Behavioral measures of spatial selectivity in cochlear implants are important both for guiding the programing of individual users' implants and for the evaluation of different stimulation methods. However, the methods used are subject to a number of confounding factors that can contaminate estimates of spatial selectivity. These factors include off-site listening, charge interactions between ma...

We propose an alternative method to Q switching for generating giant pulses of laser light in three-level media. This mehod is based on the presence of an external coherent field driving one transition to allow the accumulation of a large population inversion in the other transition without laser oscillation even in a cavity with high-Q factor. The switching off of the external coherent field c...

We proposed a method to engineer the light matter interaction while initializing qubit in presence of physical constraints utilizing inverse engineering. Combining multiple degrees freedom pulse parameters with perturbation theory, we developed pulses initialize within tightly packed frequency interval an arbitrary superposition state high fidelity. Importantly, initialization induces low off-r...

Abstract: The reliability analysis of load-sharing m-out-of-n systems where the workload is shared by the remaining working units when a unit fails is proposed in the paper. General expressions are provided for the m-out-of-n system reliability by arbitrary probability distributions of time to failure of units. Simplified methods are given for computing the survivor function in cases when the t...

Long-run average properties of probabilistic systems refer to the average behavior of the system, measured over a period of time whose length diverges to innnity. These properties include many relevant performance and reliability indices, such as system throughput, average response time, and mean time between failures. In this paper, we argue that current formal spec-iication methods cannot be ...

This article shows the use of lexical functions in the MorDebe lexical database system. Lexical functions are used in MorDebe to bridge the gap between derivation and inflection – to model relations between word-forms that are derivational from one perspective but inflectional from another. However, lexical functions in MorDebe range over lemmas rather than word-meanings and are hence significa...

The daily volatility is typically unobserved but can be estimated using high frequent tick-by-tick data. In this paper, we study the problem of forecasting the unobserved volatility using past values of measured volatility. Specifically, we use daily estimates of volatility based on high frequency data, called realized variance, and construct the optimal linear forecast of future volatility. Ut...

Photon accelerators can spectrally broaden laser pulses with high efficiency in moving electron density gradients. When driven by a conventional pulse, the group velocity walk-off experienced accelerated photons and deterioration of gradient from diffraction refraction limit extent spectral broadening. Here we show that pulse shaped space-time transverse intensity profile overcomes these limita...

We propose to investigate the possibility of Compton backscattering low energy laser pulses off the spent electron and positron beams at the International Linear Collider. The hot backscattered photons would then scatter off fixed targets for a rich variety of physics studies in a scheme dubbed BACKGAMMON, for BACKscattered GAMMas On Nucleons. The first objective would be to operate a heavy qua...

The effect of supervisory control on a redundant database unit representing a command and control (C2) system that supports air operations is investigated through simulation. Several supervisory control policies are considered. They authorize restoration and/or routing upon the failure of a server in the system. The performance of the modeled system under these policies is evaluated based on th...