ISSN 2277 5080 | © 2014 Bonfring Abstract--Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is an inimitable technology in wireless communication. High peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) is a challenging issue in OFDM system. Large PAPR results in significant distortion in OFDM signal when passed through nonlinear high power amplifier. Selected mapping (SLM) is an efficient technique to reduce...

There are many benefits of utilizing OFDM like robustness and high spectral efficiency against ISI but still there are some disadvantages. The main problem that arises in OFDM systems is high PAPR. There are many techniques available for reduction of PAPR like tone reservation (TR), clipping and filtering, partial transmit sequence (PTS), active constellation scheme, interleaving and selected m...

Additive Manufacturing (AM) methods are generally used to produce an early sample or near net-shape elements based on three-dimensional geometrical modules. To date, publications on AM of metal implants have mainly focused on knee and hip replacements or bone scaffolds for tissue engineering. The direct fabrication of metallic implants can be achieved by methods, such as Selective Laser Melting...

We preliminarily find that providing sustainable land management (SLM) training to standard contact farmers and having them maintain demonstration plots within the community on a whole had low impact on the knowledge and adoption of SLM practices. However, the aspect of our intervention that targeted a traditionally disadvantaged group as far as their access to extension services, women, was so...

Among the many additive manufacturing (AM) processes for metallic materials, selective laser melting (SLM) is arguably the most versatile in terms of its potential to realize complex geometries along with tailored microstructure. However, the complexity of the SLM process, and the need for predictive relation of powder and process parameters to the part properties, demands further development o...

Selected Mapping (SLM) is known to be a useful method to reduce the peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of OFDM transmit signals. In this paper, the performance of PAPRreduction for Unique Word (UW-) OFDM is investigated where in contrast to usual cyclic prefix (CP-) OFDM correlations between subcarrier data exist due to a complex number Reed-Solomon code along the subcarriers. It is shown that ...

Selective laser melting (SLM), used to fabricate metallic objects with high geometrical complexity, is currently of increasing interest to the fields of medicine and dentistry. SLM-fabricated products should have highly smooth surfaces to minimize the use of post-processing procedures such as finishing and polishing. This study investigated the effect of various laser process parameters (laser ...

Direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) is a selective laser melting (SLM) manufacturing process that can produce near net shape parts from metallic powders. A range of materials are suitable for SLM; they include various metals such as titanium, steel, aluminium, and cobalt-chrome alloys. This paper forms part of a research drive that aims to evaluate the material performance of the SLM-manufactur...

We demonstrate a flexible setup for holographic steering of laser tweezers in microscopy using a high resolution spatial light modulator (SLM). In contrast to other methods, hologram read-out is done in the off-axis Fresnel regime rather than in the typically used on-axis Fourier regime. The diffractive structure is calculated as a Fresnel hologram, such that after reflection at the SLM only th...

Many inference methods have been proposed to reconstruct unknown Gene Regulatory Networks (GRN) using microarray datasets. State Space Model (SSM) is a method that can be used to infer GRNs from a time series dataset. However, there exist two difficulties in SSM when it is applied for GRN reconstruction: how to estimate initial values of parameters and how to learn the genegene interactions in ...