The objective of the present study was to compare the warm cold perception thresholds (WPT), cold perception thresholds (CPT) and the warm and cold perception interval (WCPI) determined in our previous study with the touch-pressure thresholds, in leprosy-suspected skin lesions ('patch'). Thermal testing was conducted using a thermal sensory analyser TSA-2001 (Medoc Ltd., Israel) and the method ...

In this paper, we present the concept of transmitting power without using wires i.e., transmitting power as microwaves from one place to another is in order to reduce the transmission and distribution losses. This concept is known as Microwave Power transmission (MPT). We also discussed the technological developments in Wireless Power Transmission (WPT). The advantages, disadvantages, biologica...

In this paper, we study the potential benefits of using relatively broadband wireless power transmission WPT strategies in both weak-signal and multipath environments where traditional narrowband strategies can be very inefficient. The paper is primarily a theoretical and analytical treatment of the problem that attempts to derive results that are widely applicable to many different WPT applica...

Several signal preprocessing methods used to correct near-infrared (NIR) spectra of different endometrial tissue sections have been evaluated in this paper. The real tissues sections of normal, hyperplasia, and malignant samples were used. To extract useful information and to remove the interference and background, some preprocessing methods have been compared. Particularly, spectra of the tiss...

One of the most widely used approaches for feature extraction in speaker recognition is the filter bank-based Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) approach. The main goal of feature extraction in this context is to extract features from raw speech that captures the unique characteristics of a particular individual. During the feature extraction process, the discrete Fourier transform (DFT...

Efficient and compact wireless power transfer (WPT) systems are proposed and designed for recharging small implantable medical devices. They use the magnetic resonance coupling scheme to transfer power over a relatively large distance. The receiver resonator coil and the load loop are designed in correspondence to size restriction of implantable devices. The dimensions of the coils are optimize...

In this paper, a co-design method and a wafer-level packaging technique of a flexible antenna and a CMOS rectifier chip for use in a small-sized implantable system on the brain surface are proposed. The proposed co-design method optimizes the system architecture, and can help avoid the use of external matching components, resulting in the realization of a small-size system. In addition, the tec...

Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) offers a feasible noninvasive way to detect the whole gastrointestinal (GI) tract and revolutionizes the diagnosis technology. However, compared with wired endoscopies, the limited working time, the low frame rate, and the low image resolution limit the wider application. The progress of this new technology is reviewed in this paper, and the evolution tendencies...

Both psychosis and anhedonia have been associated to some extent with striatal functioning. The current study examined whether either psychosis risk or social anhedonia was associated with performance on 3 tasks related to striatal functioning. Psychosis risk participants had extremely elevated Perceptual Aberration/Magical Ideation (PerMag) scores (n = 69), with 43% of psychosis risk participa...

This paper presents a joint speech and audio coding algorithm combining sinusoidal modeling and a perceptually adapted Wavelet Packet Transform (WPT). The input signal is limited to the band of 50-7000 Hz, and sampled at 16 kHz. The sinusoidal modeling uses a Sinusoidal Similarity Measure (SSM) to find stable sinusoidal components. A novel pitch harmonics based encoding is applied to encode the...