Line Spectrum Pairs (LSP) are commonly used in speech coding for spectral quantization. Usually, the LSPs are first calculated, and then quantized. When scalar quantization is used, computational saving can be achieved by direct calculation of the quantized LSPs, searching zero-crossings on the grid formed by the values of the quantization tables (quantized-domain search). In a previous publica...

The cosmological relic density of the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) of type I string derived model is calculated. This model can accommodate large values of CP violating phases, and the electron and neutron electric dipole moments satisfy the experimental constraint. We show that the constraint from the electric dipole moment on the ratio between the gaugino masses implies that the mas...

G. Fici proved that a finite word has a minimal suffix automaton if and only if all its left special factors occur as prefixes. He called LSP all finite and infinite words having this latter property. We characterize here infinite LSP words in terms of S-adicity. More precisely we provide a finite set of morphisms S and an automaton A such that an infinite word is LSP if and only if it is S-adi...

We report that the effect of an external magnetic field on the propagation of surface plasmons can be effectively modified through the coupling between localized (LSP) and propagating (SPP) surface plasmons. When these plasmon modes do not interact, the main effect of the magnetic field is a modification of the wavevector of the SPP mode, leaving the LSP virtually unaffected. Once both modes st...

In this paper, the intraframe correlation properties of Line Spectrum Pair (LSP) are used to develop an efficient encoding algorithm using the Karhunen-Loeve (KL) transformation. An important nonuniform statistical characteristics of LSP frequencies are investigated. Based upon this nonuniform property the neural network based techniques for generating the transform vectors via system training ...

Effects of laser shock processing (LSP) on the cavitation erosion resistance of laser weldments were investigated by optical microscope (OM), scanning electron microscope (SEM) observations, roughness tester, micro hardness tester, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) technology. The morphological microstructures were characterized. Cumulative mass loss, incubation period, erosion rate, and damaged surf...

We explore the spectral dependence of fluorescence enhancement and the associated lifetime modification of fluorescent molecules coupled to single metal nanoparticles. Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy and single-particle dark-field spectroscopy are combined to correlate the dependence of fluorescence lifetime reduction on the spectral overlap between the fluorescence emission and the lo...

A large part of the mSUGRA parameter space satisfying the WMAP constraint on the dark matter relic density corresponds to a higgsino LSP of mass ≃ 1 TeV. We find a promising signal for this LSP at CLIC, particularly with polarized electron and positron beams. One also expects a viable monochromatic γ-ray signal from its pair annihilation at the galactic center at least for cuspy DM halo profile...

Micro-scale laser shock peening LSP can potentially be applied to metallic structures in microdevices to improve fatigue and reliability performance. Copper thin films on a single-crystal silicon substrate are treated by using LSP and characterized using techniques of X-ray microdiffraction and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). Strain field, dislocation density, and microstructure change...