The inductive link is widely used in implantable biomedical sensor systems to achieve near-field communication (NFC) and wireless power transfer (WPT). However, it is tough to achieve reliable NFC on an inductive WPT link when the coupling coefficient is ultra-low (0.01 typically), since the NFC signal (especially for the uplink from the in-body part to the out-body part) could be too weak to b...

Wireless power transmission (WPT) is a cutting-edge technology that signifies a new era for electricity without a bunch of wires. Wireless power or wi-power is increasingly becoming the main interest of many R&D firms to eliminate the “last cable” after the wide public exposure of Wi-Fi lately. Even though the first idea was devised from Nikola Tesla in the early 20th century (Tesla, 1919), the...

The fault diagnosis of rotating machinery has attracted considerable research attention in recent years because such components as bearings and gears frequently suffer failure, resulting in unexpected machine breakdowns. Signal processing-based condition monitoring and fault diagnosis methods have proved effective in fault identification, but the revelation of faults from the resulting signals ...

The main objective of this paper is to study the composition continuous Kontorovich-Lebedev wavelet transform (KL-wavelet transform) and wave packet (WPT) based on (KL-transform). Estimates for KL-wavelet are obtained, Plancherel?s relation WPT-transform derived. Reconstruction formula WPT associated KL-transform also deduced at end Calderon?s related using its convolution property obtained.

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is classically considered to be a neurodegenerative disease with cortical changes. Recent structural imaging findings, however, highlight that subcortical and in particular striatal regions are also affected in the FTD syndrome. The influence of striatal pathology on cognitive and behavioural changes in FTD is virtually unexplored. In the current study we employ th...

Energy harvesting is a promising technology to overcome the energy bottleneck in batterypowered heterogeneous sensor networks (HSNs). In an energy harvesting HSN, heterogeneous sensor nodes harvest energy to power themselves, and use the harvested energy for data transmission. This paper investigates a multiple-input single-output wireless powered HSN with imperfect channel state information (C...

Similar to the evolution from wired Internet to mobile Internet (MI), the growing demand of power delivery anywhere and anytime appeals for power grid transformation from wired to mobile domain. We propose here the next generation of power delivery network – mobile energy internet (MEI) for wireless energy transfer within a mobile range from several meters to tens of meters. MEI will be a signi...

BACKGROUND Local freezing cold injuries are common in the north and sequelae to cold injury can persist many years. Quantitative sensory testing (QST) can be used to assess neurosensory symptoms but has previously not been used on cold injury patients. OBJECTIVE To evaluate neurosensory sequelae after local freezing cold injury by thermal and vibrotactile perception thresholds and by symptom ...

This paper introduced a novel, simple and effective method to extract the general feature of two surface EMG (electromyography) signal patterns: forearm supination (FS) surface EMG signal and forearm pronation (FP) surface EMG signal. After surface EMG (SEMG) signal was decomposed to the fourth resolution level with wavelet packet transform (WPT), its whole scaling space (with frequencies in th...

Mid-range resonant coupling-based high efficient wireless power transfer (WPT) techniques have gained substantial research interest due to the number of potential applications in many industries. This paper presents a novel design of a resonant two-loop WPT technique including the design, fabrication and preliminary results of this proposal. This new design employs a compensation inductor which...