Applications of brain-computer interface (BCI) systems have grown in importance for assisting individuals with severe motor disabilities in navigating our increasingly technologically dependent society. With applicati...
Applications of brain-computer interface (BCI) systems have grown in importance for assisting individuals with severe motor disabilities in navigating our increasingly technologically dependent society. With applications such as electric wheelchairs and advanced prosthetics in mind, the goal of this research is to develop a system that enables the use of electroencephalographic (EEG) and electromyographic (EMG) signals to control the movement of a robot. An EEG cap was used to obtain occipital alpha power density, frontal muscular artifacts, and sensorimotor mu rhythms, which were then sent back to a PC via Bluetooth for further processing. Signal-processing algorithms and models were developed and implemented to determine the user’s mental activity and send signals to the external physical device. The preliminary results from the pilot experiments were very promising. The algorithms will be implemented for real-time signal processing and tested with a BCI-controlled robotic device.
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) occur frequently in eukaryotic cells, and the homologous recombination pathway (HR) is one of the major pathways required to repair these breaks. However, tumor cells that are able to r...
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Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) are the best technology for supplying and storing energy for electric mobility systems. Despite that, this technology is sensitive to abuses that can compromise its lifetime and cause fire ...
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(数字)9798331541606
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(纸本)9798331541613
Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) are the best technology for supplying and storing energy for electric mobility systems. Despite that, this technology is sensitive to abuses that can compromise its lifetime and cause fire and explosion risks. In this context, if LIB is not correctly controlled, some abuses, such as overcharging (OC) and over-discharging (OD), can be observed and provoke a loss of capacity. Therefore, this work presented the application of several experiments in cells, of the NMC type, under OC and the combination of OC and OD. The results indicated that cells charged until 4.4 and 4.5 V and discharged until 3.0 V do not lose capacity for twenty-five cycles, but more cycles should be done to understand the impact over time. On the other side, the cell charged until 4.6 and 4.8 V had its security protection romped in the fourth charging cycle, and the cell charged until 5.0 V had its safety compromised in the first charging cycle. Conversely, cells with a combination of OC and OD were more compromised. In this context, while a cell is submitted only with OC and does not lose capacity, a cell under OC and then under OD had its protection romped in the third charging cycle. Cells under 4.6 V and 4.8 V lost capacity during the second charging cycle. In conclusion, OC provokes a high level of degradation in the cell, but the combination of OC and OD causes even more degradation.
Analysis of differential gene expression plays a fundamental role in biology toward illuminating the molecular mechanisms driving a difference between groups (e.g., due to treatment or disease). While any analysis is ...
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With the rapid advancement of electronic textiles, the design and integration of connectors have emerged as pivotal challenges. This study emphasizes the development of a connection solution that amalgamates miniaturi...
With the rapid advancement of electronic textiles, the design and integration of connectors have emerged as pivotal challenges. This study emphasizes the development of a connection solution that amalgamates miniaturization, efficiency, and reliability, specifically tailored for Flexible Conductive Silicone Circuits. A diversified connection scheme is proposed, incorporating elements such as snaps, Pogo pins, and conductive hook-and-loop fasteners, thereby achieving an innovative and pragmatic design. Through meticulous manufacturing processes, including the utilization of hot-melt adhesive, PET films, conductive fabric, and other multilayer materials, a connection system with low impedance and commendable conductivity was successfully engineered. Impedance test outcomes have indicated that the resistance at each connection point is less than 0.7 ohms, substantiating its superior electrical properties. In terms of assembly, this research demonstrates the precise interconnection of the controller and conductive fabric circuit, ensured by metal pin technology, leading to connection stability. This solution not only furnishes appropriate connection technology for specific application scenarios but also opens new avenues and directions for connection design within the domain of electronic textiles.
We use concept-based interpretable models to mitigate shortcut learning. Existing methods lack interpretability. Beginning with a Blackbox, we iteratively carve out a mixture of interpretable experts (MoIE) and a resi...
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Supercapacitors are known for longer cycle life and faster charging rate compared to batteries. However, the energy density of supercapacitors requires improvement to expand their application space. To raise the energ...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798350383263
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(纸本)9798350383270
Supercapacitors are known for longer cycle life and faster charging rate compared to batteries. However, the energy density of supercapacitors requires improvement to expand their application space. To raise the energy density of structural supercapacitors, this work demonstrates a low resistance and mechanically strong solid-state electrolyte.
The world has suffered from COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) for the last two years, causing much damage and change in people’s daily lives. Thus, automated detection of COVID-19 utilizing deep learning on chest computed tomogr...
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Clipping is a common nonlinear distortion that occurs whenever the input or output of an audio system exceeds the supported range. This phenomenon undermines not only the perception of speech quality but also downstre...
Clipping is a common nonlinear distortion that occurs whenever the input or output of an audio system exceeds the supported range. This phenomenon undermines not only the perception of speech quality but also downstream processes utilizing the disrupted signal. Therefore, a real-time-capable, robust, and low-response-time method for speech declipping (SD) is desired. In this work, we introduce DDD (Demucs-Discriminator-Declipper), a real-time-capable speech-declipping deep neural network (DNN) that requires less response time by design. We first observe that a previously untested real-time-capable DNN model, Demucs, exhibits a reasonable declipping performance. Then we utilize adversarial learning objectives to increase the perceptual quality of output speech without additional inference overhead. Subjective evaluations on harshly clipped speech shows that DDD outperforms the baselines by a wide margin in terms of speech quality. We perform detailed waveform and spectral analyses to gain an insight into the output behavior of DDD in comparison to the baselines. Finally, our streaming simulations also show that DDD is capable of sub-decisecond mean response times, outperforming the state-of-the-art DNN approach by a factor of six.
We developed a terahertz time-domain spectroscopy system to generate high-resolution 2-dimensional images of paraffin-embedded murine pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma tissues using the refractive index and absorption ...
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