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Extraction of fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) from the abdominal region of the mother’s skin is challenge task due to the high overlapping of maternal and fetal signals in this area. To overcome the problem, this paper proposes the utilization of extreme learning model (ELM) as the prediction algorithm to train on the FECG signal extracted by least mean square approach from the input abdominal and thoracic signals. The trained ELM model is used to model the FECG signal for the testing samples. Also, this paper investigates the firefly algorithm (FA) to tune the parameters of ELM and improve its performance. Due to the high complexity and too many parameters of FA, this paper embeds the... 

We have observed that a rotating liquid soap film generates electricity when placed between two non-contact electrodes with a sufficiently large potential difference. In our experiments, suspended liquid film (water + soap film) is formed on the surface of a circular frame, which is forced to rotate in the x−y horizontal plane by a motor. This system is located at the center of two capacitor-like vertical plates to apply an external electric voltage difference in the x-direction. The produced electric current is collected from the liquid film using two conducting electrodes that are separated in the y-direction. We previously reported that a liquid film in an external electric field rotates... 

The liquid film motor is a freely suspended liquid film placed between two capacitively coupled plates that rotates when an electric current is passed through it. Here we propose a theory for its rotation mechanism based on thin film electroconvection. The capacitively coupled plates induce free charges on the surfaces of the film, and the electric field on the film exerts a force that induces rotation. Results of the proposed theory and simulation are in good agreement with the experiments in different properties of the liquid film motor  

This study presents a new method to develop a thin controllable retarder/modulator with spatial axial symmetry by rotating a freely suspended of 4-Cyano-4-n-pentylbiphenyl (5CB) and N-(4-methoxybenzylidene)-4-butylaniline (MBBA) liquid crystal films using mechanical method or as a liquid film motor  

Introduction: Due to the importance of laser light penetration and propagation in biological tissues, many researchers have proposed several numerical methods such as Monte Carlo, finite element and green function methods. Among them, the Monte Carlo method is an accurate method which can be applied for different tissues. However, because of its statistical nature, Monte Carlo simulation requires a large number of photon pockets to be traced, so it is computationally expensive and time-consuming. Although other numerical methods based on the diffusion method are fast, they have two important limitations: first, they are not valid near the bounder of sample and source, and second, their... 

Thermoacoustics describes energy conversion processes, activated by interaction temperature oscillation, accompanying the pressure oscillation in a sound wave, with solid boundaries. In ordinary experience this interaction of sound and heat cannot be observed, because of the very low temperature differences, but under suitable conditions, it can be emphasized and amplified to create remarkable thermodynamic effects such as, steep thermal gradients, powerful convective heat fluxes, and strong sound fields. We designed and constructed a simple thermoacoustic refrigerator with an adjustable mechanical resonator, coupled with the acoustic resonator. Our experimental data showed about % 10... 

Let R be a commutative ring with identity. The co-annihilating-ideal graph of R, denoted by AR, is a graph whose vertex set is the set of all non-zero proper ideals of R and two distinct vertices I and J are adjacent whenever Ann(I) ∪ Ann(J) = {0}. In this paper we initiate the study of the co-annihilating ideal graph of a commutative ring and we investigate its properties. © 2016 Canadian Mathematical Society  

The important role of collagen fibers in LILT has been observed. However there is still unclear information about light characteristics, such as coherence and polarization. Collagens behavior in response to different polarization is presented in this study. We investigate the distribution and structure of collagen bundles in full-thickness human skin in response to laser with different polarization by ellipsometry technique. For this study, we chose skin from the back part of a white man. The light source is HeNe laser. Samples are irradiated by three different polarizations. Sample S is irradiated using the electric field vector of the polarized laser radiation aligned in parallel with the... 

We study the dynamics of a conducting fluid carrying (i) a uniform current in the presence of a non-uniform magnetic field or (ii) carrying a non-uniform current in the presence of a uniform magnetic field, using particle image velocimetry (PIV). Our results show that the average angular velocity of the induced rotation has a power-law dependence on the electric current passing through the fluid with an exponent ≈2/3, in excellent agreement with our simulation results, for the same system. To explain the experimental observations we explore all possibilities for inducing rotation in a fluid carrying an electric current. Our theoretical discussion indicates two scenarios wherein applying... 

The effect of intensity variation on the quantum densities of active medium and thermodynamic characteristics of a high turbulent flow CO2 laser has been investigated. Comparison between the calculation of constant and variant intensity on the quantum densities and thermodynamic characteristics of turbulent gas flow shows a ∼ 10% drop in the output power of the laser, which is only 50 cm long. © Sharif University of Technology, October 2003  

It is well known that electro-hydrodynamical effects in freely suspended liquid films can force liquids to flow. Here, we report a purely electrically driven rotation in water and some other liquid suspended films with full control on the velocity and the chirality of the rotating vortices. The device, which is called "film motor", consists of a quasi two-dimensional electrolysis cell in an external in-plane electric field, crossing the mean electrolysis current density. If either the external field or the electrolysis voltage exceeds some threshold (while the other does not vanish), the liquid film begins to rotate. The device works perfectly with both DC and AC fields. © Springer-Verlag... 

Using a five-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) soliton in an Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with SU(2) gauge group, we study p-wave holographic insulator/superconductor phase transition. To explore the phase structure of the model, we consider the system in the probe limit as well as fully back-reacted solutions. We will also study the zero temperature limit of the p-wave holographic superconductor in four dimensions