... which achieve the specified information. A set of recursion relationships for the solution of this problem is derived. (Author). ...

The experiment investigated the effect of motivation on sinus arrhythmia, heart beat, and information processing rate. The two way analyses of variance which were performed showed that motivation affected sinus arrhythmia and information processing rate a...

NIST Achieves Record-Low Error Rate for Quantum Information Processing with One Qubit magnesium particles, doped with iron Iron 'Veins' Are Secret of Promising New Hydrogen Storage...

Information about the campaign including objectives, target audiences and campaign history Increasing vaccination rates of adolescents can help us achieve the target goal...

The maximum rates for reliably transmitting classical information over bosonic multiple-access channels (MACs) are derived when the transmitters are restricted to coherent-state encodings. Inner and outer bounds for the ultimate capacity region of the bosonic MAC are also presented. It is shown that the sum-rate upper bound is ...

The second-order achievable rates in typical random number generation problems are considered. In these problems, several researchers have derived the first-order and the second-order achievability rates for general sources using the information-spectrum methods. Although these formulas are ...

... in today's information environment to achieve information superiority. ... PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS, *INFORMATION WARFARE, STRATEGIC ...

I study the informational complexity of active learning in a statistical learning theory framework. Specifically, I derive bounds on the rates of convergence achievable by active learning, under various noise models and under general conditions on the hyp...

available to � and on the achievements of � disabled pupils, students and learners. The type of information the allocation of resources. Disability measurements include rate of claimants on Incapacity Benefit or Severe good relations and foster inclusion (as well as promoting better disability equality) it profiled

The NSWP had two primary goals: to provide demographic information about WIC participants and their families, and to provide national estimates of the case error rate and dollar error within the WIC program. To achieve the first goal, NSWP interviewed app...

Information provided in this report includes indicators for each military service which describe historical trends in, the current status of, and future prospects for: achieving manpower fill rates in critical force units; sustaining manpower skill levels...

A new and improved algorithm for automatic mesocyclone detection is presented and tested on 23 mesocyclonic storms. A small false-alarm rate (4%) and high probability of detection (83%) are achieved for mesocyclone classification. A unique innovation of t...

The feasibility of achieving an information rate to an occupied bandwidth ratio of 3 bits per Hz in digital satellite systems was studied as a solution to the problem of saturation of the frequency band allocated to satellite communications. Taking the 4 ...

The goal of polyhomeostatic control is to achieve a certain target distribution of behaviors, in contrast to homeostatic regulation, which aims at stabilizing a steady-state dynamical state. We consider polyhomeostasis for individual and networks of firing-rate neurons, adapting to achieve target distributions of firing ...

Compression of ECG (electrocardiogram) as a signal with finite rate of innovation (FRI) is proposed in this paper. By modelling the ECG signal as the sum of bandlimited and nonuniform linear spline which contains finite rate of innovation (FRI), sampling theory is applied to achieve effective compression and reconstruction of ECG ...

The purpose of this research study was to determine whether the administration of a comprehensive examination before graduation increases the percentage of students passing the Registered Health Information Administrator certification examination. A t-test for independent means yielded a statistically significant difference between the Registered Health ...

... to Achieve Information Superiority in Stability ... STABILITY, *MISSIONS, INFORMATION EXCHANGE ... THESES, ASYMMETRIC WARFARE, IRAQ ...

Simple and economical measurement of air change rates can be achieved with a passive-type tracer gas doser and sampler. However, this is made more complex by the fact many buildings are not a single fully mixed zone. This means many measurements are required to obtain information on ventilation conditions. In this study, we evaluated ...

Rough set theory (RST) is an emerging technique used to deal with problems in data mining and knowledge acquisition. However, the RST approach has not been widely explored in the field of academic achievement. This investigation developed an improved RST (IMRST) model, which employs linear discriminant analysis to determine a reduct of RST, and analyzed the academic ...

Since the creation of the National Environmental Policy Act in 1970, the United States has required the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rate draft environmental statements (DEISs) for both information adequacy and the impact of the preferred alternative on the environment. In a previous study by Tzoumis and Finegold (2000), these ...

Some aspects of the protocols used for control of the physical link are modeled for a full duplex link with a bit-oriented line protocol, specifically IBM's Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC). Specifically, two performance measures for the SDLC protocol are considered: the maximum average effective data rate which can be achieved and the average ...

