Structural analysis of ultra-high speed aircraft structural components

The buckling characteristics of a hypersonic beaded skin panel were investigated under pure compression with boundary conditions similar to those found in a wing mounted condition. The primary phases of analysis reported include: (1) experimental testing of the panel to failure; (2) finite element structural analysis of the beaded panel with the computer program NASTRAN; and (3) summary of the semiclassical buckling equations for the beaded panel under purely compressive loads. A comparison of each of the analysis methods is also included

Write Channel Model for Bit-Patterned Media Recording

We propose a new write channel model for bit-patterned media recording that reflects the data dependence of write synchronization errors. It is shown that this model accommodates both substitution-like errors and insertion-deletion errors whose statistics are determined by an underlying channel state process. We study information theoretic properties of the write channel model, including the capacity, symmetric information rate, Markov-1 rate and the zero-error capacity.Comment: 11 pages, 12 figures, journa

Gaussian Belief Propagation Based Multiuser Detection

In this work, we present a novel construction for solving the linear multiuser detection problem using the Gaussian Belief Propagation algorithm. Our algorithm yields an efficient, iterative and distributed implementation of the MMSE detector. We compare our algorithm's performance to a recent result and show an improved memory consumption, reduced computation steps and a reduction in the number of sent messages. We prove that recent work by Montanari et al. is an instance of our general algorithm, providing new convergence results for both algorithms.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figures, appeared in the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto, July 200

Silent Growth of Comparative Negligence in Common Law Court

The common law view of contributory negligence theoretically still obtains in most jurisdictions. Thus, if the plaintiff\u27s negligence proximately contributes to his resulting injury or damage, he is barred entirely from recovery. But this rule is honored in the breach in a growing number of jurisdictions that theoretically do not accept the doctrine of comparative negligence