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A Novel High-Isolation Resistor-Less Millimeter-Wave Power Divider Based on Metamaterial Structures for 5G Applications
In this article, a simple and effective method based on the metamaterial concept is proposed to achieve very high isolation between the output ports of a millimeter-wave power divider (MWPD). The proposed MWPD is designed for use in 5G applications (28-32 GHz). In order to increase the isolation, three metamaterial rows are used, each row containing eight proposed unit cells. These metamaterial unit cells are loaded between two dielectric layers. By using this method and without isolating resistors, isolation is improved by more than 36 dB, as compared with a prototype power divider in which no metamaterial element was used. The maximum measured isolation is 43 dB at 30 GHz. The final dimensions of the proposed MWPD are 8 x 8 x 0.582 mm(3) or 0.9 lambda(g) x 0.9 lambda(g) x 0.08 lambda(g) where lambda(g) is the guided wavelength at 30 GHz. The simplicity of design, its compactness, and most importantly, high isolation between output ports without any lumped resistor are the key advantages of the proposed MWPD
A PCA-based algorithm for online false data injection and jamming attacks detection in cyber-physical systems
Cyber-physical systems face cyberattacks that hinder performance, increase cost, or even collapse the system. Thus, rapid and accurate attack detection is crucial for quick activation of defense mechanisms. Model-based attack detection approaches are known for their precision; however, the unavailability of the exact system model poses a challenge. In response, model-free approaches have gained increased attention as a practical alternative. In this paper, an online model-free algorithm for detecting false data injection and jamming attacks on CPSs is proposed. The method leverages principal component analysis to reconstruct the expected observations in a reduced dimension space, emphasizing the most effective principal components. Then, deciding on attacked or normal operation relies on analyzing either the Euclidean distance or the cosine similarity of the discrepancy between the expected and actual observations. The proposed metrics effectively expose subtle deviations from expected behavior, as any alteration in these components augments the distance between the observed and reconstructed values. The proposed method was compared with the conventional cumulative sum discriminator and Kalman-based algorithm, using an IEEE-14, IEEE-30, and IEEE-118 bus systems. The results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm in terms of various evaluation metrics, including F-score, precision, recall, and miss detection ratio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Discussion: The Effect of Temperature Variations on the Camber of Precast, Prestressed Concrete Girders
The research presented in “The Effect of Temperature Variations on the Camber of Precast, Prestressed Concrete Girders”1 by Hang Nguyen, John Stanton, Marc Eberhard, and David Chapman in the September–October 2015 issue of PCI Journal is timely and useful. This article is aimed at estimating thermal camber for precast, prestressed concrete beams based on ambient temperature.This article is published as Sritharan, S. and E. Honarvar. Discussion: The Effect of Temperature Variations on the Camber of Precast, Prestressed Concrete Girders. PCI Journal 61, no. 5 (2016): 77-81. Posted with permission.</p
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
This work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Mining e-mail content for author identification forensics
We describe an investigation into e-mail content mining for author identification, or authorship attribution, for the purpose of forensic investigation. We focus our discussion on the ability to discriminate between authors for the case of both aggregated e-mail topics as well as across different email topics. An extended set of e-mail document features including structural characteristics and linguistic patterns were derived and, together with a Support Vector Machine learning algorithm, were used for mining the e-mail content. Experiments using a number of e-mail documents generated by different authors on a set of topics gave promising results for both aggregated and multi-topic author categorisation
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