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Introduction
The state of a physical system is the mathematical description of our knowledge of it, and provides information on its future and past. A state...
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2 Quantum Tomographic Methods
The state of a physical system is the mathematical object that provides a complete information on the system. The knowledge of the state is...
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9 Quantum Operations on Qubitsand Their Characterization
Information encoded in quantum system has to obey rules of quantum physics which impose strict bounds on state estimation and on possible...
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8 Characterization of Quantum Devices
Using quantum tomography and a single entangled state it is possible to characterize completely a quantum device, a channel, or a measuring...
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9. Switched Scalable Video Coding Systems
Scalable video coding means that a video sequence is only encoded once and the coded bitstream has the capability of sending any sub-bitstream...
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4. Stability of Nonlinear Switched and Impulsive Systems
In this chapter, we shall study the stability of nonlinear switched and impulsive systems of the form...
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1. Examples and Modelling of Switched and Impulsive Systems
When you begin to read this book, you may ask: “what is a switched and impulsive system?” This is a question that may be best answered through...
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VO Activities at the Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
This paper summarizes the VO activities at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Cfa has expertise covering virtually all branches...
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A C + + Parser for VOTables
This paper provides a brief description of C + + Parser for VOTables. The parser is developed by Persistent Systems in association with IUCAA as part...
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Automatic Detection-Extraction-Classification for a Large Number of Stellar Spectra from Slitless Wide Field Spectroscopy. A Project for AVO
The distribution of spectral types in extended stellar systems in galaxies can be a powerful mine of information regarding:...
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The Astronomical Data Warehouse
The idea of the astronomical data warehouse has arisen as the natural extension of current trends in astronomical data archives, and from an analysis...
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Building the Infrastructure for the National Virtual Observatory: An Information Technology Research Initiative of the National Science Foundation
The U.S. National Science Foundation is sponsoring the development of the infrastructure for the National Virtual Observatory via its Information...
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Information Hub of the Russian Virtual Observatory
The ultimate goal of the Russian Virtual Observatory (RVO) initiative is to provide every astronomer with on-line access to the rich volumes of data...
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Building Interoperable NASA Archives
Over the past decades NASA has developed an extensive set of archives for space astronomy data. These archives are organized along mission,...
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Using XML-Schema to Model Data from Present and Future Astronomical Databases
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) has now become an almost inescapable tool for the exchange of formatted data over the World Wide Web and is now...
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Wide-Field X-Ray Monitoring as a Data Source for the Virtual Observatory
We refer on novel X-ray telescopes with high sensitivity as well as large field of view of order of 1 000 square degrees or even more. The results...
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Laplacean Ideology for Preliminary Orbit Determination and Moving Celestial Body Identification in Virtual Epoch
Any CCD frames with stars or galaxies or clusters and other images must be studied for a searching of moving celestial objects, namely asteroids,...
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HyperLeda: Virtual Instruments for Extragalactic Astronomy
HyperLeda offers a series of tools of interest for Galactic and extra-galactic astronomy. The most prominent service is the LEDA catalogue which...
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A Practical Approach to Catalogued-Data Visualisation
Catalogued data is one of the ways information will be collected from VO. The selected material will contain many physical quantities (columns) and...