This study investigated the importance and meaning of the role of observation in teachers' assessment of student achievement. Seven questions were used as a guide by the researchers: 1) What do teachers mean when they rate observation as their most important source of information for assessing student achievement? ...

In this paper, we investigate the additive Gaussian noise channel with noisy feedback. We consider the setup of linear coding of the feedback information and Gaussian signaling of the message (i.e. Cover-Pombra Scheme). Then, we derive the upper and lower bounds on the largest achievable rate for this setup. We show that these two ...

The study examined the predictive value of adolescents' personality trait ratings by different groups of informants in explaining academic achievement [grade point average (GPA)] while controlling for students' sex and their mothers' education. The Inventory of Child/Adolescent Individual Differences was employed as a measure of ...

Wisden, Tenet, RMST Unreliable IFRC, Fusion, CODA QCRA, ESRT Surge, CentRoute, RBC Table 1--Sensor, routing tree, and link loss rate information. ESRT (Event- to-Sink Reliable Transport) [24], is also to increase or decrease rate in order to achieve the desired event reliability. But ESRT assumes that the sink

a cost�benefit analysis using the access time, access frequency and size information about objects choosing the "best overall" policy if the costs of achieving the former can be justified with its benefits the hit rates over static caching techniques. Machine learning algorithms are used to rate and select

For the hierarchical transmission of two data streams of equal size over a broadcast AWGN channel a new clustered signal constellation 32-Diamond is designed. The optimization of this constellation leads to a pair of achievable rates that is 70 % above the time sharing strategy in one rate when fixing the other one. I. Introduction ...

... Database of articles on military and naval science, operational warfare, joint planning ... Title : Centeralizing to Achieve Information Superiority. ...

... Title : Achieving Information Superiority in Coalition Operations: Seven Imperatives for Success. Corporate Author : SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE ...

Foragers that feed on hidden prey are uncertain about the intake rate they can achieve as they enter a patch. However, foraging success can inform them, especially if they have prior knowledge about the patch quality distribution in their environment. We experimentally tested whether and how red knots (Calidris canutus) use such ...

Shared Authentication Information for Preventing DDoS attacks in Mobile WiMAX Networks Youngwook technologies such as HSDPA and Mobile WiMAX achieve high data rate transmission, making wireless networkingS attack. In this paper, we consider a possible DDoS attack in Mobile WiMAX networks and solve this problem

... The warfighter must have enough information to make informed decisions � but not so much as to drive him into information overload. ...

With the proliferation of multimedia information on the network, automatic rating of web pages becomes more and more important for web management. Obviously image analysis is very important in these kinds of tasks. But to our best knowledge, there are no publications reported on it. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to rate ...

Efficient methods are presented for full-serial and full-parallel implementation of a decoder for the eight-state partial unit memory code of rate 4/8. The proposed high-speed, maximum-likelihood decoder employs a fast Hadamard transform architecture for computing branch metrics, and the concept of coset codes is used to minimize the complexity of hardware implementation. The ...

The relationship of various learning approaches to students' academic achievement, abilities, and other characteristics was examined in a sample of university students in Hong Kong, mainland China, and the United States. The theoretical framework for this project was J. B. Biggs's (1987) theory of student learning approaches. The participants completed the Study Process ...

Rate-adaptive optical transmission techniques adjust information bit rate based on transmission distance and other factors affecting signal quality. These techniques enable increased bit rates over shorter links, while enabling transmission over longer links when regeneration is not available. They are likely to ...

Many developing country cities aspire to modern waste management systems, which are associated with relatively high recycling rates of clean, source separated materials. Most already have informal sector recycling systems, which are driven solely by the revenues derived from selling recovered materials, even though they are saving the formal sector money ...

We derived the oracle summary with the highest ROUGE score that can be achieved by integrating sentence extraction with sentence compression from the reference abstract. The analysis results of the oracle revealed that summarization systems have to assign an appropriate compression rate for each sentence in the document. In accordance with this ...

Although a sinusoidal bias method is introduced to avoid working in the death band for a majority of time, the mechanical dithered ring laser gyro (RLG) still encounters information loss when crossing the zero rate point. A novel lock-in error correction method is proposed which can pick up the lost information and remove the random ...

