A New Robust FM Demodulator Reducing Adjacent Radio-Channel Interference Noise

A new proposed robust FM demodulator (RFMD) is a simplified version of the recently reported demodulator (FMD) [1] which improves FM system interference immunity. The RFMD is applied to combat the adjacent channel interference and its improvement factor is only negligibly smaller than that of the FMD.     

Beitrag niedriger Lastamplituden zur Ermüdungsschädigung von 0,15 %C Stahl

Contribution of low load cycles to fatigue damage in 0.15 %C steel The S‐N curve of 0.15 %C steel shows an endurance limit. Two‐step variable amplitude loading experiments serve to investigate the influence of numerous cycles below the endurance limit on fatigue damage. If high stress amplitudes of the loading sequences are more than approx. 15 % above the endurance limit, low load cycles contribute significantly to fatigue damage. Investigations of fatigue crack propagation under two‐step variable amplitude loading show accelerated crack growth caused by low load cycles. If high stress amplitudes of the two‐step sequences are less than 15 % above the endurance limit, beneficial influences of numerous low load cycles are found. Under these conditions, the material can sustain far greater numbers of load cycles than predicted by Miner damage accumulation calculation. Fatigue crack growth studies show that under these conditions for the high load numerous low load cycles lead to stop of the crack propagation.     

Physicochemical,carbohydrate and sensory characteristics of highbush and rabbiteye blueberry cultivars

The chemical composition, colour and texture of fresh berries from three rabbiteye (‘Climax’, ‘Premier’ and ‘Tifblue’) and two highbush (‘Bluecrop’ and ‘Jersey’) blueberry cultivars were measured. Shear (482 vs 290 N), compression (6.50 vs 3.96 N) and puncture forces (1.48 and 0.85 vs 0.81 and 0.43 N) were higher (P ≤ 0.05) for rabbiteye than for highbush cultivars. Shear for ‘Bluecrop’ blueberries averaged 254 N, whereas for ‘Climax’ it was 565 N. The puncture force required to penetrate the skin was lower for ‘Bluecrop’ (0.78 N) and ‘Jersey’ (0.83 N) and higher for ‘Climax’ (1.71 N). However, sensory panellists found no differences (P > 0.05) in colour, flavour or skin toughness among the five cultivars. ‘Climax’ was rated lower in seediness. Rabbiteye cultivars contained more fibre and complex polysaccharides than highbush cultivars. These differences in complex carbohydrates that make up the cell wall layers may contribute to the toughness of rabbiteye cultivars and their possible longer fresh shelf‐life, though taste panellists did not find this toughness objectionable. Copyright © 2005 Society of Chemical Industry     

Medium scale integration of molecular logic gates in an automaton

The assembly of molecular automata that perform increasingly complex tasks, such as game playing, presents an unbiased test of molecular computation. We now report a second-generation deoxyribozyme-based automaton, MAYA-II, which plays a complete game of tic-tac-toe according to a perfect strategy. In silicon terminology, MAYA-II represents the first "medium-scale integrated molecular circuit", integrating 128 deoxyribozyme-based logic gates, 32 input DNA molecules, and 8 two-channel fluorescent outputs across 8 wells.     

Composite adaptive finite-time fuzzy control for switched nonlinear systems with preassigned performance

This article investigates the composite adaptive fuzzy finite-time prescribed performance control issue of switched nonlinear systems subject to the unknown external disturbance and performance requirement. First, by utilizing the compensation and prediction errors, the piecewise switched composite parameter update law is employed to improve the approximation accuracy of the unknown nonlinearity. Then, the improved fractional-order filter and error compensation signal are introduced to cope with the influences caused by the explosive calculation and filter error, respectively. Meanwhile, the effect of the compound disturbances consisting of the unknown disturbances and approximation errors is reduced appropriately by designing the piecewise switched nonlinear disturbance observer. Moreover, stability analysis results prove that the proposed preassigned performance control scheme not only ensures that all states of the closed-loop system are practical finite-time bounded, but also that the tracking error converges to a preassigned area with a finite time. Ultimately, the simulation examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.     

Hybrid-driven-based fuzzy secure filtering for nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation systems with cyber attacks

The problem of hybrid-driven fuzzy filtering for nonlinear semi-linear parabolic partial differential equation systems with dual cyber attacks is investigated. First, a Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model is employed to reconstruct the original nonlinear systems. Second, a hybrid-driven mechanism is applied for filter design to balance the systems' performance and the limited network resource consumption under dual cyber attacks composed of deception and denial of service attacks. Based on the Lyapunov direct method, sufficient conditions to guarantee the stability of the augmented system are obtained, and the parameters of the designed filter are earned with explicit form. Finally, a simulation example with robust analysis and comparative analysis is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.