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Turbo-Detected Unequal Error Protection Irregular Convolutional Codes Designed for the Wideband Advanced Multirate Speech Codec
Abstract—since the different bits of multimedia information, such as speech and video, have different error sensitivity, efficient unequalprotection channel coding schemes have to be used to ensure that the perceptually more important bits benefit from more powerful protection. Furthermore, in the context of turbo detection the channel codes should also match the characteristics of the channel for the sake of attaining a good convergence performance. In this paper, we address this design dilemma by using irregular convolutional codes (IRCCs) which constitute a family of different-rate subcodes. we benefit from the high design flexibility of IRCCs and hence excellent convergence properties are maintained while having unequal error protection capabilities matched to the requirements of the source. An EXIT chart based design procedure is proposed and used in the context of protecting the different-sensitivity speech bits of the wideband AMR speech codec. As a benefit, the unequalprotection system using IRCCs exhibits an SNR advantage of about 0.4dB over the equal-protection system employing regular convolutional codes, when communicating over a Gaussian channel
Ion-beam-assisted fabrication and manipulation of metallic nanowires
Metallic nanowires (NWs) are the key performers for future micro/nanodevices. The controlled manoeuvring and integration of such nanoscale entities are essential requirements. Presented is a discussion of a fabrication approach that combines chemical etching and ion beam milling to fabricate metallic NWs. The shape modification of the metallic NWs using ion beam irradiation (bending towards the ion beam side) is investigated. The bending effect of the NWs is observed to be instantaneous and permanent. The ion beam-assisted shape manoeuvre of the metallic structures is studied in the light of ion-induced vacancy formation and reconfiguration of the damaged layers. The manipulation method can be used for fabricating structures of desired shapes and aligning structures at a large scale. The controlled bending method of the metallic NWs also provides an understanding of the strain formation process in nanoscale metals
Supergravity Solutions for Harmonic, Static and Flux S-Branes
We seek S-brane solutions in D=11 supergravity which can be characterized by
a harmonic function H on the flat transverse space. It turns out that the
Einstein's equations force H to be a linear function of the transverse
coordinates. The codimension one H=0 hyperplane can be spacelike, timelike or
null and the spacelike case reduces to the previously obtained SM2 or SM5 brane
solutions. We then consider static S-brane configurations having smeared
timelike directions where the transverse Lorentzian symmetry group is broken
down to its maximal orthogonal subgroup. Assuming that the metric functions
depend on a radial spatial coordinate, we construct explicit solutions in D=11
supergravity which are non-supersymmetric and asymptotically flat. Finally, we
obtain spacelike fluxbrane backgrounds which have timelike electric or magnetic
fluxlines extending from past to future infinity.Comment: 22 pages, v2: references adde
Chemical Instability of the Cobalt Oxyhydrate Superconductor under Ambient Conditions
The layered sodium cobalt oxyhydrate superconductor Na0.3CoO2*1.4H2O is shown
through X-ray diffraction and thermogravimetric studies to be one of a series
of hydrated phases of Na0.3CoO2. Further, it is shown that the material is
exceptionally sensitive to both temperature and humidity near ambient
conditions, easily dehydrating to a non-superconducting lower hydrate. The
observation of this stable lower hydrate with c=13.8 angstroms implies that the
superconductivity turns on in this system between CoO2 layer spacings of 6.9
and 9.9 angstroms at nominally constant chemical doping.Comment: 10 pages and 4 figure
ОСОБЕННОСТИ РАЗВИТИЯ МОБИЛЬНОГО ИНТЕРНЕТ-СМИ В КИТАЕ
Mobile Internet repeats the features of the traditional Internet and is becoming increasingly popular, due to the rapid growth of the mobile audience of online media, as well as mobile TV. Studies of Chinese experts noted great prospects for further development of mobile TV. The main feature of mobile TV is the ability to go in and watch TV anywhere, at any time, a wide range of programs in a mobile application, does not load the memory of mobile devices.Мобильный Интернет повторяет характерные черты традиционного Интернета и приобретает все большую популярность, что обусловлено бурным ростом аудитории мобильного интернет-СМИ, а также мобильного телевидения. Исследования китайских специалистов отмечают широкие перспективы для дальнейшего развития мобильного телевидения. Главная особенность мобильного телевидения - пользователь может зайти и посмотреть ТВ в любой точке в любое время, широкий выбор программ в мобильном приложении не загружает память мобильных устройств
Regular S-Brane Backgrounds
We construct time-dependent S-brane solutions to the supergravity field
equations in various dimensions which (unlike most such geometries) do not
contain curvature singularities. The configurations we consider are less
symmetric than are earlier solutions, with our simplest solution being obtained
by a simple analytical continuation of the Kerr geometry. We discuss in detail
the global structure and properties of this background. We then generalize it
to higher dimensions and to include more complicated field configurations -
like non vanishing scalars and antisymmetric tensor gauge potentials - by the
usual artifice of applying duality symmetries.Comment: 22 pages, 3 figures. Typos in eq.(2.6) correcte
Strominger--Yau--Zaslow geometry, Affine Spheres and Painlev\'e III
We give a gauge invariant characterisation of the elliptic affine sphere
equation and the closely related Tzitz\'eica equation as reductions of real
forms of SL(3, \C) anti--self--dual Yang--Mills equations by two
translations, or equivalently as a special case of the Hitchin equation.
We use the Loftin--Yau--Zaslow construction to give an explicit expression
for a six--real dimensional semi--flat Calabi--Yau metric in terms of a
solution to the affine-sphere equation and show how a subclass of such metrics
arises from 3rd Painlev\'e transcendents.Comment: 38 pages. Final version. To appear in Communications in Mathematical
Physic
Second Solid Cancers After Allogeneic Hematopoietic-Cell Transplantation Using Busulfan-Cyclophosphamide Conditioning
Evidence for particle-hole excitations in the triaxial strongly-deformed well of ^{163}Tm
Two interacting, strongly-deformed triaxial (TSD) bands have been identified
in the Z = 69 nucleus ^{163}Tm. This is the first time that interacting TSD
bands have been observed in an element other than the Z = 71 Lu nuclei, where
wobbling bands have been previously identified. The observed TSD bands in
^{163}Tm appear to be associated with particle-hole excitations, rather than
wobbling. Tilted-Axis Cranking (TAC) calculations reproduce all experimental
observables of these bands reasonably well and also provide an explanation for
the presence of wobbling bands in the Lu nuclei, and their absence in the Tm
isotopes.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure
Hyperbolic Space Cosmologies
We present a systematic study of accelerating cosmologies obtained from
M/string theory compactifications of hyperbolic spaces with time-varying
volume. A set of vacuum solutions where the internal space is a product of
hyperbolic manifolds is found to give qualitatively the same accelerating
four-dimensional FLRW universe behavior as a single hyperbolic space. We also
examine the possibility that our universe is a hyperbolic space and provide
exact Milne type solutions, as well as intersecting S-brane solutions. When
both the usual 4D spacetime and the m-dimensional internal space are
hyperbolic, we find eternally accelerating cosmologies for , with and
without form field backgrounds. In particular, the effective potential for a
magnetic field background in the large 3 dimensions is positive definite with a
local minimum and thus enhances the eternally accelerating expansion.Comment: 33 pages, 2 figures; v2 refs added; v3 minor change in text, JHEP
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