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Dynamic Prefetching of Data Tiles for Interactive Visualization Open
In this paper, we present ForeCache, a general-purpose tool for exploratory browsing of large datasets. ForeCache utilizes a client-server architecture, where the user interacts with a lightweight client-side interface to browse datasets, …
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The front-end of projects: a systematic literature review and structuring Open
© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper summarizes the results of a comprehensive systematic literature survey on the front-end of a project, commissioned by the Project Management Institute. The de…
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Filtering Antennas: Design Methods and Recent Developments Open
With wireless communication technologies continually and rapidly developing, RF front-end systems are experiencing a profound evolution toward the goal of highly integrated and miniaturized RF front ends with improved performance. Traditio…
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Analysis and Cell-Level Experimental Verification of a 25 kW All-SiC Isolated Front End 6.6 kV/400 V AC-DC Solid-State Transformer Open
Solid-state transformers (SSTs) could serve as interfaces between a medium-voltage (MV) AC grid and a low-voltage (LV) DC load or source, i. e., could be employed in applications with power supply character such as traction auxiliary suppl…
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Managing the Front End of Innovation—Less Fuzzy, Yet Still Not Fully Understood Open
See virtual issue: Managing the Front‐End of Innovation
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The VTRx+, an Optical Link Module for Data Transmission at HL-LHC Open
Optical data transmission will remain a key enabling technology for the upgrading detectors at HL-LHC. In particular the inner tracking detectors will require low-mass, radiation tolerant optical transmit and receive modules for tight inte…
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Organizing for servitization: examining front- and back-end design configurations Open
Purpose Research suggests that to structure for servitization, organizations should separate their front- and back-end units by reference to high vs low contact activities. However, these prescriptions are overly simplistic and largely bas…
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Wave-U-Net: A Multi-Scale Neural Network for End-to-End Audio Source Separation Open
Models for audio source separation usually operate on the magnitude spectrum, which ignores phase information and makes separation performance dependant on hyper-parameters for the spectral front-end. Therefore, we investigate end-to-end s…
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ESPnet-se: end-to-end speech enhancement and separation toolkit designed\n for asr integration Open
We present ESPnet-SE, which is designed for the quick development of speech\nenhancement and speech separation systems in a single framework, along with the\noptional downstream speech recognition module. ESPnet-SE is a new project which\n…
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Front-end intelligence for large-scale application-oriented internet-of-things Open
The Internet-of-things (IoT) refers to the massive integration of electronic devices, vehicles, buildings, and other objects to collect and exchange data. It is the enabling technology for a plethora of applications touching various aspect…
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FELIX: a PCIe based high-throughput approach for interfacing front-end and trigger electronics in the ATLAS Upgrade framework Open
The ATLAS Phase-I upgrade (2018) requires a Trigger and Data Acquisition (TDAQ) system able to trigger and record data from up to three times the nominal LHC instantaneous luminosity. The Front-End LInk eXchange (FELIX) system provides an …
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Challenges in On-Chip Antenna Design and Integration With RF Receiver Front-End Circuitry in Nanoscale CMOS for 5G Communication Systems Open
This paper investigates design considerations and challenges of integrating on-chip antennas in nanoscale CMOS technology at millimeter-wave (mm-wave) to achieve a compact front-end receiver for 5G communication systems. Solutions to overc…
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Fall Detection and 3-D Indoor Localization by a Custom RFID Reader Embedded in a Smart e-Health Platform Open
In this article, we describe a customized 2.45-GHz radio frequency identification (RFID) reader designed to simultaneously perform 3-D tracking of multiple tagged entities (objects or people), static or dynamic, in harsh electromagnetic in…
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A 36-Channel Auto-Calibrated Front-End ASIC for a pMUT-Based Miniaturized 3-D Ultrasound System Open
We present an area- and power-efficient application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for a miniaturized 3-D ultrasound system. The ASIC is designed to transmit pulse and receive echo through a 36-channel 2-D piezoelectric Micromachined U…
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<i>reductus</i>: a stateless Python data reduction service with a browser front end Open
The online data reduction service reductus transforms measurements in experimental science from laboratory coordinates into physically meaningful quantities with accurate estimation of uncertainties from instrumental settings and propertie…
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High-Performance Multiband Ambient RF Energy Harvesting Front-End System for Sustainable IoT Applications—A Review Open
