This paper investigates the fault detection of a micro parallel plate capacitor subjected to nonlinear electrostatic force. For this end Thau observer, which has good ability in fault detection of nonlinear system has been presented and governing nonlinear dynamic equation of the capacitor has been presented. Upper and lower threshold for fault detection have been obtained. The robustness of th...

Frequency difference limens were determined as a function of reference-stimulus level for pulsatile electrical stimuli in 5 postlingually deaf human subjects with Nucleus-22 cochlear implants and for sinusoidally amplitude-modulated acoustic white noise stimuli in 4 normal-hearing humans. Subjects were tested at levels throughout the dynamic range and extending to the lowest detectable levels. ...

The effects of pulse rate on intensity discrimination were evaluated in 14 subjects with Clarion C-I cochlear implants. Subjects had a standard [Clarion spiral electrode array (SPRL group)] or perimodiolar electrode array [Clarion HiFocus electrode array with electrode positioning system (HF+EPS group)]. Weber fractions for intensity discrimination [ Wf(dB)= 10 log deltaI/I] were evaluated at f...

Conventional leakage reduction techniques focus primarily on sub-threshold leakage mitigation, while neglecting the effect of gate leakage current. This work focuses on understanding gate leakage current and developing circuit techniques for total leakage minimization. We present an efficient technique for gate leakage of CMOS circuits. Input vector control and circuit reconfiguration technique...

The manuscript reports on findings the interconnection between tourism employment and economic growth for selected OECD member states. dynamic panel threshold regression method was used to analyze data, where variable employment, of gross national income value added by activity services were dependent variables in corresponding models. dataset covered period 2008 2020. Both marginal effects ind...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a dynamic threshold policy (to be used to classify local node availability, for load-balancing purpose). The experiments were built upon the Extended Gradient algorithm, running over Linux/X86 computing nodes. Results validating the usefulness of the dynamic threshold policy are presented.

Spike-frequency adaptation is a prominent aspect of neuronal dynamics that shapes a neuron's signal processing properties on timescales ranging from about 10 ms to >1 s. For integrate-and-fire model neurons spike-frequency adaptation is incorporated either as an adaptation current or as a dynamic firing threshold. Whether a physiologically observed adaptation mechanism should be modeled as an a...