Class-D audio amplifiers are particularly efficient, and this efficiency has led to their ubiquity in a wide range of modern electronic appliances. Their output takes the form of a high-frequency square wave whose duty cycle (ratio of on-time to off-time) is modulated at low frequency according to the audio signal. A mathematical model is developed here for a second-order class-D amplifier desi...

Subgroup discovery is concerned with finding subsets of a population whose class distribution is significantly different from the overall distribution. Previously subgroup discovery has been predominantly investigated under the propositional logic framework. This paper investigates multi-class subgroup discovery in an inductive logic programming setting, where subgroups are defined by conjuncti...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To compare the perspectives of oncology nurses and physicians regarding online access to laboratory results for patients with cancer pre- and postimplementation, and to evaluate the impact on workload. DESIGN Pre- and postimplementation surveys distributed to nurses and physicians. In addition, a nursing workload study was conducted to measure the number of phone calls rece...

Analyzing writing styles of non-native speakers is a challenging task. In this paper, we analyze the comments written in the discussion pages of the English Wikipedia. Using learning algorithms, we are able to detect native speakers’ writing style with an accuracy of 74%. Given the diversity of the English Wikipedia users and the large number of languages they speak, we measure the similarities...

we prove that for $p>7$ there are‎ ‎[‎ ‎p^{4}+2p^{3}+20p^{2}+147p+(3p+29)gcd (p-1,3)+5gcd (p-1,4)+1246‎ ‎] ‎groups of order $p^{8}$ with exponent $p$‎. ‎if $p$ is a group of order $p^{8}$‎ ‎and exponent $p$‎, ‎and if $p$ has class $c>1$ then $p$ is a descendant of $‎p/gamma _{c}(p)$‎. ‎for each group of exponent $p$ with order less than $‎p^{8} $ we calculate the number of descendants of o...