... Simulations onthe Formation of Carbonaceous Mesophase in Large Ensembles of Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons 135 R Khanna, A M Waters and V Sahajwalla Chapter Variance Reduction of Monte Carlo Simulation ... harmonization of metrological and laboratorial aspects have been prepared by international organizations Adoption of these documents helps the evolution and dynamics ofthe globalization of markets ... the awkwardly spelled kupiertest MATLAB function of [23]) andthe p-value is calculated analytically The main drawback of that program is that the user must guarantee that the parameters of the...
... iron’s one; the M-H curves show the magnetization along the [100] direction rapidly increases and reaches the saturated magnetization soon, and one along the [110] direction increases slowly on ... orientation switches to at least one ofthe other Q-1 orientations cause a reduction in the total energy Later, the concept of site activity – a parameter that is calculated based onthe orientations ... one ofthe input parameters before the simulation starts Theinfluenceof this parameter on simulated structure and average grain size was studied in [15] As mentioned above the initialization...
... specific application The Monte Carlo simulation can also calculate the heat deposition in the target volume The data can then be taken into a heat transfer simulation tool to calculate the heat load ... Radiation Therapy Simulations with the GATE-Lab 35 Sorina Camarasu-Pop, Tristan Glatard, Hugues Benoit-Cattin and David Sarrut Chapter Monte Carlo Simulation for Ion Implantation Profiles, Amorphous ... Ionic Surfaces 931 Abdulwahab Khalil Sallabi 857 Preface Monte Carlo simulation, the iterative computational method used to examine and investigate the behavior of physical and mathematical systems...
... Kinase, Akram Mohammadi and Masa Takahashi Chapter Applications of Monte Carlo Simulation in Modelling of Biochemical Processes 57 Kiril Ivanov Tenekedjiev, Natalia Danailova Nikolova and Krasimir ... A paper by K Chan et al onthe application of Monte Carlo simulation methods in treatment planning for radiation oncology constitutes the content of chapter The implantation of radioactive particles ... in this paper The contents of chapter 18 are a paper by I Plante and F A Cucinotta onthe Monte Carlo simulation of ionizing radiation tracks The contents of this paper have applications in medicine...
... billed only upon actual shipment For further information please contact the publisher Multi-Carrier Digital Communications Theory and Applications of OFDM Ahmad R S Bahai and Burton R Saltzberg Algorex, ... For the simple case ofandandand are set to to the output ofthe IFFT is: where Of course the scaling by a factor of two is immaterial and can be dropped This real orthogonal transformation ... output of this block is fed to a D /A at the rate ofand low-pass filtered A basic representation ofthe equivalent complex baseband transmitted signal is for A more accurate representation of OFDM...
... billed only upon actual shipment For further information please contact the publisher Multi-Carrier Digital Communications Theory and Applications of OFDM Ahmad R S Bahai and Burton R Saltzberg Algorex, ... For the simple case ofandandand are set to to the output ofthe IFFT is: where Of course the scaling by a factor of two is immaterial and can be dropped This real orthogonal transformation ... output of this block is fed to a D /A at the rate ofand low-pass filtered A basic representation ofthe equivalent complex baseband transmitted signal is for A more accurate representation of OFDM...
... Computer-aided Analysis and Interpretation of HRCT Images ofthe Lung 37 Zrimec Tatjana and Sata Busayarat Chapter Part CT Image Analysis for Preoperational Planning 63 77 Chapter Liver Segmentation and ... these are called parenchyma The pulmonary-arterial andthe 40 Theory and Applications of CT Imaging and Analysis bronchial trees run alongside each other and branch simultaneously in a tree-like ... extract the lung area 10 Theory and Applications of CT Imaging and Analysis Fig A failure case ofthe mask processing for a slice where there is a non-isolated nodule connected to the walls of the...
... geometrical visualization of many seemingly abstract mathematical facts The concept of orthogonality between signal vectors is a key to the understanding of OFDM and CDMA, andthe Euclidean distance ... Theory and Applications of OFDM and CDMA Theory and Applications of OFDM and CDMA Wideband Wireless Communications Henrik Schulze and Christian Luders ¨ Both of Fachhochschule S¨ dwestfalen ... proposal was subsequently refined and released as the socalled IS-95 standard in North America In the meantime, the system has been rebranded as cdmaOne, and there are more than 100 millions of cdmaOne...
... transmit one digitally modulated symbol The amplitude andthe phase fluctuate randomly The typical frequency ofthe variation is ofthe order of νmax corresponding to a timescale ofthe variations ... polar coordinates AWGN is a Gaussian random variable with mean zero and variance σ = The probability that the random variable exceeds a positive real value, x, is given by the Gaussian probability ... component andthe scattering components The special case K = corresponds to the absence ofa LOS and leads to a Rayleigh channel The special case K → ∞ corresponds to the absence of scattering and...
