We present a new formulation of Maker fringes in parallel-surface films, using self-consistent boundary conditions for reflections and allowing for any degree of refractive-index dispersion. This treatment of the second-harmonic reflections and dispersion, unlike a number of previous derivations, leads correctly to the expected form for the effective second-harmonic d coefficients. Complete exp...

OBJECTIVE A potential psychological harm of screening is unexpected diagnosis-labelling. We need to know the frequency and severity of this harm to make informed decisions about screening. We asked whether current evidence allows an estimate of any psychological harm of labelling. As case studies, we used two conditions for which screening is common: prostate cancer (PCa) and abdominal aortic a...

In this paper, a new non data aided estimator of the technical parameters of Continuous Phase Modulated (CPM) signals is proposed. It consists in estimating jointly the modulation index, the symbol period and the frequency offset. It is based on the following observations. Firstly, the inverse of the index is the smallest positive real number a CPM signal should be raised to in order to generat...

The eccentricity of a vertex is the maximum distance from it to another vertex and the average eccentricity ecc (G) of a graph G is the mean value of eccentricities of all vertices of G. The harmonic index H (G) of a graph G is defined as the sum of 2 di+dj over all edges vivj of G, where di denotes the degree of a vertex vi in G. In this paper, we determine the unique tree with minimum average...

We present a theoretical and experimental analysis of nonlinear microwave photonic filters. Far from the conventional condition of low modulation index commonly used to neglect high-order terms, we have analyzed the harmonic distortion involved in microwave photonic structures with periodic and non-periodic frequency responses. We show that it is possible to design microwave photonic filters wi...

A discrete-time mixing architecture for software defined radio receivers is proposed. It exploits 8x RF voltage oversampling followed by charge domain weighting to achieve 40dB 3rd and 5th harmonic rejection without channel bandwidth limitations. Also noise folding is reduced by 3dB. A zero-IF downconverter chip in 65nm CMOS can receive RF signals up to 900MHz, with NFmin=12dB, IIP3=11dBm at <2...

The harmonic index of a graph G is defined as the sum of the weights 2 d.u/Cd.v/ of all edges uv of G, where d.u/ denotes the degree of a vertex u in G. In this paper, we present the minimum harmonic indices for unicyclic and bicyclic graphs with n vertices and matching number m (2 m bn2 c), respectively. The corresponding extremal graphs are also characterized. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classif...

Minimum Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) is one of the most important requirements from multilevel inverter concerning good Power Quality. This paper presents the optimization of THD in 13 level Cascaded Multilevel Inverter with unequal dc source using Genetic Algorithm (GA). THD minimization is taken as an optimization problem derived from Selective Harmonic Elimination Pulse width Modulation (...

In this paper ranking of harmonic distortion of each nonlinear load like economical, ministerial, residential and others include hotels, hospitals, universities and terminals in the HORMOZGAN Province Electrical power Distribution network is determined by using new power quality index which is directly related on harmonic distortion sources in the distribution power system. Then, the ranking of...