A fully 3D conjugate numerical analysis was performed to reveal the effects of air, R134a refrigerant and water on electromagnetic fields of electronic cooling designs made of arrays of micro pin-fins with integrated ThroughSilicon-Vias (TSVs). The integrated TSV cooling configuration included 8 cylindrical TSVs with 150 μm diameter each and 200 μm height. The external dimensions of the silicon...

The combination of micro synthetic structures with bacterial flagella motors represents an actual trend for the construction of self-propelled micro-robots. The development of methods for fabrication of these bacteria-based robots is a first crucial step towards the realization of functional miniature and autonomous moving robots. We present a novel scheme based on optical trapping to fabricate...

It is time to move on from the euthanasia debate. Let’s also move on from “physician-assisted suicide.” Rationally, if a society legalizes the killing of sick people, it should use the group that is most efficient, legal, trained and, at times, paid to kill: the Armed Forces. Want to die? Fill out a chit, and the sniper takes you out from 100 yards. No pain; indeed, you will never even hear the...

Two new focus measure operators for Shape From Focus to estimate the three-dimensional shape of a surface are proposed in this paper. The images are formed by a camera using moving apertures. The well-focused image pixels are identified by frequency analysis or matching with the all-focused image of the scene. Frequency analysis involves the usage of classical focus measure operators and summin...

Target motions, other than the main bulk translation of the target, induce Doppler modulations around the main Doppler shift that form what is commonly called a target micro-Doppler signature. Radar micro-Doppler signatures are generally both target and action specific and hence can be used to classify and recognise targets as well as to identify possible threats. In recent years, research into...

Razor [1-3] is a hybrid technique for dynamic detection and correction of timing errors. A combination of error detecting circuits, and micro-architectural recovery mechanisms creates a system which is robust in the face of timing errors, and can be tuned to an efficient operating point by dynamically eliminating unused guardbands. Canary or tracking circuits [4-5] can compensate for certain ma...

Some recent studies showed that lymphatic system stimulation is efficacious in the treatment of cellulite. Lymph drainage and micro circulation can be stimulated with cupping therapy. We aimed to investigate the effect of dry moving cupping therapy on the grade of cellulite on thighs. We aimed to investigate the effect of dry moving cupping therapy on the grade of cellulite on thighs. A pre-tes...

1. ABSTRACT Quantum mechanics is the theory used to 'describe' the processes that take place in the micro-world. From the start quantum mechanics has been a 'strange' theory, in the sense that it seemed to contradict in various ways the image of a micro-world consisting of 'objects' moving around in a three dimensional space, and interacting with each other in this three dimensional space. So f...

In this paper we introduce a PON mobile access network as a candidate to offer continuous multimedia IP communications to fast moving terminals in a micro-cellular environment. As an alternative to IP micro-mobility protocols we propose a PON access network with FA distributed over all access points connected to the same fiber. All ONU associated with the same FA are given the same IP address, ...

To obtain the MEMS micro structure's high resolution measurement dynamic parameters, this paper, by obtaining stroboscopic imaging technology of micro structure of moving image sequence, proposed one kind based on the phase correlation technique and singular value decomposition technique combining sub-pixel measurement method. By the method of phase correlation, image space coordinate can trans...