Organic Thin Film Transistors (OTFTs) are promising devices for future development of variety of low-cost and large-area electronics applications such as flexible displays. This paper analyzes the performance of OTFT ...
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A capacitance relative humidity (RH) sensor is described that has a design, construction, and material composition that result in an inexpensive and robust sensor. This sensor has a multilayer, free-standing film cons...
A capacitance relative humidity (RH) sensor is described that has a design, construction, and material composition that result in an inexpensive and robust sensor. This sensor has a multilayer, free-standing film construction. It consists of a humidity sensitive polyimide (PI) dielectric core and conductive layers consisting of carbon filled polysulfone on each side of the polyirnide film to form a capacitor. The polyimide used is a BPDA-ODA type, and replaces a PMDA-ODA type polyimide used in a previous version of this sensor. The BPDA-ODA sensor has a nominal capacitance of 200 pF and a nominal sensitivity of 13% at 100% RH. The characteristics of this humidity sensor are discussed and compared to the characteristics of the PMDA-ODA type sensor. Characteristics considered include the PI film moisture uptake and water vapor transmission, and the sensors’ sensitivity to relative humidity, frequency response, and aging at 85°C/85% RH. The dual-state sorption model and free volume calculations are used to demonstrate that observed differences in the film are due to differences in chemical composition between the films.
Currently, relatively popular and representative face recognition algorithms are algorithm based on template matching and algorithms based on skin-color segmentation. The computation of recognition algorithm based on ...
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Protein-RNA interactions play important roles in cellular processes like protein synthesis, RNA processing, and gene expression regulation. Reliable identification of the interfaces involved in RNA-protein interaction...
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Numerous pre-clinical and clinical reports have demonstrated that the MRI-measured apparent diffusion coefficient of water(ADC) increases early in the response to a wide variety of anti-cancer *** has been proposed th...
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Numerous pre-clinical and clinical reports have demonstrated that the MRI-measured apparent diffusion coefficient of water(ADC) increases early in the response to a wide variety of anti-cancer *** has been proposed that this increase in ADC generally results from an increase in the tumor extracellular volume fraction leading to a greater degree of unrestricted water ***,an increase in extracellular volume has been ascribed to the cell shrinkage that occurs early in the process of programmed cell ***,other modes of death can be initiated soon after beginning *** other modes of death include mitotic catastrophe and necrosis,and may also involve changes in the fraction of water with unrestricted *** work quantitatively examines whether MRI-measured ADC is altered in response to therapies that induce cell death via non-apoptotic mechanisms and correlates ADC changes with cell death modalities regionally within the *** morphometric analysis show apoptotic responses were limited to the tumor periphery in apoptosis-proficient *** was not observed in deficient *** catastrophe was observed after treatment at the periphery and deeper into the *** was the predominant response in the center of the *** changes were moderate in the periphery and larger in the *** results indicate that early and significant changes in ADC can occur in concert with mitotic catastrophe and lytic necrosis in the absence of ***,changes in ADC may be a generalized measure of cytotoxic response to chemotherapy.
In lab-on-a-chip systems, microactuators are critical to control the flow within the microchannels. Most of the current actuators require hardware connection (electromagnetic, thermopneumatic actuators, etc.) within t...
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Enhanced rates of oxide growth have been observed on silicon when exposed to high-energy x-ray irradiation. This observed effect could potentially be utilized for remote total ionizing dose-sensing applications.
Enhanced rates of oxide growth have been observed on silicon when exposed to high-energy x-ray irradiation. This observed effect could potentially be utilized for remote total ionizing dose-sensing applications.
Wireless sensor networks can be used in habitat monitoring for detecting fire, in disaster for helping rescue teams and in agriculture for sensing humidity. Node localization is essential for some important sensor net...
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Wireless sensor networks can be used in habitat monitoring for detecting fire, in disaster for helping rescue teams and in agriculture for sensing humidity. Node localization is essential for some important sensor network applications. Despite the high relative accuracy of some localization algorithms, node localization is still an opened research area, due to the physical phenomena such as attenuation, reflection, diffraction, scattering and so forth. The current developed algorithms have different accuracy when are tested under dissimilar environments. We propose to use Smart Beacon Nodes (SBNs) to infer the Obstruction Level Indicator over an occupied area, then, use this indicator for estimating the distance among nodes. In our experimental simulation, SBNs decrease the node localization error of Triangular Centroid Localization and Weighted Centroid Localization up to 18%.
EEG-based motor imagery classification has been widely studied for Brain-computer Interfaces (BCIs) due to its asynchronous and continuous elicitation and its great potential to many applications. Many research groups...
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EEG-based motor imagery classification has been widely studied for Brain-computer Interfaces (BCIs) due to its asynchronous and continuous elicitation and its great potential to many applications. Many research groups have devoted their efforts to either the frequency band selection or optimal spatial filters learning via the Common Spatial Pattern (CSP) algorithm. However, since the spectral filtering and the spatial filtering are generally operated in order in a motor imagery classification system the optimization of the spatial filters and the spectral filters should be considered simultaneously in a unified framework. In this paper, we propose a novel probabilistic approach for the spatio-spectral filters optimization in an EEG-based BCI with a particle-filter algorithm and mutual information between feature vectors and class labels. There are two main contributions of the proposed method. The one is that it finds the optimal frequency bands that maximally discriminate the feature vectors of two classes in terms of an information theoretic approach. The other is that we construct a spectrally-weighted label decision rule by linearly combining the outputs from multiple SVMs, one for each frequency band, with the weight of the corresponding frequency band. From our experiments with two publicly available dataset, we confirm that the proposed method outperforms the other competing methods.
The ergodic secrecy capacity of the wiretap channel is known when the main channel (between the transmitter and the legitimate receiver) state information (CSI) is perfect at the transmitter and the coherence period i...
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(纸本)9781467303217
The ergodic secrecy capacity of the wiretap channel is known when the main channel (between the transmitter and the legitimate receiver) state information (CSI) is perfect at the transmitter and the coherence period is sufficiently large to enable random coding arguments in each block. In a fast fading scenario, when the codeword length spans many coherence periods, the secrecy capacity is still not known. In this paper, we present a framework that characterizes this secrecy capacity under imperfect main channel estimation at the transmitter. Inner and outer bounds on the ergodic secrecy capacity are derived for a class of independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) fading channels. The achievable rate is a simple on-off scheme using a Gaussian input. The upper bound is obtained using an appropriate correlation scheme of the main and the eavesdropper channels. The upper and the lower bounds coincide with recently derived ones in the perfect main CSI extreme. Furthermore, the lower bound matches the upper bound in no main CSI extreme, where the secrecy capacity is equal to zero. Numerical results are provided for independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) Rayleigh fading channels.
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