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Orthogonal Filters And The Implications Of Wrapping On Discrete Wavelet Transforms, Sarah K. Bleiler

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Discrete wavelet transforms have many applications, including those in image compression and edge detection. Transforms constructed using orthogonal filters are extremely useful in that they can easily be inverted as well as coded. We review the major properties of three well-known orthogonal filters, namely, the Haar, Daubechies, and Coiflet filters. Subsequently, we analyze the Fourier series that corresponds to each of those filters and recall some important results about the smoothness of the modulus of those Fourier series. We consider a specialized case in which the length of the discrete wavelet transform is not much longer than the length of …

Impact Of Offshore Outsourcing On Competitive Advantage Of U.S. Multinational Corporations, Yoram Benit

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

Offshore outsourcing became a common business practice by most U.S. and Western businesses after the Internet became viable. It is expected that by 2015 the U.S. market will outsource 3.3 million employment opportunities and will pay an estimated $136 billion in salaries to Asian countries (Hemphill, 2004). Outsourcing became a necessity for corporations to reduce cost and maintain competitiveness in the marketplace, but its effectiveness in achieving superior performance and competitive advantage needs to be explored.

The relationship among offshore outsourcing, market freedom, and competitive advantage is an important issue for multinational corporations to conduct business and gain competitive advantage. …

Khoule, Manadou, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

INTERVIEWER: Karima Zerrou, Mark Naison

INTERVIEWEE: Manadou Khoule (aka DJ Khoule)

SUMMARY BY: Patrick O’Donnell

Note: This interview was originally conducted in French and translated into English.

Born in Dakar, Senegal, Manadou Khoule (aka DJ Khoule) came to the United States in 2000, when he was 20 years old. At the time that he emigrated, he was the best DJ in Senegal. Most of his influences were Western hip-hop, especially the work of Tupac Shakur. He got his first set of turntables when he was 15 years old—they were given to him by a local community center. He does not …

Dioup, Mouhamadou, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Dioup is a Senegalese citizen who came to the United States when he was twenty years old. Dioup speaks briefly about what motivated his decision to come to the United States as opposed to France. According to Dioup, the benefit of going to France is of course the shared language. Since Senegal is a francophone country, it wouldn’t have been much of a culture shock for him to relocate o France. However, to things discouraged a move to France. The first is the large degree of discrimination and racial harassment within the country. The second is their music scene. Dioup …

Hardware Architectures And Implementations For Associative Memories : The Building Blocks Of Hierarchically Distributed Memories, Changjian Gao

Dissertations and Theses

During the past several decades, the semiconductor industry has grown into a global industry with revenues around $300 billion. Intel no longer relies on only transistor scaling for higher CPU performance, but instead, focuses more on multiple cores on a single die. It has been projected that in 2016 most CMOS circuits will be manufactured with 22 nm process. The CMOS circuits will have a large number of defects. Especially when the transistor goes below sub-micron, the original deterministic circuits will start having probabilistic characteristics. Hence, it would be challenging to map traditional computational models onto probabilistic circuits, suggesting a …

The Ticker, November 17, 2008

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 033, Number 13, November 17, 2008, Grand Valley State University

2008-2009, Volume 33

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Ccu Newsletter, November 17, 2008, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

Coastal Carolina University's weekly on-campus newsletter.

Spartan Daily, November 17, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 42

Is Bioethics A Profession?, Craig M. Klugman Ph.D.

Journal of Health Ethics

The development of an occupation into a profession is an historical process that concerns power, jurisdiction, social contracts, and economic interests. Sociological theories of professionalization view these developments through perspectives of superior work, pay for performance, historical processes, jurisdictional disputes, struggles of social and economic power, and virtues. This essay explores these theories and examines the field of bioethics through each of these lenses looking at such issues amateur versus professional, education, professional organizations, specialized knowledge, code of ethics, jurisdiction, work sites, work focus, research, socialization, professional autonomy, licensure, legislation, and prestige. Bioethics is seen as falling in the middle …

November 17th 2008, Csusb

Coyote Chronicle (1984-)

No abstract provided.

