Sensor gain and offset non-uniformities associated with the IRFPA is the prime factor in limiting the performance of an infrared system to a great extent. This technique is based upon the Kalman filter in which gain and offset non-uniformities are treated as random variable and filter parameters are updated on pixel-by-pixel basis in every frame. This algorithm is tested on actual infrared data...

In pulsed thermography the sample to test is briefly heated with a Dirac δ heat impulse and then observed through an infrared (IR) camera recording thermal images as the sample is cooling down. The difference of temperature on the IR images between the defective areas and the sound areas is referred to as a thermal contrast [1]. The Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of such a contrast is strongly aff...

The polycrystalline nature of the metal gate and the corresponding non-uniformity in the gate workfunction results in statistical variability in MOSFETs with high-!/metal gate stacks. Here the impact of the workfunction variation (WFV) associated with different gate grain orientations on the threshold voltage variation in a test bed 35 nm nMOSFETs is studied in details using full scale 3D numer...

OBJECTIVE To split several tablet products relevant to the Veterans Affairs (VA) Maryland Healthcare System and assess whether the resulting half tablets provide equal doses. METHODS From a VA list of products that are required to be split, 7 products were evaluated, along with 5 other commonly split tablet products. A trained pharmacy student split tablets using a tablet splitter provided by...

The uniformity invariant for Lebesgue measure is defined to be the least cardinal of a non-measurable set of reals, or, equivalently, the least cardinal of a set of reals which is not Lebesgue null. This has been studied intensively for the past 30 years and much of what is known can be found in [?] and other standard sources. Among the well known results about this cardinal invariant of the co...

QROM (quantum random oracle model), introduced by Boneh et al. (Asiacrypt 2011), captures all generic algorithms. However, it fails to describe non-uniform quantum algorithms with preprocessing power, which receives a piece of bounded classical or advice. As are largely believed be the right model for attackers, starting from work Nayebi, Aaronson, Belovs, and Trevisan (QIC 2015), line works in...