319 research outputs found
Coherent video reconstruction with motion estimation at the decoder
In traditional predictive video coding the block matching is performed at the encoder. The obtained motion field is then transmitted to the decoder, together with the prediction residue. Nevertheless, if the motion field is not provided it can be reconstructed, as long as the decoder manages to exploit some correlated information. This paper presents an algorithm for the motion estimation at the decoder side,
given the prediction residue only. The main novelty of this algorithm relies on the contextual reconstruction of a frame region composed of several blocks. Simulation results show that taking into account a whole row can improve significantly the results obtained with an algorithm that reconstructs each block separately
Evaluation of Bord and Pillar Mining System in MCL Coal Mines
The importance of mining is definitely significant to human civilization. In fact, as one of the earliest of human enterprises, mining and its development correlate closely with cultural progress Mining is the mother industry for other industries. For effectiveness in mining, different methods have been approached keeping in mind the production and safety. One of such methods is the Bord and Pillar method of mining. Bord and Pillar method of mining is one of the oldest methods. The key to the successful Bord and Pillar mining is selecting the optimum pillar size. If the pillars are too small the mine will collapse. If the pillars are too large then significant quantities of valuable material will be left behind reducing the profitability of the mine. The issues relating to the stability of pillars and effective extraction from it is a major concern now-a-days. The most important parameter before designing a pillar is the Safety factor. The main purpose of this project is to increase the extraction ratio of Bord and Pillar workings without compromising the safety facto
Error Resilience Performance Evaluation of a Distributed Video Codec
Distributed Video Coding (DVC), one of the most active research field in the video coding community, is based on the combination of Slepian-Wolf coding techniques with the idea of performing the prediction at the decoder side rather than at the encoder side. Besides its main property, which is flexible allocation of computational complexity between encoder and decoder, the distributed approach has other interesting properties. One of the most promising DVC characteristics is its intrinsic robustness to transmission errors. In this work we have evaluated the error resilience performance of a video codec based on the DVC scheme proposed by Stanford, and we have carried out a preliminary comparison with traditional H.264 encoding, showing that at high error probabilities and high bitrates the distributed approach can also outperform the traditional one
Near Fermi level Electronic Structure of PrSrMnO: Photoemission Study
In this study, we report the observation of a pseudogap associated with the
insulator-metal transition in compositions of PrSrMnO system
with no charge ordering. Our valence band photoemission study shows that the
observed shifts in the near Fermi level density of states are abrupt at the
Curie transtion and occur over an energy scale of 1 eV, strongly
suggesting that the charge-ordering gap observed earlier in other manganites
and the pseudogap observed here may indeed have same origin. These results
could be understood within the framework of models based on electronic phase
separation where it has been shown that the pseudogap is a generic feature of
the mixed-phase compositions. Also, our band structure calculations on
PrSrMnO show the possible existence of half-metallicity
in this system.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Inclusion of nitrate and nitrite in the Kjeldahl nitrogen determination of soils and plant materials using sodium thiosulphate
Sodium thiosulphate was used in a modification of the regular Kjeldahl method for the determination of total N in soil and plant samples containing NO‐ 3‐N and NO‐ 2‐N. Quantitative recoveries of added 15N‐labelled and unlabelled N0‐ 3‐N (1000 μg N), NO‐ 2‐N (500 μg N), and NO‐ 3‐N (500 μg N) + N0‐ 2‐N (250 μg N) were obtained from soils, plant materials and adenine, even in the presence of water (up to 50 ml H?0/sample) when 5 g of Na2S203.5H20 as 25% aqueous solution was added to each sample before digestion. Moreover, this procedure does not require additional pretreatment of samples as does the salicylic acid‐sodium thiosulphate or KMnO4‐Fe modification of the Kjeldahl method, and therefore saves considerable time
Electronic structure of PrCaMnO near the Fermi level studied by ultraviolet photoelectron and x-ray absorption spectroscopy
We have investigated the temperature-dependent changes in the near-
occupied and unoccupied states of PrCaMnO which shows the
presence of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases. The
temperature-dependent changes in the charge and orbital degrees of freedom and
associated changes in the Mn 3 - O 2 hybridization result in varied O
2 contributions to the valence band. A quantitative estimate of the charge
transfer energy () shows a larger value compared to the earlier
reported estimates. The charge localization causing the large is
discussed in terms of different models including the electronic phase
separation.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, To be published in Phy. Rev.
Capacity of optical reading, Part 1: Reading boundless error-free bits using a single photon
We show that nature imposes no fundamental upper limit to the number of
information bits per expended photon that can, in principle, be read reliably
when classical data is encoded in a medium that can only passively modulate the
amplitude and phase of the probe light. We show that with a coherent-state
(laser) source, an on-off (amplitude-modulation) pixel encoding, and
shot-noise-limited direct detection (an overly-optimistic model for commercial
CD/DVD drives), the highest photon information efficiency achievable in
principle is about 0.5 bit per transmitted photon. We then show that a
coherent-state probe can read unlimited bits per photon when the receiver is
allowed to make joint (inseparable) measurements on the reflected light from a
large block of phase-modulated memory pixels. Finally, we show an example of a
spatially-entangled non-classical light probe and a receiver
design---constructable using a single-photon source, beam splitters, and
single-photon detectors---that can in principle read any number of error-free
bits of information. The probe is a single photon prepared in a uniform
coherent superposition of multiple orthogonal spatial modes, i.e., a W-state.
The code, target, and joint-detection receiver complexity required by a
coherent-state transmitter to achieve comparable photon efficiency performance
is shown to be much higher in comparison to that required by the W-state
transceiver.Comment: 11 pages, 12 figures, v3 includes a new plot characterizing the
photon efficiency vs. encoding efficiency tradeoff for optical reading. The
main technical body of the paper remains unaltere
Ambicultural blending between Eastern and Western paradigms : fresh perspectives for international management research
East and Southeast Asian worldviews are distinctly different from those of the West. Westerners and Asians construct their environments differently, not least because they construct the notion of \u27self\u27 very differently. This paper describes and exemplifies distinctions in cognitive and linguistic styles between the East and the West and outlines the implications of these styles for environmental perspectives and research paradigms. Examples from Thailand illustrate the philosophical roots and practical implications of an indigenous Eastern perspective for local business interactions. We explore the privilege afforded in Western, Cartesian paradigms in (Asian) management research and stimulate debate on the benefits of promoting alternative Asian indigenous perspectives for both management research and management practice. We support the idea that Asian management discourse needs more self-confidence and deserves a more prominent place in international research, not least because international management research will greatly benefit from freshly \u27blended\u27 perspectives that incorporate Eastern and Western perspectives
Kinetic modeling studies of heterogeneously catalyzed biodiesel synthesis reactions
The heterogeneously catalyzed transesterification reaction for the production of biodiesel from triglycerides was investigated for reaction mechanism and kinetic constants. Three elementary reaction mechanisms Eley-Rideal (ER), Langmuir-Hinshelwood-Hougen-Watson (LHHW), and Hattori with assumptions, such as quasi-steady-state conditions for the surface species and methanol adsorption, and surface reactions as the rate-determining steps were applied to predict the catalyst surface coverage and the bulk concentration using a multiscale simulation framework. The rate expression based on methanol adsorption as the rate limiting in LHHW elementary mechanism has been found to be statistically the most reliable representation of the experimental data using hydrotalcite catalyst with different formulations
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