The following discussion of PWR steady state and transient design limits is extracted from the theses of Carter Shuffler and Jarrod Trant while the BWR discussion is extracted from Paolo Ferroni's thesis (covers steady state only). These limits are a simplified and narrower discussion than the relevant NRC standard review plan you will also be referred to. All materials are directly extracted f...

We extend the recent bounds of Sason and Verdú relating Rényi entropy and Bayesian hypothesis testing [arXiv:1701.01974] to the quantum domain and show that they have a number of different applications. First, we obtain a sharper bound relating the optimal probability of correctly distinguishing elements of an ensemble of states to that of the pretty good measurement, and an analogous bound for...

A Dual-Type automatic speech recogniser (ASR) is a multi-pass ASR system that incorporates both a speaker-independent (SI) and a speaker-dependent (SD) ASR. The purpose of this approach is to improve the robustness of spoken dialogue systems for a broader range of applications. This paper identifies feasible Dual-Type multi-pass ASR system designs that are intended to overcome limitations arisi...

Indian economy has been experiencing an average annual rate of growth of around 6 per cent since the early 1980s. Though, moderate compared to the performance of several east Asian economies during the same period, this was quite impressive compared to the performance of Indian economy during the preceding three decades when the average growth logged 3.5 per cent per annum. In terms of per capi...

Estimation of the channel impulse responses of multiple cochannel users is a key requirement of all multiuser detection and interference cancellation techniques, though little attention has been paid to subject in the context of TDMA systems. This paper addresses a pilotbased technique for multiuser channel estimation in a TDMA system, and makes several new contributions: it allows for time var...

it is well established that the active continuous recovery is preferred to passive recovery. but the active period of this recovery is long (20-60 minutes) and the intensity is not controlled. furthermore, most severe trial exercises need short-term active recovery for better performance so that the athletes can return more rapidly to their normal state and more desirable performance. however, ...

recovery of gold and other valuable metals from electronic scrap involves a complex metallurgical flow sheet and requires state-of-the-art recovery technologies that are available in large-scale, integrated smelter and refinery operations. at the end of their use, electronic and other electrical product scrap offer an important recycling potential for the secondary supply of gold and silver int...

This paper considers the problem of building fault-tolerant shared objects when processes can crash and recover but lose their persistent state on recovery. This Diskless Crash-Recovery (DCR) model matches the way many long-lived systems are built. We show that it presents new challenges, as operations that are recorded at a quorum may not persist after some of the processes in that quorum cras...

In this paper we present a hierarchical routing protocol in a large wireless, mobile network such as found in the automated battle field or in extensive disaster recovery operations. Conventional routing does not scale well to network size. Likewise, conventional hierarchical routing cannot handle mobility eficiently. We propose a novel soft state wireless hierarchical routing protocol Hierarch...