The characteristics of wireless communication channels may vary with time due to fading, environmental changes and movement of mobile wireless devices. Tracking and estimating channel gains of wireless channels is therefore a fundamentally important element of many wireless communication systems. In particular, the receivers in many wireless networks need to estimate the channel gains by means ...

For the effective use of troops in a battlefield, it is very desirable that soldiers’ health be monitored in real time. Health parameters such as heartbeat/pulse rate, body temperature and acoustic waves of lungs provide some vital information about a person’s health. Thus real-time monitoring of health parameters of soldiers will allow someone to assess the current conditions of soldiers’ heal...

Airborne capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) have predominantly large input reactance with small series radiation resistance. To maximize the acoustic power at resonance we employ low cost LC matching networks between output impedance driving source and CMUT transducer. Conventional networks, including pi T-network topologies are employed to provide a high-Q match. An import...

Most HIV prevention literature portrays women as especially vulnerable to HIV infection because of biological susceptibility and men's sexual power and privilege. Conversely, heterosexual men are perceived as active transmitters of HIV but not active agents in prevention. Although the women's vulnerability paradigm was a radical revision of earlier views of women in the epidemic, mounting chall...