Pub Date : 2022-11-23DOI: 10.1109/OJCAS.2022.3218914
Mengqi Wang;Xiu Yao
The Advent of modern power electronics has brought tremendous impact on emerging power systems. In an emerging smart grid, as the number of inverter- and converter-based devices increases to more than hundreds of thousands, it is rather intuitive that the state-of-the-art technical solutions and industry practices will no longer be sustainable. The combination of power electronics and advanced control technologies serve as the key enabler of a wide range of smart grid applications. While tremendous progress has been made in advancing the standalone power electronics technologies, much less attention has been paid to bridging the gap between traditionally disjoint research areas – power electronics, power systems, and intelligent control – ultimately facilitating the vision of 100% carbonneutral energy systems come to fruition. There is a growing interest in the concepts of power electronics-enabled power systems around the world. This special section includes two high-quality papers, which cover the trending topic on the control strategy for inverters that are essential for Smart Grid applications.
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Background: Antimicrobial resistance is a current and pressing issue in Canada. Population-level antibiotic consumption is a key driver. The Public Health Agency of Canada undertook a comprehensive assessment of the Canadian public's knowledge, attitudes and practices in relation to antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use, to help inform the implementation of public awareness and knowledge mobilization.
Methods: Data were collected in three phases: 1) six in-person focus groups (53 participants) to help frame the survey; 2) nationwide survey administration to 1,515 Canadians 18 years and older via cell phone and landline; and 3) 12 online focus groups to analyze survey responses. Survey data is descriptive.
Results: A third (33.9%) of survey respondents reported using antibiotics at least once in the previous 12 months, 15.8% more than twice and 4.6% more than five times. Antibiotic use was reported more among 1) those with a household income below $60,000, 2) those with a medical condition, 3) those without a university education and 4) among the youngest adults (18-24 years of age) and (25-34 years of age). Misinformation about antibiotics was common: 32.5% said antibiotics "can kill viruses"; 27.9% said they are "effective against colds and flu"; and 45.8% said they are "effective in treating fungal infections". Inaccurate information was reported more often by those 1) aged 18-24 years, 2) with a high school degree or less and 3) with a household income below $60,000. In focus groups, the time/money trade-offs involved in accessing medical care were reported to contribute to pushing for a prescription or using unprescribed antibiotics, particularly in more remote contexts, while the cost of a prescription contributed to sharing and using old antibiotics. A large majority, across all demographic groups, followed the advice of medical professionals in making health decisions.
Conclusion: High trust in medical professionals presents an important opportunity for knowledge mobilization. Delayed prescriptions may alleviate concerns about the time/money constraints of accessing future care. Consideration should be given to prioritizing access to appropriate diagnostic and other technology for northern and/or remote communities and/or medical settings serving many young children to alleviate concerns of needing a prescription or of needing to return later.
{"title":"Understanding Canadians' knowledge, attitudes and practices related to antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use: Results from public opinion research.","authors":"Anna-Louise Crago, Stéphanie Alexandre, Kahina Abdesselam, Denise Gravel Tropper, Michael Hartmann, Glenys Smith, Tanya Lary","doi":"10.14745/ccdr.v48i1112a08","DOIUrl":"10.14745/ccdr.v48i1112a08","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Antimicrobial resistance is a current and pressing issue in Canada. Population-level antibiotic consumption is a key driver. The Public Health Agency of Canada undertook a comprehensive assessment of the Canadian public's knowledge, attitudes and practices in relation to antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use, to help inform the implementation of public awareness and knowledge mobilization.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were collected in three phases: 1) six in-person focus groups (53 participants) to help frame the survey; 2) nationwide survey administration to 1,515 Canadians 18 years and older via cell phone and landline; and 3) 12 online focus groups to analyze survey responses. Survey data is descriptive.