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As reliance on precise frequency and timing increases due to the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) enabling 5G communication networks, data centers and other mission-critical infrastructure, smaller size and high...

Electronic noise results in spurious signals (spurs) or distortion in amplitude, frequency or both. Jitter refers to unwanted variation in frequency, particularly in digital pulses and typically in the clock signal. Timi...

Infineon Technologies AG is taking the next step towards the smallest power supply devices for automotive electronics. The company is the first chipmaker to set up a dedicated production process for flip-chip packages th...

KOA Speer Electronics introduces new higher power ratings for its SG73P Series of anti-surge, pulse precision thick film chip resistors. The new power ratings by size are 0.2W (0402), 0.33W (0603), 0.5W (0805), 0.75W (12...

A collaboration between Keysight Technologies and Silicon Labs streamlines the validation of timing solutions critical in the development of system-level designs for wireless communications, high-speed digital, medical i...

A new option for the R&S RTO and R&S RTP oscilloscopes helps development engineers gain more insight into the individual jitter components of their transmission interface. Now they can separate jitter into its random and...

Rohde & Schwarz is running an extended promotion to June 30, 2020 that includes 10 value bench instrument solutions. Rohde & Schwarz's "This Changed Everything" promotion continues to support customers' long-term viabili...

Given the need for ever-increasing Wi-Fi data rates and number of connections, IEEE 802.11ax builds on 802.11ac at the physical layer by adding support for both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz as well as denser modulation. That is, 10...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Many Medicare patients with new episodes of low back pain receive care inconsistent with current guidelines -- including high use of opioids and advanced imaging tests, reports a study in the Febr...

(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) An article published in Brain Communications, coordinated by Carlos Barcia, researcher at Institut de Neurociències de la UAB, describes how the immune system facilitates the expansio...

(University of California - San Diego) UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers identified several genetic switches, or transcription factors, that determine whether or not liver cells produce collagen -- providing a ...

(University of British Columbia) Living near major roads or highways is linked to higher incidence of dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis (MS), suggests new research published this w...

(University of Sydney) Researchers at the University of Sydney have used human stem cells to make pain-killing neurons that provide lasting relief in mice, without side effects, in a single treatment. The next step is to...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The research challenges a common belief that dying in the ICU is a less favorable experience than dying elsewhere in the hospital.

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Two mechanisms could afford an alternative approach to studying and treating severe conditions such as sepsis. A combination of resistance to pathogens by means of ...

(University of Massachusetts Amherst) A University of Massachusetts Amherst cancer epidemiologist has received a $462,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand her research into the effects of endocrine-...

(National Research University Higher School of Economics) Researchers from HSE University, Skoltech and the University of Toronto analyzed data from 190 fMRI studies and found out that food, sex and money implicate simil...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Researchers discover microbes regulate the development of specialized immune cells in the thymus that play a critical role in mucosal tolerance.

(University of Toronto) A new study of Canadians aged 45-85, released this week, found that refugees were 70% more likely to suffer from depression than those born in Canada when age, sex and marital status were taken in...

(Thomas Jefferson University) In women with uterine fibroids, the drug elagolix suppresses ovarian hormone production and prevents heavy menstrual bleeding.

(Université catholique de Louvain) Olivier Feron, a University of Louvain researcher, studies how cancer spreads through the body via metastasis.His major discovery was that cancer cells multiply by using lipids as food...

(University of Cambridge) Tension between Western climbers and Sherpas began over 200 years ago, a new study suggests.