Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Discipline
Keyword
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type

Articles 2491 - 2520 of 10893

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Preface, Gennady Fridman, Jeremy Levesley, Ivan Tyukin, Donald C. Wunsch Jun 2015

Preface, Gennady Fridman, Jeremy Levesley, Ivan Tyukin, Donald C. Wunsch

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In August 2014 a conference on “Model reduction across disciplines” was held in Leicester, UK. As a scientific field, model reduction is an important part of mathematical modelling and data analysis with very wide areas of applications. The main scientific goal of the conference was to facilitate interdisciplinary discussion of model reduction and coarse-graining methodologies in order to reveal their general mathematical nature. This time, however, the conference had an additional personal and more profound mission – it was dedicated to the 60th birthday of Professor Alexander Gorban (albeit with some delay) whose fantastic achievements in applying model reduction techniques …


Missouri S&T Magazine Summer 2015, Missouri S&T Marketing And Communications Department, Miner Alumni Association Jun 2015

Missouri S&T Magazine Summer 2015, Missouri S&T Marketing And Communications Department, Miner Alumni Association

Missouri S&T Magazine

No abstract provided.


Entropy-Based Privacy Against Profiling Of User Mobility, Alicia Rodriguez-Carrion, David Rebollo-Monedero, Jordi Forne, Celeste Campo, Carlos Garcia-Rubio, Javier Parra-Arnau, Sajal K. Das Jun 2015

Entropy-Based Privacy Against Profiling Of User Mobility, Alicia Rodriguez-Carrion, David Rebollo-Monedero, Jordi Forne, Celeste Campo, Carlos Garcia-Rubio, Javier Parra-Arnau, Sajal K. Das

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Location-based services (LBSs) flood mobile phones nowadays, but their use poses an evident privacy risk. The locations accompanying the LBS queries can be exploited by the LBS provider to build the user profile of visited locations, which might disclose sensitive data, such as work or home locations. The classic concept of entropy is widely used to evaluate privacy in these scenarios, where the information is represented as a sequence of independent samples of categorized data. However, since the LBS queries might be sent very frequently, location profiles can be improved by adding temporal dependencies, thus becoming mobility profiles, where location …


Emerging Criticality In The Disordered Three-Color Ashkin-Teller Model, Qiong Zhu, Xin Wan, Rajesh Narayanan, José A. Hoyos, Thomas Vojta Jun 2015

Emerging Criticality In The Disordered Three-Color Ashkin-Teller Model, Qiong Zhu, Xin Wan, Rajesh Narayanan, José A. Hoyos, Thomas Vojta

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We study the effects of quenched disorder on the first-order phase transition in the two-dimensional three-color Ashkin-Teller model by means of large-scale Monte Carlo simulations. We demonstrate that the first-order phase transition is rounded by the disorder and turns into a continuous one. Using a careful finite-size-scaling analysis, we provide strong evidence for the emerging critical behavior of the disordered Ashkin-Teller model to be in the clean two-dimensional Ising universality class, accompanied by universal logarithmic corrections. This agrees with perturbative renormalization-group predictions by Cardy. As a byproduct, we also provide support for the strong-universality scenario for the critical behavior of …


Erratum: Theoretical And Experimental (E,2e) Study Of Electron-Impact Ionization Of Laser-Aligned Mg Atoms [Physical Review A 90, 062707 (2014)], Sadek Amami, Andrew J. Murray, Al Stauffer, Kate Nixon, Gregory Armstrong, James Colgan, Don H. Madison Jun 2015

Erratum: Theoretical And Experimental (E,2e) Study Of Electron-Impact Ionization Of Laser-Aligned Mg Atoms [Physical Review A 90, 062707 (2014)], Sadek Amami, Andrew J. Murray, Al Stauffer, Kate Nixon, Gregory Armstrong, James Colgan, Don H. Madison

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We have recently reported a theoretical and experimental study of electron-impact ionization of laser-aligned magnesium. Results were presented for both ionization of the ground state, as well as for laser-aligned atoms in the 3p state. For ionization from the 3p state, theoretical results were presented using the distorted wave Born (DWBA) and three-body distorted wave (3DW) approximations. Unfortunately, after publication we learned that the theoretical results were incorrect due to one of the arrays in the computer code dimensioned too small. The figures affected by this error are Figs. 3–5 in the original paper. The present Figs. 3–5 …


