Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (Figure 1) was born on November 12, 1833, in the capital of the Imperial Russia St. Petersburg, as a rejected and illegitimate son of 62-year-old Georgian prince Luka Gedevanishvili (according to one historical source) or prince Luka Stepanovich Gedeonov (second historical source) and a 37 years younger Russian peasant Evdokia Konstantinovna Antonovna. The father ...

T he events narrated by Shakespeare in his tragedy Hamlet 1 are the following: King Hamlet of Denmark dies suddenly and his brother Claudius a few weeks later marries the widow, his sister-in-law, Queen Gertrude; according to the official explanation, a snakebite was the cause of his death. The ghost of the king appears before his son, Prince Hamlet, and tells him that his own brother, now his ...

Differential encoding is a widely used technique in the context of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) as an alternative to coherent channel estimation and equalization. In this paper, the performance of differential encoding using amultilag higher-order instantaneous moment (ml-HIM) in OFDM system is investigated. It is shown that by using proper order and lags, the ml-HIM decode...