The original aptX algorithm was developed in the 1980s by Dr. Stephen Smyth as part of his Ph.D research at Queen's University Belfast School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; its design is based on time domain ADPCM principles and eschews psychoacoustic auditory masking techniques.
Along with the rest of the Hawaiian Islands, Oahu is one of the largest and northernmost islands of Polynesia. In the greatest dimension, this volcanic island is 44 miles (71 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) across. The length of the shoreline is 227 miles (365 km).
NiÊ»ihau or Niihau (/ËniËhaÊ/ ; Hawaiian : [ËniÊiËhau]) is the westernmost and seventh largest of the inhabited Hawaiian Islands in the U.S. state of HawaiÊ»i, lying 17.5 miles (15.2 nmi; 28.2 km) southwest of KauaÊ»i across the Kaulakahi Channel and having an area of 69.5 square miles (180 km 2).i Ê» ihau is located about 18 miles (29 km) west of KauaÊ»i, and the tiny, uninhabited island of Lehua lies 0.7 miles (0.61 nmi; 1.1 km) north of Ni Ê» ihau. Ni Ê» ihau's dimensions are 6.2 miles by 18.6 miles (10 km x 30 km).