Prince George's Community College (PGCC) created a Student Outcomes Report in December 1996 that measures course completion, retention, student achievement, program completion, transfer, and certification. Findings indicated that though the course pass rate was 75%, individual course completion ranged from 44% to 100%. Divisional pass ...

The gaps in school achievement among racial and ethnic groups and between students from poor and nonpoor families are well documented. They are large, and have been persistent. This publication is about conditions that help create and perpetuate achievement gaps. It focuses on the many antecedents of differences in school achievement ...

In this paper, we consider some basic concepts behind the design of existing robust perceptual hashing techniques for content identification. We show the limits of robust hashing from the communication perspectives as well as propose an approach that is able to overcome these shortcomings in certain setups. The consideration is based on both achievable ...

... Title : An Information Comparison of Conventional and Adaptive Tests in the Measurement of Classroom Achievement. ...

In recent years a multitude of rate adaptive sensor systems based on different sensor signals have been developed to adapt the pacing rate to the physical load of the patient. In contrast to those systems the closed loop stimulation (CLS) represents a new concept, which regards the pacemaker as part of the cardiocirculatory system. The pacemaker converts ...

Obtaining meaningful information from the test results is a challenge in the split-Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) test method if the specimen does not fail during the test. Although SHPB method is now widely used for high strain rate testing, this limitation has made it difficult to use it for characterization of materials in the intermediate strain ...

Four groups of educational decision makers rated the influence of nine pieces of information on the decsions they made about the educational placement of a handicapped elementary class child. Information regarding the sex, socioeconomic status (SES), and physical attractiveness of the student had an insignificant effect on decisions. ...

In this thesis we study the performance of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography using concepts and techniques of information theory. Two specific tomographic tasks are considered: image reconstruction and image feature classification. For the image reconstruction problem we derive a necessary and sufficient condition for an aperture to be information ...

...programs should achieve equitable rate treatment within categories of borrowers...adoption of differential interest rate programs, institutions may consider...things, the effect that such interest rate structures will have on the achievement...

BackgroundImmunizations are an important component to pediatric primary care. New Mexico is a relatively poor and rural state which has sometimes struggled to achieve and maintain its childhood immunization rates. We evaluated New Mexico's immunization rates between 1996 and 2006. Specifically, we examined the increase in immunization ...

... It was found that at low sampling rates and for a second order Gaussian Markoff process, sampling rate reductions of 38% could be achieved ...

Oblivious transfer (OT) is a two-party primitive which is one of the cornerstones of modern cryptography. We focus on providing information-theoretic security for both parties, hence building OT assuming noisy resources (channels or correlations) available to them. This primitive is about transmitting two strings such that the receiver can obtain one (and only one) of them, ...

One of the most important and likewise most complex parts of the GOCE gradiometer processing is the determination of the angular velocities of the spacecraft about the gradiometer axes. In the nominal GOCE processing this step is called angular rate reconstruction. It is done by combining gradiometer and star sensor attitude information. The gradiometer ...

... itself to remain pre-eminent in the fields ... for Navy Operations in the Information Domain ... information and cyberspace domains to achieve operational ...

... and agencies for Research Development Test and ... of how to achieve information superiority have given rise ... of such related concepts as information ...

... 2010 emphasizes the criticality of achieving information superiority in future ... low cost, compared to high advantage, that information warfare has to ...

... to achieve information superiority and ... INFORMATION SYSTEMS, *INFORMATION TRANSFER ... SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, WARFARE, UNITED ...

... would promote the achievement and sustainability of those ... baselines when determining their Title 10 training ... that since information assurance is a ...

The report addresses the reporting requirements of Public Law 26-26 and the provisions of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) as described in the Guam Department of Education Board adopted District Action Plan (DAP). Public Law 26-26, Section 3106 (a) states that "No later than thirty (30) days following the end of each fiscal year, the Superintendent shall issue a School Performance Report card on the ...

We consider a two-way relay network, where two source nodes, S1 and S2, exchange information through a cluster of relay nodes. The relay nodes receive the sum signal from S1 and S2 in the first time slot. In the second time slot, each relay node multiplies its received signal by a complex coefficient and retransmits the signal to the two source nodes, which leads to a ...

This ex post facto study evaluated Achieving a College Education (ACE) Plus program, a credit-based transition program between a high school district and a community college. Achieving a College Education Plus is an early outreach program. It is designed to aid at-risk students in graduating from high school and making a smooth transition to higher ...

