Scanning tunneling microscopy of cauliflower-like DNA nanostructures synthesised by loop-mediated isothermal amplification

DNA nanotechnology is a novel approach for synthesis of DNA-based nanostructures. Stem-loops, nanojunctions, sticky-ends and periodic lengths of DNA are the most essential nanostructures in DNA nanofabrications. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a powerful technology for repetitive synthesis of double-stranded and cauliflower-like DNAs. The process leads to long and repetitive sequences of DNAs, which are fabricated via loop primers. The authors demonstrate here scanning tunneling micrographs of LAMP-synthesised DNAs deposited on highly ordered pyrolytic graphite. The scans are compared with natural DNAs. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images indicated the creation of periodic long DNAs, stem-looped DNAs and three-way DNA nanojunctions. It is also suggested that such nanomaterials could be promising candidates for use in DNA-based nanodevices.     

Octafilar Helical Antenna for Circular Polarization Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Applications

Wireless Personal Communications - This paper introduces a proposed design of a circularly polarized quadfilar or octafilar helical antenna (QFHA or OFHA) dedicated for wireless...     

The baric coefficient of resistance of Mn1.9Cr0.1Sb as measured by the double AC method

The baric coefficient of resistance of the magnetocaloric cycle working medium Mn_1.9C_r0.1Sb, aside from the peak which is expected and related to the pressure shift of the AF–Fr transition temperature T_S(p), shows two sidebands which are probably related to the percolation of phase domains.     

Optical four-channel demultiplexer based on air-bridge structure and graphite-type ring resonators

Photonic Network Communications - A novel an optical four-channel demultiplexer based on a hexagonal lattice shape of embedded air holes in dielectric substrate (air-bridge type) is proposed....     

Comprehensive evaluation of 3-hourly TRMM and half-hourly GPM-IMERG satellite precipitation products

Accurate estimation of precipitation is crucial for crop yield assessment, flood and drought monitoring, and water structures management. Precipitation is subject to both temporal and spatial variability. While recording rain gauges support temporal resolution, they measure point rainfall and require dense network and application of interpolation techniques to provide spatial dimension. On the other hand, remote-sensing products cover regional and global spatial scales. Building upon the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) heritage, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is an international net of satellites that present the next-generation global observations of rain and snow at a spatial resolution of 0.1° × 0.1° with a half-hour temporal resolution. In this study, March–December 2014 3-hourly TRMM data (3B42V7) and half-hourly Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) data are compared with the 3-hourly rain gauges data in Khorasan Razavi province, located in northwest of Iran. Coefficient of determination (R²), Bias, MBias, RBias, mean absolute error (MAE), root mean square error (RMSE) as well as probability of detection (POD), false alarm ratio (FAR), and critical success index (CSI) metrics were measured for validation purposes. The result showed that correlation between IMERG data and rain gauge rainfall data is higher than those of 3B42V7 data. In addition, the values of MBias, Bias, and RBias confirmed that both of 3B42V7 and IMERG underestimated rainfall over the study area, whereas MBias of IMERG was higher than 3B42V7. Furthermore, MAE and RMSE values of 3B42V7 and IMERG were similar while IMERG evaluation turned out a better correlation coefficient (r) and POD than 3B42V7. This study showed that IMERG generally had reasonable agreement with the gauge data.     

Swarm intelligence‐based radio resource management for V2V‐based D2D communication

Internet of Things is a promising paradigm that provides the future network of interconnected devices. Device‐to‐Device (D2D) communication, which is considered as an enabler for vehicle‐to‐everything applications, has become an emerging technology to optimize network performance. In this paper, we study the Radio Resource Management (RRM) issue for D2D‐based Vehicle‐to‐Vehicle communication. The RRM key role is to assure the proficient exploitation of available resources while serving users according to their quality of service parameters. An Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)‐based Resource Allocation (ACORA) scheme is proposed in this paper. Swarm intelligence algorithm ACO is adopted to reduce the computational complexity while realizing satisfactory performance. Simulation results show promising performance of our proposed ACORA scheme.     

Low power and high-speed FPGA implementation for 4D memristor chaotic system for image encryption

In this paper, we proposed a novel low power and high-speed FPGA implementation of the 4D memristor chaotic system with cubic nonlinearity based on Xilinx System Generator (XSG) model. Firstly, a pseudo-random number generator based on the proposed XSG FPGA implementation of the proposed 4D memristor chaotic system which implemented into Xilinx Spartan-6 X6SLX45 board with 32 fixed-point format. The aim of the FPGA implementation is increasing the frequency of the memristor chaotic random number generators. The FPGA implementation of the memristor chaotic system results show that the new design approach achieves a maximum frequency of 393 MHz and dissipates 117 m watt. The standard fifteen randomization tests are used to measure the quality of the proposed pseudo-random number generator based on the 4D memristor chaotic system and it gives an excellent randomization analysis. Also, the gray image encryption scheme based on the 4D memristor chaotic system has been introduced. The proposed cryptosystem has a large keyspace, very low correlation values, high entropy which is much closer to the ideal entropy value, a high number of pixels change rate and high unified average changing intensity values. The results and security analysis of the proposed encryption scheme demonstrate that the investigated encryption approach can protect high speed and high security against various attack.