Abstract: A receiver for receiving digital signals exposed to intersymbol interference as well as multiple access interference the method including linearly detecting said signals by combating said intersymbol interference by equalizing said received digital signals as well as mitigating said multiple access interference by detecting said digital signals using sliding window detection.

Abstract: Combustion of hydrocarbon liquids and solids is achieved with less formation of NOx by feeding a small amount of oxygen into the fuel stream.

Abstract: A glassmelting furnace is heated by combustion of fuel having an atomic ratio of hydrogen to carbon of 0.9 or less.

Abstract: The efficiency of selective non-catalytic reduction reactions for converting NOx in a flue gas to molecular nitrogen is improved by producing the flue gas from combustion of fuel with oxidant having an oxygen concentration above that of air.

Abstract: A method of generating electrical power in which a synthesis gas stream generated in a gasifier is combusted in an oxygen transport membrane system of a boiler. The combustion generates heat to raise steam to in turn generate electricity by a generator coupled to a steam turbine. The resultant flue gas can be purified to produce a carbon dioxide product.

Abstract: A green sheet coating material includes ceramic powder and a binder resin containing a butyral based resin as the main component, which furthermore includes a xylene based resin as a tackifier. The xylene based resin is included in a range of 1.0 wt % or less, more preferably 0.1 or more and 1.0 wt % or less, and particularly preferably more than 0.1 and 1.0 wt % or less with respect to 100 parts by weight of ceramic powder.

Abstract: Corrosion of the inner surface of the crown of a glassmelting furnace is reduced or avoided by directing at low velocity along that surface a gaseous stream comprising water vapor, or comprising the combustion products of an oxy-fuel burner operated at a stoichiometric ratio of at least 1.0, or the combustion products of a burner operated at a stoichiometric ratio less than 1.0, or by injecting into the furnace interior a gaseous reactant which reacts with alkali species in said space.

Abstract: A green sheet coating material including ceramic powder, a binder resin including a butyral based resin as the main component, and a solvent. The solvent includes a first solvent medium having a relatively low boiling point, wherein said binder resin is easy to be dissolved, and a second solvent medium having a relatively high boiling point. The boiling point of the second solvent medium is in a range of 130 to 230° C. The second solvent medium is included by 5 to 70 wt %, and more preferably 8 to 52 wt % with respect to 100 wt % of the entire solvent.

Abstract: In a time-hopped impulse radio system, each symbol is transmitted over a channel having different multipath components as a set of Nf frames. Each frame includes one pulse. All frames of a received signal corresponding to the symbol are sampled to generate Nf×L samples, where L is the number of samples for each frame. Then, the Nf×L samples are combined according to a minimum mean square error criterion to obtain a decision variable corresponding to the symbol.

Abstract: A fuel-fired steam generation apparatus such as a boiler can produce steam at a rate higher than the maximum rate at which it can produce steam using air as the only source of oxygen for combustion, by combusting the fuel with oxidant having a higher oxygen content than air but feeding the oxidant at a volumetric flow rate lower than the rate at which maximum steam production is obtained with air as the only source of oxygen for combustion.

Abstract: A process for removing blisters (large bubbles in a glassmelt) and seeds (small bubbles in a glassmelt) from a glassmelt by feeding helium bubbles having a diameter between about 0.5 cm and about 3 cm at a prescribed flow rate and location to effectively produce a substantially bubble-free article.

Abstract: A method and system acquire a received impulse radio signal by first searching, with respect to time, a region of the impulse radio signal using a first template signal to locate a block including a signal cell, and second searching, with respect to time, the block using a second template signal to locate the signal cell to acquire the received impulse radio signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for providing Web content from pull and push based services running on Web content providers to mobile users. A proxy gateway connects the mobile users to the Web content providers. A prefetching module is used at the proxy gateway to optimize performance of the pull services by reducing average access latency. The average access latency can be reduced by using at least three factors: one related to the frequency of access to the pull content; second, the update cycle of the pull content determined by the Web content providers; and third, the response delay for fetching pull content from the content provider to the proxy gateway. Pull content, such as documents, having the greatest average access latency are sorted and a predetermined number of the documents are prefetched into the cache. Push services are optimized by iteratively estimating a state of each of the mobile users to determine relevant push content to be forward to the mobile user.

Abstract: A furnace is heated by a burner that can be selectively operated by either air-fuel or oxy-fuel combustion. The burner comprises a conduit for fuel, a conduit for air, a conduit for oxidant, and control means for regulating flow through the air and oxidant conduits. An air-fuel fired furnace can be modified by addition of the oxidant and fuel conduits and the control means for regulating flow through air and oxidant conduits.

Abstract: Heat in a stream of combustion products obtained from a glassmelting furnace heated by oxy-fuel combustion is passed to incoming glassmaking materials in a heat exchanger without requiring reduction of the temperature of the stream yet without causing softening of the glassmaking material.

Abstract: Combustion of hydrocarbon liquids and solids is achieved with less formation of NOx by feeding a small amount of oxygen into the fuel stream.

Abstract: A production method, comprising the steps of preparing a pre-compression green sheet including ceramic powder and a binder resin and compressing the pre-compression green sheet to obtain compressed green sheet: wherein a difference (??g) between a pre-compression sheet density (?g1) of the pre-compression green sheet and a post-compression sheet density (?g2) of the compressed green sheet is expressed by ??g=?g2??g1, and a sheet contraction rate (??g/?g1) as a ratio of the difference (??g) to the pre-compression sheet density (?g1) is 1% or higher.

Abstract: A process for removing blisters (large bubbles in a glassmelt) and seeds (small bubbles in a glassmelt) from a glassmelt by feeding helium bubbles having a diameter between about 0.5 cm and about 3 cm at a prescribed flow rate and location to effectively produce a substantially bubble-free article.

Abstract: A driver unit 2 for striking out a staple, and a clincher unit 3 for clinching of legs of a staple are separated vertically from each other. The driver unit 2 and the clincher unit 3, respectively, are provided with drive motors M1, M2. Encoders 21, 40 are formed on respective drive shafts 12, 30, which drive the driver unit 2 and the clincher unit 3, to generate pulse signals P1, P2 upon rotation of the respective drive shafts. A control device 47 inputs thereinto the pulse signals P1, P2 to count the same, and the respective drive motors M1, M2 are controlled by the control device 47 on the basis of count values.

Abstract: Combustion of hydrocarbon liquids and solids is achieved with less formation of NOx by feeding a small amount of oxygen into the fuel stream.