International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 17-20, 1994 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / Fairchild is presently developing a high-rate telemetry collection and formatting component for one of NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth’s key missions. Because of the complexity and new technology involved, discrete event simulation tools have played a key role in the development process. This paper serves as a brief introduction to this component and to the model developed with the simulation tools.

This thesis deals with conversion of text documents from the format of so called formatting objects (XSL FO) to OpenDocument format (ODF). This conversion can be useful e. g. for distribution, printing or additional modification of a document in a text editor which supports ODF (e. g. OpenOffice). The thesis starts with description of both formats and it mentions basic elements that the formats offer for defining a text document. A comparison of both formats and description of possibilities of converting documents from XSL FO to ODF follows right after. The proved-by-practise and widely available XSLT transformation is chosen for the conversion implementation. It is illustrated on a sample application which enables to launch the conversion from an internet browser, from OpenOffice or from a command line.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 17-20, 1994 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / With today's telemetry systems, an hour-long analog test tape can be digitized in one hour or less. However, the digitized data produced by today's telemetry systems is usually not in a format that can be directly analyzed by the test engineer's analysis tools. The digitized data must be formatted before analysis can begin. The data formatting process can take from one to eight hours depending on the amount of data, the power of the system's host computer, and the complexity of the analysis software's data format. If more than one analysis package is used by the test engineer, the data has to be formatted separately for each package. Using today's high-speed RISC processors and large memory technology, a real-time Flexible Data Formatter can be added to the Telemetry Front End to perform this formatting function. The Flexible Data Formatter (FDF) allows the telemetry user to program the front-end hardware to output the telemetry test data in a format compatible with the user's analysis software. The FDF can also output multiple data files, each in a different format for supporting multiple analysis packages. This eliminates the file formatting step, thus reducing the time to process the data from each test by a factor of two to nine.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 30-November 02, 1995 / Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada / OSC is presently developing a high-rate telemetry collection and formatting component for NASA's EOS-AM1 spacecraft. This device, called the Science Formatting Equipment, is capable of collecting data at aggregate rates exceeding 130 Mbps. The collected data is formatted into CCSDS compatible data structures, error coded, and then routed either to a downlink output or to a recording device at data rates up to 150 Mbps. This paper serves as a brief introduction to this component.

by Poon Chi-cheung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-84). / Abstract / Acknowledgments / Preface / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Font Systems --- p.1 / Representations of Character Images --- p.1 / Characteristics of Chinese Font System --- p.3 / Large Character Set --- p.3 / Condensed Strokes --- p.4 / Low Repetition Rate --- p.5 / WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) --- p.6 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Human Visual System and Gray Scale Font --- p.9 / Human Visual System --- p.9 / Physiology --- p.9 / Spatial Frequencies --- p.10 / How much resolution is enough --- p.11 / Screen and Printer --- p.12 / Raster Display Devices --- p.13 / Printer --- p.14 / Resolution --- p.15 / Gray Scale Font --- p.15 / Generation of Gray Scale Font --- p.18 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Digital Filtering Method for Gray Scale Font --- p.19 / Filtering Process --- p.19 / Weighted Functions --- p.21 / Generation of Gray Scale Character --- p.23 / Results --- p.24 / More Experiments --- p.24 / Problems --- p.26 / Speed and Storage --- p.26 / Impression of Strokes --- p.27 / Thin strokes in the small-size character --- p.30 / New Approach to Generate Gray Scale Font --- p.30 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Rasterization Algorithms --- p.32 / Outline Font --- p.32 / TrueType Font --- p.33 / Scan Conversion --- p.35 / Basic Outline-to-Bitmap Conversion --- p.35 / Scan-converting Polygon --- p.36 / Rasterization of a character --- p.36 / Intersecting Points and Ranges --- p.37 / Straight Lines --- p.37 / Quadratic Bezier Curves --- p.38 / Implementation Techniques --- p.39 / Approximation of quadratic Bezier curve by straight lines --- p.39 / Simplification of the Filling Process --- p.41 / The Rasterization Algorithm --- p.45 / Chapter Chapter 5: --- Direct Rasterization with Gray Scale --- p.46 / Rasterization with Gray Scale --- p.46 / Determination of Gray Value of Boundary-pixel --- p.50 / Preliminary Results --- p.54 / Hinting --- p.56 / Rasterization with Hinting --- p.56 / Strokes Migration --- p.57 / Hints Finding --- p.59 / Chapter Chapter 6: --- Results and Conclusion --- p.62 / Quality --- p.66 / Comparison with Black-and-White Character --- p.66 / Hinted Against Unhinted --- p.71 / Generation Speeds --- p.75 / Discussion and Comments --- p.78 / Practical Font System --- p.79 / Conclusion --- p.80 / Bibliography --- p.82

As people read more and longer texts on the web, the simple formatting options that exists in todays browsers creates worse results than necessary. On behalf of Opera Software in Linköping, a better algorithm has been implemented in Javascript with the purpose of delivering a visually better experience for the reader. The implementation is first and foremost for mobile devices and therefore a large part of the thesis has been the evaluation and optimization of performance.

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ITC/USA 2011 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Seventh Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2011 / Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada / The Spectrum Efficient Technology Science and Technology (SET S&T) Program is sponsoring the development of the Dynamic Commutation and Decommutation System (DCDS), which optimizes telemetry data transmission in real time. The goal of DCDS is to improve spectrum efficiency - not through improving RF techniques but rather through changing and optimizing contents of the telemetry stream during system test. By allowing the addition of new parameters to the telemetered stream at any point during system test, DCDS removes the need to transmit measured data unless it is actually needed on the ground. When compared to serial streaming telemetry, real time re-formatting of the telemetry stream does require additional processing onboard the test article. DCDS leverages advances in microprocessor technology to perform this processing while meeting size, weight, and power constraints of the test environment. Performance gains of the system have been achieved by significant multi-threading of the application, allowing it to run on modern multi-core processors. Two other enhancing technologies incorporated into DCDS are the Java programming language and lossless compression.

The purpose of this research was to determine if presentation format, given a particular task to be performed, would affect the decision-making process of financial decision makers. The problem motivating this study is the potential for managers to make inefficient decisions when they use reports which are presented inappropriately for a given task.