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Improved Optimum Nonnegative Integer Bit Allocation Algorithm Using Fuzzy Domain Variance Estimation and Refinement for the Wavelet-Based Image Compression
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Wind Energy Economics
Leaving aside competition from other sources of energy, an understanding of the benefits and costs is fundamental for any investment, howsoever small or large it may be; howsoever immediate, short-term, or lon...
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Geo-political Factors
Definition of geopolitics (from Greek ge “earth, land” and politikē “politics”) is the study of the effects of geography (human and physical) on international politics and relations. The definition of the geo-...
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Conservation and Efficiency Issues
This section deals with conservation and efficiency issues which ultimately dictate the extent of energy generation and its optimal usage. Just as in the case of money earned for the family, it is not the only...
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Wind Energy: Technical Considerations – Contents
Considering the installation and maintenance costs, wind energy is perhaps one of the lowest-cost forms of renewable energy. In 1995, more than 1700 MW of wind energy capacity was operating in California to su...
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Global Wind Energy and Power Generation Options: Socioeconomic Factors
The discussions in this section pertain mainly to the impact of socioeconomic factors reflecting global wind energy and power generation options which could entail demographic parameters, economic strata consi...
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Environmental Impacts in Relation to Wind Energy
The environmental impacts irrespective of the energy source can range from extremely deleterious to acceptable minimum levels. In the case of fossil power generation, impacts could be extremely harmful in term...
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Wind Energy: Public Policy Issues and Public Perspectives
Just as in the previous sections, discussions are from acknowledged authorities on the subject or from publications in the public domain. Wherever the sources are cited in the footnotes with the dates retrieve...
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Correction to: Cosine-/Sine-Modulated Filter Banks
On p. v, in the third line from top, “in” was inserted after comma to read “. . ., and vice versa, in many sub-band/transform-based schemes . . .”
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Cosine/Sine-Modulated Analysis/Synthesis Filter Banks
One of the topics in multi-rate digital signal processing is the theory and design of M-band (or M-channel) analysis and synthesis quadrature mirror filter (QMF) banks for sub-band signal decomposition and coding...
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MDCT/MDST, MLT, ELT, and MCLT Filter Banks: Definitions, General Properties, and Matrix Representations
The perfect reconstruction cosine/sine-modulated filter banks belonging to the class of modulated filter banks have been studied extensively due to their attractive features (simple structure, analysis and syn...
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Efficient Implementations of Cosine-Modulated Pseudo-QMF and MLT (MDCT) Filter Banks in MP3
The MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 audio have been the first international audio coding standards specifying the digital format for high quality compression of audio signals. For the time-to-frequency transformation of an ...
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Spectral Band Replication Compression Technology: Efficient Implementations of Complex Exponential- and Cosine-Modulated QMF Banks
Spectral Band Replication (SBR) is an enhancement compression technology. The SBR is a bandwidth extension method which significantly improves the compression efficiency of perceptual audio and speech coding s...
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Integer Approximate Cosine/Sine-Modulated Filter Banks
Digital audio signals to be processed are integer-valued. But the perfect reconstruction cosine/sine-modulated filter banks and cosine-modulated QMF banks are real-valued transforms which map integer signal in...
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Audio Coding Standards, (Proprietary) Audio Compression Algorithms, and Broadcasting/Speech/Data Communication Codecs: Overview of Adopted Filter Banks
In general, audio coding or audio compression algorithms are used to obtain compact digital representation of high-quality audio signals for their efficient transmission and storage. The central objective in a...
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Fast MDCT/MDST, MLT, ELT, and MCLT Algorithms
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Perfect Reconstruction Cosine/Sine-Modulated Filter Banks in the Dolby Digital (Plus) AC-3 Audio Coding Standards
The Dolby Digital (AC-3) and the Dolby Digital Plus or Enhanced AC-3 (E-AC-3) audio coding standards developed by the Dolby Laboratories are currently the key enabling technologies for high-quality compression...