... Mesophase in Large Ensembles of Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons 135 R Khanna, A M Waters and V Sahajwalla Chapter Variance Reduction of Monte Carlo Simulationin Nuclear Engineering Field 153 Pooneh Saidi, ... the average and the minimal p value ofa distribution fit to all datasets Since the datasets contain random measurements, the values of the parame‐ ters for each acquired fit in Task are random, ... Theoretical and Empirical Distributions of Experimental Data Natalia D Nikolova, Daniela Toneva-Zheynova, Krasimir Kolev and Kiril Tenekedjiev Additional information is available at the end of the chapter...
... two-dimensional case, the rate of change of the area ofa grain G is dA = − ∫ υds G dt (7) where A is the grain area, s is the length of the grain boundary and the integration is carried out over all grain ... orientation Then, the area Aofa grain is defined as the number of lattice sites within one grain, and the radius R ofa grain is commonly defined as the square root of the corresponding grain area ... the average grain radius, 0 is the initial average grain radius, m and M are constants and t is the time If in the analyzed time interval the initial grain radius 0 is negligible compared...
... Experimental generation of Laguerre-Gaussian beam using angular diffraction of binary phase plate, Acta Physica Sinica (In Chinese) 59(6): 3930–3935 Sasaki, K., Koshioka, M., Misawa, H., Kitamura, N ... 359 Marie-Anne Jaud, Sylvain Barraud, Philippe Dollfus, Jérôme Saint-Martin, Arnaud Bournel and Hervé Jaouen Chapter 15 Monte Carlo Device Simulations 385 Dragica Vasileska, Katerina Raleva and ... Carburization and Decarburization of Molten Steel 629 R Khanna, R Mahjoub and V Sahajwalla Chapter 26 GCMC Simulations of Gas Adsorption in Carbon Pore Structures 653 Maria Konstantakou, Anastasios Gotzias,...
... Kinase, Akram Mohammadi and Masa Takahashi Chapter Applications of Monte Carlo Simulationin Modelling of Biochemical Processes 57 Kiril Ivanov Tenekedjiev, Natalia Danailova Nikolova and Krasimir ... development of techniques for genetically engineering small animals has increased interest in vivo imaging of small animals The contents of chapter 11 are a paper by S Branco et al on using Monte Carlo ... methods in many fields of human endeavor In an attempt to focus attention on a manageable set of applications, the main thrust of this book is to emphasize applications of Monte Carlo simulation...
... be interpreted as a stochastic integral, because a Riemann integral is not defined for white noise are independent zero mean Gaussian random variables and their powers are assuming that data symbols ... sub-channels can carry a low signalling rate, proportional to its bandwidth The sum of these signalling rates is less than can be carried by a single serial channel of that combined bandwidth because of ... is also called frequency equalization 32 System Architecture 2.6 Appendix — Mathematical Modelling of OFDM for Time-Varying Random Channel Characterization of Randomly Time-Varying Channels Linear...
... be interpreted as a stochastic integral, because a Riemann integral is not defined for white noise are independent zero mean Gaussian random variables and their powers are assuming that data symbols ... sub-channels can carry a low signalling rate, proportional to its bandwidth The sum of these signalling rates is less than can be carried by a single serial channel of that combined bandwidth because of ... is also called frequency equalization 32 System Architecture 2.6 Appendix — Mathematical Modelling of OFDM for Time-Varying Random Channel Characterization of Randomly Time-Varying Channels Linear...
... Computer-aided Analysis and Interpretation of HRCT Images of the Lung 37 Zrimec Tatjana and Sata Busayarat Chapter Part CT Image Analysis for Preoperational Planning 63 77 Chapter Liver Segmentation and ... capability of spreading to other organs present a spicate or less defined shape As the obtaining of the index will occur in areas of interest, the small occurrence of voxels ina certain area of ... until all lung areas in all CT slices are extracted Fig A mask processing to extract the lung area 10 Theory and Applications of CT Imaging and Analysis Fig A failure case of the mask processing...
... play an important role in CDMA signaling We regard them as an example to discuss an orthonormal base that can be interpreted as a base of signals or as a base in an Euclidean space The M × M Walsh–Hadamard ... in the following decades Within these applications, the main benefits of spreading are to hide a signal, to protect it against eavesdropping and to achieve a high robustness against intended interference, ... by a scalar, and they can be expanded into a base In fact, signals fit into the mathematical structure ofa vector space This concept may look a little bit abstract However, vectors can be visualized...
... superposed random variables already approximates a Gaussian distribution quite well Bit errors ina Rayleigh fading channel occur mainly during deep fades, that is, at small channel amplitudes For many ... one-dimensional problem of pairwise error probability as two-dimensional and introduce polar coordinates AWGN is a Gaussian random variable with mean zero and variance σ = The probability that the random ... X = A cos , Y = A sin pA, (a, φ) of amplitude and phase From the condition to calculate the joint pdf pA, (a, φ) da dφ = pX (x)pY (y) dx dy and dx dy = a da dφ, we obtain pA, (a, φ) = 2ae a 2π...
