Co-ordinate Interleaved Spatial Multiplexing with Channel State Information

Performance of spatial multiplexing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems can be improved with channel state information (CSI) at both ends of the link. This paper proposes a new linear diagonal MIMO transceiver, referred to as co-ordinate interleaved spatial multiplexing (CISM). With CSI at transmitter and receiver, CISM diagonalizes the MIMO channel and interleaves the co-ordinates of the input symbols (from rotated QAM constellations) transmitted over different eigenmodes. The analytical and simulation results show that with co-ordinate interleaving across two eigenmodes, the diversity gain of the data stream transmitted over the weaker eigenmode becomes equal to that of the data transmitted on the stronger eigenmode, resulting in a significant improvement in the overall diversity. The diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) is analyzed for CISM and is shown that it achieves higher diversity gain at all positive multiplexing gains compared to existing diagonal transceivers. Over rank n MIMO channels, with input symbols from rotated n-dimensional constellations, the DMT of CISM is a straight line connecting the endpoints (0,N_tN_r) and (min{N_t,N_r}, 0), where N_t, and N_r} are the number of transmit and receive antennas, respectively.     

Software radio issues in cellular base stations

The use of the “software radio” concept in cellular applications is a topic of widespread interest. Two key issues in the implementation of software radios are the development of optimal receivers that require the minimum number of bits in the wide-band analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and efficient channelizers that extract individual channels from the digitized wide-band signal. In this paper, both of these issues are studied in detail for cellular base stations. A computationally efficient wide-band channelizer is presented. This channelizer is closely related to the discrete Fourier transform filter bank used in transmultiplexers. It is shown that the complexity of the proposed channelizer is significantly less (2-50×) than the complexity of conventional channelizers. An optimal receiver that explicitly takes into account the effect of the quantization noise of the wide-band ADC is also derived. The analysis of the ADC noise provides guidelines for specifying wide-band ADC for use in cellular applications. The development of the channelizer and the optimal receiver yield important insights into the implementation of cellular software radios. All of the key results of this paper are applied to a detailed example based on the Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System (D-AMPS, IS-54/IS-136) cellular standard. The bit-error rate (BER) performance simulations of a D-AMPS wide band receiver is presented as a part of this example     

Nutritional evaluation of refined,heated and hydrogenatedHibiscus sabdariffa seed oil

Alkali refinedHibiscus sabdariffa seed oil (Mesta Oil) of the familyMalvales was heated and hydrogenated to eliminate the cyclopropene fatty acids (CPFA). Such processed oils were fed to weanling rats at 10% level of the diet for 4, 8 and 12 weeks. The food intake and gain in weight were found to be less in the refined oil group than in the peanut oil control group. The digestibility was found normal with all the processed oils. Serum and liver lipid composition with respect to total lipids, cholesterol and phospholipids were comparable to those fed with peanut oil. The liver architecture did not show any abnormalities withH. sabdariffa oil feeding.     

The theory and design of arbitrary-length cosine-modulated filterbanks and wavelets, satisfying perfect reconstruction

It is well known that FIR filter banks that satisfy the perfect-reconstruction (PR) property can be obtained by cosine modulation of a linear-phase prototype filter of length N=2mM, where M is the number of channels. In this paper, we present a PR cosine-modulated filter bank where the length of the prototype filter is arbitrary. The design is formulated as a quadratic-constrained least-squares optimization problem, where the optimized parameters are the prototype filter coefficients. Additional regularity conditions are imposed on the filter bank to obtain the cosine-modulated orthonormal bases of compactly supported wavelets. Design examples are given     

Some results in the theory of crosstalk-free transmultiplexers

The crosstalk-free transmultiplexer (CF-TMUX) focuses on crosstalk cancellation (CC) rather than on suppressing it. The authors present an analysis of the CF-TMUX based on the polyphase component matrices of the filter banks used in TDM→FDM and FDM→TDM conversions, respectively. Thus a necessary and sufficient condition for complete CC is obtained. It is shown that the filters for a CF-TMUX are the same as the filters for a 1-skewed alias free QMF bank. In addition, if the QMF bank satisfies the perfect reconstruction (PR) property, then the TMUX also satisfies PR. The relation between CF-TMUX filters and alias-free QMF banks is used to obtain a direct design procedure for CF-TMUX filters (both FIR and IIR). It is also shown that approximately crosstalk-free TMUX filters can be obtained from any approximately alias-free QMC bank. Design examples and comparison tables are included     

Standalone PV-fed LED Street Lighting Using Resonant Converter

This paper proposes a single-stage, single-switch, non-isolated step-up converter with resonant inverter for a standalone photovoltaic battery-powered light-emitting diode (LED) street light. The LED driver presented in this paper integrates a high step-up DC–DC converter with coupled inductors and LCC resonant converter into a single-stage conversion circuit topology. The proposed converter is a compact cost-effective driver for powering a 60 W LED Street light with a battery backup charged from PV array of 12 V. The modes of operation and analysis of the proposed converter are explained. The design of the circuit elements is done based on the theoretical analysis. The proposed circuit has been simulated, and prototype has been developed to demonstrate its feasibility.     

Concentric rings simulating tinea imbricata in secondary syphilis. A case report

A female patient with secondary syphilis presented with concentric rings of papules simulating tinea imbricata. To avoid the occurrence of "ping-pong" syphilis, it is stressed that both sexual partners should be treated simultaneously.     

Carbon Monoxide is an Inhibitor of HIF Prolyl Hydroxylase Domain 2

Hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase domain 2 (PHD2) is an important oxygen sensor in animals. By using the CO-releasing molecule-2 (CORM-2) as an in situ CO donor, we demonstrate that CO is an inhibitor of PHD2. This report provides further evidence about the emerging role of CO in oxygen sensing and homeostasis.     

Online Healthcare Information Adoption Assessment Using Text Mining Techniques

Mobile Networks and Applications - Online healthcare community discussion forums facilitate patients and healthcare seekers to exchange knowledge on health-related issues. Mining the enormous...     

Effects of different levels of trans fatty acids and oxidised lipids in diet on cholesterol and cholesterol oxidation products formation in rabbit

The objective was to assess the effects of trans fatty acids and oxidised lipids, present in dietary fat by-products used in feeds, on cholesterol and oxycholesterols in meat, liver and plasma of rabbits. A palm fatty acid distillate, before and after hydrogenation (trans fatty acid trial), and a sunflower–olive oil blend (70/30, v/v), before and after use in a commercial frying process (oxidised lipid trial), were used in experimental feeds (at 3%, w/w). High trans fatty acid and oxidised lipid diets caused significantly higher cholesterol and oxycholesterol levels in all tissues of rabbit (0.01 < p ? 0.05). The content of oxycholesterols in rabbit meat, liver and plasma obtained from trans fatty acid experiments varied from 9 to 34 μg/100 g, 24 to 61 μg/100 g and 60 to 138 μg/dl, respectively, from low to high levels. In the oxidised lipid experiments, content of oxycholesterols varied from 16 to 52 μg/100 g, 14 to 108 μg/100 g and 52 to 269 μg/dl in meat, liver and plasma, respectively. As a consequence, meat products from rabbits fed a diet containing higher levels of trans fatty acids or oxidised lipids may result in higher intakes of cholesterol and oxycholesterols by humans.