Defibrillation threshold (DFT) testing has traditionally been an integral part of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation. With the increasing number of patients receiving ICDs, physicians are encountering high DFT more often than before. Tackling the problem of high DFT, warrants an in-depth understanding of the science of defibrillation including the key electrophysiological...

Realization of N-point Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) using one-dimensional or two-dimensional systolic array structures have been developed for power of two DFT sizes. DFT algorithm, which can be represented as a triple -matrix product, can be realized by decomposing N into smaller lengths. Triple matrix product form of representation enables to map the Npoint DFT on a 2-D systolic array. In...

Presented in this work are the results of a quantum chemical study of oxygen adsorption on small Aun and Au−n (n=2,3) clusters. Density functional theory(DFT), second order perturbation theory (MP2), and singles and doubles coupled clustertheory with perturbative triples [CCSD(T)] methods have been used to determine the geometry and the binding energy of oxygen to Aun. The multireference charac...

1. Page 2741, caption of Fig. 2: three occurrences of ‘‘commutator’’ instead of ‘‘commutor’’, i.e. the caption should read Fig. 2. Eigenvalue decomposition of the commutor for the CDFT: (a) sorted eigenvalues of the commutor T1 for N 1⁄4 128. (b) Selected symmetric and skew-symmetric eigenvectors of the commutor for k 1⁄4 0,1, 2, 3. 2. Page 2743, fourth sentence after Eq. (14): ‘‘commutator’’ i...

Among various models that incorporate solvation effects into first-principles-based electronic structure theory such as density functional theory (DFT), the average solvent electrostatic potential/molecular dynamics (ASEP/MD) method is particularly advantageous. This method explicitly includes the nature of complicated solvent structures that is absent in implicit solvation methods. Because the...

A method is presented for computing an orthonormal set of eigenvectors for the discrete Fourier transform (DFT). The technique is based on a detailed analysis of the eigenstructure of a special matrix which commutes with the DFT. It is also shown how fractional powers of the DFT can be efficiently computed, and possible applications to multiplexing and transform coding are suggested. T

The eigenstructure of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is examined and new systematic procedures to generate eigenvectors of the unitary DFT are proposed. DFT eigenvectors are suggested as user signatures for data communication over the real adder channel (RAC). The proposed multiuser communication system over the 2-user RAC is detailed.

Introduction It has previously been reported that patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) may have a slightly higher defibrillation threshold (DFT) in an upright position compared to a supine position. However, the significance of this and the potential impact on clinical practice remains unclear. We report a case of defibrillation failure caused by an increase in DFT in t...

Recently, discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-based discrete multitone modulation (DMT) systems have been widely applied to various applications. In this paper, we study a broader class of DMT systems using more general unitary matrices instead of DFT matrices. For this class, we will show how to design the optimal DMT systems over frequency-selective channels with colored noise. In addition, asym...