The increasing demand for wireless Internet of Things (IoT) calls for power efficient RF energy harvesting approach. The current dominant single-band RF energy harvesting front-end system restricts itself to a single frequency, which is at…
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A 36 μW 1.1 mm<sup>2</sup> Reconfigurable Analog Front-End for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Signals Recording Open
This paper presents a 1.2 V 36 μW reconfigurable analog front-end (R-AFE) as a general-purpose low-cost IC for multiple-mode biomedical signals acquisition. The R-AFE efficiently reuses a reconfigurable preamplifier, a current generator (C…
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Using Deep Gated RNN with a Convolutional Front End for End:to:End Classification of Heart Sound Open
Classification of heart sounds of a diverse set of phonocardiograms (PCGs) from different recording settings is the challenging objective of the 2016 PhysioNet Challenge.We suggest an end-to-end deep neural network, which is fed with raw P…
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KM3NeT front-end and readout electronics system: hardware, firmware, and software Open
[EN] The KM3NeT research infrastructure being built at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea will host \nwater-Cherenkov telescopes for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. The neutrino telescopes will consist of large \nvolume three-dimension…
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Prototyping strategies for stakeholder engagement during front-end design: Design practitioners’ approaches in the medical device industry Open
Prototypes are fundamental tools used throughout design processes. During early design stages, including problem definition and concept development, prototypes can support stakeholder engagement, which is considered critical for success. H…
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Comparison of front-end frameworks for web applicationsdevelopment Open
Modern web applications, due to the functionalities they provide in their user interfaces, have a complex program structure. Manually writing a program code, due to the complexity of the entire application, can result in uneven quality and…
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A 2-D Ultrasound Transducer With Front-End ASIC and Low Cable Count for 3-D Forward-Looking Intravascular Imaging: Performance and Characterization Open
Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is an imaging modality used to visualize atherosclerosis from within the inner lumen of human arteries. Complex lesions like chronic total occlusions require forward-looking IVUS (FL-IVUS), instead of the co…
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Blasting through the Front-End Bottleneck with Shotgun Open
The front-end bottleneck is a well-established problem in server workloads owing to their deep software stacks and large instruction working sets. Despite years of research into effective L1-I and BTB prefetching, state-of-the-art techniqu…
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Beyond listening: the distinct effects of proactive versus responsive customer orientation on the reduction of uncertainties at the fuzzy front end of innovation Open
The extent to which the intensity of R&D employees' interaction with market‐oriented employees, proactive customer orientation, and responsive customer orientation affect the ability to reduce product‐related uncertainties at the fuzzy fro…
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Improvement in the temporal contrast in the tens of ps range of the multi-PW Apollon laser front-end Open
We demonstrate the impact of the optics roughness in Öffner stretchers used in chirped pulse amplification laser chains and how it is possible to improve the temporal contrast ratio in the temporal range of 10–100 ps by adequately choosing…
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Miniaturized 0.13-μm CMOS Front-End Analog for AlN PMUT Arrays Open
This paper presents an analog front-end transceiver for an ultrasound imaging system based on a high-voltage (HV) transmitter, a low-noise front-end amplifier (RX), and a complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor, aluminum nitride, piezoelec…
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End-to-End Training of Time Domain Audio Separation and Recognition Open
The rising interest in single-channel multi-speaker speech separation sparked development of End-to-End (E2E) approaches to multi-speaker speech recognition. However, up until now, state-of-the-art neural network-based time domain source s…
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Equivalent Performance in Three-Terminal and Four-Terminal Tandem Solar Cells Open
Tandem or multijunction solar cells are a promising method to circumvent the efficiency limit of single-junction solar cells, but there is ongoing debate over how best to interconnect the subcells in a tandem cell. In addition to four-term…
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A Bidirectional Neural Interface SoC With Adaptive IIR Stimulation Artifact Cancelers Open
We present a 180-nm CMOS bidirectional neural interface system-on-chip that enables simultaneous recording and stimulation with on-chip stimulus artifact cancelers. The front-end cancellation scheme incorporates a least-mean-square engine …
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Transmission Line Fault Classification Using Hidden Markov Models Open
The maintenance of power quality in electrical power systems depends on addressing the major disturbances that may arise during generation, transmission and distribution. Many studies aim to investigate these disturbances by analyzing the …