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To convert an asset or liability into a currency other than the regular trading currency.

Quantize

To express or convert an asset or liability as a quantity of a currency other than the one in which it usually trades. For example, Americans trading stocks on the IPE in London must report their assets in dollars for United States tax purposes. See also: Foreign exchange.
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Furthermore, analysis and determination of support region for quasilogarithmic quantizers and the same source were presented in [8].
Support Region of Semilogarithmic Quantizer for Laplacian Source
The superscript u stands for user and may refer to either Alice, in which case the quantizer is [Q.sup.A] (*) , or to Bob, for which the quantizer is [Q.sup.B] (*) .
A New Low-BMR Quantization Method for Wireless Channel Characteristics-based Secret Key Generation
The system is operating on frame-by-frame basis, where the quantizer is adapted to the short-term estimate of the frame variance.
Three-level delta modulation for Laplacian source coding
Section 2 demonstrates the problem discussed and the CHO network; distributed protocol and logarithmic quantizer are illustrated there in detail.
Synchronization of Coupled Harmonic Oscillators Using Quantized Sampled Position Data
Q(s) is transfer function of ideal quantizer and [Q.sub.e](s) is error characteristics of known saw-tooth shape with zero mean and peak-to-peak value of one quantization step q.
Analysis of dithered measurement based on Widrow's quantization theory
Hemami, "Sequential design of multiple description scalar quantizers," in Proc.
JND-based Multiple Description Image Coding
The G.711 standard (G.711 quantizer) defines fixed length coding that provides high quality of reconstructed signal for fixed bit rates [1].
Switched quasi-logarithmic quantizer with Golomb--Rice coding
The same bit allocation is utilized in all implemented modifications of the BTC algorithm, so that, for the given fixed bit rates of the three abovementioned quantizers, the total bit rate depends on the frame size, which is the only variable left in Eq.
Modified BTC Algorithm for Audio Signal Coding
for l=1: L [Q.sup.l] = {[c.sup.1.sub.l]} // initialization by using [C.sup.2.sub.1] [M.sup.l] = mean([Q.sup.l]) // [M.sup.l] is the centroid of quantizer [Q.sup.l] for k=2:K D(i,j) = d{[M.sup.i], // compute the initial distance [c.sup.k.sub.j]) idx = compute indicator(D) // idx(j), an indicator computed as Algorithm 3, for j=1:L [Q.sup.idx(j)] = [Q.sup.idx(j)] // update quantizers [union] [c.sup.k.sub.j] [M.sup.idx(j)] = // update quantizer centroids mean([Q.sup.idx(j)]) Algorithm 3 Computing idx from distance matrix D for l = 1: L idx(l) = l //initialize indicator for i = 1:L-1 for j = i +1:L if D(idx(i), i) + D(idx(j), j) < D(idx(j), i) + D(idx(i), j) swap(idx(i), idx(j)) // swap indicator 4.
Enhanced VLAD
where N is the average number of quantization levels of quantizers [Q.sub.1] and [Q.sub.2], whereas f is compression factor.
Speech signal coding using forward adaptive quantization and simple transform coding
For each of the k range two quantizers are designed: 1) quantizer which provides the smallest quantization error or minimum distortion if the assumed distribution of the amplitude of the signal source is described by Laplacian function and 2) quantizer which provides the smallest quantization error when assumed distribution of sources is described by Gaussian function.
Switched scalar optimal [mu]-law quantization with adaptation performed to both the variance and the distribution of speech signal
On our disposal are k quantizers designed for variances [[??].sup.2.sub.p], p = 1, ..., k, that have been log-uniformly distributed in the dynamic range of variances B = 20 log ([[sigma].sub.max] / [[sigma].sub.min])
Design of Switched Quantizers and Speech Coding Based on Quasi-Logarithmic Compandor
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