... Accession Number : ADD805217. Title : Achieving the Business Mission Statement with an Integrated Information Support System. ...

This paper explores the ability of students to achieve their optimistic educational scenario (aspirations) and to provide contextual information on the factors which may have influenced their failure to do so. With a large sample of approximately 20,000 respondents from a government longitudinal database, the authors have been able to further define ...

We propose a new protocol of universal entanglement concentration, which converts many copies of an unknown pure state to an exact maximally entangled state. The yield of the protocol, which is outputted as a classical information, is probabilistic, and achieves the entropy rate with high probability, just as nonuniversal entanglement ...

Several recent studies have demonstrated the usefulness of fetal magnetocardiogram (fMCG) actography, a relatively new method of detecting fetal movement that can be performed in conjunction with fMCG assessment of fetal heart rate and rhythm. In this study, we formulate indices of fetal activity that incorporate information from all channels to ...

This fact sheet highlights the statistics of the current status of high schools in the United States. It provides information on the following variables: (1) demography of high school students; (2) students with disabilities; (3) high school student achievement; (4) the schools; (5) school funding; (6) high school graduation rate; (7) ...

Jun 29, 2009 ... A digital Low Rate Information Transmission (LRIT) formatted Weather ... A new Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI) developed by the Lockheed Martin Advanced ... in the image is achieved due to increasing the Imager's scan-mirror ...

Information provided in this report includes indicators for each military service which describe historical trends in, the current status of, and future prospects for: achieving manpower fill rates in critical force units; sustaining manpower skill levels...

Information provided in this report includes indicators for each military service which describe historical trends in, the current status of, and future prospects for: achieving manpower fill rates in critical force units; sustaining manpower skill levels...

We study the nonrandomness of proteome sequences by analysing the correlations that arise between amino acids at a short and medium range, more specifically, between amino acids located 10 or 100 residues apart; respectively. We show that statistical models that consider these two types of correlation are more likely to seize the information contained in protein sequences and ...

The use of correlation between two open-charm mesons is suggested to give information about the nature of the medium created in heavy-ion collisions. Insensitivity to the charm production rate is achieved by measuring normalized cumulant. The acollinearity of the {ital D} momenta in the transverse plane is a measure of the medium ...

The use of correlation between two open-charm mesons is suggested to give information about the nature of the medium created in heavy-ion collisions. Insensitivity to the charm production rate is achieved by measuring normalized cumulant. The acollinearity of the D momenta in the transverse plane is a measure of the medium effect. Its ...

In his seminal 1948 paper 'The Mathematical Theory of Communication,' Claude E. Shannon derived the 'channel coding theorem' which has an explicit upper bound, called the channel capacity, on the rate at which 'information' could be transmitted reliably o...

space if you need to come back after spending time on a later question. Do not use red ink or pencil to MSc and PhD degrees. The Department was rated grade 5 for Research in the most recent Research must previously have achieved at least a grade D in the degree examination in the prerequisite course

An advanced Coded Trellis Modulation (CTM) System which achieves a 2 bits/s/Hz bandwidth efficiency at an information rate of 200 Mbit/s while minimizing satellite power requirements, was developed for downlink earth station applications. The CTM system employs a high-speed rate 8/9 convolutional code with Viterbi ...

In this work we studied the combined action of chemical and electrical synapses in small networks of Hindmarsh-Rose (HR) neurons on the synchronous behavior and on the rate of information produced (per time unit) by the networks. We show that if the chemical synapse is excitatory, the larger the chemical synapse strength used the smaller the electrical ...

Accurate minority carrier recombination rate measurements by new capacitance transient method of Ti,

For a sample of 73 learning-disabled children, the relationship between scores on the Developmental Test of Visual-motor Integration--3rd Revision and teachers' ratings of writing skills was investigated. After statistically removing the contribution of socioeconomic status, achievement, and intelligence, only handwriting was significantly related to ...

We propose an antenna grouping method that improves the error rate performance of space-time codes in a wide range of mobility environments. The idea is to group symbols to antennas based on limited feedback from the mobile station to utilize all antennas. Our approach requires only two bits of feedback information to achieve better ...

The new generation of planar Penning traps promises to be a flexible and versatile tool for quantum-information studies. Here, we propose a fully controllable and reversible way to change the typical trapping harmonic potential into a double-well potential, in the axial direction. In this configuration a trapped particle can perform coherent oscillations between the two wells. ...

