Usability of portable generators fueled by petroleum as a substitute for the community's primary source electrical energy when main electricity black out is still best choice community, limited space good air circulation will make emissions harmful to users or innovation needed reduce levels exhaust produced saving fuel converting used, one which replacing carburetor in engine with converter ki...

The demand for portable power is large and expanding. Technologies currently available to meet this demand include batteries, fuel cells, thermophotovoltaic (TPV) generators and thermoelectric (TE) generators. Fuel cells and generators offer significantly improved performance over batteries, but issues of fuel processing and miniaturization remain. Microfabrication has the potential to address ...

The four major hurricanes that struck Florida during August 13-September 25, 2004, produced electric power outages in several million homes. After the hurricanes, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) investigated six deaths in Florida attributed to carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning (CPSC, unpublished data, 2004). The Florida Department of Health and CDC analyzed demographic and CO exposur...

Compact Marx generators based on the wave-erection principle are ideal drivers for flash x-ray systems. Traditional Marx generator design techniques lead to slow rising voltage pulses, marked by high impedances, large temporal jitter values and inefficient transfer of energy. As a result, larger pulse generators are fabricated to overcome these shortcomings, which results in excessive volumes a...

It is found that a proposed random number generator r an2, recently presented in the Numerical Recipes column [W. H. Press and S. A. Teukolsky, Comput. Phys. 6, 521-524 (1992)], is a good one, but a number of generators are presented that are at least as good and are simpler, much faster, and with periods “billions and billions” of times longer. They are presented not necessarily to supplant ra...

Multiple independent streams of random numbers are often required in simulation studies, for instance, to facilitate synchronization for variance-reduction purposes, and for making independent replications. A portable set of software utilities is described for uniform randomnumber generation. It provides for multiple generators (streams) running simultaneously, and each generator (stream) has i...

The Freeware Alliance CAD system is a set of technology independent libraries plus a set of tools dedicated to digital CMOS vlsi design. We present an overview of the functionalities available within the system libraries, including VHDL behavior, netlist and symbolic layout views for all cells. Both standard cells libraries and custom block generators are detailed, since it is a unique feature ...

Patients diagnosed with cancer receive different types of treatments based on the type and level tumour. An emerging treatment that differs from well-developed systematic therapies (i.e., Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy, Immunotherapy) is Tumour Treating Field (TTF) treatment. behaviour under TTF varies electric field intensity; process exposing tumour cells to an called electroporation. From electr...