Vegetable oils (VO) are possible substitutes for fish oil in aquafeeds but their use is limited by their lack of omega-3 (n-3) long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA). However, oilseed crops can be modified to produce n-3 LC-PUFA such as eicosapentaenoic (EPA) and docosahexaenoic (DHA) acids, representing a potential option to fill the gap between supply and demand of these important n...

Visible light communication (VLC) can achieve high data rate transmission with multicarrier modulation techniques. The common variant is direct current (DC) optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DCO-OFDM) which offers a spectral efficient solution for VLC. However, similar to other schemes, DCO-OFDM suffers from peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). In this paper, the efficacy of pi...

To assess attitudes of previous sperm donors on donation disclosure to their own children/family and likelihood donate again knowing that direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTCGT) provides linkage between genetically related persons, threatening the anonymity assured by banks past donors. A cross-sectional survey for two large from 1980-2020 assessed demographics donor DTCGT. Qualtrics aggrega...

We demonstrate the flexibility and ease of use of C++ algorithmic differentiation (AD) tools based on overloading to numerical patterns (kernels) arising in computational finance. While adjoint methods and AD have been known in the finance literature for some time, there are few tools capable of handling and integrating with the C++ codes found in production. Adjoint methods are also known to b...

A reduced diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DCO) is common among patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) and often persists for more than a year following successful pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE). To determine the relative contribution the pulmonary membrane diffusing capacity (DM) and pulmonary capillary blood volume (VC) make to the reduction in DCO, ...

A 350μW MSK direct modulation transmitter and a 400μW OOK super-regenerative receiver (SRR) are implemented in 90nm CMOS technology. The transceiver tunes 24MHz in frequency steps smaller than 2kHz and is designed to meet the specifications of the Medical Implant Communications Service (MICS) standard in the 402–405MHz band. The transmitter meets MICS mask specifications with data rates up to 1...

Design of a fast-locking phase-locked loop (PLL) is one of the major challenges in today’s wireless communications. A recently reported digitally controlled oscillator (DCO)-based all-digital PLL (ADPLL) can achieve an ultrashort settling time of 10 ms. This study describes a new DCO tuning word (OTW) presetting technique for the ADPLL to further reduce its settling time. Estimating the require...

Asymmetrically clipped optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (ACO-OFDM) is a technique that sacrifices spectral efficiency in order to transmit an orthogonally frequency-division multiplexed signal over a unipolar channel, such as a directly modulated direct-detection fiber or free-space channel. Several methods have been proposed to regain this spectral efficiency, including: asym...