To date, most ICP U+2013 mass spectrometers are equipped with a U+201Cscanning-typeU+201D mass analyzer (quadrupole filter, sector-field MS). In the case of short transient signals, this may restrict elemental analysis to a single-nuclide approach. Recently, a new type
Despite many neuroscientific breakthroughs, it remains largely unknown how brain activity supports cognition. Obtaining such a fundamental understanding of the brain has the potential to foster new clinical applications aimed at improving functional deficits resulting from a 'malfunctioning' brain. The identification of causal relationships between brain activity and cognition depends on the real-time characterization of neural activity. By ...
Never before has speech been captured as often by electronic devices equipped with one or multiple microphones, serving a variety of applications. It is the key aspect in digital telephony, hearing devices, and voice-driven human-to-machine interaction.
When speech is recorded, the microphones also capture a variety of further, undesired sound components due to adverse acoustic conditions. Interfering speech, background noise and ...
This work treats the macro-scale description of flow and heat transfer in systems with spatially periodic solid structures, like compact heat exchangers and heat sinks with fin arrays or tube bundles.
The presented macro-scale description allows us to extract the physically meaningful overall characteristics of the very detailed flow velocity, pressure and temperature fields in a heat transfer device.
In that regard, it enables data ...
The 21st century will be characterized by urbanization, as the number of people living in cities will continue to rise. As cities continue to expand, their impact on the environment does as well. Rising urban temperatures, increased risk of flooding and the loss of habitat of local plants and animals are just a few of the problems with which we will be faced. Nature, however, can also deliver solutions to these issues by providing benefits ...
With the advent of autonomous vehicles, Smart Cities, Industry 4.0 and many more Internet-of-Things related applications, our future society and lives become highly dependent on high-tech electronics. Unfortunately, all high-tech electronics are sensitive to ElectroMagnetic Interference (EMI), while the increasing electrification of, amongst others, vehicles and machines unavoidably means a much harsher electromagnetic environment. In ...
River ecosystems encompass river channels and its floodplains and form a diverse mosaic of habitats upon which countless species of animals and plants depend for survival. They provide a plethora of services for humans including a source of clean water for domestic and industrial uses, a source of food, a means of waste disposal, transportation, power production, and sites for the pursuit of leisure activities. Yet, they belong to the most ...
Daily activities require our brain to selectively attend to aspects of the environment that are most relevant to guide and monitor our behavior and to avoid undesirable outcomes of our and other’s actions. Because prioritizing and processing relevant information may be highly demanding, and thus difficult to maintain at all times, our brain needs to properly select and filter different features (e.g., based on location, physical features such ...