This project is intended to build a microstrip low pass filter with a pass band till 3 GHz at 3 dB cutoff frequency. This project is divided into two stages. In the first stage, a conventional seven pole low pass filter using commensurate length 8 / g λ is designed by converting the value of g1 to g7 into unit elements as well as open circuit stubs. In second stage, a method to design low pass ...

Conventional harvesting equipment was tested for removing forest understory biomass (energywood) for use as fuel. Two types of systems were tested a one-pass system and a two-pass system. In the one-pass system, the energywood and pulpwood were harvested simultaneously. In the two-pass system, the energywood was harvested in a first pass through the stand, and the pulpwood was harvested iris se...

The effect of filtering the time trajectories of spectral envelopes on speech intelligibility was investigated. Since LPC cepstrum forms the basis of many automatic speech recognition systems, we filtered time trajectories of LPC cepstrum of speech sounds, and the modified speech was reconstructed after the filtering. For processing, we applied low-pass, high-pass and band-pass filters. The res...

The mechanical and optical arrangement of the 160-cm aperture, 90-m focal length, McMath Solar Telescope is described. Efforts have been made to obtain good images by thermal control of the optical paths and by selection of fused quartz or metal-based mirrors for the optical components. The optical paths and performances of a vacuum double-pass spectrometer and single-pass spectrograph are illu...

We consider the maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model formalized by Feigenbaum, Kannan, McGregor, Suri, and Zhang [13] that is inspired by giant graphs of today. As our main result, we give a two-pass (1/2 + 1/16)-approximation algorithm for triangle-free graphs and a two-pass (1/2 + 1/32)-approximation algorithm for general graphs; these improve the approximation ratios of 1/2 +...

In this paper, a novel technique for the design of two-channel Quadrature Mirror Filter (QMF) banks with linear phase in frequency domain is presented. To satisfy the exact reconstruction condition of the filter bank, low-pass prototype filter response in pass-band, transition band and stop band is optimized using unconstrained indirect update optimization method. The objective function is form...

Abstract—3-D wavelet video coding technique provides an elegant solution to the multimedia transmission scalability requirement. It uses motion-compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) for temporal decomposition and 2-D discrete wavelet transform (2-D DWT) for spatial decomposition. MCTF decomposes video frames into temporal high-pass residuals and temporal low-pass residuals. The temporal high-pa...

HAVAL is a cryptographic hash function proposed by Zheng et al. Van Rompay et al and Wang et al found collisions of full 3-Pass HAVAL. In this paper, we study the security of 4-Pass HAVAL. By analyzing the expanding of subtraction difference and differential characters of Boolean functions, we find collisions of full versions of 4-Pass HAVAL. The form of collisions is similar to the two-block c...