High speed Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) systems transmit signals that overlap in spectrum with the bands used for radio communications. AM broadcast stations and radio amateur transmitters result into electromagnetic interference impairing the DSL-receiver. For Discrete Multitone (DMT) systems, windowing, in combination with Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) cancellation has been proposed to ...

Abstract. In reservoir simulations, nearwell regions usually require finer space and time scales compared with the remaining of the reservoir domain. We present a domain decomposition algorithm for a two phase Darcy flow model coupling nearwell regions locally refined in space and time with a coarser reservoir discretization. The algorithm is based on an optimized Schwarz method using a full ov...

This work describes a new and different path to create a wavelet transform that can match a specified discrete-time signal. Called Spikelet, it is designed and optimized to spike and overlap pattern recognition in the digitalized signal that comes from H1, a motion-sensitive neuron of the fly’s visual system. The technique proposed here and the associated algorithm, implemented in real time usi...

We present a new approach for determining spatially optimized operators that can be used for lattice spectroscopy of excited hadrons. Jacobi smeared quark sources with different widths are combined to construct hadron operators with different spatial wave functions. We use the variational method to determine those linear combinations of operators that have optimal overlap with ground and excite...

Correlation filters (CFs) are well established and useful tools for a variety of tasks in signal processing and pattern recognition, including automatic target recognition and tracking, biometrics, landmark detection, and human action recognition. Traditionally, CFs have been designed and implemented efficiently in the frequency domain using the discrete Fourier transform (DFT). However, the el...

We explore the spectral dependence of fluorescence enhancement and the associated lifetime modification of fluorescent molecules coupled to single metal nanoparticles. Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy and single-particle dark-field spectroscopy are combined to correlate the dependence of fluorescence lifetime reduction on the spectral overlap between the fluorescence emission and the lo...

A weighted parallel factor analysis (W-PARAFAC) model is applied to excitation-emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence spectra of carbamate pesticides to aid with calibration in the presence of Raman scattering. Traditional PARAFAC inefficiently models the Raman scattering, resulting in prediction and calibration errors when a significant background is present. Four different weighting strategies we...

For an FPGA-based heterogeneous multicore platform, we present the design methodology to reduce the total processing time considering data-transfer. The reconfigurability of recent FPGAs with hard CPU cores allows us to realize a single-chip heterogeneous processor optimized for a given application. The major problem in designing such heterogeneous processors is data-transfer between CPU cores ...

Optimized geometries and adsorption energies obtained from non-local density functional calculations are presented for the adsorption of acetylene and ethylene on Ni(lll). Two cluster models, Ni4 and Nil4, are used. The best adsorption modes are #bridging and di-cr for acetylene and ethylene, respectively. In these orientations the overlap between the adsorbate frontier orbitals and the metal c...