Understand And Analyzing Learning Objects: A Foundation For Long-Term Substantiality And Use For E-Learning, Hsin-Liang Chen, Joi L. Moore, Weichao Chen Jun 2015

Understand And Analyzing Learning Objects: A Foundation For Long-Term Substantiality And Use For E-Learning, Hsin-Liang Chen, Joi L. Moore, Weichao Chen

University Libraries Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this paper, we investigated the genres of learning objects (LOs) within eight e-learning courses that provide boating safety instruction in the United States. Guided by findings from our literature review, five genres of LOs emerged during the analysis, including interactive and non-interactive graphics, interactive and non-interactive animations, and interactive text feedback. We surveyed the use of each genre of LOs within the courses and found that more non-interactive LOs than interactive LOs were adopted. Also, interactive text feedback was the most popular interactive genre available for seven courses. In our discussion, we explore potential management mechanisms of LOs in …


Impact Of Modified Inlets On Residence Times In Baffled Tanks, Jeremy S. Carlston, Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy Jun 2015

Impact Of Modified Inlets On Residence Times In Baffled Tanks, Jeremy S. Carlston, Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Sharp inlets, although prevalent, tend to reduce mixing efficiency in hydraulic contact tanks by affecting fluid and scalar transport throughout the entire system. Superior inlets are often not an option because of the prohibitive cost of upgrading preexisting tanks. To remedy this, seven inexpensive yet easily implemented attachments to a sharp inlet were tested on a full-scale, baffled, prototypical contact tank. Cumulative residence time distributions of a conservative, passive scalar were obtained for each attachment to assess their performance. A study using computational fluid dynamics of the same tank with the various attachments was then performed to strengthen the empirical …


Recent Advances In Indoor Chemistry, Glenn Morrison Jun 2015

Recent Advances In Indoor Chemistry, Glenn Morrison

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Just as the chemistry creates urban smog and aerosols that influence climate change, chemistry in building air can alter the indoor environment for better or worse. This review focuses on chemical pathways initiated by oxidants that infiltrate from outdoor air and other indoor-sourced reactants and surfaces that make these environments unique chemical reactors. Ozone reacts with fragrance molecules, tobacco smoke residues, and even human skin oils to generate a host of oxidized organic compounds, secondary organic aerosols, and irritants. Nitrous acid is formed on indoor surfaces and is subsequently cleaved by even the relatively dim light indoor. This raises the …


Methods And Systems For Biclustering Algorithm, Donald C. Wunsch, Rui Xu, Sejun Kim May 2015

Methods And Systems For Biclustering Algorithm, Donald C. Wunsch, Rui Xu, Sejun Kim

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Methods and systems for improved unsupervised learning are described. The unsupervised learning can consist of biclustering a data set, e.g., by biclustering subsets of the entire data set. In an example, the biclustering does not include feeding know and proven results into the biclustering methodology or system. A hierarchical approach can be used that feeds proven clusters back into the biclustering methodology or system as the input. Data that does not cluster may be discarded. Thus, a very large unknown data set can be acted on to learn about the data. The system is also amenable to parallelization.


Physical Interpretation Of Radiation And Transfer Characterization Based On The Peec Method, Ying S. Cao, Li (Lijun) Jun Jiang, Albert E. Ruehli May 2015

Physical Interpretation Of Radiation And Transfer Characterization Based On The Peec Method, Ying S. Cao, Li (Lijun) Jun Jiang, Albert E. Ruehli

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The characterization of power radiation and coupling has been an important research subject. The partial element equivalent circuit method (PEEC) is a powerful tool in bridging the electromagnetic modeling together with a circuit solver. Even though PEEC was a convenient tool for many quasi-static applications, in this paper, we propose a new approach for PEEC to calculate the radiated and coupled power from the distributive point of view. Formulations for both radiated and transferred powers are proposed based on a full wave PEEC model. Distributive power can be evaluated with negligible additional computational cost in PEEC implementations. The physical meaning …


Selective Body Biasing For Post-Silicon Tuning Of Sub-Threshold Designs: An Adaptive Filtering Approach, Hui Geng, Jianming Liu, Pei Wen Luo, Liang Chia Cheng, Steven L. Grant May 2015

