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Electrocardiography (ECG) is a well-known noninvasive technique in medical science that provides information about the heart’s rhythm and current conditions. Automatic ECG arrhythmia diagnosis relieves doctors’ workload and improves diagnosis effectiveness and efficiency. This study proposes an automatic end-to-end 2D CNN (two-dimensional convolution neural networks) deep learning method with an effective DenseNet model for addressing arrhythmias recognition. To begin, the proposed model is trained and evaluated on the 97720 and 141404 beat images extracted from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Beth Israel Hospital (MIT-BIH) arrhythmia and St. Petersburg Institute of Cardiological Technics (INCART) datasets (both are imbalanced class datasets) using a stratified 5-fold evaluation strategy. The data is classified into four groups: N (normal), V (ventricular ectopic), S (supraventricular ectopic), and F (fusion), based on the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation® (AAMI). The experimental results show that the proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models for recognizing arrhythmias, with the accuracy of 99.80% and 99.63%, precision of 98.34% and 98.94%, and F1-score of 98.91% and 98.91% on the MIT-BIH arrhythmia and INCART datasets, respectively. Using a transfer learning mechanism, the proposed model is also evaluated with only five individuals of supraventricular MIT-BIH arrhythmia and five individuals of European ST-T datasets (both of which are also class imbalanced) and achieved satisfactory results. So, the proposed model is more generalized and could be a prosperous …

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This paper presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of a thin-film Cr-Al-Cr (300 A°-1500 A°-300 A°) metal stack heater specially designed for chemical reactions which occur at a uniform temperature in the lab on a chip platform such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) applications. The heater has been designed using COMSOL Multiphysics. The simulated design has been fabricated using lithography and patterning on a 5 × 5 cm2 glass substrate. For the validation of the proposed design thermal study of the fabricated heater has also been done using a FLIR IR camera. A very good agreement between the thermal image of modeled and fabricated heater has been achieved. This demonstrates the suitability of the proposed heater for PCR reaction applications.

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This index covers all technical items—papers, correspondence, reviews, etc.—that appeared in this periodical during 2022, and items from previous years that were commented upon or corrected in 2022. Departments and other items may also be covered if they have been judged to have archival value. The Author Index contains the primary entry for each item, listed under the first author’s name. The primary entry includes the coauthors’ names, the title of the paper or other item, and its location, specified by the publication abbrevia- tion, year, month, and inclusive pagination. The Subject Index contains entries describing the item under all appropriate subject headings, plus the first author’s name, the publication abbreviation, month, and year, and inclusive pages. Note that the item title is found only under the primary entry in the Author Index.

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A Novel Smart Belt for Anxiety Detection, Classification, and Reduction Using IIoMT on Students’ Cardiac Signal and MSY

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Increasing demands of wearable health monitoring seek dedicated spectrum for short range wireless communication of biosignals, for which frequency band near 400 MHz has been utilized recently. While using the dedicated spectrum, biosignal communication must not cause any out of band radiations and interference, for which there is a strong need to develop spur- free, low phase noise and energy efficient wireless transmitters (TX). In this research, for the first time we present design and implementation of a reference-spur-free, low phase noise, sub-mW dual modulation mode (frequency shift keying (FSK) and on-off keying (OOK)) 400 MHz TX for wearable health monitoring, where RF synthesis depends solely on an extremely low phase noise oscillator, which uses a 400 MHz surface acoustic wave resonator and does not include any power hungry, spur- generating frequency multiplier or phase/frequency lock loop. The proposed TX has been designed and fabricated in 180 nm CMOS technology. Measurement results show that the energy efficiencies of the proposed TX in FSK and OOK mode are 1.8 nJ/bit at 250 kb/s and 0.23 nJ/bit at 2 Mb/s, respectively. To prove the utility of the proposed TX, biosignal communication is also demonstrated with the help of a commercial receiver in actual operating scenarios, where the measured bit error rate in FSK mode was < 10−5 for range of 2 m. Index Terms—Health-monitoring, wearable, spur-free, trans- mitter, FSK, OOK, 400 MHz, MedRadio

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This paper discusses the phenomena of proteresis, commonly known as inverse hysteresis, and the various methods to implement it. Proteresis generates an advanced response when compared to hysteresis, which improves the system's speed, maintaining the noise immunity intact. This feature of proteresis is seen in multiple naturally occurring phenomena. The paper implements proteresis in domains of electronics and optics, keeping in view essential constraints like area, power, throughput, and speed. The electronic domain consists of two models, one using CMOS circuits and the other using discrete components. The transistor-level design of a proteretic device is on 180 nm CMOS technology, and proof of concept is demonstrated using post-layout simulations. This design is operated on a supply voltage of 1.8 V and consumes significantly less power of 633 µW at a moderate frequency of 10 MHz. The …

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This article explores the feasibility of utilizing an interdigitated capacitor (IDC) based RF sensor for studying nanoparticle properties. The parameters include their size, shape, thickness, and relative arrangement in aqueous media. The analysis is carried out using the CAD tool high frequency structure simulator (HFSS). We study the variation in properties of spherical, cubical, disc-shaped, and polyhedral gold nanoparticles. The change in the resonance frequency, resonance amplitude, and − 3 dB bandwidth is analyzed for each case. The findings show that the change in the IDC-based RF sensor’s resonance characteristics can be used to track the variations in morphology and arrangements of gold nanoparticles.

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This paper reports solvent based optimization of radio frequency (RF) sensors for detecting ethanol mixtures in petrol using complementary split ring resonators (CSRR). The optimization is carried out using binary particle swarm optimization (BPSO) in presence of mask by placing the sample under test (SUT) above the highly sensitive CSRR region. The motivation behind this work has been to detect miniscule changes of ethanol in the dielectric constant of the petrol. The RF sensors designed using BPSO enables faster convergence providing more efficient designs offering enhanced sensitivity at a normalized frequency of 2.66% and 1.81% when compared to 1.02% of conventional CSRR as presented in the simulation results. Index Terms

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This paper demonstrates radio frequency (RF) sens- ing of saccharides such as glucose, fructose and sucrose based on Complementary Split Ring Resonator (CSRR). The CSRR based planar sensor is designed and fabricated over FR4 substrate of thickness 1.6 mm and with copper on both sides of thickness 0.035 mm. The fabricated sensor is connected to the Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) to study the electromagnetic interac- tions behavior between the designed sensor and saccharides. The quantitative and qualitative analysis is conducted by changing the concentration of saccharides in aqueous solution from 10 mg/ml to 50 mg/ml in steps of 10 mg/ml and then by changing the overall sample volume from 1 μl to 100 μl in variable step sizes. The resonant frequency property is utilized for detecting small changes in saccharides concentration of up to 10 mg/ml and overall sample volume change of 1 μl. The proposed RF sensor is highly robust, reliable, cost-effective and easy to use over other existing methodologies. Index Terms—Radio Frequency, Mic

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We have analyzed the thermal blooming effect on laser beam propagation under atmospheric turbulence in different environments. It is observed that the laser source having an input power of less than 4 kW is less affected by thermal blooming and more appropriate for incoherent beam combinations in any environmental conditions.