background: decay products of radon and thoron present in indoor environment are the most important sources of radiation from natural sources which affect human beings, since general public spend at lest 80% of their time in indoor. materials and methods: air samples were collected for measuring the concentration of radon and thoron daughter products from various indoor environments during four...

A comparison between a bit-level and a conventional VLSI implementation of a binary neural network is presented. This network is based on Correlation Matrix Memory (CMM) that stores relationships between pairs of binary vectors. The bit-level architecture consists of an n m array of bit-level processors holding the storage and computation elements. The conventional CMM architecture consists of ...

The parity of a bit string of length N is a global quantity that can be efficiently compute using a global counter in O(N) time. But is it possible to find the parity using cellular automata with a set of local rule tables without using any global counter? Here, we report a way to solve this problem using a number of r = 1 binary, uniform, parallel and deterministic cellular automata applied in...

A high-speed low power scalable programmable dual modulus digital CMOS frequency divider architecture is proposed. The unique frequency divider architecture includes a high speed parallel counter with State Excitation Module, a switchover trigger circuit, a modulus switchover circuit and a reloader circuit. The mode switchover circuit has two sets of external programmable inputs for two alterna...

Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors (SSNTD) are commonly used for long term measurements of radon, thoron and progeny concentrations. In the present study, we compared the optical counting method and the spark counting technique for counting the alpha tracks on LR 115 track detector films. The paper discusses the various parameters that are innate in the process. More than 300 films were counte...

BACKGROUND Preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) exhibit prolonged elevation of inflammatory indices in their tracheal aspirates. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) is a central mediator of the inflammatory response. The adenine-containing alleles of TNF-alpha-308 and lymphotoxin-alpha+250 have been associated with increased levels of TNF-alpha, whereas the adenine allele o...

This paper deals with a Markovian queueing system having a multi-task service counters and finite queue in front of each counter. The total service of a customer is completed in three stages provided by two servers at three counters. The first server (S1) can serve the counter I and III alternatively, whereas second server (S2) provides the service at counter II. The server (S1) g ives the prio...

INTRODUCTION To estimate the long-term radiation dose to man due to artificial radionuclides, a detailed knowledge of their distribution in the environment is indispensable. From the viewpoint of toxicity and radiation damage to the human being, plutonium is by far the most important nuclide of the transuranic elements that has been released into the environment by nuclear weapons tests, satell...

The parity of a bit string of length N is a global quantity that can be efficiently computed using a global counter in O(N) time. But is it possible to find the parity using cellular automata with a set of local rule tables without using any global counter? Here, we report a way to solve this problem using a number of r=1 binary, uniform, parallel, and deterministic cellular automata applied in...