Transmission electron diffraction is used as a qualitative analytical probe of polymethylene chain packing in three conformationally-restricted analogs of tripalmitin derived from configurational isomers of cyclopentane-1,2,3-triol. The analysis demonstrates that the all trans "tuning-fork" conformation seen in X-ray crystal structure analyses on homologous compounds is also found in microcryst...

n this paper we provide an analytical expression of the capacity outage probability for CoMP (Coordinated Multiple Point) multicell downlink transmission in Rayleigh fading. The theoretical derivation and simulation results match perfectly. Used in dense urban interference limited networks, CoMP is expected to improve cell-edge users’ throughput and allow a better coverage and fairness. We demo...

we present a detailed analysis of the static tuning characteristics of three section tunable distributed bragg reflector (dbr) laser. the analysis is based on the transfer matrix method (tmm), transmission line and scattering theory. the key feature of the analysis is the use of modified oscillation condition. with the exact oscillation condition, the static tuning characteristics such as thres...

In this paper a novel technique is presented to solve tolerance design problems. To achieve the desired performance tolerance the technique uses a subtle, but significant, change in the design rather than increasing component precision. This change is the addition of a tuning parameter. Statistical models are used to developed framework for the tuning parameter design method. Also developed is ...

This paper describes a self-tuning architecture that dynamically adjusts the frequency of the processor to run at the highest speed it can sustain without causing errors. This frequency is determined through dynamic verification, an online error checking technique that uses a second, simpler processor to redundantly execute instructions, detecting both design errors and transient faults.

This paper reports a simulation study of the interaction between the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Bandwidth on Demand (BoD) mechanisms in broadband satellite networks. It forms part of a broader effort aiming at the identification of the proper mechanisms and algorithms to efficiently carry TCP traffic over these networks. We investigate two aspects of this rather complicated interac...

We show that a self-tuning mechanism of the cosmological constant could work in 5D non-compact space-time. The standard model matter fields live only on the 4D brane. The change of vacuum energy on the brane just gives rise to dynamical shifts of the profiles of the background metric and a bulk scalar field in the extra dimension, keeping 4D space-time flat. To obtain the Newtonian potential on...

Adaptive influence-coefficient methods have proven successful at controlling unbalance-induced vibration of rotating machinery without requiring a priori knowledge of machine dynamics. If initial influence estimates are inaccurate, however, vibration may become worse temporarily before the estimation converges. An auto-tuning method is presented here that adjusts adaptive “gain” parameters duri...

Observers deteeted unidireetional motion of isotropie dot patterns following exposure to (1) broadband noise eontaining all direetions of motion, or (2)noise from whieh eertain sets of direetion had been filtered. The amount of masking varied with the set of directions filtered from the noise, yielding broad directional tuning functions. The breadth of an observers's tuning funetion corresponde...

An accurate control of fundamental frequency is one of the essential demands in professional singing. This control relies on auditory and kinesthetic feedback. However, a loud accompaniment may mask the auditory feedback, leaving the singers to rely on kinesthetic feedback. The object of the present study was to estimate the significance of auditory and kinesthetic feedback to pitch control in ...