Cultural differences of Greeks and Americans

What makes up a culture? “Culture" is a complex term that has many aspects to it, making it difficult to define. I go deeper into the concept of culture as I explore various aspects of Greek culture and how they differ from American culture. By filming a documentary called, Cultural Differences of Greeks and Americans, I have broken the differences into four categories: lifestyle, arts, economy, and food.Thesis (B.?

Ground states and excited states of hypernuclei in Relativistic Mean Field approach

Hypernuclei have been studied within the framework of Relativistic Mean Field theory. The force FSU Gold has been extended to include hyperons. The effective hyperon-nucleon and nucleon-nucleon interactions have been obtained by fitting experimental energies in a number of hypernuclei over a wide range of mass. Calculations successfully describe various features including hyperon separation energy and single particle spectra of single-\Lambda hypernuclei throughout the periodic table. We also extend this formalism to double-\Lambda hypernuclei.Comment: 16 pages,3 figure

Fully Quaternion-Valued Adaptive Beamforming Based on Crossed-Dipole Arrays

Based on crossed-dipole antenna arrays, quaternion-valued data models have been developed for both direction of arrival estimation and beamforming in the past. However, for almost all the models, and especially for adaptive beamforming, the desired signal is still complex-valued as in the quaternion-valued Capon beamformer. Since the complex-valued desired signal only has two components, while there are four components in a quaternion, only two components of the quaternion-valued beamformer output are used and the remaining two are simply discarded, leading to significant redundancy in its implementation. In this work, we consider a quaternion-valued desired signal and develop a fully quaternion-valued Capon beamformer which has a better performance and a much lower complexity. Furthermore, based on this full quaternion model, the robust beamforming problem is also studied in the presence of steering vector errors and a worst-case-based robust beamformer is developed. The performance of the proposed methods is verified by computer simulations

Fully Quaternion-Valued Adaptive Beamforming Based on Crossed-Dipole Arrays

Based on crossed-dipole antenna arrays, quaternion-valued data models have been developed for both direction of arrival estimation and beamforming in the past. However, for almost all the models, and especially for adaptive beamforming, the desired signal is still complex-valued as in the quaternion-valued Capon beamformer. Since the complex-valued desired signal only has two components, while there are four components in a quaternion, only two components of the quaternion-valued beamformer output are used and the remaining two are simply discarded, leading to significant redundancy in its implementation. In this work, we consider a quaternion-valued desired signal and develop a fully quaternion-valued Capon beamformer which has a better performance and a much lower complexity. Furthermore, based on this full quaternion model, the robust beamforming problem is also studied in the presence of steering vector errors and a worst-case-based robust beamformer is developed. The performance of the proposed methods is verified by computer simulations

Direction finding for a mixture of single-transmission and dual-transmission signals

Currently, most of existing research in direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is focused on single signal transmission (SST) based signal. However, to make full use of the degree of freedom provided by the system in the polarisation domain, the dual signal transmission (DST) model has been adopted more and more widely in wireless communications. In this work, a DOA estimation method for a mixture of SST and DST signals (referred to as the mixed signal transmission (MST) model) is proposed. To our best knowledge, this is the first time to study the DOA estimation problem for such an MST model. There are two steps in the proposed method, which deals with the two kinds of signals separately. The performance of the proposed method is compared with the Cramér-Rao Bound (CRB) based on computer simulations

Quantum dense coding in multiparticle entangled states via local measurements

In this paper, we study quantum dense coding between two arbitrarily fixed particles in a (N+2)-particle maximally-entangled states through introducing an auxiliary qubit and carrying out local measurements. It is shown that the transmitted classical information amount through such an entangled quantum channel usually is less than two classical bits. However, the information amount may reach two classical bits of information, and the classical information capacity is independent of the number of the entangled particles in the initial entangled state under certain conditions. The results offer deeper insights to quantum dense coding via quantum channels of multi-particle entangled states.Comment: 3 pages, no figur