Finding peace with pencil

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Parallel VLSI matrix pencil algorithm for high resolution direction finding

In this paper, we consider algorithms to find the directions of arrival (DOA’s) of multiple signals from measurements on an array of antenna doublets (ESPRIT method), and their parallel implementation in VLSI. In particular, we look for algorithms that allow large scale pipelining and use only robust, unitary transformations. The main problem is to find the generalized Schur decomposition (GSD)...

Finding peace and joy in the practice of medicine.

Although they are healers, physicians are not themselves immune from "secondary stress." In fact, they may be more susceptible to it because they tend not to acknowledge the fact that it exists. In this article, the author, a hospice physician who is a former nurse, explains her personal strategy for combating secondary stress: increased emphasis on maintaining a healthy personal spirituality. ...

Violence , Peace , and Peace Research

Solving the Quartic with a Pencil

One might say that this formula allows one to solve the quadratic with a pencil. There is an analogous formula for the general quartic equation, ax+ bx + cx + dx+ e = 0. If you just have to know the formula or one way to derive it and don’t care about anything else, you may just skip to the last section of this paper. However, there is a mathematical notion of a pencil, which is rather cool and...