Blind nysgjerrighet

Blind Equalization via Blind Source Separation Techniques

This paper addresses the application of blind source separation (BSS) algorithms to the problem of blind equalization (BE) in a frequency selective multiuser environment. Compared with other algorithms that exploit the structural properties of the channel or data matrix, our approaches are insensitive to channel order estimation, robust to ill-conditioned channels and able to choose the \best" ...

Blind and semi-blind source separation

Attachment Styles and Self-Efficacy in Blind and Non-blind Female High School Students

Objective: The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between attachment styles and self-efficacy in blind and non-blind female high school students in Tehran. Methods: The statistical population consisted of all female students studying in grades one or two in Tehran girl’s high schools, in the academic year 2014. The study design was causal-comparative, conducted on 120 ...

Blind Spot

In monocular viewing there is a region in the peripheral visual field that is blind due to the absence of photoreceptors at the site where the optic nerve exits the eye. This region, like certain other blind spots, nonetheless appears filled in (Walls 1954). Ramachandran (1992a,b) has recently reported several novel demonstrations of filling-in at the blind spot. In this essay we critically ree...

Blind Flight

Fritz Peters is probably best known for his two enchanting books about Gurdjieff, the salty seer who brought consolation to Katherine Mansfield. He also wrote a fine first novel about the progress of a young veteran through mental hospital. Now he has returned to the theme with a cool, brilliant account of the self-rehabilitation of a middle-class American lady, Ellen Bradshaw, after an unsatis...