Q-enhanced LC filter technology offers an alternative to the use of direct conversion techniques for implementing fully integrated receivers. Design and performance issues for QE LC filters are discussed and a fully integrated 850-MHz, two-pole, bandpass filter with an 18-MHz 3-dB bandwidth is reported. The prototype design is implemented in a standard 0.8m CMOS process and achieves a rejection...

Spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) is a key specification of radio receivers and spectrum analyzers, characterizing the maximum distance between signal and noise+distortion. SFDR is limited by the linearity (intercept point IIP3 mostly, sometimes IIP2) and the noise floor. As receivers already have low noise figure (NF) there is more room for improving the SFDR by increasing the linearity. As t...

A simple, sensitive, spectrophotometric method in UV region has been developed for the simultaneous estimation of benzoyl peroxide and tretinoin in bulk and semi solid dosage form (cream). Standard solution of benzoyl peroxide shows maximum absorbance at 234.8 nm and tretinoin shows maximum absorbance at 348.6 nm. Beer’s Lamberts law is obeyed in concentration range 1-9 μg/ml for tretinoin with...

Submitted: Jun 9, 2013; Accepted: Jul 20, 2013; Published: Jul 25, 2013 Abstract: In this work we have proposed a new approach for array antenna beamforming based on evolutionary computing, which offers low probability of intercept. These active array antennas are highly vulnerable to intercept receivers due to their high-gain. The detection performance of proposed approach remains unchanged as...

Ligustrazine, the synthesized principle of a Chinese herbal remedy shown previously to be a pulmonary vasodilator, was tested in chronically hypoxic and normal rats. Pressure/flow, (P/Q), relations were measured in isolated perfused lungs during normoxia, hypoxia and after reversal of hypoxic vasoconstriction by increasing doses of ligustrazine. P/Q lines were linear over a wide range and extra...

Precise determination of left and right ventricular stroke volumes is limited with conventional imaging techniques. We determined whether right and left ventricular stroke volumes could be precisely measured with cine computed tomography (CT). Cine CT enables simultaneous imaging of the right and left ventricles at an 8 mm slice thickness with a maximal scanning rate of 17 frames/sec (50 msec a...

BACKGROUND The range, population size and trend of large carnivores are important parameters to assess their status globally and to plan conservation strategies. One can use linear models to assess population size and trends of large carnivores from track-based surveys on suitable substrates. The conventional approach of a linear model with intercept may not intercept at zero, but may fit the d...

This study examines the proper estimation of trip demand and economic benefits for visitors to recreation sites when past-season trip information is elicited from travelers intercepted on-site. We show that the proper weighting of past season counts is different from the standard on-site correction appropriate for current-season counts. We find that for our sample of lake visitors relatively st...

Mixture experiments are experiments performed using ingredients whose proportions are restricted. This restriction may result in extremely small range in terms of the mixtures, causing difficulties in model fitting arising from ill-conditioning. The choice of model form is a very important factor in the numerical stability of the information matrix. In this paper, the intercept model is compare...