Performance and plasma measurements of the high-specific impulse NASA-173Mv2 Hall thruster were analyzed using a phenomenological performance model that accounts for a partially-ionized plasma containing multiply-charged ions. Between discharge voltages of 300-900 V, the results showed that although the net decrease of efficiency due to multiplycharged ions was only 1.5-3.0%, the effects of mul...

A simple method which does not require calibration with a reference liquid for the determination of attenuation and density of a fluid contained within a thin-walled cell is demonstrated. The method relies on temporally filtering the impulse response of the system to partially deconvolve the transfer function associated with the wall. Experiments are conducted on cells of differing material con...

We study theoretically how we can determine the neutron density distributions of unstable nuclei from proton elastic scattering. We apply the relativistic impulse model to study the sensitivities of the observables to the density distributions which are expressed in Woods-Saxon form. We find that the both radius and diffuseness of densities can be determined from restricted elastic scattering d...

abstract-Signals measured in ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of materials are masked by the characteristics of the measuring instruments, the propagation paths taken by the ultrasonic waves, and noise originating from various sources, including the electrical noise. Due to the band-limited characteristics of ultrasonic transducers, the received echoes are degraded by the transducer i...

Modern video applications call for computationally intensive data processing at very high data rate. In order to meet the high-performance/low-cost constraints, the stateof-the-art video processor should be a programmable design which performs various tasks in video applications without sacrificing the computational power and the manufacturing cost in exchange for such flexibility. In this pape...

The purpose of the present study was to examine 1) whether O(2) uptake (VO(2)) oscillates during light exercise and 2) whether the oscillation is enhanced after impulse exercise. After resting for 1 min on a bicycle seat, subjects performed 5-min pre-exercise with 25 watts work load, 10-s impulse exercise with 200 watts work load and 15-min post exercise with 25 watts work load at 80 rpm. VO(2)...

An Adaptive varying window size Recursive Weighted Median Filter [ARWMF] for removing the impulse noise in Color images is presented. The weights for the RWMF are calculated by using the median controlled algorithm. By applying Region of Interest [ROI] on selected windows the weight calculation’s efficiency can be increased and the memory will be reduced because of the ROI. In median controlled...

We consider the design of near-capacity-achieving error-correcting codes for a discrete multitone (DMT) system in the presence of both additive white Gaussian noise and impulse noise. Impulse noise is one of the main channel impairments for digital subscriber lines (DSL). One way to combat impulse noise is to detect the presence of the impulses and to declare an erasure when an impulse occurs. ...

In this paper, a novel decision based median (DBM) filter for enhancing MR images has been proposed. The method is based on eliminating impulse noise from MR images. A median-based method to remove impulse noise from digital MR images has been developed. Each pixel is leveled from black to white like gray-level. The method is adjusted in order to decide whether the median operation can be appli...