In the context of spectral estimation, this paper examines the use of an ‘orthonormal basis’ wherein prior knowledge (in the form of fixed poles) may be incorporated in the solution and FIR structures are then seen as a special case of implicitly involving prior knowledge of all poles at the origin. The main technical results are ones that quantify the accuracy of the resulting spectral estimat...

A new impulse detection and filtering algorithm is proposed for restoration of images that are highly corrupted by impulse noise. It is based on the average absolute value of four convolutions obtained by one-dimensional Laplacian operators. The proposed algorithm can effectively remove the impulse noise with a wide range of noise density and produce better results in terms of the qualitative a...

A hardware and software approach is presented in this paper to measure the room impulse response that defines the transmission of audio signals in a room. This approach was developed within the European SpeeCon project [1]. Graphical user interfaces have been designed to estimate the room impulse response from the recordings of noise signals that are transmitted in the room and to analyse the i...

Introduction In hybrid rocket motors, one of the two propellants (oxidizer or fuel) is in liquid phase and the other is in solid phase. The combination of a solid fuel and a liquid oxidizer is the most common one, Fig. 1. 1 Even though the idea of hybrid rocket motor was conceived as early as 1937, it was only after 1960s they were built successfully with good combustion efficiency. A discussio...

OBJECTIVE To explore the relationships among impulse control, diabetes-specific self-efficacy, and diabetes management behaviors among emerging adults with type 1 diabetes. METHODS A total of 204 high school seniors (M = 18.25 years, SD = .45, 55.9% females) with type 1 diabetes self-reported on impulse control, diabetes-specific self-efficacy, and diabetes management behaviors during the pas...

Images are often corrupted by impulse noise due to a noisy sensor or channel transmission errors. The goal of impulse noise removal is to suppress the noise by preserving the integrity of edges and detail information. In this paper, a new filter called Switching Weighted Adaptive Median (SWAM) filter is proposed for effective suppression of impulse noise which is used to incorporate the Recursi...

In this paper the problem of the frequency estimation of a sinusoid embedded in white noise is considered. The approach used herein is the minimization of the sample variance of the output of constrained notch filters fed by the noisy sinusoid. In particular, this paper focuses on closed-form expressions of the frequency estimate, which can be obtained using notch filters having an all-zeros FI...

in this paper, a novel decision based median (dbm) filter for enhancing mr images has been proposed. the method is based on eliminating impulse noise from mr images. a median-based method to remove impulse noise from digital mr images has been developed. each pixel is leveled from black to white like gray-level. the method is adjusted in order to decide whether the median operation can be appli...

g – standard gravitational acceleration, m/s μ gravitational constant, km/s mdry – spacecraft mass without fuel, kg mwet – spacecraft mass with total fuel, kg mhighF – high-thrust system fuel mass, kg mHSTF – hybrid system fuel mass, kg m02 – spacecraft mass after phase 1 of the transfer, kg ∆Vhigh – high-thrust only system ∆V, m/s ∆VH – high-thrust portion of hybrid system ∆V, m/s ∆VL – low-th...