We report a simple theory for the reduction of substrate modes in quasi-optical power-combining arrays. This qualitative theory predicts that detrimental substrate-mode effects can be greatly reduced through a judicious choice of the array unit cell size. Experimental evidence from quasi-optical tripler grids is presented to confirm the theory. Measured results show a dramatic improvement in th...

Long extra high voltage (EHV) ac lines cannot be loaded to their thermal limits in order to keep sufficient margin against transient instability. With the scheme proposed in this project, it is possible to load these lines very close to their thermal limits. The conductors are allowed to carry usual ac along with dc superimposed on it. The added dc power flow does not cause any transient instab...

a study was conducted on genetics of some important agronomic traits (number of productive tillers per hill, plant height (cm), panicle length (cm), number of spikelets per panicle and 100-grain weight) in rice during 2012-13. two lines were crossed with five testers in line × tester fashion to produce 10 f1 hybrids. analysis of variance revealed significant differences among genotypes and cros...

The nitrosobenzene complex of hemoglobin is a violet pigment which is associated with nitrobenzene poisoning. Filehne (1) reported in 1878 that “nitrobenzol” (nitrobenzene) exerts its toxic effect by making blood unable to transport oxygen. This took place because nitrobenzene apparently underwent a reduction to form a hemoglobin complex with a characteristic spectroscopic absorption which did ...

Nelson et al. [Appl. Opt.55, 1757 (2016)APOPAI0003-693510.1364/AO.55.001757] recently concluded that coherent beam combining and remote phase locking of high-power lasers are fundamentally limited by the laser source linewidth. These conclusions are incorrect and not relevant to practical high-power coherently combined laser architectures.

This paper is on the combination of two powerful approaches to uncertain reasoning: logic programming in a probabilistic setting, on the one hand, and the information-theoretical principle of maximum entropy, on the other hand. More precisely, we present two approaches to probabilistic logic programming under maximum entropy. The first one is based on the usual notion of entailment under maximu...

Multiple imputation is a common approach for handling missing data. It allows users to make valid inferences using standard complete-data methods with simple combining rules. A variation is to partition the missing data into two portions and conduct the imputation in two stages. We review two-stage multiple imputation and existing inferential methods and derive an alternative reference F -distr...

Expert systems applications that involve uncertain inference can be represented by a multidimensional contingency table. These tables offer a general approach to inferring with uncertain evidence, because they can embody any form of association between any number of pieces of evidence and conclusions. (Simpler models may be required, however, if the number of pieces of evidence bearing on a con...

Abstract Multiple imputation is a commonly used approach to deal with missing values. In this approach, an imputer repeatedly imputes the missing values by taking draws from the posterior predictive distribution for the missing values conditional on the observed values, and releases these completed data sets to analysts. With each completed data set the analyst performs the analysis of interest...

In this paper cascaded reduction and growing of result sets is introduced as a principle for combining the results of different object detectors. First, different candidate operating points are selected for each object detection algorithm. This procedure is based on the analysis of precision and recall of the individual methods. Selecting an appropriate operating point prior to fusion is import...