Selective Body Biasing For Post-Silicon Tuning Of Sub-Threshold Designs: An Adaptive Filtering Approach, Hui Geng, Jianming Liu, Pei Wen Luo, Liang Chia Cheng, Steven L. Grant

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A sub-threshold design could provide a compelling approach to power critical applications. An exponential relationship exists, however, between the delay and the threshold voltage, that makes this design-time timing closure extremely difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. Several previous studies were focused on the technique of body biasing during post-silicon tuning for delay compensation. But they were mostly for super-threshold designs where spatially correlated L eff variation dominates. They cannot be applied directly to sub-threshold designs in which purely random threshold voltage variations dominate. These works also assumed multiple body biasing voltage domains and multiple body biasing voltage levels, which …


K-Nearest Neighbor Classification Over Semantically Secure Encrypted Relational Data, Bharath K. Samanthula, Yousef Elmehdwi, Wei Jiang May 2015

K-Nearest Neighbor Classification Over Semantically Secure Encrypted Relational Data, Bharath K. Samanthula, Yousef Elmehdwi, Wei Jiang

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Data Mining has wide applications in many areas such as banking, medicine, scientific research and among government agencies. Classification is one of the commonly used tasks in data mining applications. For the past decade, due to the rise of various privacy issues, many theoretical and practical solutions to the classification problem have been proposed under different security models. However, with the recent popularity of cloud computing, users now have the opportunity to outsource their data, in encrypted form, as well as the data mining tasks to the cloud. Since the data on the cloud is in encrypted form, existing privacy-preserving …


Kinetic Isotope Effect Of The ¹⁶O+³⁶O₂ And ¹⁸O+³²O₂ Isotope Exchange Reactions: Dominant Role Of Reactive Resonances Revealed By An Accurate Time-Dependent Quantum Wavepacket Study, Zhigang Sun, Dequan Yu, Wenbo Xie, Jiayi Hou, Richard Dawes, Hua Guo May 2015

Kinetic Isotope Effect Of The ¹⁶O+³⁶O₂ And ¹⁸O+³²O₂ Isotope Exchange Reactions: Dominant Role Of Reactive Resonances Revealed By An Accurate Time-Dependent Quantum Wavepacket Study, Zhigang Sun, Dequan Yu, Wenbo Xie, Jiayi Hou, Richard Dawes, Hua Guo

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

The O + O2 isotope exchange reactions play an important role in determining the oxygen isotopic composition of a number of trace gases in the atmosphere, and their temperature dependence and kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) provide important constraints on our understanding of the origin and mechanism of these and other unusual oxygen KIEs important in the atmosphere. This work reports a quantum dynamics study of the title reactions on the newly constructed Dawes-Lolur-Li-Jiang-Guo (DLLJG) potential energy surface (PES). The thermal reaction rate coefficients of both the 18O + 32O2 and 16O + 36O2 reactions obtained using the …


Determining Crustal Structure Beneath Seismic Stations Overlying A Low-Velocity Sedimentary Layer Using Receiver Functions, Youqiang Yu, Jianguo Song, Kelly H. Liu, Stephen S. Gao May 2015

Determining Crustal Structure Beneath Seismic Stations Overlying A Low-Velocity Sedimentary Layer Using Receiver Functions, Youqiang Yu, Jianguo Song, Kelly H. Liu, Stephen S. Gao

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The receiver function (RF) technique has been widely applied to investigate crustal and mantle layered structures using P-to-S converted (Ps) phases from velocity discontinuities. However, the presence of low-velocity (relative to that of the bedrock) sediments can give rise to strong reverberations in the resulting RFs, frequently masking the Ps phases from crustal and mantle boundaries. Such reverberations are caused by P-to-S conversions and their multiples associated with the strong impedance contrast across the bottom of the low-velocity sedimentary layer. Here we propose and test an approach to effectively remove the near-surface reverberations and decipher the Ps phases associated with …


Erratum: "Impact Of Symmetry On The Ferroelectric Properties Of Catio₃ Thin Films" (Applied Physics Letters 106:162904 (2015)), Michael D. Biegalski, Liang Qiao, Yijia Gu, Apurva Mehta, Qian He, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. May 2015

