Fling-step and forward directivity are two important characteristics of near-field earthquakes. Forward directivity occurs when the rupture propagates toward the site and arises in fault‐normal direction for strike‐slip faults. Fling-step is the consequence of permanent ground displacement imposed by near-field earthquakes and arises in strike-slip faults in the strike parallel direction. Fling...

This paper presents a low complexity interleaver design that facilitates high throughput Turbo decoding required for next generation wireless systems. When a parallel decoder structure is considered, interleaver design is the most important issue. In such parallel decoder, the contention problem occurs when more than one extrinsic value references to the same memory block for read or write purp...

This article examines the relationship between geometric Poisson brackets and integrable systems in flat Galilean, and Lorentz manifolds. First, moving frames are used to calculate differential invariants of curves and to write invariant evolution equations. The moving frames are created to ensure that the Galilean moving frame is the limit of the Lorentz one as c → ∞. Then, associated integrab...

We present a new approach for obtaining significant speedup in the digital processing of extracting unwrapped phase profiles from off-axis digital holograms. The new technique digitally multiplexes two orthogonal off-axis holograms, where the digital reconstruction, including spatial filtering and two-dimensional phase unwrapping on a decreased number of pixels, can be performed on both hologra...

In this paper we propose a new speaker identi cation system, where the likelihood normalization technique, widely used for speaker veri cation, is introduced. In the new system, which is based on Gaussian Mixture Models, every frame of the test utterance is inputed to all the reference models in parallel. In this procedure, for each frame, likelihoods from all the models are available, hence th...

In voice conversion, a simple frame-level mean and variance normalization is typically used for fundamental frequency (F0) transformation, which is text-independent and requires no parallel training data. Some advanced methods transform pitch contours instead, but require either parallel training data or syllabic annotations. We propose a method which retains the simplicity and text-independenc...

The purpose of this paper is to compare the interaction between pricing and capacity decisions on simple serial and parallel transport networks. When individual links of the network are operated by different regional or national authorities, toll and capacity competition is likely to result. Moreover, the problem is potentially complicated by the presence of both local and transit demand on eac...