I have developed "tennis elbow" from lugging this book around the past four weeks, but it is worth the pain, the effort, and the aspirin. It is also worth the (relatively speaking) bargain price. Including appendixes, this book contains 894 pages of text. The entire panorama of the neural sciences is surveyed and examined, and it is comprehensive in its scope, from genomes to social behaviors. The editors explicitly state that the book is designed as "an introductory text for students of biology, behavior, and medicine," but it is hard to imagine any audience, interested in any fragment of neuroscience at any level of sophistication, that would not enjoy this book. The editors have done a masterful job of weaving together the biologic, the behavioral, and the clinical sciences into a single tapestry in which everyone from the molecular biologist to the practicing psychiatrist can find and appreciate his or

Principles of Neural Science

Object-based cloud and cloud shadow detection in Landsat imagery

This document provides updates to IEEE Std 802.16's MIB for the MAC, PHY and asso- ciated management procedures in order to accommodate recent extensions to the standard.

IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems Draft Amendment: Management Information Base Extensions

The objective of this study was to develop anatomically correct whole body human models of an adult male (34 years old), an adult female (26 years old) and two children (an 11-year-old girl and a six-year-old boy) for the optimized evaluation of electromagnetic exposure. These four models are referred to as the Virtual Family. They are based on high resolution magnetic resonance (MR) images of healthy volunteers. More than 80 different tissue types were distinguished during the segmentation. To improve the accuracy and the effectiveness of the segmentation, a novel semi-automated tool was used to analyze and segment the data. All tissues and organs were reconstructed as three-dimensional (3D) unstructured triangulated surface objects, yielding high precision images of individual features of the body. This greatly enhances the meshing flexibility and the accuracy with respect to thin tissue layers and small organs in comparison with the traditional voxel-based representation of anatomical models. Conformal computational techniques were also applied. The techniques and tools developed in this study can be used to more effectively develop future models and further improve the accuracy of the models for various applications. For research purposes, the four models are provided for free to the scientific community.

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The Virtual Family—development of surface-based anatomical models of two adults and two children for dosimetric simulations

Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility

Statistical Measurement of Electromagnetic Noise Characteristics of ESD in Wireless Frequency Bands and Influence Evaluation on Communication Performance

Detection of human arm approaching direction based on electrostatic coupling in human body communication

Decomposition of overlapped electric field patterns by using the least square estimation of intensity of electromagnetic wave sources

A maximum a posteriori (MAP) method to simultaneously estimate location and channel parameters for implantable medical devices is proposed. Achievable localisation accuracy is investigated and discussed based on theoretical and experimental evaluation. As for the theoretical analysis, the Cramer–Rao lower bound for the proposed MAP estimation is derived. Consequently, it is demonstrated that the proposed method achieves precious location estimation accuracy from both theoretical and experimental aspects.

https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1049/el.2017.1542

Theoretical and experimental analyses on location/channel parameters estimation for implantable medical devices

Space diversity reception is well known as a technique that can improve the performance of wireless communication systems without any temporal and spectral resource expansion. Implant body area networks (BANs) require low energy consumption and in some cases high-speed transmission. Therefore, applying spatial diversity reception to implant BANs can be expected to fulfill these requirements. For this purpose, this paper presents a local frequency offset diversity system with π/4-differential quadrature phase shift keying (DQPSK) for implant BANs that offer improved communication performance with a simpler receiver structure, and evaluates the proposal's bit error rate (BER) performance. We first confirm that the local frequency offset diversity reception can effectively improve the communication performance of implant BANs. We then perform an analysis of a realistic communication performance, namely, a link budget analysis based on derived BER performance and evaluate the link parameters including system margin and maximum link distance. These results demonstrate that the local frequency offset diversity system can realize a reliable communication link in a realistic implant BAN scenario.

Jianqing Wang

Papers

Statistical Measurement of Electromagnetic Noise Characteristics of ESD in Wireless Frequency Bands and Influence Evaluation on Communication Performance

Detection of human arm approaching direction based on electrostatic coupling in human body communication

Decomposition of overlapped electric field patterns by using the least square estimation of intensity of electromagnetic wave sources

Theoretical and experimental analyses on location/channel parameters estimation for implantable medical devices

Local frequency offset spatial diversity with pi/4-DQPSK in implant communications