A method is developed to determine the fiber strength requirements for the undersea lightguide cable. This method utilizes the theories involved in fiber proof testing, undersea cable dynamics, and nonlinear tensile b...
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A method is developed to determine the fiber strength requirements for the undersea lightguide cable. This method utilizes the theories involved in fiber proof testing, undersea cable dynamics, and nonlinear tensile behavior of cable. The method is illustrated with a sample cable currently being developed for the transatlantic system. This method provides great flexibility in designing undersea lightguide cable. It can be applied to justify a new cable design at an early stage or to select proper fiber proof-test levels for an existing cable under different operating conditions, i.e., deeper ocean, worse sea state, or faster recovery.
The human ear canal can become deformed when the mouth opens and closes, changing the sound field in the external auditory canal. Thus, measuring the mandibular movement trajectory may provide a reference for identify...
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This paper develops a motor-driven massage artificial electro-mechanical manipulator system with intelligent biomedical sensing-monitoring capabilities and constructs the path of massage process by using CCd image pro...
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In this study, the human visual field test technology is established by using an optoelectrical system consisting of a translucent ellipsoid, an area light source, and a landscape scene with an indicator. during the t...
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This paper describes an application of agent-based modeling to investigate the effect of a distance-based transaction cost on trade. Long-distance trade is rapidly increasing, but may ultimately be constrained by our ...
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This paper describes an application of agent-based modeling to investigate the effect of a distance-based transaction cost on trade. Long-distance trade is rapidly increasing, but may ultimately be constrained by our ability to move material goods between sellers and buyers. Unlike information exchange, trade in material goods is dependent on the price of oil and vulnerable to future scarcities of oil. In addition, there are growing concerns about greenhouse gas emissions from long-distance transportation. Our purpose in this study is to take the first step in understanding the impact of a distance constraint on free global trade using a simple artificial economy. We use the perspective of agent-based computational economics to model two different scenarios of random initial allocations of goods among traders, and investigate the response of the economy as a distance-based transaction cost is applied. We show that a geographically skewed initial allocation of goods performs poorly, while a more uniform initial distribution responds in a highly resilient way as the transaction cost is varied. Underlying this resilience is the emergence of a stable trade network that has some of the properties of scale-free networks.
The author describes how his two decades of experience in corporate planning and three in professional journal editing suggest a correlation of technological innovation clusters, corporate planning and technological f...
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The author describes how his two decades of experience in corporate planning and three in professional journal editing suggest a correlation of technological innovation clusters, corporate planning and technological forecasting with the well-known 50 to 60 year-long wave cycles, i.e., the knowledge consolidation associated with the upswing phase and the creative destruction/knowledge innovation corresponding to the downswing phase of the 4/sup th/ long wave.
This paper presents a Wave digital Filter (WdF) emulation system suitable for audio applications implemented on a Fieldprogrammable Gate Array (FPGA). The WdF structures are programmed in the reconfigurable FPGA Comp...
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A single-chip implementation of Linear Predictive Coding (LPC)-based feature measurement for speech recognition, called the Feature Extracting digital Signal Processor (FXdSP), has been developed by programming the AT...
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A single-chip implementation of Linear Predictive Coding (LPC)-based feature measurement for speech recognition, called the Feature Extracting digital Signal Processor (FXdSP), has been developed by programming the AT&T dSP20 ™ programmable digital Signal Processor (dSP) and has been verified by both numerical simulation and system use. For identical input, the recognition distance between floating point simulation and the dSP implementation was found to be negligibly small when compared with distances for word matches. The feature-measurement technique is identical to that used in numerical simulations of LPC-based isolated- and connected-word recognition using combinations of dynamic time warping, vector quantization, and hidden Markov modeling. As a result, the FXdSP represents a single-chip common building block for real-time implementation of most speech recognition techniques under investigation at AT&T Bell Laboratories. The FXdSP performs eighth-order LPC analysis on speech received from a standard COdEC. In every frame period (15 ms) it produces a feature vector consisting of the log energy, nine amplitude-normalized autocorrelation coefficients, and nine LPC-based test-pattern coefficients. The feature-measurement program requires 1023 locations of the 1024 available in on-chip program ROM, 211 of 256 available RAM locations, and 75 percent of available real time.
The n-player prisoner's dilemma (Pd) is a useful model of multilevel selection for altruistic traits. It highlights the nonzero-sum interactions necessary for the evolution of altruism as well as the tension betwe...
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The n-player prisoner's dilemma (Pd) is a useful model of multilevel selection for altruistic traits. It highlights the nonzero-sum interactions necessary for the evolution of altruism as well as the tension between individual and group-level selection. The parameters of the n-player Pd can be directly related to the equation due to Price (1970) as well as to a useful alternative selection decomposition. Finally, the n-player Pd emphasizes the expected equilibrium condition of mutual defection in the absence of higher levels of organization and selection.
Reciprocal altruism and inclusive fitness are generally considered alternative mechanisms by which cooperative, altruistic traits may evolve. Here we demonstrate that very general versions of Hamilton's inclusive ...
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Reciprocal altruism and inclusive fitness are generally considered alternative mechanisms by which cooperative, altruistic traits may evolve. Here we demonstrate that very general versions of Hamilton's inclusive fitness rule (developed by Queller) can be applied to traditional reciprocal altruism models such as the iterated prisoner's dilemma. In this way we show that both mechanisms rely fundamentally on the same principle - the positive assortment of helping behaviors. We discuss barriers to this unified view, including phenotype/genotype differences and nonadditive fitness (or utility) functions that are typical of reciprocal altruism models. We then demonstrate how Queller's versions of Hamilton's rule remove these obstacles.
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