A microbial desalination cell (MDC) is able to desalinate salt water without energy consumption whilst generating bioenergy. Previously MDCs used abiotic cathodes, which are restricted in application by high operating costs and low levels of sustainability whereas, in the present study, an aerobic biocathode consisting of carbon felt and bacterial catalysts was tested. The biocathode MDC produc...

Typical video applications may need a higher bandwidth and/or higher reliability connection than that provided by a single link in current or emerging wireless networks. We propose to employ path diversity to provide higher bandwidth and more robust end-to-end connections than that affordable by a single path. Under this transport environment, two viable strategies for video coding are multiple...

Scalable multiple description video coding provides adaptability to bandwidth variations and receiving device characteristics and at the same time improves error robustness in multimedia networks. One promising application includes error resilient scalable video conferencing in a virtual collaboration system. In this paper, a scalable multiple description video coding (MDC) is proposed for ster...

BACKGROUND Multidisciplinary care (MDC) programs have been proposed as a way to alleviate the cost and morbidity associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the US. METHODS AND FINDINGS We assessed the cost-effectiveness of a theoretical Medicare-based MDC program for CKD compared to usual CKD care in Medicare beneficiaries with stage 3 and 4 CKD between 45 and 84 years old in the US. The...

A high speed and low-cost electrochemical additive manufacturing method for parallel microprinting of metals is proposed. Multicapillary 3D printed solution flow type microdroplet cells (Sf-MDC) with large capillary diameters (600 μm) are used to electrodeposit high-quality Ni microstructures. Three lines each having a width around 900 μm thickness 24.6 μm, 20.7 15.2 simultaneously on Cu substr...

Multiple Description Coding (MDC) is a plausible way to use the diversity of packet networks to increase the robustness of the transmission to packet losses. The redundancy that is introduced via MDC can also be used to increase the robustness of the transmission to bit-errors. This paper presents a novel decoding method for GMM (Gaussian Mixture Model)-based MDC in the presence of detected bit...

Multiple description coding (MDC) provides error resilience by producing several descriptions of the source so that various quality reconstructions can be obtained from any subset of the descriptions. The use of correlating transforms within the MDC framework has been studied for “on-off” channels, such as packet-switched channels. Since this channel model is not appropriate for wireless system...

A possible implementation of the Micro Drift Chamber (MDC) technique as a high resolution vertex detector in the upstream part of the DIRAC spectrometer was investigated in this paper. Simulations of different MDC layout were performed with the help of GARFIELD package. Based on the results of simulation the optimal chamber geometry and the gas mixture were selected. One cell prototype was prod...

We present a new construction of a compression function H : {0, 1} → {0, 1} that uses two parallel calls to an ideal primitive (an ideal blockcipher or a public random function) from 2n to n bits. This is similar to the well-known MDC-2 or the recently proposed MJH by Lee and Stam (CT-RSA’11). However, unlike these constructions, we show already in the compression function that an adversary lim...