Multi-sensor Data Fusion between Radio Tomographic Imaging and Noise Radar

Radio tomographic imaging and noise radar are two proven surveillance technologies. The novelty of fusing data from radio tomographic imaging and noise radar is achieved with the derivation of a fusion technique utilising Tikhonov regularisation. Analysing the results of the Tikhonov influenced techniques reveals an average 43–47% error decrease in target centroid location, a 13–19% size decreases in target pixel dispersion and a 6–41% improvement in an ideal solution comparison. Results provide the radio tomographic imaging and noise radar communities a proof of concept for the fusion of data from two disparate sensor technologies

Rhetorical Structure and Function in The Anatomy of Melancholy

In writing The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton was working within the system of classical rhetoric as revived in the Renaissance, specifically the epideictic genus. A juxtaposition of the topics, arguments, and tripartite form employed by Burton with the treatment of epideictic in Aristotle's Rhetoric, as well as with aspects of the Roman and Hellenistic rhetorical traditions, shows how Burton has playfully adapted Renaissance conceptions of epideictic rhetoric forencyclopaedic, satirical, andself-expressive purposes. The function of rhetoric in the Anatomy is both to 'dissect' the corpus of knowledge about melancholy and to 'show forth' the author's own melancholic condition. © International Society for History of Rhetoric