Special Issue on Electronic Systems and Energy Harvesting Methods for Automation, Mechatronics and Automotive

Electronic apparatus have become essential components of civil and industrial systems, including the automotive, home and building automation, Industrial IoT (Internet of Things) and control applications, and playing an essential role in improving security, efficiency, manageability, and rapid feedback [...]

Recent Advances in Design and Fabrication of Nanocomposites for Electromagnetic Wave Shielding and Absorbing

Electromagnetic (EM) pollution has raised significant concerns to human health with the rapid development of electronic devices and wireless information technologies, and created adverse effects on the normal operation of the sensitive electronic apparatus. Notably, the EM absorbers with either dielectric loss or magnetic loss can hardly perform efficient absorption, which thereby limits their applications in the coming 5G era. In such a context, the hotspot materials reported recently, such as graphene, MXenes, and metal-organic frameworks (MOF)-derived materials, etc., have been explored and applied as EM absorbing and shielding materials owing to their tunable heterostructures, as well as the facile incorporation of both dielectric and magnetic components. In this review, we deliver a comprehensive literature survey according to the types of EM absorbing and shielding materials, and interpret the connectivity and regularity among them on the basis of absorbing mechanisms and microstructures. Finally, the challenges and the future prospects of the EM dissipating materials are also discussed accordingly.

The Effect of Electronic Apparatus on Developing Balance in National Center for Gifted in Boxing and Basketball

The problem of the research lies in special motor abilities training programs like the balance that positively affect coordination between the nervous system and muscles. These training programs did not get enough attention from athletes especially young athletes; their training was restricted to physical abilities like strength, speed, and endurance instead. The research aimed at designing an apparatus for developing athletes’ balance in national centers for gifted/ ministry of youth and sport so as to provide a measurement for coached in this field. The results showed that the designed apparatus have a positive effect on developing the subjects’ balance in boxing and basketball athletes.

The Effect of Mental Imagery Exercises Using Aiding Apparatuses on Improving Attention in Young Boxers

The research aimed at designing an electronic apparatus for developing forms of attention in young boxers as well as designing exercises for this apparatus for developing types of attention. In addition to that, it aims at identifying the effects of these standardized exercises using the designed apparatus on the development of attention in young boxers. The researchers used the experimental method on young boxers aged (13 – 16) years from the national center for gifted in boxing/ ministry of youth and sports. The apparatus was designed for developing attention and it was applied along with the proposed mental imagery exercises to develop attention. The program lasted for (12) weeks with (3) training sessions per week. The researchers concluded that attention was developed in young boxers and mental imagery exercises are very important for developing performance.

Analysis of measuring apparatus errors using the FAM-C and FDM-A methods

The article discusses the errors of the electronic measuring apparatus built at AFIT using the FAM-C and FDM-A methods, dedicated to monitoring the technical condition of aircraft power units. The basic components and variants of the use of the built electronic apparatus are presented: the optimization of the selection of construction parameters and the change of the error level in the selection of various types of construction of a given system. The influence of external factors on errors of the measuring system was also described, including changes in the amplitude of the electrical power generator output signal and the influence of the carrier frequency depending on the phase configuration of the measuring system. The method of comprehensive checking of electronic measuring equipment for FAM-C and FDM-A methods in laboratory conditions was presented.

Uninterruptible Power Supply Improves Precision of Telomere Length Measurement via qPCR

Epidemiological literature has produced robust associations between telomere length (TL) and health, wherein individuals with shorter TL are at increased risk for chronic disease and death. Even so, technical challenges associated with TL measurement have led some to question their utility as a biomarker of aging. Several pre-analytical factors influence TL assessment via qPCR including tissue source, sample storage, and DNA extraction method. Additional work has investigated how conditions within the PCR run (e.g. mastermix reagents) influences precision and reproducibility of TL measurements. However, the impact of power supply remains unclear. Momentary fluctuations in power supply can affect the functioning of high-performance electronics, including real-time thermocylers. These fluctuations can be mitigated by using an uninterruptible power source (UPS), an electronic apparatus capable of supplying constant, uninterrupted voltage to high-performance electronics. The current study investigated how using a UPS influenced TL assessment via qPCR. Standard deviation and coefficient of variation across replicates were compared for samples assessed with or without the use of a UPS. Samples run with a UPS had significantly lower standard deviation (p<0.001) and coefficient of variation (p=0.002) than those run without a UPS. Notably, neither the efficiency of exponential amplification (p=0.674) nor the standard curve R2 (p=0.638) varied as a function of UPS status. Thus, UPS status decreases variability within sample replicates while maintaining the overall quality of the qPCR assay. *The work presented was supported by the Telomere Research Network, an NIH-sponsored working-group recently established to coordinate best practices for measuring telomere length in population-based research.

Thin-film magnetoresistive current sensors

The article presents some features of thin-film magnetoresistive current sensors and detectors that was developed in JSC NPO IT for noncontact current control in electric circuit aviation and cosmic electronic apparatus.

Non-human labyrinths: Roots and additional other than human formation methods

Within the context of exploring new electronic arts' aesthetic regions and unexampled connections between generative art, games and mythology, my practical artistic research was led to focus on labyrinthine structures as exquisite legendary spatial gaming devices and as possible pathways to gain deeper humane insights, resulting into discoveries of original methods of labyrinth formation by means other than human. Labyrinths and mazes are inextricable paths, human made millennial structures that provide spatial challenges often connected with feedback, compression, entanglement and hyper complexification of goal oriented displacement. They are perhaps the most ancient example of structure for spatial and serious games. Novel methods for labyrinth creation ‐ non-human methods ‐ are introduced and exemplified through artistic constructs. These new methods utilize non-human bioelectronic techniques and are initially grouped into three distinct sub-categories: the 'open' method, the 'mathematical flower' method, the 'animal' method. Four case examples of artistic non-human labyrinths resorting to the introduced novel methods are explored: k. video games (2007, 2010), Wolfanddotcom video game (2017), 8-bit Maze Gardens vegetable paintings (2018‐present), Ant Ennae Labyrinths bio-electronic apparatus (2019‐present).