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

This work investigates the characteristics of the wireless in-body communication channel within the UWB frequency range from 3 GHz to 6 GHz. A series of experiments using a liquid human phantom is carried out in order to determine optimal transmission parameters for compact, high performance ingestible and implantable wireless medical devices. Although suited for low power and high throughput applications, UWB is strongly limited by the high attenuation in tissues in the microwave frequency range. Transmission loss measurements performed with an 11 mm loop antenna and an UWB transceiver prototype confirm this assumption. We therefore suggest using moderately wideband modulation techniques at the lowest frequency end of the UWB range.

https://www.ursi.org/Proceedings/ProcGA14/papers/ursi_paper2603.pdf

Benefits and limits of UWB for In- and out-of-body communication

Development of Pseudo Biological Signal Generator for Immunity Test of Wearable Heathcare Devices

Common-mode Noise Reduction Circuit Design for Biosignal Acquisition System—in Comparison with the DRL

A Study on Nonlinear Effect of Modulated Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Waves on Stimulus Response

Monitoring system with Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons is promising for position identification of elderly wanderers. BLE beacons can be mounted in shoes for convenience, and a shoe-mounted directional antenna is expected to efficiently radiate the beacon signals to the data server of the monitoring system. In this paper, a directional array antenna with planar or curved structure was designed on the shoe surface for this purpose. The antenna was designed to sweep diagonally upward from 10° to 50°, and the simulated and measured S11 performances revealed reasonable agreement. The antenna was assumed to be used in an urban environment, and a directional patch array antenna with dielectric lens was also designed to receive beacon signals by mounting it on utility poles. According to a feasibility experiment result of elderly wanderer position identification, the designed directional antenna can provide an almost 100% position identification rate if a wanderer is within 20 m from a smart phone user.

Jianqing Wang

Papers

Benefits and limits of UWB for In- and out-of-body communication

Development of Pseudo Biological Signal Generator for Immunity Test of Wearable Heathcare Devices

Common-mode Noise Reduction Circuit Design for Biosignal Acquisition System—in Comparison with the DRL

A Study on Nonlinear Effect of Modulated Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Waves on Stimulus Response

Design and evaluation of directional antenna for shoe-mounted sensor for position identification of elderly wanderer