Erratum: "Impact Of Symmetry On The Ferroelectric Properties Of Catio₃ Thin Films" (Applied Physics Letters 106:162904 (2015)), Michael D. Biegalski, Liang Qiao, Yijia Gu, Apurva Mehta, Qian He, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

There is a typo of the space group. All the Pnmb should be Pbnm (or Pnma). So the Glazer notation should be changed to (a-a-c+) for Pbnm space group on page 4 of the article. We have also noticed that the thermodynamic analysis of CaTiO3 thin film is not correct. The films are (001)PC-oriented or (101)-oriented. Therefore, there is no need to rotate the coordinate system (on page 4 of the article). By applying the thin film boundary condition, i.e., ε11 = ε22 = εs, ε …


Origin Of Interfacial Polar Order In Incipient Ferroelectrics, Yijia Gu, Nan Wang, Fei Xue, Long-Qing Chen May 2015

Origin Of Interfacial Polar Order In Incipient Ferroelectrics, Yijia Gu, Nan Wang, Fei Xue, Long-Qing Chen

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

There are ample experimental evidences indicating that the ferroelastic domain walls of incipient ferroelectrics, such as SrTiO3 and CaTiO3, are polar. The emergence of such interfacial polar order at a domain wall is exciting and believed to arise from the coupling between a primary order parameter, such as a strain or an antiferrodistortive (AFD) order parameter, and polarization. There have been several mechanisms proposed to explain the emergence of interfacial polar order, including biquadratic coupling, AFD-antiferroelectric coupling, and flexoelectric coupling. Using CaTiO3 as an example, we demonstrate, using both asymptotic analytics and numerical calculation, that the …


Weak Magnetic Field Accelerates Chromate Removal By Zero-Valent Iron, Pian Feng, Xiaohong Guan, Yuankui Sun, Wonyong Choi, Hejie Qin, Jianmin Wang, Junlian Qiao, Lina Li May 2015

Weak Magnetic Field Accelerates Chromate Removal By Zero-Valent Iron, Pian Feng, Xiaohong Guan, Yuankui Sun, Wonyong Choi, Hejie Qin, Jianmin Wang, Junlian Qiao, Lina Li

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Weak magnetic field (WMF) was employed to improve the removal of Cr(VI) by zero-valent iron (ZVI) for the first time. The removal rate of Cr(VI) was elevated by a factor of 1.12-5.89 due to the application of a WMF, and the WMF-induced improvement was more remarkable at higher Cr(VI) concentration and higher pH. Fe2+ was not detected until Cr(VI) was exhausted, and there was a positive correlation between the WMF-induced promotion factor of Cr(VI) removal rate and that of Fe2+ release rate in the absence of Cr(VI) at pH 4.0-5.5. These phenomena imply that ZVI corrosion with Fe2+ …


Arbitrary Category Classification Of Websites Based On Image Content, Anton Akusok, Yoan Miche, Juha Karhunen, Kaj Mikael Björk, Rui Nian, Amaury Lendasse May 2015

Arbitrary Category Classification Of Websites Based On Image Content, Anton Akusok, Yoan Miche, Juha Karhunen, Kaj Mikael Björk, Rui Nian, Amaury Lendasse

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This Paper Presents a Comprehensive Methodology for General Large-Scale Image-Based Classification Tasks. It Addresses the Big Data Challenge in Arbitrary Image Classification and More Specifically, Filtering of Millions of Websites with Abstract Target Classes and High Levels of Label Noise. Our Approach Uses Local Image Features and their Color Descriptors to Build Image Representations with the Help of a Modified K-Nn Algorithm. Image Representations Are Refined into Image and Website Class Predictions by a Two-Stage Classifier Method Suitable for a Very Large-Scale Real Dataset. a Modification of an Extreme Learning Machine is Found to Be a Suitable Classifier Technique. the …


On Turbulent Mixing In Stably Stratified Wall-Bounded Flows, Farid Karimpour, Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy Apr 2015

On Turbulent Mixing In Stably Stratified Wall-Bounded Flows, Farid Karimpour, Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this paper, we provide an analysis of turbulent mixing in stably stratified wall-bounded flows to highlight a number of important issues such as prediction of the turbulent viscosity, the turbulent diffusivity, and the irreversible flux Richardson number. By invoking the equilibrium assumption between the production rate of the turbulent kinetic energy (P), the dissipation rate of the turbulent kinetic energy (P), and the turbulent potential energy dissipation rate (εPE) as P ≈ ε + εPE and also assuming equilibrium between the buoyancy flux (B) and εPE as -B ≈ εPE, we first propose that the irreversible flux Richardson number …


The Missouri Miner, April 16, 2015 Apr 2015

The Missouri Miner, April 16, 2015

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.


