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Samuel J. Crumbine Banquet Honoring Thomas Robin Hood, MD, MPH: May 1, 1969, Overland Park, KS
No full textProgram for the Mo-Kan Public Health Association banquet honoring Thomas Robin Hood, MD, MPH on May 1, 1969 in Overland Park, KS
Higher-order MIMO detection and half-duplex relay strategies for 4G+ and 5G networks
No full textCe travail présente deux contributions clés dans le domaine des réseaux de communication sans fil 4G+/5G, en particulier dans le domaine de la détection MIMO d’ordre supérieur et le design (conception) de réseau relai semi-duplex. La première partie de ce travail de recherche s’intéresse au développement d’une stratégie de détection MIMO d’ordre supérieur pour les terminaux 4G+/5G existants et futurs, d’un point de vue à la fois théorique et pratique. Une nouvelle technique de décomposition QR Bloc de prétraitement est proposée pour un récepteur LTE dans un scénario limité à un seul utilisateur, interférence limitée, ainsi qu’un scénario point par point dont les résultats surlignent les avantages et inconvénients en performance et complexité. La deuxième partie de cette étude comprend une étude de faisabilité d’une stratégie de message novatrice à deux phases et trois parties pour un réseau relai semi-duplex à couche physique, qui comporte un codage de superposition et un décodage d’annulation d’interférence successif, conscient des interférences. Un point clé de cette étude était d’analyser la performance du schéma d’adaptation des liaisons proposées dans le régime non asymptotique et d’évaluer l’efficacité spectrale (ES) par rapport aux hypothèses théoriques des blocs d’asymptotiquement grandes longueurs. Une comparaison ES supplémentaire est également présentée, avec une transmission de relais à deux étapes non coopérative et une stratégie de transmission point à point. Les résultats obtenus révèlent les gains d'ES qui peuvent être obtenus en exploitant la coopération de couche physique entre le relais et la station de base.The evolution of wireless communication networks has always been rapidly progressive partly due to the demands of today’s data hungry users. This dissertation presents two key contributions to the body of knowledge in the evolving area of physical layer 4G+/5G communication technologies, especially in the domain of Higher-order MIMO detection and half-duplex relay network design. The initial part of this research investigates the development of a higher-order MIMO detection strategy for existing and future 4G+/5G receivers, from both a theoretical and practical perspective. A novel pre-processing Block QR decomposition technique has been proposed for an LTE receiver in a single-user interference-limited scenario as well as a point-to-point scenario with the results highlighting the complexity advantages and limitations in performance. The second part of this study involves a practical feasibility study of a novel two-phase three-part-message strategy for a physical layer half-duplex relay network, which features superposition coding and interference-aware successive interference cancellation decoding. A key aim of this study was to analyze the performance of the proposed link adaptation scheme in the non-asymptotic regime (finite block-length and discrete constellation signaling), and evaluate the spectral efficiency (SE) against the theoretical assumptions of asymptotically large block-lengths. An additional SE comparison with a non-cooperative two-hop relay transmission and point-to-point transmission strategy is also presented. The resulting outcomes reveal the SE gains that can be had by exploiting physical layer cooperation between the relay and base station
The teaching of Shakespeare in secondary schools, with particular focus on Year 9 in Key Stage 3
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Aerodynamic design optimization using flow feature parameterization
No full textDesign optimization methods using high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulations are becoming increasingly popular in the area of aerodynamic design, sustaining the desire to make these methods more computationally efficient. Such design strategies typically define the aerodynamic product using a
parametric model of the geometry, but this can often require a large number of design variables, increasing the computational cost. This thesis proposes that a parametric model of aerodynamic flow features, rather than geometry, can be a parsimonious method of representing designs, giving a reduction
in the number of design parameters required for optimization. The parameterization of flow features is coupled with inverse design, in order to recover the corresponding geometry. While an expensive analysis code is used in evaluating design performance, computational cost is reduced by using a low-fidelity code in the inverse design process. This newly presented method is demonstrated using four case studies in 2-D
airfoil design, in which the parameterized flow feature is the surface pressure distribution, and two case studies for 3-D wing design, in which the spanwise loading distribution is parameterized. These strategies are consistently compared against a benchmark design search method which uses a conventional parameterization of the geometry. The two methods are described in detail, and their relative performance
is analysed and discussed. The newly presented method is found to converge towards the optimum design significantly more quickly than the benchmark method, providing designs with greater performance for a given computational expense. A parameterization of flow features can generate designs with higher quality and detail than a geometry-based method of the same dimensionality
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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