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The Legal Status of Gibraltar: Whose Rock is it Anyway?
This Note argues that the right to self-determination, as expressed in Resolution 1514, empowers the people of Gibraltar with the right to determine their own destiny. Part I discusses the factual and legal background of the dispute over sovereignty of both the City of Gibraltar, as well as the isthmus connecting the city to Spain. Part II explains the British, Spanish, and Gibraltarian claims to the territory, analyzing the relevant U.N. resolutions, agreements and legislation that have defined the respective rights of the three parties. Part III argues that Gibraltar has the right to self-determination and that Great Britain should no longer represent Gibraltar in negotiations with Spain. This Note concludes that, in accord with Resolution 1514, Gibraltar has the right to self-determination, and the Spanish claim to territorial integrity does not supersede this right
Trawl-induced Damage to Sponges Observed From a Research Submersible
Three experimental trawl paths subjected to a single pass with the trawl in 1996 in about 200 m of water on the eastern Gulf of Alaska continental shelf were revisited in July 1997, 1 year post-trawl. Many large, erect sponges, the taxa impacted most significantly, had been removed or damaged by the trawl. Sponges in the cold, deep water of the Gulf of Alaska were slow to recover from trawling effects. These findings contrast with recovery times for shallow, warmwater sponges and may have fishery management implications for cold-water regions
A continued fraction generator for smooth pulse sequences
Digital circuit produces rational output pulse rate at fraction of continuous input pulse rate. Output pulses have average rate with least possible deviation from absolute correct time spacing. Circuit uses include frequency synthesizing, fraction generation, and approximation of irrational sequences
A GPU based real-time software correlation system for the Murchison Widefield Array prototype
Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) are inexpensive commodity hardware
that offer Tflop/s theoretical computing capacity. GPUs are well suited to many
compute-intensive tasks including digital signal processing.
We describe the implementation and performance of a GPU-based digital
correlator for radio astronomy. The correlator is implemented using the NVIDIA
CUDA development environment. We evaluate three design options on two
generations of NVIDIA hardware. The different designs utilize the internal
registers, shared memory and multiprocessors in different ways. We find that
optimal performance is achieved with the design that minimizes global memory
reads on recent generations of hardware.
The GPU-based correlator outperforms a single-threaded CPU equivalent by a
factor of 60 for a 32 antenna array, and runs on commodity PC hardware. The
extra compute capability provided by the GPU maximises the correlation
capability of a PC while retaining the fast development time associated with
using standard hardware, networking and programming languages. In this way, a
GPU-based correlation system represents a middle ground in design space between
high performance, custom built hardware and pure CPU-based software
correlation.
The correlator was deployed at the Murchison Widefield Array 32 antenna
prototype system where it ran in real-time for extended periods. We briefly
describe the data capture, streaming and correlation system for the prototype
array.Comment: 11 pages, to appear in PAS
Strapdown inertial measurement unit computer, volume 1 Final report
Strapdown inertial measurement unit design, calculations, and operating instruction
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