The time-domain theory of forerunners (precursors) in temporally dispersive, nonmagnetic, isotropic materials is developed using the propagator technique. Specifically, the impulse response at a (comparatively) large propagation depth is expanded in two different ways: (a) with respect to the wave-front and (b) with respect to slowly varying field components. A few numerical examples illustrating

A critical comparison of two mid 19th century versions of the story of As’ad al-Shidyâq, a young Maronite who became the first Protestant sympathiser in Lebanon; the first version written by an American missionary (Isaac Bird), the second by a Lebanese intellectual (Butrus al-Bustani) who became a Protestant. The comparison reveals differences between expatriate and indigenous perceptions of Prote

Popular Abstract in SwedishPopulärmusikens starka ställning idag gör det angeläget för musikvetenskapen att ta dess konstnärliga aspekter på lika stort allvar som ämnet vanligen behandlar konstmusik. Den populära visan lever i en riklig mängd olika former, allt från folkvisor till rockmusik. Ändå är studier sparsamma idag av de sätt ord, ton och röst samverkar på i visan. Denna studie sätter dessaThe aim of this study is to investigate relationships between words, music and voice in contemporary swedish popular ballads – visa – as it is realized in the works of Swedish artist, singer/songwriter Olle Adolphson (b 1934).Entering the world of entertainment in 1956 he quickly became one of the most prominent representatives of the literary branch of popular song in Sweden. His work is characte

In this paper, a new distributed space-frequency coding (DSFC) scheme, for broadband fading relay channels is presented. This scheme exhibits a spatial and a multipath diversity in a distributed fashion. An upper-bound on the pairwise error probability (PEP) is derived. From this PEP bound, it is shown that the proposed coding scheme achieves a diversity of order NL , where N is the number of rela

Resistance to activated protein C (APC) is a major cause of familial thrombophilia, and can be corrected by an anticoagulant activity expressed by purified factor V. We investigated linkage between APC resistance and the factor V gene in a large kindred with familial thrombophilia. Restriction fragment length polymorphisms in exon 13 of the factor V gene were informative in 14 family members. The

The input device for Remote Gaming has matured from a simple pointing device to a wireless console and recently even motion sensors are added. Similar motion sensors have already been integrated in camera’s to provide for image stabilization. In the cellphone, global motion is foremost determined through image processing. The paper extends this concept to support gaming, while aiming for a low-com

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