This paper reports on a survey of the information-seeking, critical-analysis, and computer-application practices of dental hygienists. Questionnaires were mailed to a convenience sample of seventy-one dental hygiene practitioners. A 62% response rate was achieved. Results indicated that discussions with colleagues, continuing education ...

In 1990, the College of American Pathologists Informatics Committee surveyed 14,785 laboratorians for their experiences with a clinical laboratory information system. A 16.25% response rate was achieved, representing 2402 questionnaires that were analyzed. Despite the perceived satisfaction of the clinical laboratory ...

A fast rate-optimal rate allocation algorithm is proposed for parallel transmission of scalable images in multichannel systems. Scalable images are transmitted via fixed-length packets. The proposed algorithm selects a subchannel, as well as a channel code rate for each packet, based on the signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of the ...

We study the information traffic in scale-free networks where the information generation rate varies with time as a periodic function. We observe that when the fluctuation in packet generation rate increases, the average transit time increases and network performance degrades. In order to improve the transportation ...

The present study examined children's coping strategies as mediators and moderators of the association between parenting factors and outcomes in 235 African American children (mean age = 10.37 years). Information about parenting and child coping strategies was obtained by child self-report. School adjustment was assessed by standardized achievement scores ...

In this paper, an asynchronous brain-computer interface (BCI) system combining the P300 and steady-state visually evoked potentials (SSVEPs) paradigms is proposed. The information transfer is accomplished using P300 event-related potential paradigm and the control state (CS) detection is achieved using SSVEP, overlaid on the P300 base system. Offline and ...

Adaptations during phylogenesis or ontogenesis can occur either by maintaining constant or by increasing the informational content of the organism. In the former case the increasing adaptations to external perturbation are achieved by increasing the rate of genome replication; the increased amount of DNA reflects an increase of total ...

We show that knowledge of the phase behavior of a protein allows one to create a rational screen that increases the success rate of crystallizing challenging proteins. The strategy is based on using microfluidics to perform large numbers of protein solubility experiments across many different chemical conditions to identify reagents for crystallization experiments. Phase ...

The standard economic analysis of of implied discount rates for energy-efficiency investment is wrong. First, consumers are not profit maximizing or economic optimizing agents with respect to energy. To the extent consumers make tradeoffs on some criteria other than energy costs, implied discount rates measure that other tradeoff, not the energy cost ...

telemetry data capture rate on the Deep Space Network (DSN) during the ... quirement by achieving a Prime Mapping Mission high-rate telemetry data capture ...

This study compared levels of mathematics achievement between Canadian and Hong Kong Chinese children and explored the relations between perceptions of children's competence and mathematics achievement. The Canadian sample was made up of 125 4th-grade children who were randomly selected from five schools in Calgary. A comparative sample of 128 children was ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the capacity of a denitrifying consortium to achieve the simultaneous removal of nitrate, sulfide and p-cresol and elucidate the rate-limiting steps in the mixotrophic process. Nitrite reduction appeared as the most evident rate-limiting step in the denitrifying respiratory process. The nitrite ...

This Kids Count report is the ninth to examine annually statewide trends in the well-being of Washington's children. The statistical portrait is based on indicators of child well-being in five areas: (1) family and community, including teen birth rate, teen pregnancy rate, divorces involving children, and births to unmarried mothers; (2) economic ...

High-rate concatenated coding systems with bandwidth-efficient trellis inner codes and Reed-Solomon (RS) outer codes are investigated for application in high-speed satellite communication systems. Two concatenated coding schemes are proposed. In one the inner code is decoded with soft-decision Viterbi decoding, and the outer RS code performs error-correction-only decoding ...

When working on United States Green Building Council�s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEED projects, architects, designers, and engineers involved in a sustainable design project often require information and tools beyond energy simulation software. They may require resources (tools) to support their decisions and to assess the risk involved in ...

An alternative to gamma (?) histograms for ROI-based quantitative comparisons of dose distributions using the ? concept is proposed. The method provides minimum values of dose difference and distance-to-agreement such that a pre-set fraction of the region of interest passes the ? test. Compared to standard ? histograms, the method provides more information in terms of pass ...

