New Jersey, Kentucky Inventors Develop Composite Image Volume...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 28, 2007 ;     281 words ......views of a same object of interest. A weighting function is applied to each image of the pair of images, wherein the weighting function is centered on the object of interest, the weighting function has a maximum value on the object of...

orthogonal polynomials

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics;      36 words ...orthogonal polynomials Classes of polynomials { p k ( x )}, where p k ( x ) has order k are said to be orthogonal over an interval [ a , b ] if for some weighting function when i ≠ j . If it is a set of orthonormal polynomials.

Sturm–Liouville equation

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics;      47 words ......x2013;Liouville equation A second‐order differential equation in the form where ω(x) is called the ‘weighting function’. The values of λ for which there is a solution are the characteristic values and the corresponding solutions...

Biological Weighting Function of the UV-B-induced Impairment of Phototaxis...

Photochemistry and Photobiology;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......ABSTRACT We determined the biological weighting function (BWF) of the effect of UV radiation...systems. Abbreviations: BWF, biological weighting function; PAR, photosynthetically active radiation...aimed at determining its biological weighting function (BWF), that is, a spectral ...

Illinois Inventors Develop Optimal Multiple Beam Transmit Weighting...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 13, 2007 ;     303 words ......reverse link beam, selects a type of beam weighting control, determines a rule according to the type of beam weighting control, and determining a weighting...configuration and the selected type of beam weighting control." The inventors were issued...

Filter transfer functions for the method of successive corrections

Monthly Weather Review;  February 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......iterations, the selected weighting function and the grid to which the...interpolated. For a given weighting function and grid, increasing the...defined by a prespecified weighting function parameterized by a "radius...

Austrian Inventors Develop Machine Control Variable Modeling System

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 30, 2008 ;     347 words ......model function with an associated weighting function. The difference between the total...function with a further associated weighting function is used for which the absolute value...application of a further model and weighting function are executed as many times as needed...

Dutch Inventor Develops Optical Analysis System

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 18, 2007 ;     325 words ......signal weighted by a first spectral weighting function, and a second detector for detecting...signal weighted by a second spectral weighting function. For an improved signal-to-noise...signal weighted by the first spectral weighting function to the first detector and a second...

California Inventors Develop Optimal Contexts Set Determination Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 23, 2006 ;     358 words ......Pruning is carried out using a problem-domain-related weighting function applicable to nodes and subtrees within the context tree...signal denoising application is constructed using, as the weighting function, an estimated loss function." The inventors were issued...

Colorado Inventor Develops Phase Angle Control Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 7, 2008 ;     330 words ......generating a first control function, a first weighting function, a second weighting function, and linearly combining the product...feedback periodic function and the first weighting function with the product of the second positive...

Filtering Makes Dimensional Data More Valuable

Manufacturing Engineering;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......its neighboring points. The simplest example of a weighting function is a uniform weighting function, known as a moving-point average. The most practical is the Gauss weighting function, which weighs neighboring points in close proximity...

Oregon Inventors Develop Particle Detection System Processing Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 14, 2007 ;     305 words ......The method may further include calculating a weight of each particle detected using a weighting function of the signal vectors. The weighting function may be a functional of a threat particle probability distribution and a background particle...

Both solar UVA and UVB radiation impair conidial culturability and delay...

Photochemistry and Photobiology;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Abbreviations: BSWF, biological spectral weighting function; CFU, colony-forming units; PDAY...biologically effective UV, weighted with a weighting function. INTRODUCTION Hyphomycetes of the...biologically effective UV weighted with a weighting function (UVBE). Because there are no sp

Ensemble canonical correlation prediction of surface temperature over the...

Journal of Climate;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......weighted average of its members. The weighting function for the superensemble forecast is...the forecast skill depends on the weighting function, which has to be given a priori...is difficult to find the optimum weighting function among predictors before entering...

Effects of possible scan geometries on the accuracy of satellite...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......regions are high, so the change in weighting function with angle is the larger effect. Surface...the polarization is constant and the weighting function nearly so. The weighting function shifts because of the Doppler shift...