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In the 2010, targets of National Science and Technology Program - Energy¡¥s project plan had mentioned about the development of power line communication (PLC). This shows the importance of PLC. The data transmission occur burst errors easily by the noise interference from the environment. In order to reduce the error rate, we design a modulation/demodulation chip with error correctable and high error detected ability for power line communication in this thesis. The proposed design consists of Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), Frequency Shift Keying (FSK), Forward Error Correction (i.e. binary BCH code), and interleaving techniques. The CRC can detect the errors occurred in the digital communication. The probability of finding error is 99.997%. The BCH code is capable of correcting any combination of 3 or fewer errors in block. The function of PWM is to generate the digital pulses that exhibit the changeable pulse width according to the swing of the input voltage. In the telecommunication, FSK is a frequency modulation scheme such that the digital information can be transmitted through the discrete frequency changes of the carrier. Interleaving can make burst errors look like random errors. The design is implemented TSMC 0.18£gm process. The fabricated chip area is 1.16 millimeter square with 3.3V/1.8V supply voltages. The measured data shows that the proposed design is fully functional and consumes 55.5 £gW.

Plants containing condensed tannins (CT) represent an alternative feed resource for ruminants. However, limited information regarding nutrient disappearance from these plants is available. Two experiments were conducted to evaluate phosphorus (P) and other nutrient disappearance from plants containing CT. In the first experiment, nutrient disappearance from three native Texas species (Acacia angustissima var. hirta, Desmodium paniculatum, Smilax bona-nox, and Medicago sativa as control) were evaluated using the mobile nylon bag technique. For the second experiment, ruminal degradation parameters, ruminal and post-ruminal disappearance of P and other nutrients from a browse containing CT (Quercus virginiana) were compared to species without CT (Cynodon dactylon cv. Tifton 85, and Medicago sativa). Results from the first experiment indicate that the proportion of nutrient that disappeared during rumen, pepsin/HCl, or intestinal incubation differed among plant species and nutrient evaluated (P<0.05) and did not appear to be directly related to relative CT concentrations. Dry matter (DM), inorganic matter (IM), and organic matter (OM) disappearance were greater (P

Abstract A new technique for bonding of polymer micro-fluidic devices has been developed. This method can easily bond biochips with complex flow patterns and metal layer. Above all, using a patterned glass, the micro-channel structures on Poly-Methyl Meth-Acrylate (PMMA) substrates were generated by one-step hot embossing procedure. In contrast with the traditional thermal bonding, this paper presents low-temperature and low-pressure packaging for polymer micro-fluidic platforms. Furthermore, the disposable plastic biochip has successfully been tested by the measurement of tensile strength and surface roughness. This paper also reports details of the passive and active micro-mixers. According to experimental and numerical investigations, the mixing performance of passive micro-mixers is expectably to be found. In addition, to quantify the mixing concentration distribution in the micro-channel, it has been demonstrated by launching the image analysis programs. The bonding efficiency of the solvent is twenty four times as strong as thermal bonding efficiency.

Hole-doped manganite La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 materials has been extensively studied because of its colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) characteristic in a magnetic field. Recently, a new member of CMR family La0.7Ce0.3MnO3 , an electron-doped manganite, raises a new wave of attention for possible application of p-n junctions. Single Phase La0.7Ce0.3Mn3 films were usually grown by the pulse laser deposition (PLD) technique with a relatively narrow growth window around 755¢J¡Ó5¢J. In this study, we use a RF sputtering technique to grow La0.7Ce0.3Mn3 epitaxial films, which has not been tried yet. Films are grown on SrTiO3, MgO and LaAlO3 substrates. The best film have the metal-insulator transition temperature (TP) 304K and the curie temperature (TC) 310K, which are higher than that of grown by PLD method

We have fabricated a laser array module using a passive self-aligned flip-chip bonding technique. Silicon optical bench was used as a submount with PbSn (Tm=183¢J) solder bump and V-grooves. A 4-channel laser array was flip-chip mounted with coupling efficiency of 56% to cleaved 62.5/125£gm multimode fiber ribbons. The optimum fabrication parameters were bonding time of 20 seconds and bonding load of 10g. The average misalignments were measured to be 1£gm and 5£gm for X and Y directions , respectively.

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Research illuminating which therapist techniques are used in care-as-usual couple therapy, and under what circumstances, can contribute to a fuller understanding of how therapy works. The overall goal of the present study was to better understand care-as-usual couple therapy by investigating session-by-session techniques and session content to determine how therapists modify them based on the timing of the session and couples? pre-treatment characteristics. A total of 123 heterosexual couples were examined. Therapists frequently used acceptance techniques and discussion of recent or ongoing conflict or problem. Therapists typically used the same levels of techniques and session contents over a course of therapy. In addition, there were relatively few predictors of change in therapy techniques and session content.

A novel selective-filling technology of photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) employing a simple selective-blocking process using UV gel is demonstrated in this thesis. In this study the liquid-filled PCFs with the filling in inside three layers and whole four layers represent the insertion loss of gel 7.5dB and the photonic band gap (PBG) guiding effect at wavelength 1100nm~1300nm, having potential to be tunable optical filters by filling the liquid crystal. The liquid-filled PCFs without the filling of the most inside 1ayer represent low insertion loss of gel 2dB and the total index reflection (TIR) guiding effect, having potential to be low loss tunable fiber gratings by filling the liquid crystal. The liquid-filled PCFs with the filling in middle a layer represent the elliptical far field pattern and effect of birefringence at wavelength 1600nm.

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