The medical research community is experiencing a marked increase in the amount of information available on genomic sequences and genes expressed by humans and other organisms. This information offers great opportunities for improving our understanding of complex diseases such as lung cancer. In particular, we should expect to witness a rapid increase in ...

This final report provides technical information on the design, performance, and fabrication of laminar amplifiers and sensors. Standard amplifier designs and formats are presented which allow the user to select amplifier characteristics most suitable for each specific application. Various methods for fabrication of elements are described and information ...

Experimentally, optical traps have suffered for many years from unexplained heating rates. These have limited the trap lifetime to an order of magnitude less than expected for the vacuum ranges attainable. Recently, we have achieved very long lifetimes of single rubidium atoms trapped in a 1-D optical lattice (?=1064 nm) by optical molasses cooling. We ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the possible relationship between school facility conditions and school outcomes such as student academic achievement, attendance, discipline, completion rate and teacher turnover rate. School facility condition for the participating schools was determined by the Total Learning Environment ...

This study investigated the extent to which learning readiness, prior-to-school experiences, and child and family characteristics influence children's literacy and numeracy achievement across the first year of primary school. A sample of 104 kindergarten children was recruited from 16 classrooms and followed from the beginning to the end of their first year of primary school. ...

This paper presents a successful implementation of a real time inspection system of plastic bottle closures. The closures are inspected at a rate of 20 per second or one every 50ms. The available time to inspect each closure forces the algorithms used to be relatively simple. Even though the algorithms are simple, they have to be robust to ensure a good result. Two boundary ...

The trailing edge of tube drift-chamber signals for charged particles is expected to provide information concerning the particle passage time. This information may be useful for separating meaningful signals from overlapping garbage at high-rate experiments, such as the future LHC experiments. We carried out a cosmic-ray test using a ...

School records of 124 students at a private day school for learning disabled (LD) children (average age 12 years) were examined in an attempt to describe one group of students labeled LD. Information available included demographic data; medical history information; parental estimates of child's ability to inteact with others, child's developmental ...

The report describes some of the characteristics of heart rate information during sleep and suggests the possibility of extracting sleep information from heart rate data. The average heart rate and variance of heart rate are presented on ten subjects duri...

This study investigated the effects of a faculty development program offered to increase positive interactions between students and faculty and the effects of these interactions on student achievement and retention. The Gaining Retention and Achievement for Students (GRASP) program supports the accreditation process of the Accreditation Board of ...

Trade-offs between energy consumption and neuronal performance must shape the design and evolution of nervous systems, but we lack empirical data showing how neuronal energy costs vary according to performance. Using intracellular recordings from the intact retinas of four flies, Drosophila melanogaster, D. virilis, Calliphora vicina, and Sarcophaga carnaria, we measured the ...

... modeled. The resulting information exchange data rates for the total ground environment is about three megabits. This ...

... Title : Information Rates for Poisson Sequences. ... distortion function of a Poisson sequence, under a ... error distortion measure, is derived and studied. ...

out of the CDS, corresponding to an information bit rate of 64 Kbps for a ... software within the CDS. Unfortunately, an information rate of 64 Kbps is not ...

Distributed video coding (DVC) technology has been considered to be capable of reducing the processing complexity of the encoder immensely, while majority of the computational overheads are taken over by the decoder. In the common DVC framework, the pictures are decoded using the Wyner-Ziv encoded bit stream received from the encoder and the side information estimated using ...

The Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE) of the Austin Independent School District (AISD) (Texas) reviews the effectiveness of many of the school district's special programs. In 1992-93, ORE reviewed 60 programs or program components. Cost effectiveness was calculated for 31 programs, using an achievement effect measure for 10, a dropout prevention effect measure for 13, ...

Abstract We study efficient broadcasting for wireless sensor networks, with network coding. We address this issue for homogeneous sensor networks in the plane. Our results are based on a simple principle (IREN/IRON), which sets the same rate on most of the nodes (wireless links) of the network. With this rate selection, we give a value of the maximum ...

The PHOS level-0 trigger provides a minimum bias trigger for p�p collisions and information for a level-1 trigger at both p�p and Pb�Pb collisions. There are two level-0 trigger generating algorithms under consideration: the Direct Comparison algorithm and the Weighted Sum algorithm. In order to study trigger algorithms via simulation, a simplified equivalent model is ...

