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The design of CMOS based analog circuits has become progressively more challenging as device scaling advances. The transistor sizing strongly influences the performance metrics such as power dissipation, silicon area, unity gain bandwidth, slew rate, and open loop gain. This makes an analog circuit design...

According to the game theory, a bilateral investment agreement (BIT) is a multi-player dynamic game, which involves not only contracting countries, but also potential investors. The preamble and purpose of the BIT are to define the scope of the game, while the investment definition is to further refine...

Multiobjective optimization problem Portfolio is a hard–decision–making problem in investment management. With respect to how to obtain the multiobjective candidate decisive solutions for Portfolio, a multiobjective optimization method M–PBIL (Multiobjective Population Based Incremental Learning) to...

The polymer composites based on carbon nanotubes are of particular interests because of their excellent performance. In this work, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were modified by concentrated acid solution which resulted in CNTs grafted with carboxylic acid (–COOH) and hydroxyl (–OH) groups (i.e. a-CNTs). The...

In this study, the aim was to evaluate visfatin level in Iraqi children and adolescents with obesity, as well as to study the association of serum visfatin level with different biochemical variables. Ninety participants were included. Participants’ ages ranged between (5 and 18) years. Sixty obese children...

The Chinese civilization has been bursting with vitality and vigor in the process of dialogue with other cultures, especially with the Western classic Bible. The “best” translation of the supreme master of Christianity is one of the core issues in the process of translating the Bible into Chinese. In...

Selection of coal fuel for coal-fired power plant is usually required to fulfil criteria such as calorific value, combustion characteristics, slagging fouling potential, and emissions potential. This paper describes coal combustion characteristics were studied by the thermogravimetric analyzer and differential...

One of the main concerns in extending variable renewable energy (VRE) is the electric grid stability due to the sources’ volatility. Germany is introducing a new auction mechanism within the German Renewable Energy Sources Act called “Innovationsausschreibung” (innovation tender) to grid- and system-supporting...

Samarium doped TiO2 photocatalyst TiO2-Sm was prepared by microwave hydrothermal method using Samarium nitrate and tetrabutyl titanate as raw materials. Degradation of methyl orange was used to photocatalytic reaction of TiO2-Sm respectively under the conditions of visible light, microwave (MW), ultraviolet...

The demand for higher data rate and large user experience motivates the existence of 5G-NR for twenty-twenty society. However, 5G-NR uses High Frequency, which makes a strong propagation causing lower signal reception due to rain rate in tropical regions. This paper aims to give an overview about the...

Similarity measure is a usual image processing algorithm, which is decisive for the quality of image registration. And Fast Normalized Cross Correlation(FNCC) is one of the most common similarity matching algorithm. However, it is computationally intensive and very time consuming which limits its application....

The perrhenates of Calcium, Copper and Lead used as oil additive were synthesized via aqua-solution method in this study, and their tribological properties were examined by UMT-2M testing machine. In addition, investigations were performed using XRD, SEM-EDS, DTA/TG to explain the possible mechanism...

This study examines how different amounts of styrene–butadiene rubber (SBR) affects the mechanical and thermal properties of natural rubber (NR) composites. NR–SBR blends containing 0, 10, 20, 30, and 50 wt% SBR were prepared with a constant carbon black content (30 phr) and standard curing additives....

In this paper, we present an efficient soft de-mapping method for M-ary APSK modulation based on hard decision thresholds (HDT), which significantly reduces the computational complexity compared with the maximum likelihood detection (MLD). Furthermore, bit error rate (BER) performance of several soft...

This paper takes the decomposition of the essence of Ang Lee’s film as the starting point of elaboration, and analyzes the iconic content that essence should contain from the perspective of film philosophy. Through the active exploration and subjective innovation of the essence of film and technology,...

The problem in this study originated from asthma complaints suffered by elementary school students in Nanggalo Lapai Subdistrict, Padang City, such as SD Negeri 06 and SD Negeri 18, Nanggalo Lapai Subdistrict, Padang City. This causes, students have limitations in physical activity, fatigue, lack of...

