A wireless sensor network that employs passive radio wake-up of the sensor nodes can reduce the energy cost for unnecessary idle listening and communication overhead, extending the network lifetime. A passive wake-up radio is powered by the electromagnetic waves transmitted by a wake-up transmitter rather than a battery on the sensor node. However, this method of powering the wake-up radio resu...

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This paper investigates the mechanical benefits of employing a passive foot segment to improve energetic efficiency in legged running. The proposed lightweight design significantly reduces impact and damping losses, while simultaneously allowing for a natural-looking stance configuration. Actuator input and ankle spring properties were optimized in simulation and successfully tested in 2D runni...

Dissipativity is an essential concept of systems theory. The paper provides an extension of dissipativity, named differential dissipativity, by lifting storage functions and supply rates to the tangent bundle. Differential dissipativity is connected to incremental stability in the same way as dissipativity is connected to stability. It leads to a natural formulation of differential passivity wh...

The aim of this paper is to identiS the predictive values of communication within the family to behavior of the children of advanced primary school age. The results are founded on self-perception and self-reports of pupils attending seventh and eighth grades of primar5r schools in the city of Zagreb (N=484) concerning their behavior (PON) and the quality of communications within the family (KUO...

The traffic flow in long-haul dense wavelength division multiplexing fiber networks has surpassed by far the traffic deliverability from/to the access network thus creating what is known as “access bottleneck”. This bottleneck was the result of two major factors, the inherent cost sensitivity of access networks that impedes deployment of new optical technology prior to cost maturity, and the la...

Distributed Generator (DG) is a part of distribution network which is used to supply power both to the local loads and network. DG provides clean energy as it uses pollution free re-newable energy resources to generate power so interest in DG increases. Although DG provides many advantages such as improved reliability, efficiency etc it faces one technical issue called unwanted islanding phenom...