We use photometric data, from the optical to the mm, for a large sample of optically selected radioquiet quasars, at low and high redshifts, to test emission models from circum-nuclear dusty torii around them. Model parameters, such as dust mass, temperature distributions and torus sizes are inferred, under the assumption that the dust is heated only by the central nuclear source. Dependences o...

The 7GHz unlicensed band around 60GHz provides the possibility of gigabit-per-second wireless communications. In addition to satisfying speed-intensive applications, such high data rates can also reduce the energy dissipated per bit because the power consumption of RF transceivers has historically increased sublinearly with the data rate. Moreover, the millimeter wavelength permits the integrat...

We will in this paper report on suggestive similarities between density fluctuation power versus wavenumber on small (mm) and large (Mpc) scales. The small scale measurements were made in fusion plasmas and compared to predictions from classical fluid turbulence theory. The data is consistent with the dissipative range of 2D turbulence. Alternatively, the results can be fitted to a functional f...

HBM and MM are important standards for ESD testing and typically correlate well. In some notable cases however, MM shows much lower failure levels than HBM. One of the most important physical mechanisms responsible for this is dynamic avalanching. This paper provides an example of such a dynamic avalanching failure, and includes a description of the physics involved. The correlation between HBM...

This paper derives new algorithms for signomial programming, a generalization of geometric programming. The algorithms are based on a generic principle for optimization called the MM algorithm. In this setting, one can apply the geometric-arithmetic mean inequality and a supporting hyperplane inequality to create a surrogate function with parameters separated. Thus, unconstrained signomial prog...