Strong starters and skew starters have been widely used in various combinatorial designs. In particular skew balanced starters and symmetric skew balanced starters are crucially used in the construction of completely balanced Howell rotations. Let n = 2mfc + 1 be an odd prime power where m > 2 and k is an odd number. The existence of symmetric skew balanced starters for GF(n) has been proved fo...

This paper aims to investigate properties of involution palindrome languages. Let θ be either a morphic or antimorphic involution. we show that if θ is an antimorphic involution, then the set of all θ-palindrome words is a proper subset of all skew θ-palindrome words. We give a characterization for that a word is skew θ-palindrome. That is, A word is skew θ-palindrome if and only if it is a pro...

Accurate clock skew budgets are important for microprocessor designers to avoid holdtime failures and to properly allocate resources when optimizing global and local paths. Many published clock skew budgets neglect voltage jitter and process variation, which are becoming dominant factors in otherwise balanced H-trees. However, worst-case process variation assumptions are severely pessimistic. T...

Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are essential building blocks in many electronic systems which require digital signal processing and storage of analog signals. Traditionally, ADCs are considered a power hungry circuit. This thesis investigates ADC design techniques to achieve high-performance with low power consumption. Two designs are demonst rated. The first design is a voltage scalable z...

For the numerical resolution of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations (NS) with Finite Volumes (FV) two main approaches have called the attention of researchers and engineers. First, following the hyperbolic nature of the compressible NS equations, the Godunov-like schemes discretize the numerical fluxes by a characteristic analysis. Second, disregarding the hyperbolicity of the equations, t...

Cluster automorphisms have been shown to have links to the mapping class groups of surfaces, maximal green sequences and to exchange graph automorphisms for skew-symmetric cluster algebras. In this paper we generalise these results to the skew-symmetrizable case by introducing a marking on the exchange graph. Many skew-symmetrizable matrices unfold to skew-symmetric matrices and we consider how...

Huber, Krokhin, and Powell (2013) introduced a concept of skew bisubmodularity, as a generalization of bisubmodularity, in their complexity dichotomy theorem for valued constraint satisfaction problems over the three-value domain, and Huber and Krokhin (2014) showed the oracle tractability of minimization of skew-bisubmodular functions. Fujishige, Tanigawa, and Yoshida (2014) also showed a min-...

When a document is fed to a scanner either mechanically or by a human operator for digitization, it suffers from some degrees of skew or tilt. Skew angle detection is an important component of any Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Document Analysis System. In this paper we present a novel skew estimation technique for document images. The method uses Boundary Growing (BG) technique, Thinn...

In this paper, we study skew constacyclic codes over the ring ZqR where R = Zq + uZq, q = p s for a prime p and u2 = 0. We give the definition of these codes as subsets of the ring ZqR . Some structural properties of the skew polynomial ring R[x, θ] are discussed, where θ is an automorphism of R. We describe the generator polynomials of skew constacyclic codes over R and ZqR. Using Gray images ...

Many researchers proposed different methodologies for the text skew estimation in binary images/gray scale images. They have been used widely for the skew identification of the printed text. There exist so many ways algorithms for detecting and correcting a slant or skew in a given document or image. Some of them provide better accuracy but are slow in speed, others have angle limitation drawba...