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May I return again [music] : descriptive ballad /
No full textFor voice and piano.; "Wholesale agents: Gordon & Gotch Propriety Limited, Melbourne"; Cover carries portrait of Lillian Doherty.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an7375544; MUS: N, MUSM135397.; NL copy "Sung nightly by Miss Agnes Hazel, with unbound success, at the Opera House, Melbourne and the Tivoli Theatre, Sydney
Doherty Amplifier Linearization in Experiments by Digital Injection Methods
No full textIn this paper, the experimental verification of two linearization methods applied on a broadband two-way microstrip Doherty amplifier is performed. The laboratory set-ups are formed to generate the baseband nonlinear linearization signals of the second-order. After being tuned in magnitude and phase in the digital domain the linearization signals modulate the second harmonics of fundamental carrier. In the first method, adequately processed signals are then inserted at the input and output of the main Doherty amplifier transistor, whereas in the second method, they are injected at the outputs of the Doherty main and auxiliary amplifier transistors. The experimental results are obtained for 16QAM and 64QAM digitally modulated signals
Helping children think: Gaze aversion and teaching
No full textLooking away from an interlocutor's face during demanding cognitive activity can help adults answer challenging arithmetic and verbal-reasoning questions (Glenberg, Schroeder, & Robertson, 1998). However, such `gaze aversion' (GA) is poorly applied by 5-year-old school children (Doherty-Sneddon, Bruce, Bonner, Longbotham, & Doyle, 2002). In Experiment 1 we trained ten 5-year-old children to use GA while thinking about answers to questions. This trained group performed significantly better on challenging questions compared with 10 controls given no GA training. In Experiment 2 we found significant and monotonic age-related increments in spontaneous use of GA across three cohorts of ten 5-year-old school children (mean ages: 5;02, 5;06 and 5;08). Teaching and encouraging GA during challenging cognitive activity promises to be invaluable in promoting learning, particularly during early primary years
A fully matched N-way Doherty amplifier with optimized linearity
No full textThis paper presents a new fully matched N-way Doherty amplifier. The basic principles of operation and important features are described. For the experimental verification, 2.14-GHz Doherty amplifiers,having two-, three-, and four-way structures are implemented using silicon LDMOSFETs and tested using down-link WCDMA signal. The linearity performances of the two-, three-, and four-way Doherty amplifiers are optimized for better efficiency versus linearity by a bias adjustment of the peaking amplifiers. For, simultaneously improving the efficiency and linearity to achieve maximum efficiency versus linearity, the gate biases of the peaking amplifiers for the N-way Doherty amplifier are optimized. As a result, the efficiency versus linearity characteristics are drastically improved by N-way extension of the Doherty amplifier.X11138sciescopu
Evaluation of Doherty Amplifier Implementations
No full textThesis (MScIng)--Stellenbosch University, 2008.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Modern communication systems demand efficient, linear power amplifiers. The amplifiers are
often operated in the backed-off power levels at which linear amplifiers such as class B amplifier
are particularly inefficient. The Doherty amplifier provides an improvement as it increases efficiency
at backed of power levels. Doherty amplifiers consists of two amplifiers, a carrier amplifier
and a peaking amplifier, of which the output is combined in a novel way. Implementation of
the Doherty amplifier with transistors is not ideal. One of the main problems is the insufficient
current production of the peaking amplifier at peak envelope power (PEP) if it is implemented
as a class C amplifier. A suggested solution to this problem is a bias adaption system that
controls the peaking amplifier gate voltage dynamically depending on the input power levels.
The design and evaluation of such a adaptive Doherty amplifier is the main goal of this thesis.
A classical Doherty amplifier with and an uneven Doherty amplifier with unequal power division
between the carrier and peaking amplifiers are also evaluated and compared with the adaptive
Doherty amplifier.
