134 research outputs found

    Adaptive And Reliable GPS Uncertain Position Estimation an Insightful Oceanography and Geography Applications

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    Location evaluation applications are one of the most imperative services in GPS position applications. The Global Positioning Systems (GPS) is a versatile and legacy technology has been providing a reliable and accurate position of objects on Earth. The uncertain GPS position is considered an initialization parameter for many inherent systems in today’s world. This initialization position estimate has a wide variety of applications such as Coast line maps, understanding the geo-dynamical phenomena such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and subsequent originating source mechanisms, Mean Sea level estimation for contours of land surfaces, Oceanic en-route as well as in mobile and Vehicular technologies etc. The validation and reliability of the results of all those applications is dependent on the accuracy of the position estimate given by GPS. In this work an attempt is made to retrieve accurate and reliable position parameters from GPS by correcting the measurement errors for all the visible satellites at every epoch. The maximum and minimum pseudo ranges in L2 signal observed are 2437404.2 meters and -76295.22 meters

    Pressure dependence of the chlorine NQR in three solid chloro anisoles

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    The 35Cl Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR) frequency (νQ) and spin lattice relaxation time (T1) in the three anisoles 2,3,4-trichloroanisole, 2,3,6-trichloroanisole and 3,5-dichloroanisole have been measured as a function of pressure upto 5.1 kbar at 300 K, and the data have been analysed to estimate the temperature coefficients of the NQR frequency at constant volume. All the three compounds show a non linear variation of the NQR frequency with pressure, the rate of which is positive and decreases with increasing pressure. In case of 3,5-dichloroanisole the value becomes negative in the higher range of pressure studied. The spin lattice relaxation time T1 in all the three compounds shows a weak dependence on pressure, indicating that the relaxation is mainly due to the torsional motions

    Hybrid Low Complex near Optimal Detector for Spatial Modulation

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    In our previous work maximum throughput in multi stream MIMO is analyzed by overcoming the inter antenna interference. To mitigate the Inter antenna interference spatial modulation can be used. Spatial Modulation(SM) aided MIMO systems are the emerging MIMO systems which are low complex and energy efficient. These systems additionally use spatial dimensions for transmitting information. In this paper a low complex detector based on matched filter is proposed for spatial modulation to achieve near maximum likelihood performance while avoiding exhaustive ML search since MF based detector exhibits a considerable reduced complexity since activated transmitting antenna and modulated amplitude phase modulation constellation are estimated separately. Simulation results show the performance of the proposed method with optimal ML detector, MRC and conventional matched filter methods

    Primary vaginal Ewing’s sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumour: diagnostic and treatment challenges

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    Extra osseous Ewing’s sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumour (PNET) of the genital tract of women is scarcely\ud described in the literature and involvement of the vagina is even rarer with a very few cases reported so far. We present\ud 50-year-old-woman who presented with a vaginal mass that was diagnosed to be a malignant round cell tumour which\ud later was confirmed to be primary vaginal Ewing’s sarcoma/ PNET on light microscopy and immunohistochemical\ud staining. She was then treated with induction chemotherapy followed by local radiotherapy and further maintenance\ud chemotherapy. This rare case of primary vaginal Ewing’s sarcoma/PNET emphasizes the need for combining\ud morphological features with immunohistochemistry with a panel of antibodies in establishing the diagnosis of Ewing’s\ud sarcoma/PNET at an uncommon site. Further, the case also highlights the use of induction chemotherapy followed by\ud radiation therapy and subsequent maintenance chemotherapy as a treatment modality

    Is epizootic ulcerative syndrome (EUS) specific fungus of fishes a primary pathogen?: an opinion

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    Earlier findings on epizootic ulcerative syndrome (EUS) and the present observation of the authors on transmission of EUS to snakehead (Channa sp.) without skin damage provide evidence to suggest that the invasive fungus associated with EUS is a primary pathogen

    IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTENT BASED VIDEO RETRIEVAL IN MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS USING HISTOGRAM DIFFERENCE

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    The increasing use of multimedia applications nowadays necessitates the development of effective methodologies for manipulating databases storing video, audio information. Moreover, in its beginning stage, content-based access to video scenes requires parsing of each video scenes into its building blocks. The video stream is constitutes number of shots, each shot is a sequence of frames pictured using a single camera. Switching from one camera to another indicates the transition from a shot to the next one. Therefore, the detection of these changes is known as scene transition or shot transition, is the initial step in any video-analysis system. A number of proposed techniques for solving the problem of shot boundary detection exist, but the major criticisms to them are their inefficiency and lack of reliability. The reliability of the scene change detection stage is a very significant requirement because it is the first stage in any video retrieval system; thus, its performance has a direct impact on the performance of all other stages. On the other hand, efficiency is also crucial due to the voluminous amounts of information found in video streams. This paper proposes a new robust and efficient paradigm capable of detecting scene changes on compressed .AVI video data. A single core processor takes a lot of time to execute single thread execution of algorithms in a very big video database to overcome this drawback a High performance computing is required (HPC) to make use of GPU for multithreaded execution for video processing algorithms

