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    Design issues in the implementation of versatile, high-speed iterative decoders

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    The ever increasing demand for high data rate communication, and the use of radio resource management techniques requiring frame-by-frame adaptive coding/modulation to match user demands and channel conditions, pose a number of crucial problems to the design of versatile, high-speed iterative decoders, for both turbo-like and low-density parity-check codes. Among them, we mention: The modification of the Soft-Input Soft-Output (SISO) algorithm in away that permits its implementation using several parallel processors working independently on segments of the received frame. The collisions in the process of reading/writing into/from the memory by the parallel processors. The design of prunable interleavers covering a wide range of information and/or code words lengths while keeping good spreading properties. The design of codes yielding awide range of code rates with good performance for the range of probability of error of interest

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    Variations on the Author

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    “Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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