The amplifiers are designed using a 10 W LDMOS FET device, the MRF282. The adaptive
Doherty amplifier and the uneven Doherty amplifier show significant improvements in efficiency
and output power over the even Doherty amplifier. At PEP the adaptive Doherty delivers 42.4
dBm at 39.75 % power added efficiency (PAE), the uneven Doherty amplifier 41.9 dBm at 40.75
% PAE and the even Doherty amplifier 40.8 dBm at 38.6 % PAE. At 3dB backed-off input power
the adaptive Doherty amplifier has an efficiency of 34.3%, compared to 34.9 5% for the uneven
Doherty amplifier and 29.75 % for the even Doherty amplifier.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Moderne kommunikasie stelsels vereis effektiewe, linieêre drywing versterkers. Die versterkers
word dikwels in laer drywings vlakke bedryf waar linieêre versterkers soos ’n klas B versterker
besondere lae effektiwiteit het. Die Doherty versterker bied ’n uitweg omdat dit verbeterde
effektiwiteit by lae drywings vlakke bied. ’n Doherty versterker bestaan uit twee versterkers, die
hoof versterker en die aanvullende versterker, waarvan die uittrees met ’n spesiale kombinasie
netwerk bymekaar gevoeg word. Die implementasie van Doherty versterkers met transistors is
nie ideaal nie. Een van die hoof probleme is die onvoldoende stroom wat deur die aanvullings
versterker gebied word by piek omhulsel drywing (POD). ’n Oplossing vir die probleem is om ’n
aanpassings sisteem te gebruik wat die aanvullende versterker se hekspanning dinamies beheer
afhangende van die intree drywings vlakke. Die ontwerp en evaluasie van so ’n aanpassings
Doherty versterker is die hoof doel van hierdie tesis. ’n Klassieke Doherty versterke met gelyke
drywings verdeling en ’n ongelyke Doherty versterker wat gebruik maak van ongelyke drywings
verdeling tussen die hoof-en aanvullende versterkers is ook gevalueer en vergelyk met die aanpassings
Doherty versterker.
Die versterkers was ontwerp met ’n 10 W LDMOS FET, die MRF282. Die aanpassings Doherty
versterker en die ongelyke Doherty versterker het aanmerklike verbeteringe in effektiwiteit en
uittree drywing gebring in vergelyking met die ewe Doherty versterker. By POD het die aanpassings
versterker 42.4 dBm teen 39.75 % drywing toegevoegde effektiwiteit (DTE) gelewer, die
ongelyke Doherty versterker 41.9 dBm teen 40.75 % DTE, en die ewe Doherty versterker 40.8
dBm teen 38.6 DTE. By ’n intree drywingsvlak 3 dB laer as POD het die aanpassings Doherty
versterker ’n effektiwiteit van 34.3 % getoon, in vergelyking met die onewe Doherty versterker
se 34.9 % en die ewe Doherty versterker se 29.75 % DTE
A Four-Way Series Doherty Digital Polar Transmitter at mm-Wave Frequencies
No full textThis article presents an efficient digital polar transmitter (DPTX) at mm-wave frequencies that exploit a novel N -way series Doherty combiner (SDC) to enhance its drain and system efficiency at deep power back-off (PBO). The proposed N -way SDC is scalable and can be implemented elegantly using N transformers and N-1 shunt capacitors. As a proof of concept, a four-way Doherty DPTX is realized with the proposed SDC in which four identical but independent digital phase modulators deliver a phase-modulated constant envelope signal to their corresponding digital power amplifiers to perform the required amplitude modulation. Fabricated in a 40nm CMOS process, the proposed DPTX occupies a core area of 1.1 mathrm {mm^{2}} and exhibits 18.7dBm saturated output power and <-40dBc LO feedthrough. It demonstrates a drain efficiency of 33%/36%/22% at 0/4.5/11.5dB PBO at a 29.5GHz carrier frequency. While transmitting a 300MHz 64-QAM OFDM signal with a peak-to-average power ratio of 10.7dB, the DPTX achieves 18%/8% average drain/system efficiency, -27.6dB error vector magnitude, and -27.5dBc adjacent channel leakage ratio. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first reported mm-wave Doherty transmitter that includes the entire chain all the way from the binary data stream up to the modulated mm-wave output signal.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Electronic
Compact N-Way Doherty Power Combiners for mm-wave 5G Transmitters
