Measuring a time interval in the nanoseconds range has opened way to 3-D imaging, where additional information as distance of objects light detection and ranging (LiDAR) or lifetime decay fluorescence-lifetime imaging (FLIM) is added spatial coordinates. One key elements these systems measurement circuit, which encodes into digital words. Nowadays, most demanding applications, especially biolog...

As both resources and applications are becoming more complex, resource management also becomes a more challenging task. For example, scheduling code-coupling applications on federations of clusters such as Grids results in complex resource selection algorithms. The abstractions provided by current Resource Management Systems (RMS)—usually rigid jobs or advance reservations—are insufficient to e...

Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue malignancy in childhood and adolescence. The two major histological subtypes of RMS are alveolar RMS, driven by the fusion protein PAX3-FKHR or PAX7-FKHR, and embryonic RMS, which is usually genetically heterogeneous. The prognosis of RMS has improved in the past several decades due to multidisciplinary care. However, in recent years, the tr...

We derive a family of discrete window functions for the N-point Fourier transform for application in spectral analysis that optimize the root mean square (RMS) frequency width sω for a given temporal RMS width st. The window family yields as a byproduct the minimum time-bandwidth product sωst for given st and N. The new windows interpolate for decreasing st between the popular Cosine-window and...