For the sake of achieving remarkable superprism effect, we investigate in thin film Fabry-Perot filter which possess drastic change in phase and large group delay around wavelength of peak transmittance. The group delay and spatial dispersion shift are simulated numerically; while the device is fabricated and tested with the maximum spatial separation shift reach to 65μm. We also analyze Gaussi...

—A distribution highly concentrated along the group delay or the instantaneous frequency (IF) is presented. It has been defined by introducing signal with a complex argument in time–frequency (TF) analysis. Realization of a signal with complex argument, using signal with a real argument, is described. The reduced interference realization of the complex argument distribution, in the case of mult...

We propose methods to track natural variations in the characteristics of the vocal-tract system from speech signals. We are especially interested in the cases where these characteristics vary over time, as happens in dynamic sounds such as consonant-vowel transitions. We show that the selection of appropriate analysis segments is crucial in these methods, and we propose a selection based on est...

Delay discounting (DD) procedures are emerging as an important new method for psychotherapy researchers. In this paper a framework for conceptualizing existing, seemingly discrepant, research findings on termination is introduced and new directions for research are described. To illustrate the value of a DD framework, the common psychotherapy problem of premature termination is addressed. First...

The Air Force is pursuing several efficiency initiatives designed to reduce support function costs. One such initiative is an effort to reduce the flow days of items being repaired in the Air Force’s organic depots. Many end items are affected by awaiting parts (AWP) delays, which increase total flow days. The first step in reducing AWP delays is to identify which piece parts are causing the de...

This paper addresses the problem of stability analysis for linear systems with interval timevarying delay. A general form of the delay-fractioning approach is proposed, which not only takes advantage of all possible information on the delay's lower bound, but also exploits further information between the delay's upper and lower bounds. A new Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional (LKF) is constructed a...

Delays that individual vehicles may experience at a signalized intersection are usually subject to large variation due to randomness of traffic arrivals and interruption caused by traffic signal control. While such variation may have important implications for the planning, design and analysis of signal controls, currently there is no analytical model available to quantify it. This paper descri...

This paper proposes an efficient retransmission (EFR) scheme for multi-rate wireless home networks. In EFR, immediate data transmission is provided for infrastructure WLAN without major modification of IEEE 802.11 standard. Furthermore, in order to consider a more realistic wireless home networks, the EFR scheme is enhanced to accommodate the asymmetric traffic model. We propose an analytical m...

In this paper, we consider the problem for singular systems with state delay. We mainly focus on the problems of absolute delay-dependent stability using the Lyapunov function method and give sufficient conditions in terms of linear matrix inequality (LMI). A numerical example is given to illustrate the application of the proposed method. References [1] Izumi Masubuchi, ∞ H control for descript...

We measure group delay and group velocity dispersion of silica colloidal photonic crystals in the near-infrared with white light interferometry. While group delay and group velocity dispersion increase with sample thickness, scattering on sample imperfections is found to counteract this development, resulting in group delays lower than theoretically expected. For thin photonic crystals, group v...