... K-dimensional component separately, as in the case of square QAM constellations and then drop the index Or one may multiplex both together to a 2K-dimensional vector, as in the case of PSK constellations ... is the 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 ... Transmit antenna diversity In many wireless communications scenarios, the practical boundary conditions at the transmitter and at the receiver are asymmetric Consider as an example the situation...
... Reed–Solomon codes are based onthe arithmetics of finite fields that are usually called Galois fields The mathematical concept ofa field stands for a system of numbers, where addition and multiplication ... α0 = and βK = and calculate the αk values according to the forward recursion of Equation (3.35) from the left to the right in the trellis and then calculate the βk according to the backward recursion ... + D ) convolutional code by Equation (3.2) for the AWGN channel and by Equation (3.4) for the Rayleigh fading channel Catastrophic codes The state diagram also enables us to find a class of encoders...
... plot the (measured) probability that a sample is smaller than a certain value as a function of that value The probability values are then scaled in such a way that a Gaussian normal distribution ... we can argue that this additive disturbance is a Gaussian random variable for the inphase andthe quadrature component ofthe 16-QAM constellation diagram Figure 4.28 shows the normplots ofthe ... predistortion ofthe signal before amplification OFDM 175 Analog and digital implementations are possible After OFDM was chosen as the transmission scheme for several communication standards, there has...
... number of carriers means that the OFDM system is a narrowband system compared to the channel Figure 4.78 shows that only one additional transmit antenna can compensate approximately dB of that narrowband ... important feature ofthe DAB system (and in contrast to the DVB system) that the time periods onthe physical level andonthe logical (data) level are matched together The period TF ofthe transmission ... OFDM symbols carry the MSC The data rate ofthe FIC is higher by a factor of 4/3 compared to the other modes The MSC always has the same data rate For all four transmission modes, the MSC transports...
... variable length and may carry some thousands of bytes The header provides information onthe length ofthe frame andonthe modulation and channel coding scheme applied to the payload part The ... number of subcarriers However, the results of ideal interleaving may serve as a hint for the system evaluation and may allow a comparison ofthe combinations of code rate and modulation scheme ... focus onthe IEEE 802.1 1a variant, nevertheless the considerations may be transferred directly to the IEEE 802.11g variant Also, the parameters ofthe physical layerof IEEE 802.1 1a and HIPERLAN/2...
... 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 andthe standard deviation ofthe interference ... onthe averaging length and hysteresis margin, which on their part have to be selected onthe basis ofthe MS velocity, the standard deviation and correlation length ofthe long-term fading and ... power, there are two other aspects of soft handover causing additional effort: • additional transmitter and receiver hardware within each BS; • additional transmission lines between the base stations...
... standards was on creating new data services allowing higher rates anda packet switched mode The increase ofthe data rate was accomplished by allocating several channels for one connection and ... to the different propagation paths, at least a synchronization up to a level of some data symbols is necessary Onthe other hand, to keep the orthogonality ofthe channelization codes, the transmission ... channels that are used as common control channels for establishing a connection (paging, random access, channel allocation); • dedicated channels that are allocated for an individual connection;...
... synchronized base stations facilitates the cell search and soft handover procedure compared to UMTS which needs no synchronization Onthe other hand, the cdmaOne base stations have to be able ... information Random access An access message, which may have a length of several physical frames, is coded, spread and modulated in a way analogous to the traffic channel data The proper message ... that instead of duplicating the data symbols to the I- and Q-branch as for the basic configuration, symbols are mapped to the I- and Q-branch according to a QPSK; for packet data channels even a...
... providing a useful key to obtain the safe navigation ofa robot in any environment (Zanela & Taraglio, 2002) Onthe other hand the estimation ofthe ego-motion, i.e the measure of camera motion, can ... lenses and cameras Therefore the interest of such algorithms is in the fundamental matrix rather than in the essential one The standard approach for the computation ofthe fundamental matrix is based ... viewpoints and images are available, several geometric relations can be derived among the three dimensional real points and their projections onto the various two dimensional images These relations can...
... including the process of selection of features, some important aspects regarding the calibration ofthe camera system and related geometric transformations ofthe images and, finally, probabilistic analyses ... area-based and feature-based methods is also widely used and accepted Area-based methods establish the correspondence mainly onthe basis ofthe cross-correlation of image patches from each of ... image Cyclopean image Bl Bc Br y S Al Ac x Ar x’ Fig Projections ofthe points Aand B onthe left and right image planes ofa stereo system Cyclopean image and cyclopean separation The disparity...
... transformations that can happen between the coordinates ofa point in the space anda projection in the image plane Consider a modification ofthe coordinates system in the image plane: a scaling ofthe ... andthe following axes: Z orthogonal to the image plane andthe axes X and Y orthogonal and, also orthogonal to Z The origin of coordinates in the image plane will be the intersection ofthe Z axes ... represents the mathematical expectation operator and Ni and L j , are the gray levels ofthe image windows considered, which will be treated as random variables, of node n i , in the left image, and label...