For the design of an antenna that will be directly attached to a car tire, the proximity effects due to the tire have to be considered. Measurements are performed on a dipole antenna that is mounted at the inside of the tire tread to determine the change in input impedance and resonant frequency caused by the dielectric rubber material and the metal reinforcement of the tire. A differential mea...

A new wavelet-based L∞ -constrained embedded image coding technique is proposed in this paper. For any desired distortion bound, the embedded bit stream can be truncated at a corresponding bit-rate, for which the required upper bound on the individual elements of the reconstruction error signal is guaranteed. A lifting-based wavelet transform is employed and exact relations are established betw...

ideas for purposes of step one when it notes in the discussion of step one that “courts have tread carefully in construing this exclusion because, at some level, all inventions embody, use, reflect, rest upon or apply abstract ideas.” Preliminary Guidance at 2; see also Alice Corp., 134 S. Ct. at 2354 (quoting Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs., Inc., 132 S. Ct. 1289, 1293 (2012)). B...

Probability theory is important not least because of its relevance for decision making, which also means: its relevance for the single case. The frequency theory of probability on its own is irrelevant in the single case. However, Howson and Urbach argue that Bayesianism can solve the frequentist’s problem: frequentist-probability information is relevant to Bayesians (although to nobody else). ...