...achieve an overall performance rating of high performer...Modified rating on an indicator. A rating on any...certification concerning an indicator is not accurate...an PHA's overall performance rating when warranted...bearing on the SEMAP indicators such as an...

An effective Information Assurance (IA) posture is achieved when there is confidence that information and information systems are protected against attacks through the application of security services in such areas as availability, integrity, authenticati...

... The warfighter must have enough information to make Page 12. 11 informed decisions � but not so much as to drive him into information overload. ...

In this paper, we propose a communication model of evolution and investigate its information-theoretic bounds. The process of evolution is modeled as the retransmission of information over a protein communication channel, where the transmitted message is the organism's proteome encoded in the DNA. We compute the capacity and the rate ...

Obtaining the cooperation of citizens to participate in separate waste collection is essential to create a recycling-oriented society. In this research, the degree of change in the citizen participation rate, which occurs when the contents of political measures such as the raising of awareness, provision of information, and the conditions of collection ...

Obtaining the cooperation of citizens to participate in separate waste collection is essential to create a recycling-oriented society. In this research, the degree of change in the citizen participation rate, which occurs when the contents of political measures such as the raising of awareness, provision of information, and the conditions of collection ...

... Title : The Characteristics of Generation and the Rate of Distribution for Science and Technology Information in Our Country (China),. ...

Learning module with information and quiz questions about the population growth rate throughout the world.

The Rate File Details box contains information about the highlighted rate file, such as the database on which it is based and the variables it contains.

We study and solve the problem of distilling a secret key from quantum states representing correlation between two parties (Alice and Bob) and an eavesdropper (Eve) via one-way public discussion: we prove a coding theorem to achieve the 'wire-tapper' bound, the difference of the mutual information Alice-Bob and that of Alice-Eve, for so-called ...

The nature of high-speed or high frame rate imaging results in a short exposure time requiring the object be illuminated with a high brightness light source. In some cases, as in biological studies and other heat sensitive materials this is not an option. For these low light level applications we have developed an intensified high-speed camera. This camera extends the ...

In this paper, we consider an information-theoretic formulation of the content identification under search complexity constrain. The proposed framework is based on soft fingerprinting, i.e., joint consideration of sign and magnitude of fingerprint coefficients. The fingerprint magnitude is analyzed in the scope of communications with side information that ...

An architecture for on-wafer processing is proposed for central silicon-strip tracker systems as they are currently designed for high energy physics experiments at the SSC, and for heavy ion experiments at RHIC. The data compression achievable with on-wafer processing would make it possible to transmit all data generated to the outside of the detector system. A set of data ...

An architecture for on-wafer processing is proposed for central silicon-strip tracker systems as they are currently designed for high energy physics experiments at the SSC, and for heavy ion experiments at RHIC. The data compression achievable with on-wafer processing would make it possible to transmit all data generated to the outside of the detector system. A set of data ...

A system designed to provide the reduction of recorded pulse type magnetic tape data of gamma radiation and time into digital or graphical form is described. The basic operation consists of accumulating radiation data pulses for selected short intervals of recorded field time to determine the radiation rates, and to determine the total dose through accumulation of ...

Despite decades of interest in Ph.D. student outcomes, there have been few comprehensive studies of doctoral student completion. Compared to research on undergraduate students, longitudinal studies of doctoral student completion in multiple disciplines at multiple institutions are exceptionally rare. As a consequence, there is relatively scant evidence to support general assertions regarding ...

In tropical countries, sun drying is still the most popular method used for processing root and tuber crops like cassava and yam. Relatively very little has been done on studying the kinetics of sun drying a bed of chips of cassava and similar crops, but this information is invaluable in finding options for reducing drying time and costs, and increasing tonnage produced. This ...

Objectives. Using opinion data from experts, we examined the context of the argument for mandatory testing of psychiatric patients.Methods. Vignettes were distributed to experts on HIV and mental illness. Respondents were asked to provide appropriateness ratings for different hypothetical clinical decisions regarding HIV management.Results. Respondents were reluctant to impose ...

The energy bottleneck in Wireless Sensor Network(WSN) can be reduced by limiting communication overhead. Application specific source coding schemes for the sensor networks provide fewer bits to represent the same amount of information exploiting the redundancy present in the source model, network architecture and the physical process. This paper reports the performance of ...

