effects of mating sex ratios on production performance in indian peafowl were investigated at punjabwildlife research institute, gatwala faisalabad. research was conducted from may through august 2007 toexplore the most productive mating sex ratio. the sex ratios have a significant effect on egg production.maximum mean eggs (1.63) were produced by the sex ratio 1:2 while maximum egg fertility (...

in this paper, the crack detection and depth ratio estimation method are presented in beamlikestructures using elman networks. for this purpose, by using the frequencies of modes asinput, crack depth ratio of each element was detected as output. performance of the proposedmethod was evaluated by using three numerical scenarios of crack for fixed-simply supportedbeam consisting of a single crack...

In 1992 David Donoho has introduced the term denoising in connection with the adaptive nonlinear ...ltering in the discrete wavelets transform domain. Despite its advantages this method is not used yet in the communications ...eld. The goal of this paper is to propose a new denoising method, using another strategy for the threshold selection and another wavelets transform. This new discrete wav...

We present a simple and accurate semi-analytic methodology for performance evaluation of wireless video transmission in multicode DS-CDMA (MC-CDMA). Based on the novel approach (as well as on entire system simulations), we analyze performance of H.263 in an IS-95B system over slow fading channels at low bit rates. Peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) values for various video test sequences demonst...

Time delay estimation is a basic building block of an acoustic source localization system. Such a system must cope with adverse acoustic conditions to be generally applicable, i.e. high reverberation times and low signal-to-noise ratios. In general, better results can be achieved if multiple channels are considered. We propose an extension of a mutual information based delay estimator to the mu...

The tracking (mean-square timing-error) performance of a linearized datatransition tracking loop (LDTTL) is presented. The difference between the LDTTL and the conventional DTTL is that the hard-limiter nonlinearity in the conventional DTTL’s inphase arm is replaced by a linear device, as suggested by the maximum a posteriori (MAP) open-loop estimate of symbol timing at low symbol signal-to-noi...

This paper investigates the implementation of a vector-embedding scheme in video. The embedding procedure is conducted using an algorithm that is robust to standard video coding techniques such as MPEGI and II. The vector-based algorithm, using lattice codes and texture mapping for improved performance, allows large amounts of data to be stored into each frame of the video sequence. Furthermore...

We compare the performances of the templates defined by three different types of approaches: traditional post-Newtonian templates (Taylor-approximants), “resummed” post-Newtonian templates assuming the adiabatic approximation and stopping before the plunge (P-approximants), and further “resummed” post-Newtonian templates going beyond the adiabatic approximation and incorporating the plunge with...

In this paper, the prototyping of a new piezoresistive microforce sensor is presented. An original design taking advantage on both mechanical and bulk piezoresistive properties of silicon is presented and enables to easily fabricate a very small, large range, high sensitivity with high integration potential sensor. The sensor is made of two silicon strain gages for which widespread and known mi...

For a wireless sensor network (WSN) with a large number of sensors, a decision fusion rule using the total number of detections reported by local sensors for hypothesis testing, is proposed and studied. Based on a signal attenuation model where the received signal power decays as the distance from the target increases, the system level detection performance, namely probabilities of detection an...