In the design of maximally decimated lter banks, conventional practice is to use Johnston lters at both the analysis and synthesis ends. This paper proposes a two-step procedure: First, select suitable Johnston lters for the analysis side for good coding of the input; then design the synthesis lters to optimize the signal to reconstructed noise ratio SNR. A detailed example shows that one can d...

To the Editor: We applaud the efforts by Brian F. Degenhardt, DO, and colleagues,1 published in the October 2010 JAOA—The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, to document maintenance and improvement in the interexaminer reliability of osteopathic physicians’ palpatory skills. Because reliable palpatory diagnosis is fundamental to osteopathic diagnosis and treatment, this subject mat...

DOES INTERGROUP THREAT CAUSE DISTINCT CONTACT ORIENTATIONS FOR HIGH AND LOW STATUS GROUPS? By BRIAN M. JOHNSTON Advisor: Demis E. Glasford, PhD A variety of groups, such as White and Latino Americans, predominantly live in segregated clusters. This is evident by looking at demographic data in the U.S., and often occurs in the absence of legal mandates. To explain why segregation occurs, this di...

Brian R. Gaines Department of Electrical Engineering Science University of Essex Colchester, Essex, England A technique is described for the identification of probabilistic and other non-deterministic automata from sequences of their input/output behaviour. For a given number of states the models obtained are optimal in well defined senses, one related to least-mean-square approximation and the...

James W. Dalling*, Adam S. Davis, Brian J. Schutte and A. Elizabeth Arnold Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, IL 61801, USA; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Unit 0948, DPO AA 34002-0948, USA; United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit, Urbana, Illinois, IL 61801, USA; and Div...

1.1 The multidimensional space One of the leading models of face recognition is the multidimensional space (MDS) model proposed by Valentine (1991a) which suggests that faces are encoded as points in a metaphoric multidimensional space, and that any characteristic which differentiates among faces can serve as a dimension in that space (Bruce, Burton, & Dench, 1994; Valentine, 1991a; Valentine &...

Copper-Based Pulsed Dipolar ESR Spectroscopy as a Probe of Protein Conformation Linked to Disease States Gregory E. Merz, Peter P. Borbat, AshleyJ. Pratt, Elizabeth D. Getzoff, Jack H. Freed* and Brian R. Crane* Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850 National Biomedical Center for Advanced ESR Technology (ACERT), Cornell University. Department of Inte...

single-marker tracking and (b) adaptive tracking with 2 markers. If marker 1 becomes obscured, the algorithm switches to marker 2 (if visible) to reconstruct the location of marker 1 and provide correct feedback. 3744 Optical Motion Tracking With Two Markers for Robust Prospective Motion Correction Aditya Singh, Benjamin Zahneisen, Brian Keating, Michael Herbst, Maxim Zaitsev, and Thomas Ernst ...