We present a primal-dual interior point method (IPM) for solving smooth convex optimization problems which arise during the placement of integrated circuits. The interior point method represents a substantial enhancement in flexibility verses other methods while having similar computational requirements. We illustrate that iterative solvers are efficient for calculation of search directions dur...

Since the introduction of fiber optic gyroscope in the late 1970’s 1, the need for accurate inertial navigational instruments has driven the evolution of the device into complex open or closed loop designs manufactured with expensive polarization maintaining fibers and fused fiber optic elements. Our goal herein is to describe a novel fiber optic Sagnac interferometer design made with readily a...

During the March 1999 joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America with the European Acoustics Association, held at the Technical University of Berlin, I had the opportunity to visit the Institute of Technical Acoustics of that university. Prominently posted on a bulletin board in a corridor, I found an elevenpage 1958 article which was coauthored by Lothar Cremer, the late former directo...

While the linked data paradigm has gathered much attention over the recent years, the domain of Islamic knowledge has yet to cache upon its full potential. The web-scale integration of Islamic texts and knowledge sources at large is currently not well facilitated. The two primary sources of the Islamic legislation are the Qur’an and the Hadith (collections of Prophetic Narrations) and form the ...

BACKGROUND In patients with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes endogenous insulin secretion falls with time which changes treatment requirements, however direct measurement of endogenous insulin secretion is rarely performed. We aimed to assess the impact of endogenous insulin secretion on postprandial glucose increase and the effectiveness of prandial exogenous insulin. METHODS We assessed endo...