Benefiting from the high spectrum efficiency and power efficiency, 6PolSK-QPSK (6-ary polarization-shift keying quadrature phase-shift keying) is a promising modulation format in coherent optical communication. We proposed a novel structure to generate the 6PolSK-QPSK with two dual-drive MZMs. Simulation results show that the proposed structure can generate 6PolSK-QPSK effectively and the perfo...

We solve the phase-field equations in two dimensions to simulate crystal growth in the low undercooling regime. The novelty is the use of a fast solver for the free space heat equation to compute the thermal field. This solver is based on the efficient direct evaluation of the integral representation of the solution to the constant coefficient, free space heat equation with a smooth source term...

This paper deals with the estimation of glucose levels in ICU patients by the application of statistical filter theory to the data provided by a commercial continuous glucose monitoring system using a microdialysis sensor. Kalman and particle filtering are applied to simple models of the glucose dynamics. The particle filter enables the joint filtering and calibration of the sensor. The results...

Constraint-aggregation methods are used in engineering optimization problems to approximately impose a bound on a quantity of interest in a differentiable manner. In this paper, we present strategies to adaptively solve aggregation-constrained problems. These adaptive techniques achieve a tighter bound approximation while also reducing the computational cost of optimization. We focus on two agg...

UNLABELLED Four premolar extractions is a successful protocol to treat Class I malocclusion, but it is a less efficient way when compared with other Class II treatment protocols. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of anteroposterior discrepancy on the success of four premolar extractions protocol. For that, treatment efficiency of Class I and complete Class II...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To evaluate outcomes of an intervention designed to promote sleep and modify fatigue after adjuvant breast cancer chemotherapy. DESIGN Prospective, repeated measures, quasi-experimental, feasibility study. SETTING Midwestern urban oncology clinics. SAMPLE 21 female participants, ages 43-66 years (meanX = 55.3) with stage I or II breast cancer status post four cycles of ...

an experiment was conducted at the research farm of the faculty of agriculture, university of tabriz, iran in 2012 to study the effect of intercropping of chickpea and dragon’s head on yield, yield components and morphological traits of dragon’s head as affected by four weed management time. the experiment was laid out in rcb design with three replications. intercropping patterns included; a1, ...