... the fiveforce model, identifies the important impact of five elements to the performance of an enterprise The five forces are: threat of new entrants, rivalry among existing firms, threat of substitute ... there are nowadays a lot of different national design codes in the world such as ACI of the US, BS of the United Kingdom, EC of Europe, JIS of Japan, SNIP of Russian, and TCVN of Vietnam… Although ... Statistics Office of Vietnam, Statistics Office, Ministry of Construction, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Department of Construction as well as from newspapers, media, internet, etc 1.6 Structure of the...
... model is composed of many delicate tissue voxels, the simulation of which would be quite time-consuming even for workstations Therefore for the saving of simulation time, often part of the human body ... understanding and endless support for me has also been an important source of motivation for me in the pursuit of the scientific path Thanks a lot for your caring and love iii List of Publications [1] Z ... iii List of Publications iv Table of Contents v List of Tables viii List of Figures ix List of Symbols xiii List of Acronyms...
... compression rate for video signal CBR and VBR stand for constant bit rate and variable bit rate, respectively SIF stands for source input format HalfD1 stands for video size of 352 × 480 pixels for one ... video transmission system: (a) a video transmitter, (b) a video receiver This system uses MPEG-2 as video-compression formats and IEEE802.11b wireless LAN unit forwirelesstransmissionof MPEG-2 ... maximum transmission rate, software called “Iperf ” was used This software can measure the maximum transmissionof a network This software was installed onto different personal computers One of these...
... level of 90% (app.D, p 84-86) 4.1.10 Demographic profile of supermarkets’ non-users and heavy-users The demographic profile of heavy users in the sample is similar to the profile described for ... the actual evaluations of the stores’ performance, the research tries to uncover the shoppers’ expectations of this kind of store In addition, the demographic profile of the store’ users and ... viability of supermarkets in Vietnam and give some ideas for performance’s improvement 1.3 Research objectives • to identify demographic and psychographic profile of shoppers and non-shoppers of this...
... Designing for Profitability in the Physical Layer ofWireless Networks Introduction Growth in wireless services is increasing the number of copper and fiber cables that ... full expectations of subscribers if the needs of Operations, with its own set of measurements and benchmarks, are ignored Designing for Profitability (see Figure 2) Realization of this customer/supplier ... Cross-connect Page Designing for Profitability Foundation of Connectivity – Increasing Profits through Operations Connectivity is more than a set of discrete products for terminating cables On the...
... Study of Molecular Dynamics: Second Round http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13253 Report of the Committee on Proposal Evaluation for Allocation of Supercomputing Time for the Study of Molecular ... describes the work and transmits the final report of the Committee on Proposal Evaluation for Allocation of Supercomputing Time for the Study of Molecular Dynamics, Second Round The committee ... experts to evaluate the proposals submitted in response to the aforementioned RFP The committee of 17 was chaired by Dr Robert L Jernigan, Director of the Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological...
... and fair view of the financial position and profit or loss of a reporting entity Reporting entity means any enterprise within the scope of International Accounting Standards For sake of example ... reporting It is only a matter of time before the bulk of financial information is made available almost exclusively on the Internet That this standard proposes that much of the information to be disclosed ... this form is therefore recognition of an inevitable trend in reporting The proposal also overcomes the objection that the cost of printing the data required to be disclosed would in the case of...
... temperature histories for these fluences The peak temperature occurs approximately at a time of 15 ns The temperature profiles across the thickness of the silicon layer are shown in Fig for a laser fluence, ... real, n^,+i= 1.46 Utilizing the formalism of the characteristic transmission matrix, the lumped structure reflectivity and transmissivity can be obtained The mth layer of thickness d,, having a 750 ... (la) and (lb) Such changes were accounted for in the picosecond irradiation of thin c-Si films3 by assuming an average film temperature for the fitting of the measured optical properties In this...
... proposed for similar reasons More precisely, authors of [10] propose a GA for achieving the optimal transmission with respect to QoS goals (minimization of the bit-error rate, minimizing of power ... performance is also the target of the cognitive controller built using multilayer feed-forward neural network [13] The controller performs this task for different channels in IEEE 802.11 wireless ... use of Bayesian networks in support of user modelling, as a method for evaluating, in a qualitative and quantitative manner, elements of the user behaviour and consequently updating the user profile...