11th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference Abstract Book, Missouri University Of Science And Technology Apr 2015

11th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference Abstract Book, Missouri University Of Science And Technology

Undergraduate Research Conference at Missouri S&T

No abstract provided.


The Missouri Miner, April 2, 2015 Apr 2015

The Missouri Miner, April 2, 2015

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.


Privacy-Aware Access Control For Message Exchange In Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Sushama Karumanchi, Anna Squicciarini, Dan Lin Apr 2015

Privacy-Aware Access Control For Message Exchange In Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Sushama Karumanchi, Anna Squicciarini, Dan Lin

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Vehicular ad hoc networks are a promising and increasingly important paradigm. Their applications range from safety enhancement to mobile entertainment services. However, their deployment requires several security issues to be resolved, particularly, since they rely on insecure wireless communication. In this paper, we propose a cryptographic-based access control framework for vehicles to securely exchange messages in a controlled fashion by integrating moving object modeling techniques with cryptographic policies. To our knowledge, this is the first time a comprehensive framework for access control in VANETs is proposed.


Azimuthal Anisotropy Beneath North Central Africa From Shear Wave Splitting Analyses, Awad A. Lemnifi, Kelly H. Liu, Stephen S. Gao, Cory A. Reed, Ahmed A. Elsheikh, Youqiang Yu, Abdala A. Elmelade Apr 2015

Azimuthal Anisotropy Beneath North Central Africa From Shear Wave Splitting Analyses, Awad A. Lemnifi, Kelly H. Liu, Stephen S. Gao, Cory A. Reed, Ahmed A. Elsheikh, Youqiang Yu, Abdala A. Elmelade

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This study represents the first multistation investigation of azimuthal anisotropy beneath the interior of north central Africa, including Libya and adjacent regions, using shear wave splitting (SWS) analysis. Data used in the study include recently available broadband seismic data obtained from 15 stations managed by the Libyan Center for Remote Sensing and Space Science, and those from five other stations at which data are publicly accessible. A total of 583 pairs of high-quality SWS measurements utilizing the PKS, SKKS, and SKS phases demonstrate primarily N-S fast orientations with an average splitting delay time of approximately 1.2 s. An absence of …


Luminous Red Galaxies In Clusters: Central Occupation, Spatial Distributions And Miscentring, Hanako Hoshino, Alexie Leauthaud, Shun Saito, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Apr 2015

Luminous Red Galaxies In Clusters: Central Occupation, Spatial Distributions And Miscentring, Hanako Hoshino, Alexie Leauthaud, Shun Saito, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Luminous red galaxies (LRG) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey are among the best understood samples of galaxies and are employed in a broad range of cosmological studies. In this paper, we study how LRGs occupy massive haloes via counts in clusters and reveal several unexpected trends. Using the red-sequence Matched-filter Probabilistic Percolation (redMaPPer) cluster catalogue, we derive the central occupation of LRGs as a function richness. We show that clusters contain a significantly lower fraction of central LRGs than predicted from the two-point correlation function. At halo masses of 1014.5 M⊙, we find Ncen = …


Impact Of Symmetry On The Ferroelectric Properties Of Catio₃ Thin Films, Michael D. Biegalski, Liang Qiao, Yijia Gu, Apurva Mehta, Qian He, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Apr 2015

Impact Of Symmetry On The Ferroelectric Properties Of Catio₃ Thin Films, Michael D. Biegalski, Liang Qiao, Yijia Gu, Apurva Mehta, Qian He, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Epitaxial strain is a powerful tool to induce functional properties such as ferroelectricity in thin films of materials that do not possess ferroelectricity in bulk form. In this work, a ferroelectric state was stabilized in thin films of the incipient ferroelectric, CaTiO3, through the careful control of the biaxial strain state and TiO6 octahedral rotations. Detailed structural characterization was carried out by synchrotron x-ray diffraction and scanning transmission electron microscopy. CaTiO3 films grown on La0.18Sr0.82Al0.59Ta0.41O3 (LSAT) and NdGaO3 (NGO) substrates experienced a 1.1% biaxial strain state …


