The problem of vector quantizer empirical design for noisy channels or for noisy sources is studied. It is shown that the average squared distortion of a vector quantizer designed optimally from observing clean independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) training vectors converges in expectation, as the training set size grows, to the minimum possible mean-squared error obtainable for quan...

We study the kernel and cokernel of the Frobenius map on the p-typical Witt vectors of a commutative ring, not necessarily of characteristic p. We give many equivalent conditions to surjectivity of the Frobenus map on both finite and infinite length Witt vectors. In particular, surjectivity on finite Witt vectors turns out to be stable under certain integral extensions; this provides a clean fo...

Hidden Markov modeling of speech waveforms is studied and applied to speech recognition of clean and noisy signals. Signal vectors in each state are assumed Gaussian with zero mean and a Toeplitz covariance matrix. This model allows short signal vectors and thus is useful for speech signals with rapidly changing second order statistics. It can also be straightforwardly adapted to noisy signals ...

in this paper, we introduce the new notion of n-f-clean rings as a generalization of f-clean rings. next, we investigate some properties of such rings. we prove that mn(r) is n-f-clean for any n-f-clean ring r. we also, get a condition under which the de nitions of n-cleanness and n-f-cleanness are equivalent.

This study investigates the causal relationship between clean and non-clean energy consumption and economic growth in Brazil over the period of 1980–2009. Clean energy consumption at aggregated level of total renewable energy consumption and disaggregated levels of hydroelectric, new renewables, and nuclear energy consumption are tested within a production function framework. A cointegration te...

Probabilistic forecasts of wind vectors are becoming critical as interest grows in wind as a clean and renewable source of energy, in addition to a wide range of other uses, from aviation to recreational boating. Unlike other common forecasting problems, which deal with univariate quantities, statistical approaches to wind vector forecasting must be based on bivariate distributions. The prevail...