Operational transconductance amplifier and capacitor (OTA-C) filters have outstood among different types of filter due to high frequency and low power capabilities in the main stream digital CMOS technology. They have been widely used in computer hard disk drive (HDD) and wireless communication transceivers. OTA-C filters based on cascade and passive ladder simulation are well-known. However, m...

Background: Cigarette butts have been shown to release numerous kinds of chemicals such as heavy metals in water and may be a continual source of aquatic environments contamination after discarding. The objective of the present study was to determine the concentration of Cd and Pb in cigarette filters of different Iranian and non-Iranian brands in smoked and non-smoked samples. Methods: Ten d...

We have recently shown that q-gram filters based on gapped q-grams instead of the usual contiguous q-grams can provide orders of magnitude faster and/or more efficient filtering for the Hamming distance. In this paper, we extend the results for the Levenshtein distance, which is more problematic for gapped q-grams because an insertion or deletion in a gap affects a q-gram while a replacement do...

Within the last two decades a small group of researchers has built a useful, nontrivial theory of nonlinear signal processing around the median-related filters known as rank-order filters, order-statistic filters, weighted median filters, and stack filters. This required significant effort to overcome the bias, both in education and research, toward linear theory, which has been dominant since ...

data envelopment analysis (dea) technique now widely use for efficiency evaluation of a set of decision making units (dmus). as regards of the necessity for ranking efficient units different dea models presented each of which has advantages and rank efficient units from special aspects. note that all the existing ranking models have disadvantages, as well and there is not a model in which all t...

we develop a theory of stratified $lm$-filters which generalizes the theory of stratified $l$-filters. our stratification condition explicitly depends on a suitable mapping between the lattices $l$ and $m$. if $l$ and $m$ are identical and the mapping is the identity mapping, then we obtain the theory of stratified $l$-filters. based on the stratified $lm$-filters, a general theory of lattice-v...

Nonlinear filtering based on the Volterra series expansion is a powerful universal tool in signal processing. Due to the problem of increased complexity for higher orders and filter lengths, approximations up to third order nonlinearities using linear FIR-filters and multipliers have been developed earlier, called Multi Memory Decomposition (MMD). In our paper we go a step further in this appro...