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scattering. Chapter 4 gives an overarching survey of existing principles of contact-based
hand geometry systems and mentions trendsin the contact-less systems. Chapter 5
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identifiers generation scheme and relevant key distribution solution. Chapter 12 introduces
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Administration, University of Minnesota. ... will influence the future financing and design of long-term care in the United
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recent demands: inventory tracking, supply chain management, automated
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4.4 Input impedance and ... follower for
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filter and impedance inverting scheme.
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[32] ... antenna with a single feed for orthogonal dual-band
operation and its and (b) VSWR plots (Chen & Wong 1996)
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the...
... still not satisfied after a printing running on the machine shown in the Fig. 6(a),
feeding the printed sheets into machine from beginning again for multiple printing can be
considered. Fig. ... traditional printing
methods including offset printing, screen printing and a hybrid one based on gravure
printing and vacuum deposition technology, to demonstrate the possibilities of making low-
cost ... charge of three
color inks in sequence in a normal printing machine, then the thickness increase can be
achieved by putting the same conducting inks on the cylinders in different stages. If...
... research in nature and aimed to investigate the process
consistency and capability of printing RFID tag antennas via the screening printing process
Screening printing using Ag ink with ... and recommendations
Substrate is definitely a dominant variable affecting the printability of printing antenna of
RFID tags. The results of study can assist the printing industry in determining ... printing process can be
applied to perform the printing tasks effectively. According to literatures, screen printing
technology can be used for RFID tag printing, providing significant time and...
... using a thicker dielectric substrate and also including
in the geometry narrow and long strips (lines). C can be reduced by reducing substrate’s
relative dielectric permittivity ε
r
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cases line and the border gate. For the cases line both homogeneous cases (consisting of a
single product type) and heterogeneous cases (containing products of ...
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Granules in Sachets X
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... An RFID system may include a plurality of electronic tags on objects, animals,
and other things having unique identification information and a reader for reading or
writing information from or ... pharmaceutical supply chain has been considered and its
criticalities, in terms of kinds of goods to trace and peculiarities of the checkpoints RFID,
have been individuated and discussed. The inadequateness ... suffering from the DC-offset phenomenon
by using the phase inversion information instead of the amplitude information. In order to
High Performance UHF RFID Tags
for Item-Level Tracing Systems in...
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maintain the same Q
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) and increase of C
A
(to maintain the tuning). However, the reader
designer should be aware that, as shown by (7), decreasing L
A
while maintaining the quality ... Steps in deriving the principle of low coupling approximation
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a linear system whose input is the voltage source V
T
internal to the tag and the...
... connection speed and
commands for handling communication with tags. Examples of commands are following:
- Anti-collision/select (ACS): After broadcasting this command, tags begins transmitting
their ... During an exposure period, an adversary is
able to observe and disturb all interactions involving a target tag
and a legitimate reader
using oracle
according to the defined ...
Generate a random challenge
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The reader broadcasts the REQUEST command to the tags located in the reader’s
interrogation range during the downlink while...
... BFSA-Non-Muting and BFSA-Muting a computing program was
developed [appendix C] and equation 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 21 in Section 3 are
used.
The minimum total census delay was increased ... principle is also indicted in Figure 3, showing the RFID reader transmitting
a sinusoidal wave over its transmit antenna TX, thus allowing the various transponders in the
field to modulate and ... ‘x’ line represents
simulation result of BFSA-Non-Muting, square line represents analytical result of BFSA-
Muting, and ‘+’ line represents simulation result of BFSA-Muting. For computing the...