In a wireless sensor network, measures to rationally evaluate the signal detected and reported by the sensor are needed. To infer the context based on the detected signal, determination of basic probability assignment for multi-sensor data fusion using Dempster-Shafer Theory is proposed. If there is insufficient advance information in a wireless sensor network using different type of sensors, i...

Many acoustic instruments create a harmonic series, a collection of sine-waves uniformly spaced in frequency. A listener aggregates such collections of sine-waves, or partials, into a single pitch. Some acoustic instruments allow portamento, the smooth glide from one pitch to another. For example, the violin and trombone. During acoustic portamento, each sine-wave transitions in parallel motion...

Height is one of the most important dimensions of trees, but few observers are fully aware of the consequences of the misapplication of conventional height measurement techniques. A new approach, the sine method, can improve height measurement by being less sensitive to the requirements of conventional techniques (similar triangles and the tangent method). We studied the sine method through a c...

This paper presents the preliminary results of an extensive parametric study on seismic response of two-dimensional semi-sine shaped hills to vertically propagating incident P- and SV-waves. Clear perspectives of the induced diffraction and amplification patterns are given by investigation of time-domain and frequency-domain responses. It is shown that site geometry, wave characteristics , and ...

In a previous study [Kiselev, S.B., Ely, J.F., 2003. Generalized corresponding states model for bulk and interfacial properties of pure fluids and fluid mixtures. Journal of Chemical Physics 119(16), 8645–8662] we developed a formulation of the generalized corresponding states (GCS) model which incorporated critical region non-analytic behavior via a parametric crossover function. The parametri...

We present a technique to make a close enough recognition of a function, based on recognition coefficients. The recognition coefficients are determined using inner products 5 of the function to be recognized with a complete set of functions. This is how generalized Fourier coefficients are calculated. However they may not give a series representation of the function to be recognized as the comp...

this paper presents a modified 32-bit rom-based direct digital frequency synthesizer (ddfs). maximum output frequency of the ddfs is limited by the structure of the accumulator used in the ddfs architecture. the hierarchical pipeline accumulator (hpa) presented in this paper has less propagation delay time rather than the conventional structures. therefore, it results in both higher maximum ope...

given a mapping $f:xto x$ we naturally associate to it a monotonic map $gg_f:exp xto exp x$ from the power set of $x$ into itself, thus inducing a generalized topology on $x$. in this paper we investigate some properties of generalized topologies which are defined by such a procedure.