Methylation of DNA and of Lysine 9 on histone H3 (H3K9) is associated with gene silencing in many animals, plants, and fungi. In Neurospora crassa, methylation of H3K9 by DIM-5 directs cytosine methylation by recruiting a complex containing Heterochromatin Protein-1 (HP1) and the DIM-2 DNA methyltransferase. We report genetic, proteomic, and biochemical investigations into how DIM-5 is controll...

Power supply technology is a basic technology that supports all types of electronic equipment. Switching power supplies, in particular, are characterized by small size, light weight and high efficiency and are the mainstream technology used in power supplies at present. In recent years, with the advent of an advanced information and communications-oriented society, trends toward personalization...

Resonant mode conversion techniques are used nowadays to improve pulse width modulated dcdc converters. Moreover the quest for ever smaller 50 to 500 watts dc-dc switching supplies has led to the development of circuits that operates in 500 KHz -1 MHz range and above. Since the parasitic elements that normally present in a power circuit can be very significant at this frequency, most of the wor...

Temperatures are effective indicators of the health of many machines such as the wind turbine gearboxes, bearings, engines, etc. This paper presents a novel wireless temperature sensor node powered by a thermal harvester for monitoring the status of gearboxes. A thermoelectric generator module (TEG) is optimized to harvest the electrical power from a heat source such as the gearbox undergoing s...

In this work a monolithic architecture to realize a highperformance switching regulator with non-linear fuzzy logic control is introduced. An overview of the main issues related to PWh4 DCDC conversion in continuous mode is reported and an introduction to nonlinear fuzzy logic control is given. The main analog Fuzzy Logic blocks are illustrated and the overall architecture presented with the ma...

With the rising integration levels used to increase digital processing performance, there is a clear need for multiple independent on-chip supplies in order to support per-IP or block power management. Simply adding multiple off-chip DCDC converters is not only difficult due to supply impedance concerns, but also adds cost to the platform by increasing motherboard size and package complexity. T...

This research article addresses the evaluation of power conversion on heavy payload tethered hexarotors where the payloads are high and hovering times are long. Modifications were added to the power conversion unit based on operation reliability perspective. Since the objective power conversion is large comparing to existing tethered UAVs today, a strategic engineering approach was proposed and...

With the rising integration levels used to increase digital processing performance, there is a clear need for multiple independent on-chip supplies in order to support per-IP or block power management. Simply adding multiple off-chip DCDC converters is not only difficult due to supply impedance concerns, but also adds cost to the platform by increasing motherboard size and package complexity. T...

In this paper, a new transformerless buck-boost converter based on ZETA converter is introduced. The proposed converter has the ZETA converter advantages such as, buck-boost capability and input to output DC insulation. The suggested converter voltage gain is higher than the classic ZETA converter. In the presented converter, only one main switch is utilized. The proposed converter offers low v...

A non-isolated DC/DC converter with high transfer gain is proposed in this paper. The presented converter consists of the switched inductor and three-level converters. The DC/DC power converter is three-level boost converter to convert the output voltage of the DC source into two voltage sources. The main advantages of DC/DC converter are using low voltage semiconductors and high gain voltage. ...