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Injection locked frequency dividers (ILFD) are used for frequency division to reduce the overall power consumption. By injecting a high frequency signal to an LC oscillator, injecting signal gets synchronous with oscillator output. All ILFDs analysis reports are based on steady state solution when locking is reached. At the same time, it is important to consider transient analysis too. In this paper a simple model is developed to study phase transient analysis when injecting signal is small in amplitude. This model can be used for large signal injection as a good approximation  

A very low power CMOS, 1.5V, 2.5GHz prescaler was designed. Implemented in 0.25u standard CMOS technology, this prescaler can operate up to 3GHz range. The prescaler consists of three delay flip flops (DFF) that work synchronously with RF sinusoidal clock and divides by 4 or 5 according to control signal  

A 5GHz, 1.5 Volt and low power CMOS frequency synthesizer with LC-tuned VCO (voltage controlled oscillator) is presented. The synthesizer consists of an LC-tuned VCO, an injection-lock frequency divider, a very low power prescaler which brings 2.5GHz range frequency to 11 MHz, a phase-frequency detector and charge-pump with improved architecture. Spiral inductors with Q-factor of 9 are used for the LC-tuned 5 GHz VCO. A fixed 2 frequency divider based on injection-locking phenomenon is used to bring 5 GHz VCO frequency to 2.5GHz. Both VCO and injection-locked divider's oscillators are tuned with NMOS varactors with their bodies are grounded, resulting in about 700 MHz tuning range.... 

We use concepts to make distinctions. Blurring these distinctions results in conflations. So, they are commonly seen as vicious. The claim here is that, by contrast, conflations are virtuous because they can do cognitive work. They enrich our conceptual resources. It is not conflation per se that is destructive but the lack of evaluation. Committing a conflation requires two cognitive acts at once. First, keeping things together and, second, appreciating the gap between them. Conflation thus has a family resemblance with notions like analogy and metaphor. Despite their apparent difference, a shared trait is recognizable in this family: the simultaneous maintenance of similarity and... 

This Regular evaluation and analysis of river quality helps accurate management to reach acceptable quality. In this study, water quality indices (WQI) method applied to evaluate quality of Jajrood River which is one of the main sources of Tehran drinking water. It helps to subsidize management actions in Jajrood watershed. Sampling carried out for 9 years during 2001-2010 in 10 stations along the river in wet and dry stations to identify water quality and the main source of pollution. Results show water quality in all stations classifies as medium according to National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) and water quality index in wet season is better than the corresponding value in dry seasons.... 

In software programs, most of the time, there is a chance of error, even though they are tested carefully. Finding error-related pieces of code is one of the most complicated tasks and it can make incorrect results if done manually. Semi-automated and fully-automated methods have been introduced to overcome this issue. The rapid growth of developing Smart Mobile Applications (SMAs) in recent years, competition among the development teams and many other factors have increased the chance of errors, and hence, the quality of these applications have reduced. There are two approaches to test SMAs in order to reach a high degree of quality: (i) using existing traditional methods and adapting them... 

In software programs, most of the time, there is a chance for occurrence of faults in general, and exception faults in particular. Localizing those pieces of code that are responsible for a particular fault is one of the most complicated tasks, and it can produce incorrect results if done manually. Semi-automated and fully-automated techniques have been introduced to overcome this issue. However, despite recent advances in fault localization techniques, they are not necessarily applicable to Android applications because of their special characteristics such as context-awareness, use of sensors, being executable on various mobile devices, limited hardware resources, etc. To this aim, in this... 

In software programs, most of the time, there is a chance for occurrence of faults in general, and exception faults in particular. Localizing those pieces of code that are responsible for a particular fault is one of the most complicated tasks, and it can produce incorrect results if done manually. Semi-automated and fully-automated techniques have been introduced to overcome this issue. However, despite recent advances in fault localization techniques, they are not necessarily applicable to Android applications because of their special characteristics such as context-awareness, use of sensors, being executable on various mobile devices, limited hardware resources, etc. To this aim, in this... 

Abstract: Transient liquid phase (TLP) bonding of 304L austenitic stainless steel was carried out using MBF-20 interlayer at 1070 °C with different holding times. The effect of bonding time on the microstructure and corrosion resistance of the TLP bonded samples was investigated aiming to obtain the optimal bonding time. The results showed that isothermal solidification was completed within 45 min at 1070 °C and shorter holding times gave rise to the formation of intermetallic compounds at the joint centerline. It was found that the solidification sequence in the joint region is as follows: (1) isothermal solidification of γ solid solution, (2) formation of ternary eutectic of γ + Ni boride... 

Spontaneous imbibition, the capillary-driven process of displacing the nonwetting phase by the wetting phase in porous media, is of great importance in oil/gas recovery from matrix blocks of fractured reservoirs. The question of how properly scaling up the recovery by counter-current spontaneous imbibition has been the subject of extensive research over decades, and numerous scaling equations have been proposed. As a convention, the scaling equations are usually defined analytically by relating the early time squared recovery to squared pore volume. We show this convention does not apply to common scaling practices and, if used, causes nontrivial scatter in the scaling plots. We explain that... 

Spontaneous imbibition, the capillary-driven process of displacing the nonwetting phase by the wetting phase in porous media, is of great importance in oil/gas recovery from matrix blocks of fractured reservoirs. The question of how properly scaling up the recovery by counter-current spontaneous imbibition has been the subject of extensive research over decades, and numerous scaling equations have been proposed. As a convention, the scaling equations are usually defined analytically by relating the early time squared recovery to squared pore volume. We show this convention does not apply to common scaling practices and, if used, causes nontrivial scatter in the scaling plots. We explain that... 

Wind energy has been continuously considered as a green, available, and economical alternative source of energy. For centuries, the transformed wind energy to drag-force has been used for transportation in watercrafts. With improvement of aerodynamics, the airfoil was invented to create and use a higher magnitude aerodynamic force, lift-force, in order to elevate airplanes. Later, the lift-force was horizontally applied as the thrust force in land/water wind-crafts. Whereas in airplanes horizontal airfoils (wing) create a vertical lift-force, installed vertical airfoils (wing-sail) produce a horizontal lift-force in wind-crafts. Therefore, this force can be used as thrust (driving) force in... 

A combination of low-cost micro-electoro-mechanical sensors (MEMSs) and nonlinear attitude estimation algorithm techniques can provide an inexpensive and accurate system for navigation and attitude determination. The features of MEMSs are their light weight and small size; hence, the MEMSs have found significant attention in low-cost navigation and control systems [1]. A common disadvantage of these sensors is the significant errors that accompany the corresponding measurements. The accuracy obtained using MEMSs depends on a number of factors, such as scale factor, bias, and random noise corrections [2]. However, these low-cost sensors suffer from large noise and errors, making calibration... 

There are several types of drilling methods to increase the productivity of a well, such as horizontal drilling, extended reach horizontal drilling and Multilateral (ML) drilling. It is thought that ML wells could be more economic with higher productivities than horizontal or extended reach horizontal wells. Advances in ML drilling promise reduced costs, greater flexibility and increased profit potential. In the last 20 years, thousands of ML wells have been drilled worldwide, but only a small percentage of the total number of wells is multilateral. The probable reason may be lack of concise information and misconceptions surrounding the costs and perceived risks. However, recent advances in...