The aim of this study was to investigate the pharmacokinetic profiles of baicalin, wogonoside, baicalein and wogonin after oral administration of pure baicalin, Radix scutellariae and Scutellariae-Paeoniae couple extracts were administered and the pharmacokinetics profiles were compared between normal and ulcerative colitis rats. The plasma concentrations of the four flavonoids were determined...

How do differences in prior conceptual knowledge affect the nature and rate of learning? To answer this question, we built a computational model of learning, called SimStudent, and conducted a controlled simulation study to investigate how learning a complex skill changes when the system is given “weak” domain-general vs. “strong” domain-specific prior knowledge. We measured SimStudent’s learni...

In recent years, as a result of advancing VLSI technology, OFDM has received a great deal of attention and been adopted in many new generation wideband data communication systems such as IEEE 802.11a, HiPerLAN/2,digital audio/video broadcasting (DAB/DVB-T) and asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL), very high speed digital subscriber line (VDSL) in wireless and wired communications, respecti...

This thesis presents a new multiple-valued encoder with re-configurable radix. The proposed circuits utilize serial cyclic D/A conversion and semi floatinggate (SFG) inverters for compact design and a high functional capacity per device. A re-configurable radix is not supported by existing SFG inverter based multiple-valued encoders which make use of parallel binary weight D/A conversion. The s...

An energy-efficient power-aware design is highly desirable for DSP functions that encounter a wide diversity of operating scenarios in battery-powered wireless sensor network systems. Addressing this issue, this letter presents a low-power power-aware scalable pipelined Booth multiplier that makes use of dynamic-range detection unit, sharing common functional units, ensemble of optimized Wallac...

An integral part of FFT computation are the twiddle factors, which, in software implementations, are typically stored into RAM memory implying large memory footprint and power consumption. In this paper, we propose a novel twiddle factor generator based on reduced ROM tables. The unit supports both radix-4 and mixed-radix-4/2 FFT algorithms and several transform lengths. The unit operates at a ...

Many electronic voting systems assume the user votes with some computing device. This raises the question whether a voter can trust the device he is using. Two years ago, Chaum, and independently Neff, proposed what we call bare-handed electronic voting, where voters do not need any computational power. Their scheme has a very strong unforgeability guarantee. The price for that, however, is tha...