... non-uniform partitioning of the [0, 1] segment; (b) uniform partitioning of interval I2 following procedure: for each of the JN combinations of NP-point intervals, • Perform a random permutation of ... form) of the distribution of the interference gain for one interferer Using this result, we are able to obtain a histogram for G’s distribution in the presence of multiple interferers For this ... up of a huge amount of elements In order to construct a typical set with a reasonable value for ℓ, we propose to accommodate the abovementioned method by performing a non-uniform partitioning of...
... nucleotides In addition, the complexation of Li+ ion stabilizes the conformation of the cyclononane ring of 1, resulting in a rather simple situation of discrimination amongst the nucleotides ... K(UMP) = 710 M-1 ([Li+] = mM and π = mN · m-1) Therefore, conditions suitable for discrimination of the nucleotides and for most efficient binding of a single nucleotide component can be selected ... 4A, the binding constants of the nucleotides to the monolayer of gradually decreased as the surface pressure increased This is because expansion of the molecular area of by binding to the nucleotides...
... without affecting the outage performance of the system For the sake of the simplicity and in order to focus on the impact of the bursty transmission on the lifetime of the network, the analysis ... lifetime of the network when the transmitter is characterized by high “offline” energy costs; the impact of the bursty transmission on the secrecy performance of the system is beyond the scope of this ... Secrecy Performance Due to the broadcast nature of the transmission, the source message is also received by the eavesdropper node E via the direct link S → E The secrecy performance of MUD with...
... single set of beamforming weights for the users) For the indoor channel of interest to us, a reasonable choice of the tile size is 18 contiguous subcarriers (i.e., frequency “bin”) by 24 OFDM symbols ... subframe are reserved for the transmissionof sounding pilots In each of these OFDM symbols, pilot symbols from different user antennas are interleaved in the subcarrier dimension, for example, user ... estimation and tracking of the time-frequency covariance structure of the channel, and is therefore potentially less robust For the indoor system parameters considered, the performance of the two techniques...
... be performed The rest of this section is composed of the presentation and the analysis of the results of WUSN experiments These results are presented as examples of the successful use of the ... need of taking WC measurements during a set of experiments is another reason for the use of soil moisture sensors as part of the testbed infrastructure The soil texture and the WC must be informed ... selecting only a subset of the nodes The selected nodes for an experiment are the ones previously qualified to perform the RSS measurements Therefore, before using the sensor nodes for the WUSN experiments,...
... first provide a closed-form analysis for uncoded transmission The results also characterize performance of coded transmission before channel decoding (raw BEP) A single OFDM subcarrier with Rayleigh ... zeroforcing reception, particularly for high SNRs 4.2 Closed-form BEP calculation for ZF-SAIC using M-ary ASK fortransmission over Rayleigh fading channels In the following, we derive closed form ... SAIC performs worse than M -ary QAM transmissionfor infinite CIR due to the reduced diversity degree of 1/2 However, for finite CIRs ASK transmission in combination with SAIC outperforms QAM transmission...
... first provide a closed-form analysis for uncoded transmission The results also characterize performance of coded transmission before channel decoding (raw BEP) A single OFDM subcarrier with Rayleigh ... zeroforcing reception, particularly for high SNRs 4.2 Closed-form BEP calculation for ZF-SAIC using M-ary ASK fortransmission over Rayleigh fading channels In the following, we derive closed form ... SAIC performs worse than M -ary QAM transmissionfor infinite CIR due to the reduced diversity degree of 1/2 However, for finite CIRs ASK transmission in combination with SAIC outperforms QAM transmission...
... basic SIS algorithm with prior proposal pdf) and performance The number of bits that differ between the two arguments SENSOR MOTION For the sake of the derivation of the PF algorithms in the previous ... a very large number of particles for adequate performance It also justifies the effort in developing the alternative algorithms MSIS and CRPF An instance of a sensor track for the same simulation ... standard SIS (SSIS) algorithm for the procedure based on the prior proposal pdf In general, the performance of an SIS algorithm is highly dependent on the design of an efficient importance function,...
... interoperation between different transport protocols for the wired and wireless networks Through the use of the edge proxy located at the boundary of the wired and wireless networks, we demonstrate the ability ... outperforms the first loss model For example, there is over dB performance gain of the second model over the first model at ES /NI = dB for the case of GOBs/packet This suggests the advisability of ... With the use of an edge proxy, the corresponding optimal performance obtainable is demonstrated in Figure 11 under the constraint of the same fixed wirelesstransmission rate of 128 Kbps For comparison,...
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