PCR amplicons extend to a few thousand bases, the length of sequences from direct Sanger sequencing is limited to 500–800 nucleotides. Therefore, several fragments may be required to cover an amplicon, a gene or an entire genome. These fragment...
This paper presents and discusses various metrics proposed for evaluation of polyphonic sound event detection systems used in realistic situations where there are typically multiple sound sources active simultaneously. The system output in this case...
When shifting gears around a tractor’s power shift transmission, it is necessary to coordinate the control of multiple clutches and formulate a reasonable clutch engagement law to ensure the reliability and power of the power system. This paper...
Optical image encryption technology based on joint transform correlation (JTC) has attracted increasing attention from researchers. We propose a multi-user secure communication system based on the special properties of JTC. Multiple users utilize the...
(1) Background: The optimal heart rate, at which the E-wave and A-wave stand adjacent without any overlaps in the Doppler transmitral flow echocardiography, is associated with maximum cardiac output and favorable clinical outcomes in adult patients w...
This paper proposes a modularity for paralleling different rated power supplies without adding a circuit in the feedback loop by using direct and overlapped switching methods. Unlike an isolated output diode, the use of an isolated output switch comp...
Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to detect objects in video sequences and associate them across frames. Currently, the mainstream research direction regarding MOT is the tracking-by-detection (TBD) framework. Tracking results are highly sensitive to...
The emission features of Cdse/ZnS quantum dots doped step-index polymer optical fibers are computationally analyzed in this paper. Spontaneous emission and amplified spontaneous emission were calculated by a theoretical model based on the rate equati...
In a traditional convolutional neural network structure, pooling layers generally use an average pooling method: a non-overlapping pooling. However, this condition results in similarities in the extracted image features, especially for the hyperspect...
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This article studies the relationship between environmental governance, public health expenditure, and economic growth by introducing human health status into a three-period overlapping generation dynamic general equilibrium (OLG-DGE) model and condu...
The authors have designed a gyro-system for orientation (guidance) and stabilization, with two gimbals and a rotor in magnetic suspension (AMB—Active Magnetic Bearing) usable for self-guided rockets. The gyro-system (DGMSGG—double gimbal...
In this paper, we report a theoretical systematic study of continuous wave intracavity backwards optical parametric oscillators based on periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) for mid-infrared (mid-IR) light generation. We study the effects of var...
The transmit array of multi-overlapped-transmit-subarray configured bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MOTS MIMO) radar is partitioned into a number of overlapped subarrays, which is different from the traditional bistatic MIMO radar. In this p...
Radiomics image analysis has the potential to uncover disease characteristics for the development of predictive signatures and personalised radiotherapy treatment. Inter-observer and inter-software delineation variabilities are known to have downstre...
When applying an optical current transformer (OCT) to direct current measurement, output signals exhibit a low signal-to-noise ratio and signal-to-noise band overlap. Sinusoidal wave modulation is used to solve this problem. A double correlation dete...
Structural analysis of forests by UAV is currently growing in popularity. Given the reduction in platform costs, and the number of algorithms available to analyze data output, the number of applications has grown rapidly. Forest structures are not on...
This paper proposes a single-stage single-ended primary inductor converter (SEPIC) converter circuit, which is applied to the organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) driver circuit. The circuit proposed in this paper replaces the output Schottky diode f...
In response to the demand for rapid matte finishing on large-format 304 stainless steel surfaces, this study utilized four fiber laser devices (output wavelength: 1064 nm, output power: 100 W, maximum modulation frequency: 4 kHz) to simultaneously pe...
Imagery from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles can be used to generate three-dimensional (3D) point cloud models. However, final data quality is impacted by the flight altitude, camera angle, overlap rate, and data processing strategies. Typically, both overv...
In this study, we propose an analytical approach based on the modified differential transform method to investigate the dynamic behavior of a plucking energy harvester. The harvester consists of a piezoelectric cantilever oscillator and a rotating pl...
In the process of changes in total population, structure, and spatial distribution, it is essential to investigate the inner rules of the harmonious correlation between population and development. Thus, this study examines the correlation between dem...
The InnoSlab laser has the advantages of excellent thermal management and high overlapping efficiency. In this work, we report an InnoSlab laser with high efficiency at 1319 nm end-pumped 0.6at.% Nd:YAG by 808 nm. The hybrid stable–unstable res...
Response reconstruction is used to obtain accurate replication of vehicle structural responses of field recorded measurements in a laboratory environment, a crucial step in the process of Accelerated Destructive Testing (ADA). Response Reconstruction...
Event extraction is a complex and challenging task in the field of information extraction. It aims to identify event types, triggers, and argument information from the text. In recent years, overlapping event extraction has attracted the attention of...
The application of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in forest research includes a wide range of equipment, systems, and flight settings, creating a need for enhancing data acquisition efficiency and quality. Thus, we assessed the effects of flying altit...
In this paper, we propose a fractional differential equation (FDE)-based approach for the estimation of instantaneous frequencies for windowed signals as a part of signal reconstruction. This approach is based on modeling bandpass filter results arou...
Ivabradine is a recently introduced inhibitor of the If ion channel, which exhibits the capacity to reduce heart rate while preserving hemodynamic stability. At present, ivabradine finds its clinical indication in patients suffering from heart failur...
Phenotypic characteristics of fruit particles, such as projection area, can reflect the growth status and physiological changes of grapes. However, complex backgrounds and overlaps always constrain accurate grape border recognition and detection of f...
Understanding semantic relations between two texts is crucial for many information and document management tasks, in which one must determine whether the content fully overlaps, is completely superseded by another document, or overlaps only partially...
This paper presents an X-band high-power GaN MMIC power amplifier (PA). To balance efficiency, output power, and saturated power flatness, the load-line theory is employed to analyze and validate the power variation trends within an extended continuo...
This paper presents a 2.5-GHz low-voltage, high-efficiency CMOS power amplifier (PA) IC in 0.18-µm CMOS technology. The combination of a dual-switching transistor (DST) and a third harmonic tuning technique is proposed. The DST effectively impr...
Modern sensor nodes have multiple operating states, which causes a conventional voltage converter to perform poorly over a wide load range of the operating states. This paper proposes a voltage converter whose switching frequency and output voltage a...
Deep Neural Networks are known for impressive results in a wide range of applications, being responsible for many advances in technology over the past few years. However, debugging and understanding neural networks models’ inner workings is a c...
In order to meet the high uniformity calibration requirements for scientific-grade, large-size space detectors used in the CHES Extrasolar Planet Exploration Mission, this paper presents the design of a wide dynamic range, high uniformity spectral ir...
Impulse response functions (IRFs) are useful for characterizing systems’ dynamic behavior and gaining insight into their underlying processes, based on sensor data streams of their inputs and outputs. However, current IRF estimation methods typ...
In this study, a manufacturing strategy, and guidelines for inclined and multilayered structures of variable thickness are presented, which are based on the results of an own-developed geometrical model that obtains both the coating thickness and dil...
We present our recent development of the surface-emitting quantum cascade laser with a PC (photonic crystal) resonator and a strain-compensated MQW (multiple quantum well) active layer operating at around 4.3 μm. We describe the laser performance...
The series resonant DC-DC converter (SRC) can regulate the input voltage in a wide range at a fixed switching frequency. In this work, the bridgeless rectifier, which is utilized intensively in the applications of the power factor correction, has bee...
Heart rate reduction using ivabradine, a selective If channel blocker that purely decreases heart rate without affecting hemodynamics, improves clinical outcomes in patients with systolic heart failure. However, the ideal heart rate that should be a...
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