No full textThis paper presents a design procedure for compact lumped-element 3-/4-/5-way Doherty power combiners suitable for mm-wave 5G transmitters. Among them, the 3-way Doherty power combiner is favored due to its low complexity, compact layout, and average drain efficiency at 12 dB power back-off (PBO) when implemented using lossy lumped elements. Based on the metal stack of a 40nm CMOS process, a 3-way Doherty power combiner can provide a simulated passive efficiency of more than 60% at 12 dB PBO and a 10% drain-efficiency bandwidth power bandwidth of 8/15 GHz at 30 GHz
Experimental Verification of the Impact of the 2nd Order Injected Signals on Doherty Amplifiers Nonlinear Distortion
No full textIn this paper, an asymmetrical Doherty amplifier
fabricated in microstrip technology is tested in the experiments to verify the impact of the 2nd order signal for the linearization prepared in baseband. The measurement set-up consists of three USRPs programmed by LabVIEW to generate the useful 64QAM signal and the signals for linearization that are set in amplitude and phase and modulate the 2nd harmonic of fundamental carrier. The USRPs instruments should be synchronized for performing measurements for two scenarios: the signals for linearization are injected at input of the transistor within the main Doherty amplifier or are injected at its output
Cognitive demands of face monitoring: Evidence for visuospatial overload
No full textYoung children perform difficult communication tasks better face to face than when they cannot see one another (e.g., Doherty-Sneddon & Kent, 1996). However, in recent studies, it was found that children aged 6 and 10 years, describing abstract shapes, showed evidence of face-to-face interference rather than facilitation. For some communication tasks, access to visual signals (such as facial expression and eye gaze) may hinder rather than help children’s communication. In new research we have pursued this interference effect. Five studies are described with adults and 10- and 6-year-old participants. It was found that looking at a face interfered with children’s abilities to listen to descriptions of abstract shapes. Children also performed visuospatial memory tasks worse when they looked at someone’s face prior to responding than when they looked at a visuospatial pattern or at the floor. It was concluded that performance on certain tasks was hindered by monitoring another person’s face. It is suggested that processing of visual communication signals shares certain processing resources with the processing of other visuospatial information
Okudrilus Csuzdi & Sherlock & Kouete & Doherty-Bone 2015, gen. n.
No full textOkudrilus Csuzdi & Sherlock gen. n. Etymology: Referring to Mount Oku, North-West Region, Cameroon —the highest mountain in the region and a collecting locality of all three the new species. Gender: masculine. Diagnosis: Eudrilinae with closely paired setae and paired male pores close to 17/18. Spermathecal pores preclitellar, paired between a–a. Female pores paired in 14 close to 14/15 near d. Oesophageal gizzard in 6, intestinal gizzards absent. Dorsal blood vessel simple throughout. Paired calciferous glands in 12 and unpaired chylous-sacs in 10, 11. Male genital apparatus metandric with long, backward-running vesicles. Excretory system holoic, vesiculate. Ovo-spermathecal apparatus paired with ventral interconnecting duct. Simple penial setae present. All species in this genus are known only from highland areas above 1000 m in the North West Region. Type-species: Okudrilus monticolus sp. n. Remarks: Okudrilis gen. n. is similar to Metascolex Michaelsen, 1903 in the paired genital pores and metandric condition of the male genitalia; however, Okudrilis differs from it in the position of the gizzard (it is in 5 in Metascolex and 6 in Okudrilus), in the interconnected ovo-spermathecal system and furthermore by the presence of penial setae. Okudrilis with its paired calciferous glands in 12 and paired genital pores resembles Vomia Segun, 1976 as well, but differs from it in the metandric condition of the male genitalia and the long backward-running vesicles (Table 1).Published as part of Csuzdi, Cs., Sherlock, E., Kouete, M. Talla & Doherty-Bone, T. M., 2015, Four new earthworm species from the highlands of Cameroon with description of a new genus Okudrilus gen. n. (Oligochaeta: Eudrilidae & Acanthodrilidae), pp. 25-38 in African Invertebrates 56 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.5733/afin.056.0103, http://zenodo.org/record/767041
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