Activated carbons(AC) were produced by chemical activation with potassium hydroxide(KOH) at 800oC from chars that were carbonized from reedy grass leaves at 450oC in N2 atmosphere and their characteristics were investigated. The effects of activation temperature, duration time and impregnation time were...

Creative tourism as a new concept in tourism offers innovative way for tourist to spend their holiday. Most study nowadays focused on the creative tourism in a cultural / heritage typology of tourism with the lacking of study in another tourism typology. It is interesting to know that creative tourism...

This paper proposes a two-stage iterative decoding scheme named matrix transform belief propagation scheme (MT-BP) based on conventional belief propagation (BP) algorithm for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. By introducing information measurement, location vectors and parity check matrix transform,...

This paper designs a kind of SPWM inverter power based on STM32. Through the boost link and SPWM inverter, get a high-quality sine wave AC that can set frequency and voltage. Based on the principle of Boost topology, using a high performance voltage type PWM control to drive the main circuit of MOS pipe....

Textbook research is an important aspect of teaching research. Only through in-depth and careful research of textbooks, can we prepare and teach well, and finally achieve the teaching objectives. Interchangeable characters (通假字), variant characters (异体字), and ancient-present characters (古今字) are the...

This paper presents the design and implementation of a custom 32-bit RISC-V processor with a 5-stage pipeline architecture deployed on a Xilinx Spartan-3A FPGA. The processor is designed to control and automate home appliances through a flexible and open-source hardware architecture. The use of the RISC-V...

The factory test management system is introduced to reduce the failure rate of intelligent instrument. This paper analyzes the structure of foreign factory test management system. Based on it, this paper introduces the system architecture, testing processes, communications protocols and the software...

High-speed mobile wireless communication system always goes through the doubly selective wireless fading channels, which seriously affects the performance of communication systems. In this paper, a non-coherent chirp spread spectrum (CSS) communication method is proposed based on CORDIC algorithm and...

In accordance with the approximate lower triangular parity check matrix standard of low-density parity-check codes in IEEE Standard 802.16e, this study used LabVIEW to write a variety of adjustable encoding patterns generated at the transmitter end within a single-program structure, including six groups...

The design rendering of the traditional environmental art design system has certain line problems, which does not exist in the environmental art design system based on 3D virtual reality technology. The processor of the environmental art design system based on 3D virtual reality technology is mainly...

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic disease indicated by blood sugar level disorder and also influenced by genetic and environmental factors. Many diabetes patients experience dyslipidemia, which is known as diabetic dyslipidemia. In the latest research, SLC2A1 gene polymorphism is strongly...

The effort of recovering images in extremely low-light environments is due to the occurrence of high levels of noise, color distortions, and low contrast. Even though deep learning-based techniques have been highly successful, the majority of current tactics prioritize restoration quality over computational...

Deconcentration is simply defined as the delegation of administrative authorities of the central government to the lower level of governments along with the transfer of funds to finance the implementation of the authorities. Deconcentration, in the perspective of public administration, is the transfer...

Investment is one of the important aspects of a country's economy. This is because the country will get many benefits, both directly and indirectly. Legal certainty is an important matter in attracting foreign investors, especially legal certainty related to dispute resolution. Article 32 of Law No....

Indonesian ELT process still cannot be avoid from language anxiety matters. During the transition of offline class to online class due to the pandemics have given new experience on Educational sector either for teachers or students. This study was aimed at exploring the students level of language anxiety...

Low Density Parity Check(LDPC) code itself has a good performance and the application of LDPC in the communication field is extensive. LDPC codes have the characteristics of low bit error rate, easy adjustment, low decoding complexity and excellent decoding performance. LDPC is considered to be the "best...

A staff access control system based on RFID technology is designed in this paper. This staff access control system is comprised of UHF RFID readers, industrial personal computers, a database server, big screen monitors, and RFID handsets. It is mostly applied to the main entrances of an organization...

