The theory of the proximal point algorithm for maximal monotone operators is applied to three algorithms for solving convex programs, one of which has not previously been formulated. Rate-of-convergence results for the "method of multipliers," of the strong sort already known, are derived in a generalized form relevant also to problems beyond the compass of the standard second-order conditions ...

The well-established method of phase reduction neglects information about a limit-cycle oscillator's approach towards its periodic orbit. Consequently, phase reduction suffers in practicality unless the magnitude of the Floquet multipliers of the underlying limit cycle are small in magnitude. By defining isostable coordinates of a periodic orbit, we present an augmentation to classical phase re...

We show that standard expenditure multipliers capture economy-wide effects of new government projects only when financing constraints are not binding. In actual policy making, however, new projects usually need financing. Under liquidity constraints, new projects are subject to two opposite effects: an income effect and a set of spending substitution effects. The former is the traditional, unre...

In standard solutions, the new-Keynesian model produces a deep recession with deflation in a liquidity trap. Useless government spending, technical regress, and capital destruction have large positive multipliers. The recession, deflation and policy paradoxes are larger when prices are less sticky. I show that these features are all artifacts of equilibrium selection. For the same interest-rate...

In the paper: an efficient VLSI architecture for a 8x 8 twodimensional discrete cosine transform and inverse discrete cosine transform (2-D DCTIIDCT) with a new 1-D DCTIIDCT algorithm is presented. The proposed new algorithm makes all coeficients are positive to simplify the design of multipliers and the coefficients have less round-off error than Lee's algorithm [ I ] . For computing 2-D DCTII...

Storaging or transmission of speech signals at very low bit rate is a hot area in the field of speech processing. We used stochastic inter-frame interpolators and vector quantization (VQ) as a new method for developing a high quality 1200 BPS speech vocoder. The objective and subjecgtive test results show that performance of the new vocoder is compairable with 4800 BPS standard vocoders (as CELP).

The general formulation of the dynamics an elastic body undergoing arbitrary motion is revisited with emphasis on orthogonality between rigid and deformation one hand, appropriate definition relative velocities induced by other hand. A mixed displacement–velocity approach adopted, thus allowing a local frame which results in simplification discretization solution steps. proposed applied to mode...

In this paper, we determine the structure of the space of multipliers of the range of a composition operator $C_varphi$ that induces by the conditional expectation between two $L^p(Sigma)$ spaces.

We propose a variational approach to obtain superresolution images from multiple low-resolution frames extracted from video clips. First the displacement between the lowresolution frames and the reference frame are computed by an optical flow algorithm. Then a low-rank model is used to construct the reference frame in high-resolution by incorporating the information of the low-resolution frames...