56 research outputs found
A study of policies governing the employment of part-time professional nurses in hospitals
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit
Type-IV DCT, DST, and MDCT algorithms with reduced numbers of arithmetic operations
We present algorithms for the type-IV discrete cosine transform (DCT-IV) and
discrete sine transform (DST-IV), as well as for the modified discrete cosine
transform (MDCT) and its inverse, that achieve a lower count of real
multiplications and additions than previously published algorithms, without
sacrificing numerical accuracy. Asymptotically, the operation count is reduced
from ~2NlogN to ~(17/9)NlogN for a power-of-two transform size N, and the exact
count is strictly lowered for all N > 4. These results are derived by
considering the DCT to be a special case of a DFT of length 8N, with certain
symmetries, and then pruning redundant operations from a recent improved fast
Fourier transform algorithm (based on a recursive rescaling of the
conjugate-pair split radix algorithm). The improved algorithms for DST-IV and
MDCT follow immediately from the improved count for the DCT-IV.Comment: 11 page
Two dimensional symmetric and antisymmetric generalizations of sine functions
Properties of 2-dimensional generalizations of sine functions that are
symmetric or antisymmetric with respect to permutation of their two variables
are described. It is shown that the functions are orthogonal when integrated
over a finite region of the real Euclidean space, and that they are
discretely orthogonal when summed up over a lattice of any density in .
Decomposability of the products of functions into their sums is shown by
explicitly decomposing products of all types. The formalism is set up for
Fourier-like expansions of digital data over 2-dimensional lattices in .
Continuous interpolation of digital data is studied.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure
Production Capacity of a Mountain Meadow in Slovakia
Slovakia is rich in grassland ecosystem diversity due to its geological, geomorphologic and climatic conditions (Seffer et al. 2002). Grasslands make up to 81% of total agricultural land in the upland and mountain regions. They are regarded as basic sources of forage for cattle and sheep. During the last century, the utilisation of mineral fertilisers increased dramatically not only on arable land, but even on grassland in Europe (Hejcman et al. 2007). The objective of our 11-year trial was to compare the dry matter production of permanent grasslands at two levels of mineral nutrition under extreme climatic conditions of northern Slovakia
A Sparse Bayesian Estimation Framework for Conditioning Prior Geologic Models to Nonlinear Flow Measurements
We present a Bayesian framework for reconstruction of subsurface hydraulic
properties from nonlinear dynamic flow data by imposing sparsity on the
distribution of the solution coefficients in a compression transform domain
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