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... description ofthe group task for that particular learning activity The student alsohasthe opportunity to view their responses andthe responses ofthe other members in their group tothe initial, topical ... through the site A suggested enhancement tothe navigational capability ofthe site was a text-based replication of site navigation bar at the top of each page to make scrolling tothe bottom ofthe ... use ofthe password; navigation within the site; their opinion on the layout, design, graphics; clarity of information; and, ability to complete online questionnaires and make comments within the...
... for theresearch 1.2 Aims oftheresearch 1.3 Objectives oftheresearch 1.4 Scope oftheresearch 1.5 Significance oftheresearch 1.6 Structural organization ofthe thesis Chapter 2: LITERATURE ... selecting the topic, the aims, the objectives, the scope, the significance andthe structure ofthe thesis Chapter - “Literature Review” - presents the overview ofthe previous researches related tothe ... Compositionality relates to meaning The meaning of a construction is compositional if it is derived transparently from the meaning of its elements Non-compositionality thus means the meaning of the...
... seen, the results ofthe UMTS link offer the worse results, due tothe delay ofthe operator’s network andthe bandwidth limited by the radio coverage andthe available resources in the cell The ... step-by-step mode has been implemented On the map, the positions and movements ofthe vehicles are depicted along with their speed and distance tothe rest of cars The amount of transferred data, throughput, ... according tothe latter mark to either the NEMO or MANET routing tables Packets matched with a NEMO routing table are transmitted tothe tunnel bound tothe HA, while packets matched with the MANET...
... Application Node Monitor QoS Monitor Resource Monitor Figure 7: Architecture of monitoring framework mapping of components onto nodes need not be specified in the metadata that describes the application ... management algorithms and middleware platforms and improve flexibility (iii) Designof a framework determines its performance and applicability Thedesignof key modules and entities ofthe resource ... the scalability, and therefore the applicability, ofthe framework To apply a framework like RACE to a wide range of open DRE system, it must scale as the number of nodes and application in the...
... determined with the aid of computer simulations It is easy to show that if the adaptive step-size ofthe algorithm is fixed at andthe initial weights are set at 1, the APIC reduces tothe CPIC Under these ... derivations The effect ofthedesign parameters ofthe APIC receiver, such as the adaptive step-size andthe initial weights, are investigated It is shown that with the appropriate selection of these ... parallel-bit data, Tb is the transmission interval for each block of data, pτ (t) is defined as the rectangular pulse waveform with unit amplitude and duration τ, ωq and φq are the frequency and random...
... of forward error correction coding (FEC) System capacity (for BER = 10 −12 ) is shown to be 23 Gb/s without coding, and 75 Gb/s with a (255,239) Reed Solomon code The effect of non-rectangular ... non-rectangular spectra on receiver sensitivity is investigated for both OOK and FSK transmission, assuming the system (de)multiplexer filters to be N’th order Butterworth bandpass Although narrower filters ... budget, it is shown that system penalty due to filter shape may be kept < dB by employing filters with N > Moreover spectrumsliced FSK systems using optical preamplifier receivers are shown, for the...
... pneumonia treatment They also guided the development ofthe clinical documentation that auto-populated the progress note ofthe visit, a key to enhancing the usability ofthe tool Auto-generated ... usability testing, training, and implementation ofstudy Page of 10 Methods /Design The iCPR study was designed to test the feasibility and effectiveness of incorporating the strep throat and pneumonia ... preparation) These data were then reviewed, and additional modifications were incorporated into the prototype to achieve the final iCPR tools Figures and depict the finalized components ofthe iCPR tool...
... shifting the position ofthe trunk in order to change the position ofthe ZMP ofthe exoskeleton such that the combined ZMP ofthe human and exoskeleton system remains within the support polygon MIT ... patient to walk Ithasalso demonstrated the capability to increase the strength of an abled-body individual The HAL uses DC motor with harmonic drive to power the movement ofthe hip and knee ... Zealand, allows the paraplegic user to stand and walk without the use of crutches or other supports User commands the motion ofthe exoskeleton using a joystick, and REX executes a gait trajectory...
... tothe complexity ofthe ML detector for higher order modulations, we confine ourself tostudythe ML detector with BPSK modulation In this case, the contribution ofthe relay tothe ML detector ... the derived conditional BEP, by replacing the IBEP at the relay with its average, it gives the ABEP ofthe A-ML detector To arrive at a closed-form conditional BEP ofthe ML detector for further ... back tothe transmitter to provide the CSIT In addition, the finite optimal policy, which is referred to a finite number of different transmission modes, is used to reflect the limitations of the...
