My Sister Ra Died a Hero

My hero

[email protected] For the past 28 years I have talked about him, usually when people asked about the patients I treated as a hospital doctor or when asked about heroes. He was an inauspicious man, wrinkled by the years and with lungs which bore witness to decades of smoking. Late one night and after a long weekend on-call, I received a message from admissions telling me of his chest infect...

To my parents and sister

DEDICATION To God , My Parents , and My Sister iii

Distributed coding is a new paradigm for video transmission, based on the Wyner-Ziv theorem. In this thesis, a new Wyner-Ziv codec was proposed using non-binary Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes. Non-binary LDPC codes, developed for use in channel coding, have been extended for source coding to compress correlated non-binary sources, such as video. The approach is based on considering the c...

ii DEDICATION To my parents and my sister .

RAMACHANDRAN, SHANKAR. Stack Space Analysis for ARM Executables. (Under the direction of Dr. Alexander Dean). Bounding maximum stack depth for embedded system applications is essential in order to avoid conditions such as stack overflow. Stack usage information is useful for allocating the stack into a memory hierarchy. Prior work in stack space analysis addresses specific issues such as handli...

‘My adopted daughter and then my second wife died of kuru’

I was in my thirties and had a son by the name of Anua when Dr Carleton Gajdusek came into the Purosa Valley to do research on kuru. Carleton picked Anua from among the boys to work with him. When Carleton, Anua and others went on patrol, I assisted them by carrying field equipment and rations for two to three weeks. I also assisted by explaining to the village people why we were there in their...