... A LOW POWER, HIGHDYNAMIC RANGE, BROADBAND VARIABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER FOR AN ULTRA WIDEBAND RECEIVER A Thesis by LIN CHEN Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University ... to that of the single differential pair [7] (1) Linear range The linear rangeof complementary differential pairs with source degeneration is limited by the Vdsat of Mp and Mn, and those of their ... System-level overview of the proposed VGA s IV.2.1 System-level design of the proposed VGA IV.2.2 Introduction of the building blocks of the proposed VGA IV.3 Detailed discussion of the VGA building...
... recording ofhighdynamicrange imagery through careful design of camera optics and the material layers that form film The ingenious processes that were invented enabled the recording of images that ... the highdynamicrangeof computed imagery to the low dynamicrange cathode ray tube devices in use at the Foreword xi time Jack Tumblin, an engineer who had been working on the problem of presenting ... highdynamicrange imagery? What compression techniques can be employed to deal with the increased data generated by highdynamicrange imaging systems? How can we best evaluate the fidelity of...
... segment is by far the most useful part of the dynamicrange Low noise and a large charge capacity, often contradictory goals, are crucial to delivering great dynamicrange While extensive research goes ... transfer CCDs have many of the same strengths and limitations as full frame CCDs: high fill factor, and charge capacity, slightly lower blue sensitivity, highdynamic range, and highly uniform output ... response above that (courtesy of vertical antiblooming and patent-pending processing) Origin’s sensor uses multiple taps to enable high 03-70-00218-01 ImageSensorArchitectures for Digital Cinematography...
... prevalence of hypertension from 6.64% in 1988 to 36.4% in 2003 considering cut off mark 140/90 mm of Hg [6-16] Our study showed an overall prevalence rangeof 24.9% among men, which is twenty times higher ... families, all available members of the selected family who were at 18 years of age or above at the time of the study were then included for the door-to-door survey Definition of hypertension (Based on ... income status, weight, height, pattern of salt intake, dietary pattern, history of diabetes, family history of hypertension, past history of any examination of blood pressure and hypertension, or...
... Rationale Aims ofstudy Scope of the study .8 Research questions of the study .9 Methods ofstudy Design ofstudy Part ... CONTEXT OFHIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOMS AT PHAM VAN NGHI UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL, NAM DINH PROVINCE: A CASE STUDY Is the result of my own research for the Degree of Master of Arts at College of Foreign ... students at PVN upper secondary school? Methods ofstudy To realize the aims of the study, a case study was used.The theoretical background of the study comes from many published books written...
... still rare in Quoc Hoc High School Therefore, it is high time to focus on learning English vocabulary of pupils at Quoc Hoc High School 1.2 SCOPE OF THE STUDY The present study aims to investigate ... learners of English and their perceptions of the usefulness of the strategies More importantly, the study enables the researcher to examine the features and behaviours of “good learners” by means of ... Vocabulary of Pupils at Quoc Hoc High School in Qui Nhon” 1.4 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 1.4.1 Aims The study is expected to investigate the pupils’ perceptions and their actual use of learning...
... Hopefully, the study will benefit teachers who want to be successful in the English listening teaching 1.2 AIMS OF THE STUDY The aims of the study are as follows: - To find out the real situation of teaching ... TABLE OF CONTENTS LISTS OF ABBREVIATIONS .3 LISTS OF TABLES AND FIGURES CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 RATIONALE 1.2 AIMS OF THE STUDY ... Teaching Procedures of a Listening Lesson Applied by Teachers .53 4.2.1.6 Adaptation of the Textbook 55 a Frequency of Teachers Adaptation of the Listening Tasks 55 b Purposes of Teachers...
... economic value of all three solar options considered here is high, higher than the marginal economic value of a flat block of power, in California at low levels of solar penetration This high value ... with high penetration of wind energy, it is clear that there is strong interest in understanding the impacts ofhigh penetration of renewable energy There is also interest in high penetration of ... load factor of CCGTs in a case with an increasing penetration of a flat block of power Hence, cases with high VG penetration and even the case with high penetrations of a flat block of power increasingly...
... of chemisorbed water desorption On the other hand, the resistance under target gas is of the same order of magnitude as the resistance of the sensors on the basis of commercial SnO2 The use of ... result ofhigh oxidation activity and high specific surface area sensors made on the basis of synthesized SnO2 have the highest signals to different propane concentrations The low impurity level of ... temperature range for TXRD studyof crystallite growth kinetics was chosen by several reasons The usual process of formation of metal oxide sensing layers in semiconductor and thermocatalytic gas sensors...
... Pressure-induced denaturation of actin (Eur J Biochem 269) 365 The aim of the present study was to complete a studyof F ® G transition and denaturation of actin under pressure Use of a Hitachi F2000 ¯uorospectrophotometer ... solution of 6.47 for HMM [19] and at 290 nm for a 1% solution of 6.6 for ATP-G-actin [20] High pressure apparatus High pressure devices used for this study consisted of a thermostated high pressure ... centre of spectral mass of intrinsic ¯uorescence spectrum of G-actin with ATP (0.5 mgámL)1, pH 7.5) in a pressure range from 0.1 MPa to 400 MPa at a ®xed temperature of 20 °C The transition of the...
... namely, creation of a Department of Energy as the government office responsible for all energy affairs, innovation of environmental control and administrative systems, and reforms of the political ... government set up a target of quadrupling the size of its GDP in 2000 by the year 2020 However, it is possible that this target may have the effect of worsening the issues of energy security, domestic ... million tons in 1985, net export of oil went down sharply, owing to the stagnation of production and rapid increase of demand As a result, China fell into a net importer of oil in 1993, and just years...
... showed that the cancellation score of 90% and 80% conditions were significantly greater than that of the real image condition In this study, we used 75% of reduced image condition because Patient ... symptom was existed eight items in activities for the frequency of presence of neglect for ADL The area of neglect had a profound effect on dynamic ADL, for example, dressing, transferring, and locomotion ... problems of ADL in relation to the patient's neglect The subjects' dressing, transferring, and locomotion of checklist by Halligan et al [13] indicated a high frequency of presence of USN symptoms...
... and Pandy [7] Model-based determination of internal forces Forward dynamic musculoskeletal simulation One example of a soft-tissue tension that is both ofhigh clinical relevance and difficult ... of using generic joint models • Means for validation The results ofdynamic simulations are likely to be sensitive to the degree of complexity in the formulation of the model [62], but most of ... characteristics of gait that minimize energy consumption by attenuating oscillations of the center of mass (COM) The results of more recent experimental studies have suggested that some of the determinants...
... Scion Image software (Scion, Frederick, MD, USA) was used to analyze the sponge images Using this software, each image was thresholded to assign x- and y-coordinate values to the centroid of each ... than times of type X collagen mRNA compared to those in the end region of non-loaded sponge (Figure 2A) Chondrocytes from both ends of the sponge produced significantly higher levels of Col X mRNA ... differentiation of growth plate chondrocytes [2] In the present study, we test the hypothesis that various local strains in different regions of the 3D scaffold result in different levels of type X...
... The protocol of BH-MR imaging of the chest has been reported in previous published study [5] In brief, fast gradient-recalled echo pulse sequence was used to obtain coronal images of the whole ... after operation using a scale of 1–9 with ascending order of effort Score was equivalent to nonawareness of breathing effort at rest Score 1–3 was equivalent of awareness of gentle breathing effort ... statistical software (Release 13, SPSS Inc., Chicago, Illinois) was used in the analysis Results The spatial resolution of the reformatted axial and coronal images of the chest was considered to be of...