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Parkinson disease is characterized by dopaminergic cell loss in the substantia nigra of the midbrain. There are various imaging markers for Parkinson disease. Recent advances in MRI have enabled elucidation of the underlying pathophysiologic changes in the nigral structure. This has contributed to accurate and early diagnosis and has improved disease progression monitoring. This article aims to review...
This paper presents an ac ripple repression method for neutral-point voltage of three-level inverter system with electrolytic capacitor less. To reduce the volume of three-level inverter system, electrolytic capacitor with huge capacitance is must eliminated from dc-link. In the inverter system applying film capacitors, however, the ac ripple component in neutral-point voltage of dc-link is increased...
This paper presents discontinuous pulse width modulation (DPWM) scheme for a modular multilevel converter (MMC) to achieve an advanced switching losses reduction. The MMC is considered to be one of the most attractive multilevel topology for high-power applications because of the features of its high power quality, modularity, and availability. However, the MMC has large switching losses because of...
Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is a nonorthogonal multiple access scheme based on a multi-dimensional codebook with sparse codewords. The sparsity property of SCMA allows the receiver to take advantage of low-complexity message passing algorithm (MPA) detector with maximum likelihood (ML)-like performance. The use of multiple antennas at the SCMA receiver will improve the detection performance...
Recently vision sensor based lane detection technology is being magnified as automated driving service get into the acceleration step. However, lane detection is not used lateral risk assessment or lateral control alone but also used front target vehicle selection for the longitudinal control system. Ego lane detected from vision sensor is a good assumption as an ego vehicle's driving path and would...
Motor imagery (Ml)-based brain-computer interface (BCI) allows users to control external devices using the brain signal patterns induced by the imagination of movements. Since these patterns have high variability between subjects and sessions, the BCI system necessarily requires 20–30 minutes for the calibration process each time the system is used. This time-consuming process requires a high level...
In this paper, a new control strategy for seamless mode transfer of grid-connected single-phase inverter is proposed. Generally, power flow between DC side and AC side is controlled by current reference of grid-connected inverter in d-q synchronous rotating frame. Therefore, it is general to reverse the current reference if the direction of power flow is changed. However, it causes a rapid change...
In this paper, an advanced droop control using a multinomial model for operating the parallel-connected uninterruptible power supply (UPS) inverters is proposed. To control the parallel inverters without any physical communications, the control method using a P/Q droops is conventionally used. The conventional method droops voltage and frequency using the monomial model. In conventional droop control,...
The aims of this study were to develop an automatic detection technique for tooth cracks and to suggest quantitative methods for measuring gingival sulcus depth using swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT). We evaluated SS-OCT with wavelength centered at 1310 nm over a spectral bandwidth of 100 nm at a rate of 50 kHz as a new diagnostic tool for the detection of tooth cracks and gingival...
In this paper, a low-cost lens fabrication method using a micro chamber produced by a three-dimensional (3-D) printer is presented. The shape of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane was controlled by adjusting the pressure inside the chamber. On top of the shaped membrane, an ultraviolet-curable resin was poured. Depending on the pressure inside the chamber and the shape of the chamber lid, three...
In wireless communication, heterogeneous technologies such as WiFi, ZigBee and BlueTooth operate in the same ISM band.With the exponential growth in the number of wireless devices, the ISM band becomes more and more crowded. These heterogeneous devices have to compete with each other to access spectrum resources, generating cross-technology interference (CTI). Since CTI may destroy wireless communication,...
Long-term electrode implant is a challenge for successful brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). It is well known that electrocorticography (ECoG) using flexible planar electrodes is more suitable for long-term implants than intracortical neural recordings using penetrative electrodes. In this study, we propose a convex-shaped, PDMS-parylene hybrid multi-electrode array for long-term stable ECoG recording...
In this paper, we propose a novel low-complexity signal detection technique based on compressed sensing for a full-duplex generalized spatial modulation (FD-GSM) system, where a communication node transmits data symbols via some antennas and receives data symbols via the remaining antennas at the same time. Thus, each antenna operates as either transmitter or receiver in each symbol time, which implies...
In this paper, we propose a virtual full-duplex relay selection scheme in order to improve the achievable rate of secondary system in relay-assisted undelay cognitive radio (CR) networks. The proposed scheme first allocates transmit powers of transmitting nodes considering the interference constraint given by the primary system. Then, the best transmitting and receiving relay pair is selected based...
In this paper, we describe CoMP2flex, a user-centric base station (BS) cooperation scheme that provides improvements in reliability of both uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) communications of wireless cellular networks. CoMP2flex supports not only cooperation of two BSs with same direction of traffic but also cooperation of two BSs serving bidirectional traffic. The reliability performance of CoMP2flex...
In this work, a DRAM cell based on gated-thyristor having pillar channel and sidewall gate is proposed and investigated through device simulation study. Stored electrons in the base region make a difference in read current lowering potential barrier. It has a fast writing speed under 10 ns because of its mechanism based on thermal injection and highly scalable structure because of self-connected word...
The importance of measuring and simulating a radial pulsation is steadily increased in medical science area, because the radial pulsation is a surrogate maker to estimate a central aortic pressure waveform which is clinically imperative for predicting cardiovascular diseases. Due to technical limits, mathematical relationship between the central and radial pressures has not been reliably demonstrated...
The wireless power transfer (WPT) has many advantages such as convenience of energy transfer and high reliability of system. Therefore, WPT system is widely applied to IT devices, electric vehicle, and industrial application by using concrete structure. However, when is applied to reinforced concrete structure, there is a severe problem that it has very low efficiency for power transfer, which results...
Green technology for not only reducing energy consumption but also environmental pollution has become a critical factor in ICT industries. However, for the telecommunications sector in particular, most network elements are not usually optimized for power efficiency. In this work, we propose a green routing method in an IP network for the reduction of unnecessary energy consumption. In addition, it...
Recent research on CTC (cross-technology communication) demonstrates the viability of direct coordination among heterogeneous devices (e.g., WiFi and ZigBee) with incompatible physical layers. Although encouraging, current solutions suffer from either severe inefficiency in channel utilization or low throughput using limited beacons. To address these limitations, this paper presents C-Morse, which...
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