We propose a high-sensitivity and wide-dynamic-range position sensor for range finders using logarithmic-response and correlation circuit. The 3-D measurement system using the proposed position sensor has advantages to applications, such as a walking robot and a recognition system on vehicles, which require both of availability in various backgrounds and safe light projection for human eyes. Th...

We present an efficient diode-end-pumped passively mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser with a relaxed single-quantum-well saturable Bragg reflector (SBR), which average output power is more than 23 W and pulse duration 2 1 .5 ps cw modelocking is generated corresponding to 50 W pumping power. The overall optical-optical efficiency reaches 47% and to our knowledge, this is the highest conversion efficienc...

The activated sludge model No. 3 (ASM3) was modified to describe the biological reactions in aerobic granular sludge SBR. The simultaneous storage and growth, nitrification and denitrification were all accounted for in modified model. The sensitivities of effluent COD, NH(4)(+) -N, and TN toward the stoichiometric and kinetic coefficients were analyzed. A standard set of parameters obtained fro...

Adult-child shared-book-reading (SBR) is an everyday practice that fundamental to young children's early engagement with literature. Its potential for supporting participation in literacy of continuing interest parents, practitioners, researchers and policymakers alike. However, there limited research involving critical examination the processes involved SBR, particularly interaction beyond ver...

Cardiac baroreflex function may be assessed from spontaneous fluctuation of systolic arterial pressure (SAP) and R-R interval. In previous studies, time-domain sequence and cross-spectral analysis had been applied to present the baroreflex response of cardiac system. Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) is also a promising algorithm to evaluate the fluctuations under various timescales. Thus, w...

A lab-scale sequencing batch reactor (SBR) and six full-scale wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) performing enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) were surveyed. The abundance of Accumulibacter-related organisms in the full-scale plants was investigated using fluorescent in situ hybridization. Accumulibacter-related organisms were present in all of the full-scale EBPR plants, at levels ...

MPEG’s low-delay audio codecs AAC-LD and AACELD are capable of providing natural audio in perceptually high quality with an algorithmic system delay1 in the range from 20 to 46.9 mS. The AAC-ELD scheme, in particular, which is basically formed out of AAC-LD and SBR, produces high-quality wideband audio at bit rates between 24 kbps and 48 kbps maintaining a relatively low algorithmic delay of 31...

We present an approach to estimate encoder parameters from previously MP3PRO-compressed, then decompressed audio material. The algorithm has been designed to identify the presence of spectral band replication (SBR), and for bit-rate detection. Furthermore, MP3 compression parameters like frame offset and block type are detected. As evaluation results show, the approach is able to identify SBR w...

This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation Grants SBR-9520107 (Luce) and SBR-9730076 (Grofman, Marley, Regenwetter) to the University of California, Irvine. We thank Rolf Johnson and Bethany Knapp for pointing out that an earlier version of this result worked only for subjective expected utility, not the rank-dependent generalization. Address correspondence and reprint reque...