33 research outputs found
Single- and Multi-carrier Quadrature Amplitude Modulation: Principles and Applications for Personal Communications, WATM and Broadcasting: 2nd
No full textSingle- and Multi-carrier Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Principles and Applications for Personal Communications, WLANs and Broadcasting L. Hanzo Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK W. Webb Motorola, Arlington Heights, USA formerly at Multiple Access Communications Ltd, Southampton, UK T. Keller Ubinetics, Cambridge Technology Centre, Melbourn, UK formerly at Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK Motivated by the rapid evolution of wireless communication systems, this expanded second edition provides an overview of most major single- and multi-carrier Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) techniques commencing with simple QAM schemes for the uninitiated through to complex, rapidly-evolving areas, such as arrangements for wide-band mobile channels. Targeted at the more advanced reader, the multi-carrier modulation based second half of the book presents a research-orientated outlook using a variety of novel QAM-based arrangements. * Features six new chapters dealing with the complexities of multi-carrier modulation which has found applications ranging from Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) to Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) * Provides a rudimentary introduction for readers requiring a background in the field of modulation and radio wave propagation * Discusses classic QAM transmission issues relevant to Gaussian channels * Examines QAM-based transmissions over mobile radio channels * Incorporates QAM-related orthogonal techniques, considers the spectral efficiency of QAM in cellular frequency re-use structures and presents a QAM-based speech communications system design study * Introduces Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) over both Gaussian and wideband fading channels By providing an all-encompassing self-contained treatment of single- and multi- carrier QAM based communications, a wide range of readers including senior undergraduate and postgraduate students, practising engineers and researchers alike will all find the coverage of this book attractive
Volume 55 (2023)
No full textThe 2023 edition of The Broad River Review was edited by C. V. Davis and Ella Knowles.
COVER PHOTOGRAPHY: Scott Holstein, St. Marks Foggy Palms
THE 2023 RASH AWARD IN FICTION: Maureen Sherbondy, Rules of the Rich
THE 2023 RASH AWARD IN POETRY: Marina Hope Wilson, Origin
THE 2023 J. CALVIN KOONTS POETRY AWARD: LaNora Paige McIntyre, Winter Shopping
THE 2023 FOOTHILLS WRITING AWARD: Varleine Coq, Woes of a Lost Jersey Girl
POETRY: Ida Marie Beck, Matins; Lawrence Ernest Bridges, Watching TV; Anne Bucey, Canebrake; Alexandra Burack, The Eighth Child; Charles; Byrne, Photosensitivity; Jeremy Caldwell, Looking Past the Future; Sharon Charde, Love Me Do; Leonardo Chung, The Last Time I Set Foot in a Café; J. Mark Cooney, Body-Shop Icon; Caleb Coy, Blind Woman; Max Roland Ekstrom, The Vibrating Pines; Daniel Ginsburg, The Carpet; Daniel Gleason, Tagged; Carol Hamilton, Legends; Karen Luke Jackson, Plumbed; Carol Parris Krauss, Those Just Beyond the Backyard; Gary Lark, Gifts; Al Maginnes, Inevitable; Terri McCord, Sun Surround; Megan Mary Moore, For Evelyn McHale; Ryan Nelson, Aged Spirit; Scott Thomas Outlar, The Good Old Days; Lauro Palomba, Second Nature; Maria Palumbo, Frames; Daye Phillippo, Flock; Christy Prahl, An Insect Gives a Lesson on Darwinism; David B. Prather, Death of the Drive-In; Elisabeth Preston-Hsu, He Who Wanted to Taste Gibraltar; Annie Przypyszny, Opening Up; Xiaoqiu Qiu, Woman on a High Stool, Matisse, Las Vegas; Kelly Sargent, Seed Fruit; L.B. Sedlacek, Soda Shoppe Blues; Danielle Sellers, Letter to Myself, Age Six; Cassidy Shao, Seventh Grade Science; Matthew J. Spireng, For a Friend Hospitalized After a Fall from His Roof; David Starkey, Final Car Ride to the Vet; Max Stephan, A Requiem for Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mushrooms’; Jo Barbara Taylor, Wednesday Concert; Lucinda Trew, Remainderman; Allen Tullos, Silver Queen; Pamela Wax, England Has a Ministry of Loneliness Now; Bob Wickless, Reading Poetry on a Stage Where Chet Baker Once Played; Christy Wise, Goodwill; Diana Woodcock, The Peace of Detachment; Janice Zerfas, Albino Deer
FICTION: Gilbert Allen, God’s Second Chance; Nancy Brock, Porch Rocker; Timothy Dodd, Prism; Mindy Friddle, Weather Girl; S.G. Fromm, Mondi’s Malocchio; Billy Gee, Peanut Butter Balls and the Unanswered Letter; Laila Hartman-Sigall, Together We Hated Oureslves and Waited to Be Helped; Marianne Leek, Resurrecting Harleigh; Ray Morrison, Empty Sky; Barry Peters, JohnnyMac!; David E. Poston, A Valediction; Eric Rasmussen, Ms. Breyer’s Last Four Days; Alex Rost, Uncle Bill’s Mule; Maureen Sherbondy, The Mystery Shopper; Larry D. Thacker, A Good View; L. Vocem, Deportation Papers
CREATIVE FICTION: Brent House, The Heartwood Triptych; Jill Jepson, Subjunctive Mood; Michael Schoeffel, Coffee Shop; Martha Graham Wiseman, Feed Mehttps://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/brreview/1021/thumbnail.jp
Frances Ellen Colenso, 1849-1887 : her life and times in relation to the Victorian stereotype of the middle class English woman
No full textIncludes bibliographical referencesThe stereotype of the Victorian middle class woman, which generally characterised her as a passive, ornamental, helpless and dependent creature, has been one of the most popular caricatures of the nineteenth century. Recent research into this hitherto largely ignored social class has begun to re-adjust this image. The stereotyped distressed gentlewoman who emigrated to Australia and New Zealand for instance has recently been critically examined, but so far the female emigrant and settler in colonial South Africa has been ignored. It is only since the early 1970s that academic research into feminism began to appear. The influence of the women's liberation movement and of the increasing interest in social history, while stimulating research into Victorian women in England and her colonies, has only penetrated historical research within South Africa in the last decade
Optimization and sensitivity analysis of computer simulation models by the score function method
No full textExperimental Design;Simulation;Optimization;Queueing Theory
Evaluating the Ecological Impacts of Cultivating Genetically Modified Herbicide Tolerant (GMHT) Oilseed Rape and Maize: (2007-B-DS-1-S1) STRIVE Report
No full textThis report is published as part of the Science, Technology, Research and Innovation for the
Environment (STRIVE) Programme 2007–2013.Author has checked copyrigh
Author Correction: A detailed map of Higgs boson interactions by the ATLAS experiment ten years after the discovery
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Immigrant Mental Health and Unemployment
No full textThe objective of this research is to assess whether stress associated with the transition to a new country combined with additional stress arising from unemployment affects the mental health of immigrants. I use the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA) to examine the effect of labour force status on the mental health of immigrants. By using a rich longitudinal data set, I am able to control for individual immigrant differences whilst examining whether changes in mental health cause changes in labour force status rather than changes in labour force status causing changes in mental health. I find that causality runs from unemployment to mental health and that unemployment significantly adversely affects the mental health of immigrants. Other characteristics associated with poor mental health include; age, gender, visa category, marital status and educational attainment.Immigrants; Mental health; Unemployment
Informed Versus Uninformed Consent for Prostate Surgery: The Value of Electronic Consents
No full textThe OECD and governance: Investigating the dissemination of ideas in national policy making
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