... diagonal matrix of complex fading amplitudes ck = ak ej ϕk and nc is complex AWGN We may write C = DA with A = diag (a1 , , aK ) is the diagonal matrix of real fading amplitudes and D = diag(ej ... Walsh–Hadamard (WH) codes As already discussed in the example in the last subsection, Walsh–Hadamard codes will be obtained from the Hadamard matrices by replacing each +1 by a and −1 by a The ... application, the outer codes give an additional coding gain of 2.5 dB at BER = 10−6 or a gain in data rate of 78% Another concatenated coding scheme with a convolutional code and an RS code is applied...
... a filter bank of K adjacent bandpass filters that are excited by a parallel data stream, leading to a transmission parallel in frequency This concept is usually implemented in practical systems ... channel We may then choose this optimal symbol duration that is matched to the channel and parallelize the given data stream in an appropriate way Theory and Applications of OFDM and CDMA 2005 ... spectrum by a trapezoidal one, which also corresponds to a Nyquist base The case α = corresponding to an ideal rectangular spectral shape and sinc shaping in time domain and is spectrally most...
... other hand, slow (small νmax TS ) and flat (small K) fading may cause insufficient interleaving In our simulations, we always assume ideal channel estimation We consider a channel with moderate (but ... symbols and n is the real AWGN vector with variance σ = N0 /2 in each component The fading is described by the diagonal matrix A = diag (a1 , a2 , a3 , )T of (real) fading amplitudes The fading amplitudes ... lead to a delay of several seconds, which is not tolerable in practice It is an attractive feature of OFDM that the time and frequency mechanisms together may often lead to a good interleaving...
... involved in the DAB project in 1987 (at Bosch Company in Hildesheim) and came in touch with OFDM through an internal project paper that was a draft version of (Alard and Lassalle 1987) At that ... gain The reason for using spreading is not this virtual processing gain A real gain of spreading concerning the range of data transmission can be achieved ina frequency-selective fading environment ... is usually derived taking into account a kind of margin against short-term fading Considering, for example, a BPSK ina Rayleigh fading channel with twofold diversity (L = 2), one obtains from...
... smart antenna techniques reduces the intracell as well as the intercell interference and thereby enhances the capacity Ina certain sense, smart antennas may be seen as a special approach for interference ... power density N0 Ina Rayleigh fading channel, the fading amplitudes ck are complex Gaussian random variables with variances E |ck |2 = αk and statistically independent real and imaginary parts ... interference power CDMA 291 Ir /S as a Gaussian random variable with a mean value n · q and standard deviation √ of n · σI , where q and σI are the mean value and the standard deviation of the interference...
... security mechanisms • international roaming capabilities Between 1995 and 1998, the main focus for new releases of these standards was on creating new data services allowing higher rates and a packet ... operating, for example, two access points in one area To reduce the adjacent channel interference to an acceptable level, the carriers used in the nearby access points should have a distance of at ... increase of the data rate was accomplished by allocating several channels for one connection and by using The data of the Figure have been extracted from the internet pages of the GSM Association...
... UTRA FDD where secondary and individual pilot channels allow an antenna beam–specific phase tracking and channel estimation Cell search and synchronization In contrast to UTRA FDD where acell may ... neighboring cells are separated into candidate, active and remaining sets To be a member of the candidate set, the received strength of the pilot channel of that cell has to be above a certain level ... and the cellspecific offset (shift) of the scrambling codes sI and sQ in DL direction • A paging channel transmitting paging messages as well as system information and channel assignment messages...
... robustness of the algorithm against the adding of Gaussian noise to the data point location The error of the best individual increases linearly with the amount of added noise These data are compared ... System with Virtual Reality (CG Presentation of Virtual Robot and Task Object Using Stereo Vision System) 243 Hironao Yamada, Takuya Kawamura and Takayoshi Muto Chapter 14 Navigation ina Box Stereovision ... through a simple normalization of image data The linear approach solves a set of linear equations relating the correspondences through the fundamental matrix, i.e solves equation (6) If a large...
... representation The proposed approach in achieving translation invariance is motivated by Mallat’s approach of introducing critical down sampling Mallat (1999; 1991) into the filter bank instead of factor-2 ... better approximation capabilities and can be adjusted according to input signal and image by selecting the appropriate bases Other features of wavelet bases that play an important role in signal/ ... supported bases for scale-space representation of signals, rather than in nitely long sine and cosine bases as in Fourier analysis David Capel (2003) Approximation order of the scaling and wavelet...
... coordinates ofa point in the space and a projection in the image plane Consider a modification of the coordinates system in the image plane: a scaling of the axes and a translation These operations, ... that only 10 parameters in the matrix are independent: scaling in the image plane (2 parameters), translation in the image plane (2), rotation in the real world (3) and translation in the real ... projection ofa single plane in the image planes, then there exists a projective transformation that transforms an epipolar line in an image ofa stereo pair into the corresponding epipolar line in the...