Classical Description Of H(1s) And H* (N=2) For Cross-Section Calculations Relevant To Charge-Exchange Diagnostics, N. D. Cariatore, Sebastian Otranto, Ronald E. Olson Apr 2015

Classical Description Of H(1s) And H* (N=2) For Cross-Section Calculations Relevant To Charge-Exchange Diagnostics, N. D. Cariatore, Sebastian Otranto, Ronald E. Olson

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this work, we introduce a classical trajectory Monte Carlo (CTMC) methodology, specially conceived to provide a more accurate representation of charge-exchange processes between highly charged ions and H(1s) and H* (n=2). These processes are of particular relevance in power fusion reactor programs, for which charge-exchange spectroscopy has become a useful plasma diagnostics tool. To test the methodology, electron-capture reactions from these targets by C6+,N7+, and O8+ are studied at impact energies in the 10-150keV/amu range. State-selective cross sections are contrasted with those predicted by the standard microcanonical formulation of the CTMC method, the CTMC …


Q-Learning Based Dynamic Voltage Scaling For Designs With Graceful Degradation, Yu Guang Chen, Wan Yu Wen, Tao Wang, Yiyu Shi, Shih Chieh Chang Mar 2015

Q-Learning Based Dynamic Voltage Scaling For Designs With Graceful Degradation, Yu Guang Chen, Wan Yu Wen, Tao Wang, Yiyu Shi, Shih Chieh Chang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) has been widely used to suppress power consumption in modern designs. The decision of optimal operating voltage at runtime should consider the variations in workload, process as well as environment. As these variations are hard to predict accurately at design time, various reinforcement learning based DVS schemes have been proposed in the literature. However, none of them can be readily applied to designs with graceful degradation, where timing errors are allowed with bounded probability to trade for further power reduction. In this paper, we propose a Q-learning based DVS scheme dedicated to the designs with graceful …


Low-Complexity Soft-Interference Cancellation Turbo Equalisation For Multi-Input-Multi-Output Systems With Multilevel Modulations, Jingxian Wu, Longbao Wang, Chengshan Xiao Mar 2015

Low-Complexity Soft-Interference Cancellation Turbo Equalisation For Multi-Input-Multi-Output Systems With Multilevel Modulations, Jingxian Wu, Longbao Wang, Chengshan Xiao

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This study presents a low-complexity soft-interference cancellation equalizer (SICE) for the turbo detection of multiple-input-multiple-output systems operating in time dispersive channels. The SICE contains three time-invariant linear filters: a feedforward filter, a causal feedback filter and an anti-causal feedback filter. The feedforward filter is designed to suppress the InterSymbol interference because of channel time dispersion and the multiplexing interference from multiple transmit antennas. The causal (or anti-causal) feedback filter is developed to remove the residual interference caused by the symbols transmitted before (or after) the symbol under detection. The filters are designed by analyzing the statistical properties of soft decisions. …


Total Projectile Electron Loss Cross Sections Of U28+ Ions In Collisions With Gaseous Targets Ranging From Hydrogen To Krypton, G. Weber, M. O. Herdrich, Robert D. Dubois, P. M. Hillenbrand, H. Beyer Mar 2015

Total Projectile Electron Loss Cross Sections Of U28+ Ions In Collisions With Gaseous Targets Ranging From Hydrogen To Krypton, G. Weber, M. O. Herdrich, Robert D. Dubois, P. M. Hillenbrand, H. Beyer

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Beam lifetimes of stored U28+ ions with kinetic energies of 30 and 50 MeV/u, respectively, were measured in the experimental storage ring of the GSI accelerator facility. By using the internal gas target station of the experimental storage ring, it was possible to obtain total projectile electron loss cross sections for collisions with several gaseous targets ranging from hydrogen to krypton from the beam lifetime data. The resulting experimental cross sections are compared to predictions by two theoretical approaches, namely the CTMC method and a combination of the DEPOSIT code and the RICODE program.