<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We study in this work the so-called "instantaneous time mirrors" context of surface plasmons. The latter are associated with high frequency waves at a conducting sheet. Instantaneous mirrors were introduced [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="b3">3</xref>], idea that singular perturbations variable wave-type equation create time-reversed focusing wave. We ...

Extending Barro (1999) and Luttmer & Mariotti (2003), we introduce a new model of time preferences: the instantaneous-gratification model. This model applies tractably to a much wider range of settings than existing models. It applies to complete and incomplete-market settings and it works with generic utility functions. It works in settings with linear policy rules and in settings in which equ...

BACKGROUND Intracoronary physiology techniques have been validated extensively for the assessment of epicardial stenoses but not for the lone study of coronary microcirculation. We performed a comparison between 4 intracoronary physiological indices with the actual structural microcirculatory changes documented in transplanted hearts. METHODS AND RESULTS In 17 cardiac allograft patients witho...

This paper presents a DEM generation procedure based on optical (SPOT stereo) and radar (InSAR, interferometric SAR) data. The first part of the paper is focused on InSAR. The second one is concerned with the integration of optical and radar data. Two levels of integration are proposed: the SPOT data can support the InSAR procedure (in particular phase unwrapping) and the SPOT and InSAR data ca...

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In this article, we investigate the debated Instantaneous Frequency (IF) topic. Here, we show that IF is non-unique inherently. We explain how this non-uniqueness can be quantified and explained from a mathematical perspective. The non-uniqueness of the IF can also be observed if different methods of adaptive signal processing are used. We will also show that even if we know the physical origin...

This paper presents a new method for robust voiced/unvoiced segment (V/UV) classification and accurate fundamental frequency ( ) estimation in a noisy environment. For this purpose, we introduce the degree of dominance and dominance spectrum that are defined by instantaneous frequency. The degree of dominance allows us to evaluate the magnitude of individual harmonic components of speech signal...

A property of nonlinear oscillators—mutual dependence between their instantaneous amplitude and frequency—is tested in the yearly and monthly records of the sunspot numbers using the histogramadjusted isospectral surrogate data and the Barnes model as the autoregressive moving average surrogates. The instantaneous amplitudes and frequencies are obtained by means of the analytic signal approach ...

the role of unit hydrograph is very important in prediction of floods in the rivers, design protection and control structures in the catchment area. therefore in the basin without hydrometric stations, by using mathematical and empirical relationship and based on climatic data, the water level in the basin is estimated. two methods of geomorphologic instantaneous unit hydrograph and width funct...