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In conventional focused beamforming (CFB), there is a known tradeoff between the active aperture size of the ultrasound transducer array and the resulting image quality. Increasing the size of the active aperture leads to an increase in the image quality of the ultrasound system at the expense of increased system cost. An alternate approach is to get rid of the requirement of having consecutive active receive elements and instead place them in a random order in a larger aperture. This, in turn, creates an undersampled situation where there are only M active elements placed in a larger aperture, which can accommodate N consecutive receive elements (with M < N). It is possible to formulate and solve the above-mentioned undersampling situation using a compressed sensing (CS) approach. In our previous work, we had proposed Gaussian undersampling strategy for reducing the number of active receive elements. In this work, we introduce a novel framework, namely Gaussian undersampling-based CS framework (GAUCS) with wave atoms as a sparsifying basis for CFB imaging method. The performance of the proposed method is validated using simulation and in vitro phantom data. Without an increase in the active elements, it is found that the proposed GAUCS framework improved the lateral resolution (LR) and image contrast by 27% and 1.5 times, respectively, while using 16 active elements and by 39% and 1.1 times, respectively, while using 32 active elements. Thus, the GAUCS framework can play a significant role in improving the performance, especially, of affordable point-of-care ultrasound systems.

The emissions from coal power plants have serious implication on the environment protection, and there is an increasing effort around the globe to control these emissions by the flue gas cleaning technologies. This research was carried out on the limestone forced oxidation (LSFO) flue gas desulfurization (FGD) system installed at the 2*660 MW supercritical coal-fired power plant. Nine input variables of the FGD system: pH, inlet sulfur dioxide (SO2), inlet temperature, inlet nitrogen oxide (NOx), inlet O-2, oxidation air, absorber slurry density, inlet humidity, and inlet dust were used for the development of effective neural network process models for a comprehensive emission analysis constituting outlet SO2, outlet Hg, outlet NOx, and outlet dust emissions from the LSFO FGD system. Monte Carlo experiments were conducted on the artificial neural network process models to investigate the relationships between the input control variables and output variables. Accordingly, optimum operating ranges of all input control variables were recommended. Operating the LSFO FGD system under optimum conditions, nearly 35% and 24% reduction in SO(2)emissions are possible at inlet SO(2)values of 1500 mg/m(3)and 1800 mg/m(3), respectively, as compared to general operating conditions. Similarly, nearly 42% and 28% reduction in Hg emissions are possible at inlet SO(2)values of 1500 mg/m(3)and 1800 mg/m(3), respectively, as compared to general operating conditions. The findings are useful for minimizing the emissions from coal power plants and the development of optimum operating strategies for the LSFO FGD system.