One way many universities have approached the process of better understanding and meeting the needs of their students is through student evaluations. The evaluation data provide not only diagnostic feedback but also useful information in terms of the quality of learning and teaching experiences. In an effective quality cycle, the data gathered are analysed and used to make ...

... contributed to the development of rapid online acquisition ... affective use of scaled information in the ... sufficient to meet DOD's stated goal of achieving ...

... search and analysis capabilities ... use of enterprise core ... INTEROPERABILITY, *MODELS, *INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INFORMATION SECURITY ...

... is to accomplish this with Network Centric Warfare (NCW) through ... In order to achieve true information superiority the information from thousands of ...

... outlined to quantify these vulnerabilities and lead to development of operational war fighting concepts to achieve information superiority verses an ...

... noise through an electric circuit that would ... Communication channels and circuits do not always ... achieved by using eight consonants subdivided into ...

... Management ... Effective internal control is critical to achieving reliable information for all management reporting and decision making purposes. i ...

... Accession Number : ADA393550. Title : Engineering Principles for Information Technology Security (A Baseline for Achieving Security). ...

... superiority and, thereby, decision superiority. ... to truly achieve information dominance. ... STATES), *ELECTRONIC WARFARE, *CAREERS, *JOINT ...

... agencies for Research Development Test and ... Abstract : Information superiority is a critical enabler for Joint Vision 2010's Operational Concepts. ...

... Overall achievement of the visions for the DoD Information Management Plan will require actions throughout the decade in three resource areas ...

Physicians involved in designing specific solutions. CEO "immerses" himself in system to obtain feedback from physicians. Significant improvements achieved in infections, mortality rates. PMID:21678873

accuracy, and rate as well as robotic arm operational accuracy achieved by the ... operational accuracy achieved by the human-robot system. Section 2 sets the ...

Statistical evidence is presented to suggest that cure rates achieved by supervoltage are not significantly different from those achieved by orthovoltage in carcinoma of the tonsil and of the ovary.

Clutter is the largest factor contributing to the poor detection rates and high false-alarm rates for mine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) detection systems. The source of this clutter can be either naturally occurring or anthropic. Because the standard detector technologies are anomaly-based systems, few features within the sensor data permit mitigation of ...

The purpose of this dissertation was to advance theoretical understanding about fit between the personal resources of individuals and the characteristics of science achievement tasks. Testing continues to be pervasive in schools, yet we know little about how students perceive tests and what they think and feel while they are actually working on test items. This study focused ...

A concatenated coding system using two-dimensional trellis-coded MPSK inner codes and Reed-Solomon outer codes for application in high-speed satellite communication systems was proposed previously by the authors (1989). The authors extend their results to systems using symbol-oriented, multidimensional, trellis-coded MPSK inner codes. The concatenated coding systems are divided into two classes ...

Student performance in individual courses constitutes a fundamental learning outcome, as assessed by the faculty. Examination of student outcomes at the course level is especially appropriate at community colleges, since as many as half the students in credit courses have no intention of earning a degree. Fall 1994 final course grades of students attending Prince George's Community College, in ...

The appropriate questions in teacher evaluation in higher education are: who should evaluate, for what purposes, and using what means. Frequently, evaluation systems provide information for administrative decisions on promotion/tenure and merit. Increased reliance on student ratings of teachers has the disadvantage of distorting factors that may influence ...

Concatenated trellis-coded 8-ary phase shift keying (8PSK) with Reed Solomon (RS) codes is studied over additive white Gaussian noise and Rayleigh fading channels. Trellis coded modulation (TCM) achieves high coding gain without any bandwidth expansion. The basic analysis of its performance is reviewed and confirmed by simulation using a truncated Viterbi decoder. ...

Descriptive and econometric analysis of the major nonquality determinants of nursing home costs for Florida shows that mean costs, size, and occupancy rate increased between 1971 and 1976, that per diem costs and occupancy rate were inversely related, and that the per diem cost was lower in rural than in urban areas. Regression of the data shows that--next ...

Until recently there has been no nationally acceptable test for assessing reading for the higher grades (Five and Six) of the elementary schools in Greece. As part of an effort to validate such a test, evidence was gathered from teachers' rating scales. Seventy-two teachers from Fifth and Sixth Grades all over Greece evaluated their 1377 students' reading ability prior to the ...

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... transgenic mouse will give information on the level of protection that can be achieved by introducing the gene for an organophosphorus hydrolase. ...