Bone Anchored Hearing Implants (BAHI) are routinely used in patients with conductive or mixed hearing loss, e.g. if conventional air conduction hearing aids cannot be used. New sound processors and new fitting software now allow the adjustment of parameters such as loudness compression ratios or maximum power output separately. Today it is unclear, how the choice of these parameters influences ...

In this paper, modeling of optimized Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) with reduced hardware and implementation of JPEG Image compression in MATLAB is presented. DCT is the heart of the JPEG image compression. The computation of DCT is hardware intensive and power consumption is also very high. In JPEG Image Compression pipeline, a quantizer follows the DCT. Such structural pipeline is advantageo...

A thermodynamic process of power generation has been developed for a gas turbine, a steam turbine, and a compressor, supported by adiabatic expansion or compression processes. Recently, the possible inlet temperature of gas turbines has been increased to 1500°C or more, and the inlet temperature of steam turbines also has been increased to 650°C. At these high-temperature conditions, turbine no...

Compressed sensing (CS) is a universal low-complexity data compression technique for signals that have a sparse representation in some domain. While CS data compression can be done both in the analogand digital domain, digital implementations are often used on low-power sensor nodes, where an ultra-low-power (ULP) processor carries out the algorithm on Nyquist-rate sampled data. In such systems...

In distributed speech recognition, speech features are computed on a mobile device, compressed, and sent to a server that performs the computationally intensive search for the most likely word sequence. Much of the current research in distributed speech recognition has been in the area of feature compression and communication robustness over wireless links, including error correction and concea...

In this paper the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithms for wind energy systems arereviewed. As the amounts of power produced in wind power plants is changing due to theinstantaneous changing nature of the wind, it is desirable to determine the one optimal generatorspeed that ensures maximum energy yield. Thus, it is important to include a controller that cantrack the maximum peak rega...

after harvesting, pistachio nuts are generally kept in storage before being exported. during handling, thenuts are exposed to external forces that cause mechanical damage to them. the increase of the mechanicaldamage is a function of storage conditions, especially temperature. this research investigated the effect ofstorage temperature (25, 5, -5, -15°c), on the mechanical properties of pistach...

The peak power delivered by the klystrons in the NLCTA (Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator) now under construction at SLAC is enhanced by a factor of four in a SLED-II type of R.F. pulse compression system (pulse width compression ratio of six). To achieve the desired output pulse duration of 250 ns, a delay line constructed from a 36 m length of circular waveguide is used. Future colliders,...

To assess original research addressing the effect of the application of compression clothing on sport performance and recovery after exercise, a computer-based literature research was performed in July 2011 using the electronic databases PubMed, MEDLINE, SPORTDiscus, and Web of Science. Studies examining the effect of compression clothing on endurance, strength and power, motor control, and phy...