Primaries (signal) and multiples (noise) often exhibit different kinematics and amplitudes (i.e., patterns) in time and space. Multidimensional prediction-error filters (PEFs) approximate these patterns to separate noise and signal in a least-squares sense. These filters are time-space variant to handle the nonstationarity of multioffset seismic data. PEFs for the primaries and multiples are es...

Multiple reflections contain subsurface reflectivity information which often complements that found in primary reflections. Previous attempts to combine the additional information by summing prestack images of the primaries and multiples have generally failed because of crosstalk leakage between the images. We present a general linear least-squares inversion method, Least-Squares Joint Imaging ...

Receiver-side water-column multiples acquired with ocean-bottom seismic sensors can be used for elastic imaging of the subsurface, which can provide additional information relative to more conventional acoustic imaging. These multiples can be separated from primaries contained in ocean-bottom seismic data using techniques such as up/down decomposition. In elastic imaging, the down-going wavefie...

Algebraic attacks on LFSR-based stream ciphers recover the secret key by solving an overdefined system of multivariate algebraic equations. They exploit multivariate relations involving key bits and output bits and become very efficient if such relations of low degrees may be found. Low degree relations have been shown to exist for several well known constructions of stream ciphers immune to al...

Orbifold techniques are used to study bosonic, type II and heterotic strings in Rindler space at integer multiples N of the Rindler temperature, and near a black hole horizon at integer multiples of the Hawking temperature, extending earlier results of Dabholkar. It is argued that a Hagedorn transition occurs nears the horizon for all N > 1.

Abstract Illustrated by a problem on paint pots that is easy to understand but hard solve, we investigate whether particular monoids have the property of common right multiples. As one result characterize generalized braid represented undirected graphs, being subclass Artin–Tits monoids. Stated in other words, which graphs old Garside stating multiples, generalizes. This characterization also f...

Multiples can be suppressed in the angle-domain image space after migration. For a given velocity model, primaries and multiples have different angle-domain moveout and, therefore, can be separated using techniques similar to the ones employed in the data space prior to migration. We use Radon transforms in the image space to discriminate between primaries and multiples and employ accurate func...

Imagine placing a receiver at any location in the Earth and recording the response at that location to sources on the surface. In such a world, we could place receivers around our reservoir to better image the reservoir and understand its properties. Realistically, this is not a feasible approach for understanding the subsurface. Here, we present an alternative and realizable approach to obtain...

BACKGROUND The relationship between congenital hypothyroidism (CH) and multiple pregnancy has not been fully studied in Japan. METHODS Complete nationwide data of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Japan from 2005 to 2009 presented by the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, which include information on CH and birth defects were used for analyses. Diseases were reclassified acco...