In this paper the hybrid block-pulse function and Bernstein polynomials are introduced to approximate the solution of linear Volterra integral equations. Both second and first kind integral equations, with regular, as well as weakly singular kernels, have been considered. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method. The obtained results show that the hyb...

An experimental and theoretical investigation of the temporal spread of an ultrashort light pulse on transmission through a highly scattering medium has been made. For the strongly diffuse light, the transmitted pulse may be described by a universal function whose duration can be directly related to the width of the sample. For sufficiently scattering samples, experimental data and the diffusio...

Vascular reactivity may affect the stiffness characteristics of the arterial wall. We investigated the association between forearm microcirculatory and conduit artery function and measures of arterial stiffness in 527 asymptomatic non-Hispanic white adults without known cardiovascular disease. High-resolution ultrasonography of the brachial artery (ba) was performed to assess forearm microcircu...

Estimation and Moving Target Estimation * Roger Chamberlain, Daniel R. Fuhrmann, John Maschmeyer, and Lisandro Boggio Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Phone: 314-935-5708 Email Address: [email protected] Email Address: [email protected] Abstract Conventional moving target estimation in STAP radar applications is based, in part, on adaptive clutter scattering function estimation tec...

the objective of this research is to represent applicability of surface nuclear magnetic resonance (snmr) in aquifer characterization, based on snmr and electrical resistivity tomography data. snmr is the only geophysical method that directly detects water. two important parameters, porosity and permeability are available through inversion of initial amplitude and decay time constant versus pul...

A selective excitation of closely spaced Raman transitions using femtosecond pulse shaping is studied within a semiclassical approach. An analytical pulse function is proposed having duration T that selectively excites one of two transitions separated by a frequency interval less than 1/T. It is shown that, for intense fields, both the field amplitude and pulse frequency spectrum have to be car...

A method for time differentiation based on a Babinet-Soleil-Bravais compensator is introduced. The complex transfer function of the device is measured using polarization spectral interferometry. Time differentiation of both the pulse field and pulse envelope are demonstrated over a spectral width of about 100 THz with a measured overlap with the objective mode greater than 99.8%. This pulse sha...