Transmit waveform design is one of the most important problems in active sensing and communication systems. This problem, due to the complexity and non-convexity, has been always the main topic of many papers for the decades. However, still an optimal solution which guarantees a global minimum for this multi-variable optimization problem is not found. In this paper, we propose an attracting met...

Morton Feldman’s graphs merit attention because they altered the course of Western classical music, as John Cage observed in the epigraph to this volume. Early examples quickly gained notoriety in new music circles in the United States, becoming some of the very first musical works presented in a strikingly new notation to receive public attention. Moreover, they greatly affected Cage’s ownmusi...

Both wavelet denoising and denosing methods using the concept of sparsity are based on softthresholding. In sparsity based denoising methods, it is assumed that the original signal is sparse in some transform domains such as the wavelet domain and the wavelet subsignals of the noisy signal are projected onto `1-balls to reduce noise. In this lecture note, it is shown that the size of the `1-bal...

Gibbons (Hylobates spp.) produce loud and long song bouts that are mostly exhibited by mated pairs. Typically, mates combine their partly sex-specific repertoire in relatively rigid, precisely timed, and complex vocal interactions to produce well-patterned duets. A cross-species comparison reveals that singing behavior evolved several times independently in the order of primates. Most likely, l...

ar from being the atheist that some have portrayed, Thomas Paine was a “scientific deist” who believed that the omnipotence and benevolence of God are evident in the structure of the universe. The epigraph above is one of his most elegant expressions of this view. What is more surprising than Paine’s reverence is that The Age of Reason (1794–95) appears to owe much to a tradition of Christian a...

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) causes approximately 3 million fatalities in the United States annually.1 With the advent of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), an intervention that reduces the risk of arrhythmogenic death is available.2–4 The challenge is to identify risk factors for SCD among most patients at relatively low risk, specifically including survivors of acute myocardial i...

Abstract The contribution illustrates the applied procedure of digital survey and documentation a funerary epigraph written in Greek but dating back to Roman period (dimensions about 31 cm x 20 cm). It comes from Velia (Salerno), then city southern Italy. was found 1967 currently represents only inscription coming, most probably, necropolis Porta Marina Sud. presents many gaps preserves part up...

In this paper, we study the efficiency of a Restarted SubGradient (RSG) method that periodically restarts the standard subgradient method (SG). We show that, when applied to a broad class of convex optimization problems, RSG method can find an ǫ-optimal solution with a low complexity than SG method. In particular, we first show that RSG can reduce the dependence of SG’s iteration complexity on ...

his astronomy and medicine in the Renaissance. The other contributions range from general assessments of the problems posed by the translation, composition and structure of the Natural history (Rottlander and the German "Pliny Translation Group", Locher), to more specific questions raised by particular areas of research (pharmacy by Scarborough, botany by Morton, zoology by Bodson, mineralogy b...