Results of broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast), in situ as the function of pressure are presented. They show a clear evidence of a threshold to the new pattern of the pressure evolution of the static dielectric permittivity and DC electric conductivity already for Pt  ≈ 200MPa at T = 5 oC and Pt  ≈ 300MPa at T = 25 oC. BDS monitoring versus pressu...

in the form of passive seismic methods, broadband seismometers have been used in hydrocarbon exploration. the frequency bandwidth typically studied is in the range of 1–6 hz. the observations on low frequency band of microtremors are used to calculate the spectral ratio of vertical and horizontal components (v/h) and power spectral density (psd). attributes based on the v/h ratio and the psd ha...

Self-configuring wireless sensor networks are a fascinating emerging technology: the vision is to spread out hundreds or thousands of small, cheap, battery-driven, and self-configuring nodes bearing a wireless modem to accomplish a given task jointly. An important concern is the network lifetime: as nodes run out of power, the connectivity decreases and the network can finally be partitioned an...

circularly-polarized antenna is built based on new SIW(substrate integrated waveguide)structure which contains cavity-backed resonator and a conventional polarized ring with twosquare slits in inner and outer ring that differ 90° at position and is proposed for right-handedcircular polarization (RHCP) and fabricated in two separate layers. A broadband impedancebandwidth of 13.9% and a RHCP axia...

Wireless access networks are evolving rapidly and hold the promise of significantly altering the landscape for broadband competition. In a companion paper, we explained why wireless networks are unlikely to converge toward the sort of broadband platform network exemplified by wired Next Generation Access Networks. In this paper we present in more detail the future architecture we see most likel...

Broadband communications lie at the heart of the developing information society. Employing a logistic diffusion model, we analyze the factors that influence the diffusion of fixed and mobile broadband. For fixed broadband diffusion, we find that local loop unbundling, income, population density, education, and price are significant factors of fixed broadband diffusion. For mobile broadband, mul...

In this paper, we present the design of Greystar, an innovative defense system for combating the growing SMS spam traffic in cellular networks. By exploiting the fact that most SMS spammers select targets randomly from the finite phone number space, Greystar monitors phone numbers from the grey phone space (which are associated with data only devices like laptop data cards and machine-to-machin...

background: ultraviolet (uv) radiation is divided into three regions: uva, uvb, and uvc. both the quality and quantity of solar uv radiation vary with various factors including the elevation of the sun above the horizon, as well as absorption and scattering of uv photons by molecules in the atmosphere, notably ozone and clouds. it is clear that whereas a moderate amount of uv exposure is benefi...