We present algorithms for the type-IV discrete cosine transform (DCT-IV) and discrete sine transform (DSTIV), as well as for the modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) and its inverse, that achieve a lower count of real multiplications and additions than previously published algorithms, without sacrificing numerical accuracy. Asymptotically, the operation count is reduced from 2N log2 N +O(N...

8. Confirm that someone or yourself call the police (and other emergency personnel if necessary). If there has been no response after five (5) minutes call again. Some police jurisdictions refuse to respond to minor "fender benders" when there are no injuries or totaled vehicles. Call the police anyway. If they refuse to respond, ask for the officers FULL name (be sure to confirm that you have ...

BACKGROUND The present study aimed to examine pathways to imprisonment for women in Pakistan. It was hypothesized that early life victimization in women, problematic family relationship and economical deprivation would be significantly associated with criminal activities of women prisoners. METHOD To identify the pathways to prison, structured interview was devised by the researchers. Sample ...

The split pickup and delivery problem is to find the shortest route that can provide delivery nodes with commodities collected from pickup nodes, subject to the vehicle load constraint. In particular, the split feature allows multiple visits to nodes and thus enables the vehicle to load or discharge an arbitrary portion of commodities along the route. This problem concerns the practical situati...

In evolutionary biology, biologists often face the problem of constructing a phylogenetic tree on a set X of species from a multiset Π of partitions corresponding to various attributes of these species. One approach that is used to solve this problem is to try instead to associate a tree (or even a network) to the multiset ΣΠ consisting of all those bipartitions {A,X − A} with A a part of some ...

Moreover, according to his theory, a child’s mind develops on the basis of the signs belonging to a specific social context and every high psychic function first develops in the social relations and it gets internalized by the individual just in a second time. With his researches on the split brain, he marked the turning point in the re-establishment of the connectionism approach to cerebral fu...