In recent investigation 8] concerning the asymptotic behavior of Gram Schmidt or-thonormalization procedure applied to the nonnegative integer shifts of a given function, the problem of determining whether or not such functions form a Riesz system in L 2 (IR +) arose. In this note, we provide a suucient condition to determine whether the nonnegative translates form a Riesz system on L 2 (IR +)....