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This paper presents an active resonant conductance method (ARCM) for the design of large traveling-wave-fed SIW linear slot arrays. Two key slot parameters, slot offsets and lengths, are derived from excitation coefficients with intermediary active resonant conductance. In this method, both dominant mode mutual coupling which includes external & internal and higher order modes mutual coupling a...

Since the reconstruction of continuous speech from voice packets is complicated by the variable delays of packets through the network, delay variability is an important measure of performance for voice packet networks. A dynamic priori@ protocol designed to minimize the Variability of packet delays is proposed. The protocol allows the priority of a packet to vary with time. Two examples of dyna...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how bracket slot size affects the direction of maxillary anterior tooth movement when en-masse retraction is performed in sliding mechanics using an induction-heating typodont simulation system. METHODS An induction-heating typodont simulation system was designed based on the Calorific Machine system. The typodont included metal anterior and resin posterior teeth embe...

We introduce the notion of task-specific information (TSI) to quantify the performance of imaging systems. We demonstrate the utility of TSI for evaluating the performance of conventional and projective imagers for a detection task. c © 2007 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 110.3000,110.4280,200.3050.

In all manufacturing processes there are tolerances; however, orthodontic bracket manufacturers seldom state the slot dimensional tolerances. This experiment develops a novel method of analyzing slot profile dimensions using photographs of the slot. Five points are selected along each wall, and lines are fitted to define a trapezoidal slot shape. This investigation measures slot height at the s...

This paper describes our participation in the SemEval-2016 task 5, Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA). We participated in two slots in the sentence level ABSA (Subtask 1) namely: aspect category extraction (Slot 1) and sentiment polarity extraction (Slot 3) in English Restaurants and Laptops reviews. For Slot 1, we applied different models for each domain. In the restaurants domain, we used...

This year the RPI-BLENDER team participated in the following four tasks: English Entity Linking, Regular Slot Filling, Temporal Slot Filling and Slot Filling Validation. The major improvement was made for Regular Slot Filling and Slot Filling validation. We developed a fresh system for both tasks. Our approach embraces detailed linguistic analysis and knowledge discovery, and advanced knowledge...

a newly designed printed slot antenna is presented that incorporates variable two band-notched functions for ultra-wideband (uwb) applications. the two band notches of this coplanar waveguide (cpw) fed antenna are achieved by an m-shaped slot (mss) embedded in the radiating element and a c-shaped strip(css) close to ground plane, therefore two very narrow rejected properties in the wireless loc...

In this paper, a simple architecture for subsampling LC-based continuous-time Σ∆ modulators is introduced. The concept of utilizing loop delay to simplify the modulator architecture is generalized to subsampling modulators. Moreover, it is shown that is possible to remove delay-compensation branch usually used in traditional designs. Removing delay-compensation branch results in a significant s...