Abstract Richelia is a widespread, heterocystous, N2-fixing cyanobacterium that occurs in oligotrophic seas. It can be symbiotic within rhizosolenoid hosts, including Rhizosolenia (R-R) and Guinardia (G-R), occasionally as free-living (FL-R) filaments. We investigated the abundances South China (SCS) Philippine Seas (PS) during northeast (NEM) southwest monsoon (SWM) seasons between 2001 2016. ...

In high speed applications, multipliers and their associated circuits like accumulators, half adders, and full adders consume a significant portion. Therefore, it is necessary to increase their performance as well as size efficiency. In order to reduce the hardware complexity which ultimately reduces an area and power, energy efficient full adders plays crucial role in Wallace tree multiplier. ...

A common problem with the existing blind multi-user CDMA detectors is that their performance is very sensitive to the Signature Waveform Mismatch (SWM) caused by channel distortion. In this paper we consider the problem of designing a blind multi-user CDMA detector which is robust to the SWM. We present a convex formulation for this problem by using the Second Order Cone (SOC) programming. We a...

In this paper, we propose a robust blind multiuser detector for code-division multiple access (CDMA) systems against signature waveform mismatch (SWM) derived from the influences of time asynchronization or channel distortion. This blind detection method with SWM problem is formulated as blind source separation (BSS) model subject to the second-order cone (SOC) constraint. The resulting blind s...

MOTIVATION As quality assurance is of strong concern in advanced surgeries, intelligent surgical systems are expected to have knowledge such as the knowledge of the surgical workflow model (SWM) to support their intuitive cooperation with surgeons. For generating a robust and reliable SWM, a large amount of training data is required. However, training data collected by physically recording surg...

This paper examines the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) systemic policy drivers for solid waste management (SWM) policies, plans and programmes (PPP) in Malaysia. Solid waste generation in Malaysia has been increasing drastically from 9.0 million tonnes in 2000 to an expected 15.6 million tonnes in 2020. This projected rate of solid waste generation is expected to burden the country’s ...

The aims of this cross-sectional comparative study was to compare the results of Semmes-Weinstein monofilament testing (SWM) and moving 2-point discrimination (M2PD) with four tests of functional sensibility: recognition of objects, discrimination of size and texture and detection of dots. Ninety-eight leprosy in- and outpatients at Green Pastures Hospital in Pokhara, Nepal were tested with eac...

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 ...

BACKGROUND Combat injury patterns differ from civilian trauma in that the former are largely explosion-related, comprising multiple mechanistic and fragment injuries and high-kinetic-energy bullets. Further, unlike civilians, U.S. armed forces combatants are usually heavily protected with helmets and Kevlar body armor with ceramic plate inserts. Searchable databases providing actionable, statis...