We studied the sensory afferent properties of normal, immobilised and inflamed rat knees by recording the activity of the medial articular nerve (MAN). When the knee was inflamed by kaolin-carrageenan or immobilised for six weeks, MAN activity significantly increased during rest and continuous passive motion (CPM). The maximal discharge rate tended to increase depending on the angular velocity ...

BACKGROUND Public health research on sedentary behavior (SB) in youth has heavily relied on accelerometers. However, it has been limited by the lack of consensus on the most accurate accelerometer cut-points as well as by unknown effects caused by accelerometer position (wrist vs. hip) and output (single axis vs. multiple axes). The present study systematically evaluates classification accuracy...

This paper presents a practical receiver for coded continuous phase modulation (CPM) intended for wireless communications in TDMA/FDMA modes. The coded CPM is interpreted as a single Markov chain. Usage of simultaneous complexity reduction techniques is proposed. Only two correlators (I and Q) are used as a front-end, both operating on over-sampling mode and projecting the received signal into ...

This paper presents a novel multi-port DC/DC converter which is suitable to be used as the interface of hybrid renewable energy systems. The converter contains three unidirectional power flow ports which two of them are input ports and are connected to two independent energy sources while the third one is the output port that feeds a standalone load. Furthermore, the proposed converter contains...

In recent years, there has been a vast amount of research on cooperative diversity due to its potential capacity increase. Almost all of the research has been based on linear modulation formats such as phase-shift keying (PSK) or quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). On the other hand, continuous phase modulation (CPM) promises impressive advantages relative to linear modulations for wireless ...

In this paper, we investigate the performance of a serially concatenated CPM-OFDM (Continuous Phase Modulation Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) scheme in various frequency selective fading environments that are typical for aeronautical telemetry. CPM-OFDM is a novel modulation technique that assigns the sampled, complex outputs of a CPM to a set of orthogonal subcarriers for a DFT-pr...

A four port network adder-subtractor module, for surface plasmon polariton (SPP) waves based on a ring resonator filter is proposed. The functionality of module is achieved by the phase difference manipulation of guided SPPs through different arms connected to the ring resonator. The module is designed using the concepts of a basic two-port device proposed in this paper. It is shown that two po...