The question of how much the outcomes of cultural evolution are shaped by the cognitive capacities of human learners has been explored in several disciplines, including psychology, anthropology and linguistics. We address this question through a detailed investigation of transmission chains, in which each person passes information to another along a chain. We review mathematical and empirical e...

Aircraft monitoring systems offer enhanced safety, reliability, reduced maintenance cost, and improved overall flight efficiency. Advancements in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are enabling unprecedented data acquisition functionalities, but their applicability is restricted by power limitations, as batteries require replacement or recharging wired adds weight detracts from the benefits of tec...

Reactive power as a utility of ancillary service in restructured environment is supplied by Independent System Operator (ISO). Due to the particular importance of optimal pricing strategy in the power market, the study aims to investigate this problem more closely. To this end, first the problems of restructuring, reactive power generation and its associated costs thereof were reviewed and diff...

An ultra-wide locking range transformer-based injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) is presented. By making use of a 4-order transformer-based resonator and an inductive gain peaking technique, the proposed ILFD can achieve high performance in terms of wide locking range and low power consumption. Fabricated in a standard 65nm CMOS process with a core area of 0.18mm, the ILFD measures a loc...

This paper discusses propagation delay error, transient response, and power consumption distribution due to inductive effects in optimal buffered on-chip interconnects. Inductive effect is said to be important to consider in deep submicron (DSM) VLSI design. However, study shows that the effect decreases and can be neglected in next technology nodes for such conditions. key words: on-chip inter...