Recent measurements of mass attenuation coefficients have identified the determination of the thickness of the absorbing specimen as the major limitation to the accuracy of the measurement. We present a technique for determining the mass attenuation coefficient with high accuracy. The technique uses the integral of the density along a column extending through the thickness of the absorber, whic...

A high-performance liquid chromatographic method was developed for the analysis of capsaicinoid compounds, the pungent principles of capsicum fruits. A sequential simplex method was applied to optimize the chromatographic response function used to assess the quality of separation by varying the chromatographic parameters. The separation was achieved in 11 min using a C-8 column of 15-cm length ...

For multiuser systems, several direct blind identification algorithms require that the linear multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system have a full rank convolution matrix. This condition requires that the system transfer function be irreducible and column reduced. We show that this restrictive identification condition can be relaxed for some direct blind identification methods to accommodat...

In this paper, we propose new methods of constructing optimal binary low correlation zone(LCZ) sequences. In the new method, we devise a column sequence set of length 2 − 1 from a binary sequence of period 2 − 1 having ideal autocorrelation property and this column sequence set is used to construct binary LCZ sequence sets of period 2n−1 when (m+1)|n. The new method gives us the optimal sets wi...

In this paper, we investigate the error correction capability of column-weight-three LDPC codes when decoded using the Gallager A algorithm. We prove that the necessary condition for a code to correct k ≥ 5 errors is to avoid cycles of length up to 2k in its Tanner graph. As a consequence of this result, we show that given any α > 0,∃N such that ∀n > N , no code in the ensemble of column-weight...

Abstract: A finite element model is verified accurate enough to simulate the static test of one reinforced-concrete frame with specially shaped columns subjected to the loss of a ground corner column. As the frame sustained loads primarily depending on the beam resisting mechanism in the test, four related parameters, namely the height of beam section, rebar ratio of beam, rebar ratio of slab a...

The selection of column packing during the development of high-performance liquid chromatography method is a crucial step to achieve sufficient chromatographic resolution of analyzed species in complex mixtures. Various stationary phases are tested in this paper for the analysis of complex mixture of triacylglycerols (TGs) in blackcurrant oil using non-aqueous reversed-phase (NARP) system with ...

This document describes a convention for compressing FITS binary tables that is modeled after the FITS tiled-image compression method (White et al. 2009) that has been in use for about a decade. The input table is first optionally subdivided into tiles, each containing an equal number of rows, then every column of data within each tile is compressed and stored as a variable-length array of byte...

A novel graphical method of analysing continuous membrane separation systems has been developed. The method is applicable to all counterand co-current membrane modules – single-stage, cascades, and membrane columns. All configurations can be broken down into “column sections”, no matter how complex the arrangement. Each column section, which resembles a typical single-stage separator, is modell...

determination of the best method to estimate the dispersion rate is very important to ensure accuracy of the computed data. the aim of this research is studying of transport length effects of dispersion of conservative tracer nacl in soils with different texture using several solute transport models including brigham, fried-combernous and solutions of the advection-dispersion equation with inve...