In the spring of 1986, I began the study of a new skill in computer-aided design and drafting (CADD). My intent was to fulfill one of my life long interests concerning the Pearl Harbor attack by producing scaled drawings ...

This dissertation reconstructs the accentual history of the Japonic languages (i.e., the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages). Applying the comparative method, the reconstruction of Proto Japonic (PI) accent is based on modern ...

Iterative decoding techniques have been receiving more and more attentions with the invention of turbo codes and the rediscovery of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. An important aspect in the study of iterative ...