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On the (In)Security of 1090ES and UAT978 Mobile Cockpit Information Systems : An Attacker Perspective on the Availability of ADS-B Safety- and Missio…

2022

Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) is a key air surveillance technology and a critical component of next-generation air transportation systems. It significantly simplifies aircraft surveillance technology and improves airborne traffic situational awareness. Many types of mobile cockpit information systems (MCISs) are based on ADS-B technology. MCIS gives pilots the flight and traffic-related information they need. MCIS has two parts: an ADS-B transceiver and an electronic flight bag (EFB) application. The ADS-B transceivers transmit and receive the ADS-B radio signals while the EFB applications hosted on mobile phones display the data. Because they are cheap, lightweight, an…

Comparative Surface Morphology, Chemical Composition, and Cytocompatibility of Bio-C Repair, Biodentine, and ProRoot MTA on hDPCs

2020

Biocompatibility is an essential property for any vital pulp material that may interact with the dental pulp tissues. Accordingly, this study aimed to compare the chemical composition and ultrastructural morphology of Biodentine (Septodont, Saint Maur-des-Fosses, France), ProRoot MTA (Dentsply Tulsa Dental Specialties, Johnson City, TN, USA), and Bio-C Repair (Angelus, Londrina, PR, Brazil), as well as their biological effects on human dental pulp cells. Chemical element characterization of the materials was undertaken using scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray analysis (SEM-EDX). The cytotoxicity was assessed by analyzing the cell viability (MTT assay), cell morphology …

UAV-Assisted Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Comprehensive Survey

2021

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are usually deployed to different areas of interest to sense phenomena, process sensed data, and take actions accordingly. The networks are integrated with many advanced technologies to be able to fulfill their tasks that is becoming more and more complicated. These networks tend to connect to multimedia networks and to process huge data over long distances. Due to the limited resources of static sensor nodes, WSNs need to cooperate with mobile robots such as unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in their developments. The mobile devices show their maneuverability, computational and energy-storage abilities to support WSNs in mul…

A digital control technique for high-performances DC-DC converters

2008

Tuning the Photoresponse of Nano‐Heterojunction: Pressure‐Induced Inverse Photoconductance in Functionalized WO 3 Nanocuboids

2019

S.R. and S.S. contributed equally to this work. This work was mainly supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11874076), National Science Associated Funding (NSAF, Grant No. U1530402), and Science Challenging Program (Grant No. TZ2016001). D.E. thanks the financial support from Spanish MINECO under Grant No. MAT2016-75586-C4-1-P and from Generalitat Valenciana under Grant Prometeo/2018/123, EFIMAT. The X-ray diffraction measurements were performed at the BL15U1 station, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) in China. The HP XAS measurements were performed at 20 ID-C, APS, ANL. APS is supported by DOE-BES, under contract no. DE-AC02-06CH11357. The authors grat…

Reconfigurable nonlinear response of dielectric and semiconductor metasurfaces

2021

Abstract Optically resonant dielectric and semiconductor metasurfaces are an emerging and promising area of nanophotonics and light–matter interaction at the nanoscale. Recently, active tuning of the linear response and nonlinear effects of these components has received an increasing amount of interest. However, so far these research directions have remained separated with only few sporadic works that study their combination beginning to appear in the literature. The evolution of nonlinear metasurfaces based on dielectric and semiconductor materials toward reconfigurable and dynamic components could potentially answer the demand of integrated on-chip components that realize essential functi…

Dielectrophoresis as an assembly method for carbon nanotube memory elements

2010

The experiments described in this Master's thesis aim to assess the practicality of using dielectrophoresis (DEP) for assembling memory elements from carbon nanotubes (CNTs). These elements were field-effect transistors (FETs) with a wide hysteresis window. The devices assessed were made on a silicon substrate with a HfO2 - TiO2 - HfO2 gate dielectric layer to ensure a predictable hysteresis for memory operation. The FETs were used for further research in regard to environmental effects in their operation. An average yield of 12.5 % over 26 different trapping attempts, a total of 650 gaps, was achieved for single trapped CNTs in a two-electrode configuration with a 1 µm gap between electrod…

Structure−Dynamics Coupling between Protein and External Matrix in Sucrose-Coated and in Trehalose-Coated MbCO:  An FTIR Study

2004

We performed FTIR measurements on carboxy-myoglobin (MbCO) embedded in a sucrose−water matrix to study the degrees of freedom coupling between protein and external matrix in such a system. The work was undertaken on the light of recent results by Giuffrida et al. (J. Phys. Chem. B 2003, 107, 13211−13217), who evidenced, in trehalose-coated MbCO, a structured water−sugar environment of the protein, tightly coupled to the heme pocket structure. Such information was obtained through a suitable analysis of the temperature dependence of the CO stretching and of the water association bands in samples of different content of residual water. We applied here the same analysis to sucrose-coated MbCO.…

ANÁLISIS DE LA DIVERSIDAD EN MATERIALES DIDÁCTICOS DE EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA

2021

El objetivo de este análisis fue detectar la presencia o no de la diversidad en las imágenes de materiales didácticos realizando un estudio de tipo descriptivo y comparativo entre los diferentes materiales. La muestra recogió 66 materiales didácticos. Los resultados obtenidos mostraron que las parejas homosexuales son excluidas de las imágenes y que se proyecta una visión estereotipada tanto de la discapacidad como de la etnia llegando a la discriminación de alguna de ellas. Es por ello por lo que consideramos la necesidad de concienciar sobre la importancia de las imágenes de los materiales didácticos y, de esta manera, identificar y eliminar los estereotipos que se están transmitiendo. Th…

Mechanical Coupling Between Muscle-Tendon Units Reduces Peak Stresses

2017

The presence of mechanical linkages between synergistic muscles and their common tendons may distribute forces among the involved structures. We review studies, using humans and other animals, examining muscle and tendon interactions and discuss the hypothesis that connections between muscle bellies and within tendons may serve as a mechanism to distribute forces and mitigate peak stresses. peerReviewed