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Accurate detection of moving targets via random sensor arrays and Kerdock codes
The detection and parameter estimation of moving targets is one of the most
important tasks in radar. Arrays of randomly distributed antennas have been
popular for this purpose for about half a century. Yet, surprisingly little
rigorous mathematical theory exists for random arrays that addresses
fundamental question such as how many targets can be recovered, at what
resolution, at which noise level, and with which algorithm. In a different line
of research in radar, mathematicians and engineers have invested significant
effort into the design of radar transmission waveforms which satisfy various
desirable properties. In this paper we bring these two seemingly unrelated
areas together. Using tools from compressive sensing we derive a theoretical
framework for the recovery of targets in the azimuth-range-Doppler domain via
random antennas arrays. In one manifestation of our theory we use Kerdock codes
as transmission waveforms and exploit some of their peculiar properties in our
analysis. Our paper provides two main contributions: (i) We derive the first
rigorous mathematical theory for the detection of moving targets using random
sensor arrays. (ii) The transmitted waveforms satisfy a variety of properties
that are very desirable and important from a practical viewpoint. Thus our
approach does not just lead to useful theoretical insights, but is also of
practical importance. Various extensions of our results are derived and
numerical simulations confirming our theory are presented
3-Factor-criticality in double domination edge critical graphs
A vertex subset of a graph is a double dominating set of if
for each vertex of , where is the set of the
vertex and vertices adjacent to . The double domination number of ,
denoted by , is the cardinality of a smallest double
dominating set of . A graph is said to be double domination edge
critical if for any edge . A double domination edge critical graph with is called --critical. A graph is
-factor-critical if has a perfect matching for each set of
vertices in . In this paper we show that is 3-factor-critical if is
a 3-connected claw-free --critical graph of odd order
with minimum degree at least 4 except a family of graphs.Comment: 14 page
Studies on Escherichia Coli Cell Division: Overexpression, Purification, and Quantitative Determination offtsA Protein.
FtsA is an essential cell division protein which is synthesized in minute amounts in Escherichia coli. To study the effects of overexpressing ftsA on the phenotype of E. coli cells, DNA fragments encoding the ftsA gene were subcloned downstream of a lac or a tac promoter in two plasmids. High-level expression of the ftsA gene from these promoters inhibited normal cell septation and caused the cells to become long, nonseptate filaments. Continued overexpression of ftsA resulted in the filaments developing spherical bulges up to 4 um in diameter. It is suggested that these bulges may emanate from septation sites because they were evenly spaced in relation to one another and to the cell poles. Observations of thin sections by electron microscopy demonstrated that these bulges contained small electron dense regions and large electron-lucent plate-like inclusions. A finding that the bulging filamentous cells contain more hexosamine per mass than control cells suggests that abnormal peptidoglycan synthesis might be occurring. FtsA protein was isolated from ftsA-overexpressing cells for the purpose of raising monoclonal antibodies. Mice were immunized with an FtsA fraction and their spleen cells were fused to Sp2/0-AG14 mouse myeloma cells. Hybrid cells were screened and two clones were positively identified as FtsA monoclonal antibody producers by enzyme-linked immunosorbant assays (ELISA) and Western blotting. The isolation of FtsA monoclonal antibodies provided a way to determine the average number of FtsA molecules per cell, that was between 50 and 200. In contrast, the concentration of FtsA normalized to total cell protein was constant over a wide range of growth rates. This finding supports the hypothesis of FtsA protein, being a stoichiometric component in septation
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