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Photos: Robots, lasers, action

Photo Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Emory University School of Medicine believe they have found the answer to the difficulties that robots have in processing the imperfections of the real world using laser pointers.

Tags: healthcare, laser, robotics

[10 Apr 2008]

Performance of MIMO OFDM Systems in Fading Channels With Additive TX and RX Impairments

whitepaper The performance of OFDM based systems is seriously affected by imperfections in system implementation. To gain a better understanding of the influence of these impairments on the performance of multiple antenna OFDM systems, this paper studies a...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, ofdm, mimo ofdm, imperfections

[10 Apr 2008]

Photoshop CS2 Raw: Reducing Noise, Correcting Chromatic Aberrations & Controlling Vignetting

whitepaper This paper covers how one can reduce the effects of these imperfections in the RAW files. With varying degrees, all digital cameras produce images with electronic noise, chromatic aberrations, and vignetting.

Tags: graphics applications, image, noise, edges

[17 Oct 2007]

Space-Time-Frequency Transmit Diversity in Broadband Wireless OFDM Systems

whitepaper Based on capacity considerations for Gaussian as well as real world signal constellations, it shows that the concatenation of an outer error control code, a bit interleaver and orthogonal spatial transmit diversity provides an attractive MIMO...

Tags: wireless lan, designs, space, frequency

[14 Apr 2007]

US cyber spies want more rights to snoop

News Senator Patrick Leahy, the committee's Democratic co-chairman, said of the proposal: "Whether or not Fisa is in need of fine-tuning is a legitimate consideration but Fisa's possible imperfections provide no excuse for the administration's flouting...

Tags: wiretapping, snoop

[27 Jul 2006]

Overcome quirky C++ imperfections with these practical solutions

whitepaper Over the years developers have come up with some creative ways to get around those imperfections. C++ is an established and powerful programming language, but it isn't perfect. In this excerpt from Matthew Wilson's book, Imperfect C++: Practical...

Tags: life, programming, c++, ranges

[17 May 2006]

Voice Sites: A New Value Proposition for Speech

whitepaper The well-known potential of speech applications coupled with these market imperfections has created a unique opportunity for a new technology: Voice Sites. Speech applications have long promised a strong return on investment by automating routine...

Tags: speech, reducing, implementations, sites

[23 Feb 2006]

Implications of Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) for GSM Security

whitepaper Despite its imperfections, GSM security has stood well the test of time. In part, this security success has relied on closed platforms that prevent the end-user from tampering with the GSM protocol stacks.

Tags: platforms, gsm, phones, prevent

[17 Jan 2006]

The Case for Data Assurance

whitepaper In this paper, the authors lay the groundwork for this layer by examining the imperfections that exist in monitoring data, and then identifying some promising directions for further investigation. Monitoring data contains errors, errors which can...

Tags: layer, consumers, environments, affect

[21 Dec 2005]

Consumer Financial Privacy and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

whitepaper If there are no market imperfections, then competition may be relied on to efficiently sort out the competing interests of consumers and financial institutions. Alternatively, if there are market imperfections in the form of externalities, the...

Tags: institutions, consumers, act, rights

[27 Sep 2005]

Frequency Offset and I/Q Imbalance Compensation for OFDM Direct-Conversion Receivers

whitepaper Two types of RF front-end imperfections in direct conversion receivers, namely frequency offset and I/Q imbalance, are addressed in this paper. The I/Q imbalance not only introduces an unwanted image interference hut also degrades the accuracy of...

Tags: wireless lan, frequency, offset, frequency offset

[27 Jul 2005]

Employment and Growth in an Aging Society: A Simulation Study for Austria

whitepaper These include purely demographic developments, increasing labour market imperfections, and higher economic growth due to a productivity shock. In the study presented in this paper, the authors use a long run macroeconomic model for Austria to...

Tags: human capital management, aging, demographic, developments

[22 Jun 2005]

Human Capital, Market Imperfections, and Labor Reallocation in Transition

whitepaper This paper investigates how human capital and factor market imperfections affect households' decisions on their labor use and reallocation in transition countries. Furthermore, the model studies how imperfections in the capital and labor markets...

Tags: human capital management, affect, capital, human

[31 May 2005]

Digital signatures could be forged, claim boffins

Digital signatures could be forged, claim boffins

News Eli Biham and Rafi Chen, researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology, originally were scheduled to present a paper identifying ways to assail the security in the SHA-0 "Secure Hash Algorithm," which was known to have imperfections.

[18 Aug 2004]

Issues With RFID Usage in Ubiquitous Computing Applications

whitepaper The paper also shows how appropriate system design can help to deal with the imperfections associated with RFID. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has recently received a lot of attention as an augmentation technology in the ubiquitous...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, rfid, identification, domain

[01 Jul 2004]

Water Tolerance vs. Waterproof: Tight-Buffer Tight-Bound Cable Construction

whitepaper The basic mechanical failure mechanism for optical fibers is the slow to rapid growth of any glass imperfections in the fiber caused by the fiber being under stress. The greater the concentration of the water molecules, or more specifically the (OH...

Tags: cable, fiber, surface, stress

[01 Mar 2004]

The Masking Threshold: Details of the VR-6 and VR-8 Technology

whitepaper It is common knowledge that conventional loudspeaker systems suffer from imperfections related to their mechanical operation which limits realism. Lately, many designers have attacked the problems of coloration and distortion endemic to both...

Tags: sound components, enclosures, operation, knowledge

[24 Feb 2004]

Intruder Alert and NetProwler

whitepaper However, it has exposed companies to significantly heightened security risks that are typically associated with the imperfections of emerging technology. Organizations today face new and unprecedented operational challenges.

Tags: transaction processing, enterprises, medium, host

[24 Feb 2004]

Intel in chip cancer detection research

Intel in chip cancer detection research

News The goal is to determine if this technology, previously used to detect microscopic imperfections on silicon chips, can also detect subtle traces of disease. Intel and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre are working together to find out if...

Tags: cancer, intel

[23 Oct 2003]

Portfolio Diversification, Leverage, and Financial Contagion

whitepaper Models of "contagion" rely on market imperfections to explain why adverse shocks in one asset market might be associated with asset sales in many unrelated markets. This paper demonstrates that contagion can be explained with basic portfolio theory...

Tags: portfolio, risk, asset, imperfections

[17 Sep 2003]

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