Low-power and high-speed algorithms and architectures for complex adaptive filters are presented in this paper. These architectures have been derived via the application of algebraic and algorithm transformations. The strength reduction transformation when applied a t the algorithmic levelresults in a power reduction by 21% as compared to the traditional cross-coupled structure. A fine-grain pi...

This paper considers the effect of train speed on railroad hazardous materials transportation risk. A statistical method was developed to estimate the speed-dependent conditional probability of release (CPR) of tank cars involved in accidents with the objective of assessing its effect on risk analysis results. A case study of a representative hazardous materials route was conducted in which ris...

Recently, a lot of progress has been made in the implementation of pairings in both hardware and software. In this paper, we present two FPGA-based high speed pairing designs using the Residue Number System and lazy reduction. We show that by combining RNS, which is naturally suitable for parallel architectures, and lazy reduction, which performs one reduction for multiple multiplications, the ...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the impact of different hypoglycemic drugs on exercise-mediated blood glucose (BG) reduction. METHODS One-hundred and five retirees who were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) within a two-year period were included in this study. The participants were instructed to walk for 20 to 30 minutes at a moderate-speed (4.0 to 4.5 km/h) after breakfast. Blood pressur...

One of the major reasons for accidents is speed. Top of Form Inappropriate speed has been identified as the most important causal factor for serious traffic accidents. Traffic calming measures (TCMs) are engineering measures that are widely implemented to improve road safety by considerably reducing vehicle speed. TCMs have been widely used in urban areas to reduce vehicle flow rat...

INTRODUCTION While the directionality of tactile motion processing has been studied extensively, tactile speed processing and its relationship to direction is little-researched and poorly understood. We investigated this relationship in humans using the 'tactile speed aftereffect' (tSAE), in which the speed of motion appears slower following prolonged exposure to a moving surface. METHOD We u...

An induction motor can run only at its rated speed when it is connected directly to the main supply. However, many applications need variable speed operations. This is felt the most in applications where input power is directly proportional to the cube of motor speed. In applications like the induction motor-based centrifugal pump, a speed reduction of 20% results in an energy savings of approx...

Classical LBP such as complexity and high dimensions of feature vectors that make it necessary to apply dimension reduction processes. In this paper, we introduce an improved LBP algorithm to solve these problems that utilizes Fast PCA algorithm for reduction of vector dimensions of extracted features. In other words, proffer method (Fast PCA+LBP) is an improved LBP algorithm that is extracted ...

roundabouts, intersections, bridges, and work zones. A 1995 review of current practice by Griffin and Reinhardt showed rather extensive experimentation with transverse-bar markings throughout the United States (1). Several patterns, colors, sizes, and spacings had been reported for the various transverse-bar installations, with widely inconclusive results on their effectiveness for speed reduct...