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The Basics of Battery Technology
Battery technology has come a long way over the centuries. Copper and lime or lemon juice has given way to…
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Understanding Smith Charts
The Smith chart, also known as a polar impedance plot, was invented by Philip Smith in 1939 to plot the…
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Wireless Network Energy Management Systems
Installing an energy management system can get really painful, and one of the easiest ways to overcome this problem is…
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Lossless Image Compression
One of the most commonly used compression techniques in multimedia data compression is differential coding. The basis of data reduction in differential…
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Arithmetic Coding
Arithmetic coding is a form of entropy encoding used in lossless data compression. Normally, a string of characters such as the…
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Dictionary-based Coding
The Lempel – Ziv – Welch (LZW) algorithm employs an adaptive, dictionary – based compression technique. Unlike variable – length…
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Variable-length Coding (vlc)
Since the entropy indicates the information content in an information source 5, it leads to a family of coding methods…
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Run-length Coding
Instead of assuming a memoryless source, run – length coding (RLC) exploits memory present in the information source. It is one of…
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Compression Techniques
The emergence of multimedia technologies has made digital libraries a reality. Nowadays, libraries, museums, film studios, and governments are converting more and…
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Quantization and Transmission Of Audio
To be transmitted, sampled audio information must be digitized, and here we look at some of the details of this…
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Midi: Musical Instrument Digital Interface
It is an electronic musical instrument industry specification that enables a wide variety of digital musical instruments, computers and other…
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Digitization of Sound
What Is Sound? Sound is a sequence of waves of pressure that propagates through compressible media such as air or…
