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quality factor

n
(General Physics) a property of ionizing radiations that affects their ability to cause biological effects. For weakly ionizing radiations such as gamma rays it has value 1 whilst for alpha rays it is about 20. Former name: relative biological effectiveness
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"Moreover," says Stahl, "the quality factor is hard to define, and it might correlate highly to other factors, such as value in 2018."
The pole frequency and quality factor of the filter are controlled without disturbing each other by adjustable parameters of the used active elements.
Ping An MSCI China Quality Factor ETF tracks the MSCI China Quality Index, which comprises large and mid-cap stocks of China equities, including H-shares, Red chips and P chips listed on the SEHK, A-shares and B-shares listed on the SSE and SZSE and foreign listed Chinese companies .
The obtained output response was used to analyze the resonant wavelength, sensitivity and quality factor [17].
We compress these images by the toolbox of "Independent JPEG Group" (IJG) [21], using different quality factors (QF).
It is evident from (4) and (5) that the natural frequency and quality factor can be electronically tuned via [g.sub.m].
For example, the degraded performance of CMOS spiral inductor due to its significant resistive loss reduces BPF quality factor and restrains the gain and bandwidth [1, 2].
Although in many questionnaires (Markovic et al., 2012) individual quality factors are substantively combined to express characteristics of several factors in a single, uniform quality factor (e.g., attractiveness of car parks and surrounding areas), in our study we have exclusively used one quality characteristic for the description of each quality factor (see Tab.
The resonance quality factor, which is determined from the bandwidth and loss of the resonator, can also be tuned to affect the frequency response of a metamaterial [17].

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