A kind of high precision electronic scale with STM32F103 as the control core is designed. Mainly by the resistance strain gauge, operational amplifiers, ADC and other functional modules. Strain gages of the bridge circuit will be based on the pressure of different output voltage, through the amplifier...

This data collection system is based on MSP430, which is an ultra-low power 16-bit micro-controller. Multi-task application program is designed in uC/OSII, which is real-time operating system. It can handle a variety of meter signal and communicate with concentrators. This system has a good real-time...

This paper presents the budget method of the Mars-earth communication link. The calculation models of Mars atmosphere loss, Mars sandstorm loss, solar scintillation loss, earth atmosphere absorption; rainfall loss and hot body noise are studied. The propagation characteristics of electromagnetic waves...

The study aims to understand the interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) level and affecting factors in diabetes mellitus (DM) patients at Public Health Center (PHC). This cross-sectional study was conducted on 153 DM patients. The inclusion criteria were male or female patients over 18 years old diagnosed with DM...

An accurate and efficient link quality estimation method is crucial for the performance of the upper layer routing protocol, flow distribution and topology control algorithms in WSNs (Wireless Sensor Networks). Based on the analysis of the cause for packet loss and bit error, an improved LQI (Link Quality...

In order to realize the remote transmission of sensing information in optical fiber sensing network, and ensure that the information data is not destroyed in the transmission process, the feasibility analysis of FBG (fiber grating sensor network) into GPON (passive optical network) is carried out. Comprehensive...

Although wavefront parallel processing (WPP) proposed in the HEVC standard and various inter frame WPP algorithms can achieved comparatively high parallelism, their scalability for its parallelism is still very limited due to various dependencies introduced in spatial and temporal prediction in HEVC....

Audio-based digital steganography involves embedding secret messages within audio content without causing noticeable changes to the original sound. This technique is important to ensure the security of digital audio data distribution in the era of massive information dissemination. The limitations of...

This paper presents a fast quality scalable video coding method based on compressed sensing(CS). The proposed method obtained the coding scheme of the enhancement MJU by using the interlayer and spatial correlation and kept the base layer’s coding scheme unchanged. And the part in the enhancement layer...

The secure monitoring of website is very important for the website information distribution. A kind of comprehensive system is proposed to assure the website operating reliably. It is based on technologies of watermarking and network measuring. The group 5-bit hiding scheme is designed to embed typical...

Landscapes of the steppe zone in Asian part of Russia have undergone a large-scale agricultural development, experienced a negative effect due to agrarian-economical activity for last 2 centuries. The Virgin Land Campaign, aftermaths of which formed a complex of problems having the national character,...

Smart Computing provides ease of use in term of mobility in the low power computing devices such as smartphone, tablet and experimental board (e.g. RaspberryPi). Low power constraint and low computation capability require a lightweight security system and networking protocol. This paper presents an analysis...

This research paper explores the Tanjung Batu's tourism resources to explore any activities and features to become a potential ecotourism destination. In order for the tourism destination like Tanjung Batu sub-district of Bebar as ecotourism destination; the main factor will be the tourism resources...

Various problems can arise when individuals interact with individuals with disabilities, especially when one of them is deaf. Being deaf and having hearing loss are conditions in which the individual loses hearing function completely or partially. Generally, the problem faced by an individual when interacting...

This design pays much attention on analyzing and calculating Miller capacitor in operational amplifier to optimist OP (Operational Amplifier). The design for a 8-bit high speed, low power pipeline ADC is based on standard 0.18um CMOS technology, with 3.3 power supply. The results show that the dc gain...

For the blind recognition problem of convoluntional code, a new method based on simulated annealing algorithm is proposed. Firstly, the mathematical model is given based on code features. Then the basic principle and realization process is described in details, also the method to choose parameters is...

The Constitutional Court decision No. 90/PUU-XVIII/2020 declare that meaningful participation should be applied on laws and regulation making in Indonesia, including Presidential Regulations-making. Unfortunately, not all Indonesian have access to participate in the presidential regulations-making easily....