It is well known that timing jitter can degrade the bit error rate (BER) of receivers that recover clock information from the input data. However, timing jitter can also result in an indefinite increase in the settling time of clock recovery circuits at the receivers, particularly in low swing mesochronous systems. Mesochronous clock retiming circuits are required in repeaterless low swing on-c...

Aerobic granulation is a promising biotechnology for wastewater treatment. The formation and development of granules and the pollutant removal are closely associated with hydrodynamic shear force, settling time and volume exchange ratio (VER), which are proved to be the selection pressures. Three different values of shear force (2, 3 and 4 cm/s), settling time (3, 5 and 10 min) and VER (25, 50 ...

A field experiment was conducted to quantify settling velocities, aggregate states, and flocculation within a hopper dredge plume. Particular interest was in determining the abundance of dense, bed aggregates suspended from the consolidated bed during dredging. A suspended sediment plume from the hopper dredge Essayons was sampled for a period of 90 min after dredging. Settling velocities and s...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether sleep disturbances previously found to characterise high risk infants: (a) persist into childhood; (b) are influenced by early maternal settling strategies and (c) predict cognitive and emotional/behavioural functioning. METHODS Mothers experiencing high and low levels of psychosocial adversity (risk) were recruited antenatally and longitudinally assessed wit...

The goal of this study was to explore the positive association between concern related COVID-19 and single individuals’ perceived changes their partner preferences. In addition, we investigated mediating role fear being single. Results indicated that people with greater an increase in importance stability, family commitment, physical/social attractiveness, as well Fear only negatively predicted...

An engineering approach to analyze PM dry deposition due to gravitational settling is summarized in this paper. Particle horizontal settling distance is determined based upon wind speed and particle terminal settling velocity. New PSD in the downwind plume is calculated based upon particle horizontal settling distance and source PSD. Results of this research indicate that change of PSD in the d...

Background. Since the misfit of crown has an important role in clinical performance of implant-supported prostheses, and due to the impact of the settling effect on misfit, the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of torque forces on the total lengths of narrow and short implant abutments in different internal implant‒abutment connections. Methods. In four different implant‒abutment ...

Body weight stability may imply active regulation towards a certain physiological condition, a body weight setpoint. This interpretation is ill at odds with the world-wide increase in overweight and obesity. Until now, a body weight setpoint has remained elusive and the setpoint theory did not provide practical clues for body weight reduction interventions. For this an alternative theoretical m...

We present analytical and numerical solutions which describe a hot, viscous, two-temperature accretion flow onto a rotating neutron star or any other rotating compact star with a surface. We assume Coulomb coupling between the protons and electrons, and free-free cooling from the electrons. Outside a thin boundary layer, where the accretion flow meets the star, we show that there is an extended...