Multiple input multiple output radars transmit partially coherent or noncoherent waveforms for improving spatial resolution or spatial diversity. While waveform design for SIMO radars concentrate on improving the delay and Doppler resolution characteristics, waveform design for MIMO radars involve optimization of delay, Doppler and spatial resolution characteristics. The resolution properties o...

Advances in signal processing techniques have provided effective tools for quantitative research in traditional Chinese pulse diagnosis. However, because of the inevitable intraclass variations of pulse patterns, the automatic classification of pulse waveforms has remained a difficult problem. Utilizing the new elastic metric, that is, time wrap edit distance (TWED), this paper proposes to addr...

Received September 16, 1992; accepted October 9, 1992; revised manuscript received December 1, 1992 We recently introduced a new technique, frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG), for directly determining the full intensity I(t) and phase p(t) of a single femtosecond pulse. By using almost any instantaneous nonlinearoptical interaction of two replicas of the ultrashort pulse to be measured, F...

The default pulse shaping filter in the conventional multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) based orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is a rectangular function, which unfortunately is highly sensitive to frequency synchronization errors and the Doppler spread. Shaped OFDM is able to considerably alleviate the effect of inter-carrier interference (ICI) as well as reduce t...

We demonstrate for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, that a Sagnac interferometer can threshold the energies of pulses. Pulses below a given threshold T are suppressed, while those above this threshold are normalized. The device contains an in-loop tunable isolator and 10.4 m of a highly doped silica fiber. We derive an analytical model of the nonlinear optical loop mirror's pulse e...

We analyze the stability of standing pulse solutions of a neural network integro-differential equation. The network consists of a coarse-grained layer of neurons synaptically connected by lateral inhibition with a nonsaturating nonlinear gain function. When two standing single-pulse solutions coexist, the small pulse is unstable, and the large pulse is stable. The large single pulse is bistable...

Objective The Holmium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet (Ho:YAG) laser is the standard lithotrite for ureteroscopy. This paper is to evaluate a Ho:YAG laser with a novel effect function in vitro, which allows a real-time variation of pulse duration and pulse peak power. Methods Two types of phantom calculi with four degrees of hardness were made for fragmentation and retropulsion experiments. Fragmenta...

In this paper, the properties of the floor function has been used to find a function which is one on the interval [0, 1) and is zero elsewhere. The suitable dilation and translation parameters lead us to get similar function corresponding to the interval [a,b)[a,b). These functions and their combinations enable us to represent the stepwise functions as a function of floor function. We have appl...

background: to manage relapsing‑remitting multiple sclerosis (ms) in the course of acute exacerbations, methylprednisolone (mp) (medrol or solu‑medrol), has the ability to lock the injured blood‑brain barrier and decrease irritation in the central nervous system. the aim of this preliminary study was to investigate the frequency and time interval related to mp pulse therapy in patients with ms....

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to clarify whether individuals with mildly impaired renal function show increased arterial stiffness, microinflammation, and oxidative stress as compared with those with normal renal function and also to examine the association of these parameters with the degree of GFR loss in middle-aged Japanese men with a low cardiovascular risk. DESIGN, ...