... is known tothe receiver andthe CR is used, andalso for the case that CSI is unknown tothe receiver andthe QR is used Therefore, we list signal design criteria for both the CR andthe QR here ... performance ofthe QR, it is desirable to 1.2 REVIEW OF QUADRATIC-FORM RECEIVERS AND RELATED TOPICS extend this technique to other systems To investigate the possibility of extending the idea ofthe ... 54–59, 61–72], it is still desirable to develop some new, simple and tight bounds on the PEP ofthe QR for USTM to facilitate signal design In addition tothe receiver designand error performance...
... node to transmit and receive at the same time on the same frequency band, so the transmitter andthe receiver either share the bandwidth, or work alternately Because of its simplicity, half-duplex ... vary widely in amplitude and phase When the amplitude ofthe signal experiences a low value it is termed fading andthe capability ofthe wireless channel is severely limited Research efforts have ... is the fraction ofthe scattered component received at the first channel, θ is the fraction ofthe LOS component received at the first channel, and ζ is the ratio ofthe total LOS components to the...
... factors that affect the quality ofthe solution obtained: the mapping of tasks onto processors, the ordering ofthe tasks andthe selection ofthe voltage levels ofthe processors Most literature [23, ... We shall now give the complexity ofthe EGMS algorithm Let CCP T O and CSEL be the complexities of CPTO() and SelectRemapTask() respectively (The complexities of these two algorithms shall be shown ... [37] needs to monitor and regulate the patient’s heat beat and at the same time, it needs to consume as little energy as possible to prolong its battery life and reduce the occurrence of battery...
... transporter CTR1 has been shown to play a crucial role in cisplatin uptake and knockout ofthe CTR1 alleles can lead to resistance to cisplatin toxicity [5] On the other hand, paclitaxel and doxorubicin ... analysis was also performed using the Reactome database [15] Ingenuity Pathway Analysis software (Ingenuity Systems) was used to identify and draw networks relevant tothe pathways identified Statistical ... generation of chemoresistance A better understanding of these mechanisms may lead tothe development of novel strategies to circumvent the problem of drug resistance Background In the United States,...
... on the relative phenol composition ofthe samples The first PC explained 19 % ofthe variation and mainly separated the samples on time andtreatment Samples taken from the roots on the day of ... 2] Many of these are associated with the production of secondary metabolites to delay or stop the establishment of fungi or insects within the tree [2, 12-14] Oleoresins produced in the resin ... defences to restrict the spread of invading fungi and insects The first line of defence in a Norway spruce trees is the bark The combination ofthe physical properties of tough lignified and suberized...
... strength loss Emphasis is also placed on the capacity ofthe foundation to sustain the base shear and overturning forces transmitted from the superstructure, and for the adequacy ofthe connections ... Soil-Pile-Interaction Design Due tothe complexity ofthe problem andthe unavailability of standardized and validated analysis techniques, designers routinely ignore or greatly simplify the presence of pile ... According to Clause 5.4.2(1), under seismic conditions, the pile should be designed to resist the inertial forces transmitted from the superstructure onto the head ofthe pile The pile needs to be...
... campus It is the most rural ofthe four campuses Thepopulationofthe county is 585,733 The city the campus is located in has a populationof 93,508 (Bureau of Economic and Business Research, ... more ofthe predictor variables One ofthe benefits of this study is the insight it provides into subpopulations of students The researchers observed significant differences in predicted to actual ... 49% ofthe men had earned a bachelor’s degree Within five years of initial enrollment 65% ofthe Asian/Pacific Islander, 57% ofthe White, 54% ofthe American Indian, 39% ofthe Hispanic, and...
... by-product ofthe chlorine bleaching processes www.cartoonstock.com/ /r/recycling_paper.asp 15 An additional reason to recycle paper: There is a lot ofit in your garbage, andit adds to landfill ... white office paper, 12 trees for newsprint 25 m3 of water 10,061 kWh of electricity 680 gallons (2.57 m3) of oil ton of uncoated virgin (non-recycled) printing and office paper uses 24 trees ton ... cutting more trees * with primary and secondary treatmentof wastewater 13 Recycling First off: Is it better to recycle than to incinerate or landfill? - Recycling → re-use of fibers but energy...
... relative importance ofthe various kinds ofdata written to disk, both in terms of how much ofthe live blocks they occupy on disk and in terms of how much ofthedata written tothe log they represent ... Mbytes randomly from the file, and finally reads the file sequentially again The bandwidth of each ofthe five phases is shown separately Sprite LFS has a higher write bandwidth andthe same read bandwidth ... files in the same directory together into a single output segment Another possibility is to sort the blocks by the time they were last modified and group blocks of similar age together into new...