    Electrical switching in germanium telluride glasses doped with Cu and Ag

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    Coconut-growing soils of Kerala: 1. Characteristics and classification

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    Coconut plantations are the major land use systems in Kerala state. The tropical hot humid climate and soils of the state are considered suitable for the palm, with the exception of highlands occurring 600 m above MSL. However, the productivity of coconut is abysmally low in the state with an average productivity of around 40 nuts per year per palm. To find out whether the highly weathered and leached low activity clay soils developed in tropical hot humid climate is responsible for the low yield, an assessment of soil qualities in the coconut-growing soils of the state was made. Six distinct regions of coconut cultivation in the state were identified and delineated based on the variability of agro-climate and soils, viz., Central and Eastern Palakkad, Northern Kerala, Central Kerala, Southern Kerala, Onattukara sandy plains and coastal sandy plains. Soil profiles were studied at representative sites in each region. Investigated morphological features and sampled horizon-wise for the analysis of physical and chemical properties of the soil. Coconut-growing soils of Kerala state are in general deep and well drained, clayey or sandy having good structure permitting rapid transmission of water. The soils of Palakkad, Southern Kerala and Coastal Sandy Plains have near neutral reaction whereas the extensive areas of laterite soils of Northern and Central Kerala and sandy soils of Onattukara were strongly acid and had high levels of KCl extractable aluminium. The acid soils also analysed for low levels of basic cations, potassium, calcium and magnesium. Soils from all regions except Palakkad have low CEC. Surface and sub-soils base status were extremely low for soils of Northern and Central Kerala and Onattukara sandy plain. The soils of Central and Eastern Palakkad were classified as Typic Haplustalfs, Northern Kerala as Plinthic Humults, Central Kerala as Typic Plinthustults, Southern Kerala as Rhodic Kandiustults and the soils of sandy plains as Ustipsamments, according to soil taxonomy

    OBSERVATIONS OF SEISMO-IONOSPHERIC PERTURBATIONS USING WAVELET ANALYSIS

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    Electromagnetic signals generated before and during the Earthquakes lie in a broad range of frequencies from MHz to Qasi DC frequencies (Darcy Karakelian et.,al 20001). These signals reach higher altitudes and perturb the background atmosphere by dumping their energy (V.V. Hegai et.,al 20062 , Tadahiko Ogawa et.,al 20123). These electromagnetic signals cause perturbations in the ion content of the ionosphere. The study of these perturbations is important to understand their evolution mechanisms.  The ionospheric variability is measured in terms of ionospheric Total Electron content (TEC). The complex time varying and non-linear characteristics of Seismo-ionospheric perturbations are different from other disturbances ( Li-ming He et.,al, 20114). The earthquake which occurred in Indonesian region on 1st Sepember 2013 with a magnitude M>6 is considered for the present study. The time frequency analysis of narrow transition regions of these signals are analyzed using Wavelets ( Gwal A.K., et., al 2025, Michael E. Contadakis et.,al 20126) . Analysis of the non-stationary data using wavelets provides time localized alternatives and complex wavelets are useful in accurate detection and recognition of transient signals.  The results show that these perturbations are observed three days before the Earthquake and are increasing in nature. The observed periodicities on the Earthquake day may represent that there is possible transfer of momentum and energy from lower atmosphere to upper atmosphere

    Streamer Wave Events Observed in Solar Cycle 23

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    In this paper we conduct a data survey searching for well-defined streamer wave events observed by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on-board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) throughout Solar Cycle 23. As a result, 8 candidate events are found and presented here. We compare different events and find that in most of them the driving CMEs ejecta are characterized by a high speed and a wide angular span, and the CME-streamer interactions occur generally along the flank of the streamer structure at an altitude no higher than the bottom of the field of view of LASCO C2. In addition, all front-side CMEs have accompanying flares. These common observational features shed light on the excitation conditions of streamer wave events. We also conduct a further analysis on one specific streamer wave event on 5 June 2003. The heliocentric distances of 4 wave troughs/crests at various exposure times are determined; they are then used to deduce the wave properties like period, wavelength, and phase speeds. It is found that both the period and wavelength increase gradually with the wave propagation along the streamer plasma sheet, and the phase speed of the preceding wave is generally faster than that of the trailing ones. The associated coronal seismological study yields the radial profiles of the Alfv\'en speed and magnetic field strength in the region surrounding the streamer plasma sheet. Both quantities show a general declining trend with time. This is interpreted as an observational manifestation of the recovering process of the CME-disturbed corona. It is also found that the Alfv\'enic critical point is at about 10 R⊙_\odot where the flow speed, which equals the Alfv\'en speed, is ∼\sim 200 km s−1^{-1}
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