November 17, 2008, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2000-2009

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

The Chanticleer, 2008-11-17, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes, November 17, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Athletic Council Report
• ASUSU Report
• Retention and First Year Experience Report
• Care-giving Leave Policy
• Medicare Advantage Plan
• Code Revision Committee Report

Scholastic Minutes 11/17/2008, Scholastic Committee

Scholastic Committee

No abstract provided.

Arida: An Arabic Interlanguage Database And Its Applications: A Pilot Study, Anna Feldman, Ghazi Abuhakema, Eileen Fitzpatrick

Department of Linguistics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This paper describes a pilot study in which we collected a small learner corpus of Arabic, developed a tagset for error-annotation of Arabic learner data, tagged the data for error 1, and performed simple Computer-aided Error Analysis (CEA).

Median Crossover Crashes In The Vicinity Of Interchanges On Utah Interstates, Katherine Elaine Winters

Theses and Dissertations

While not accounting for a significant proportion of overall crashes, median crossover crashes in the state of Utah do account for a significant proportion of interstate fatalities. Due to the seriousness of median crossover crashes in the state of Utah, the need exists to evaluate the impact of median crossover crashes in the state, to identify locations where median crossover crashes may be occurring at particularly high rates, and to identify methods to help mitigate these crashes. Previous research has noted that median crossover crash rates appear to increase in the vicinity of interchanges. The purpose of this research, therefore, …

Connecting A Disjointed System: A First Look At Aligning Education In Alaska, G. Williamson Mcdiarmid, Alexandra Hill

ISER Reports

We’ve heard it before, but it’s still true: too many Alaska students don’t have the skills they need to move on to the next stage of education or to get good jobs. Too many drop out of high school, and too few of those who graduate go on to college or other post-secondary education—and among those who do go on to post-secondary education, many don’t graduate within four or even six years. Employers report that young people entering the work world directly after they graduate from high school (or right after they drop out) don’t have the reading, writing, and …

Today - November 17, 2008, Loma Linda University

TODAY

Inside this issue:

-- Spiritual life and wholeness banquet recognizes institutional employees for faith and passion
-- Compassion in Action opens with feature on Afghanistan
-- SPH addresses reform at American Health Care Congress
-- ‘Space aliens’ invade Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital
-- School of Dentistry releases fall quarter dean’s list
-- LLU student take on AHI hospital as mission project
-- LLU trains environmental health professionals from 13 states during Oklahoma conference
-- Thanksgiving road trip features Big Sur, Carmel, and San Francisco
-- Summer research program inspires Inland Empire students to pursue health careers
-- A crisis …

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, November 17, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Athletic Council Report
• ASUSU Report
• Retention and FYE Report
• Caregiving Proposal
• Medicare Advantage Plan
• Code Revision Committee Report
• EPC Items

The Daily Gamecock, Monday, November 17, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

No abstract provided.

Natural Resource News, Vol. 08, No. 2 (November 2008), N/A N/A

Natural Resource News

No abstract provided.

The Icelandic Government's Program With The Imf, Iceland: Office Of The Prime Minister

Documents

No abstract provided.

Primary, Secondary, And Other Credit Extensions Outstanding On Monday, November 17, 2008 By Remaining Term, Federal Reserve System: Bank Discount Window And Payment Risk

Documents

No abstract provided.

Opinion Of The European Central Bank Of 17 November 2008 At The Request Of The Irish Minister For Finance On A Draft Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2008 (Con/2008/69), European Central Bank: Eurosystem

Documents

No abstract provided.

Private Bank Program Q&A, United States: Department Of The Treasury

Documents

No abstract provided.

Rome's Fiscal Stimulus Comes Under Fire, Financial Times

Documents

No abstract provided.

2008 Performance And Accountability Report, United States: Federal Housing Finance Agency (Fhfa)

Documents

Contains the FHFA Report, the FHFB Performance and Accountability Report, and the OFHEO Performance and Accountability Report.

Bank Of Ireland Shares Plummet To 83 Cent, Raidió Teilíf­S Éireann

Documents

No abstract provided.

Fhfa Releases 2008 Performance And Accountability Report, United States: Federal Housing Finance Agency (Fhfa)

Documents

No abstract provided.