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A third (33.9%) of survey respondents reported using antibiotics at least once in the previous 12 months, 15.8% more than twice and 4.6% more than five times. Antibiotic use was reported more among 1) those with a household income below $60,000, 2) those with a medical condition, 3) those without a university education and 4) among the youngest adults (18-24 years of age) and (25-34 years of age). Misinformation about antibiotics was common: 32.5% said antibiotics \"can kill viruses\"; 27.9% said they are \"effective against colds and flu\"; and 45.8% said they are \"effective in treating fungal infections\". Inaccurate information was reported more often by those 1) aged 18-24 years, 2) with a high school degree or less and 3) with a household income below $60,000. In focus groups, the time/money trade-offs involved in accessing medical care were reported to contribute to pushing for a prescription or using unprescribed antibiotics, particularly in more remote contexts, while the cost of a prescription contributed to sharing and using old antibiotics. A large majority, across all demographic groups, followed the advice of medical professionals in making health decisions.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>High trust in medical professionals presents an important opportunity for knowledge mobilization. Delayed prescriptions may alleviate concerns about the time/money constraints of accessing future care. Consideration should be given to prioritizing access to appropriate diagnostic and other technology for northern and/or remote communities and/or medical settings serving many young children to alleviate concerns of needing a prescription or of needing to return later.</p>","PeriodicalId":93442,"journal":{"name":"IEEE open journal of circuits and systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"550-558"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10779429/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84881415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-26DOI: 10.1109/OJCAS.2022.3217065
Bob Ross;Cong Ling
Wang algebra was initiated by Ki-Tung Wang as a short-cut method for the analysis of electrical networks. It was later popularized by Duffin and has since found numerous applications in electrical engineering and graph theory. This is a semi-tutorial paper on Wang algebra, its history, and modern applications. We expand Duffin’s historic notes on Wang algebra to give a full account of Ki-Tung Wang’s life. A short proof of Wang algebra using group theory is presented. We exemplify the usefulness of Wang algebra in the design of T-coils. Bridged T-coils give a significant advantage in bandwidth, and were widely adopted in Tektronix oscilloscopes, but design details were guarded as a trade secret. The derivation presented in this paper, based on Wang algebra, is more general and simpler than those reported in literature. This novel derivation has not been shared with the public before.
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This paper provides a framework for analyzing the loop dynamics of the clock and data recovery (CDR) system of ADC-based PAM-4 receivers, which will assist in extending the timing recovery loop bandwidth. This paper formulates an accurate linear model of linear and signed Mueller–Muller phase detector for baud-rate clock recovery. Different equalization configurations of continuous-time linear equalizer (CTLE) and feed-forward equalizer (FFE) are evaluated from a phase detector performance perspective to enable high CDR loop bandwidth. The impact of loop latency on the timing recovery of ADC-based PAM-4 receivers is also analyzed and demonstrated using accurate behavioral simulations. The analysis and behavioral results show that, to achieve high CDR loop bandwidth with a good jitter tolerance, the phase detector gain to noise ratio should be maximized, and CDR loop latency should be minimized.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.1109/OJCAS.2022.3209152
Li-Wei Liu;Yen-Chin Liao;Hsie-Chia Chang
An error floor phenomenon, decoding performance, and throughput are three major concerns for LDPC decoders in NAND Flash applications. With a penalty method and an active iteration mechanism, we present a Unified Penalty Gradient Descent Bit Flipping (UP-GDBF) decoding algorithm, which not only possesses error-floor free property but also improves convergence speed in decoding performance. To fulfill the high-throughput requirement while maintaining reliable error correction capability, we propose an energy-based backtracking scheme to reduce 40% latency with a negligible 0.8% area overhead. Implemented in TSMC 16nm process, the proposed 4KB LDPC decoder can achieve a throughput of 19.3 Gbps with 0.120 mm2 area to satisfy ONFI 5.0 throughput requirement. Compared to existing approaches, our decoder architecture provides superior data rate and decoding performance in both 1KB and 4KB LDPC codes.
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We present the BrainScaleS-2 mobile system as a compact analog inference engine based on the BrainScaleS-2 ASIC and demonstrate its capabilities at classifying a medical electrocardiogram dataset. The analog network core of the ASIC is utilized to perform the multiply-accumulate operations of a convolutional deep neural network. At a system power consumption of 5.6W, we measure a total energy consumption of $mathrm {192 ~mu text {J} }$