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... theory-based scholarly research has been undertaken Moreover, a research agenda that is systematic and cumulative has yet to be developed Digital government research to date has been undertaken largely ... methods fail to accumulate and to produce a base upon which researchers can build A basic research agenda should: • • • Include a portfolio approach to investments in research that combines short-, ... institutional, and governance issues The research agenda is intended to complement an existing technical research and development agenda Its purpose was to identify theory and research from the social and

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2022, 01:22

... differentiating between the impacts of air and ground attacks NATO air raids appeared to scatter Taliban forces, leading to fewer civilian casualties; NATO ground attacks against Taliban fighters who held ... consultant, Ottawa, Canada and 2Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Email: Oskar NT Thoms - oskar.thoms@mail.mcgill.ca; James Ron* - jron@connect.carleton.ca ... input, to Aimee Charest for research assistance, and to Gaya Sanmugam for administrative support We also thank Richard Garfield, Paul Spiegel, Jennifer Leaning, Iain Levine, Sam Zia-Zarifi, Robert

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:21

... Social Indicators Research Series 57 Filomena Maggino Editor A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of Life Social Indicators Research Series Volume 57 Series editor Alex C Michalos, ... Australia: Wei 2004, 2008; for Italy: Di Veroli and Tartamella 2010; Baldassarini and Righi 2011; ISTAT 2011; for Netherlands: Bos 2011; for USA: Abraham 2005; Abraham 2010; Christian 2011 Each ... of accumulation and depreciation of human capital In general, the level of detail of tables and estimates depends on the aim of the SA, but the availability of data plays an important role too

Ngày tải lên: 08/05/2020, 06:40

... restructuring of certain areas in cities Today, at least in many European cities, a large share of urban restructuring plans is aimed at transforming large-scale post-war housing estates The areas in which ... most analyses of neighbourhood effects have been significantly constrained by the nature of the areas for which data are available In many cases these are relatively large and in almost all cases ... cluster more than those having more constrained opportunities These calculations are based on data on individuals and in many cases a male having a high income is married to a female having a low income

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... water characteristics, such as contaminant detection and quantitation, on a large-scale regional basis and/or on a rapid basis? What data warehousing and analysis techniques would be appropriate ... performance? How can natural organic material be characterized and what are the functionalities of natural organic material? Tailoring Research to Meet Societal Needs How are drinking water treatment ... Identify spatial and temporal sampling needs Data collection, storage, retrieval and analysis  Provide observational data for other researchers and research communities  Similar to a CLEANER site?

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2022, 02:46

... new beacon frames with wrong timestamp (iii) Replay attacks: the attacker may replay a beacon frame with some delay latter All the above attacks on time synchronization have one main goal, which ... two areas as authorized and attacker The authorized area consists of two wireless stations associated to the access point which follow the IEEE 802.11 standard MAC layer The attacker area belongs ... on Broadband Wireless Services and Applications (BWSA ’04), San Jose, Calif, USA, 2004 [6] M A Khan and A Hasan, “Pseudo random number based authentication to counter denial of service attacks

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... due to the fact that no separate source signals are available Again, taking into account source sparseness in the time-frequency domain, we will be able to reproduce the original spatial characteristics ... signals and a parametric representation (spatial parameters) of the multichannel original signal in a time-frequency domain The binaural synthesis stage combines the spatial parameters EURASIP ... stage, the analyzed spatial features are employed to reproduce the recorded sound again by means of an arbitrary loudspeaker setup Note that although B-format signals are used, there are substantial

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... variational inequalities for monotone operators in Hilbert space,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 61, no 1, pp 159–164, 1977 J.-L Lions and G Stampacchia, “Variational ... Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 334, no 2, pp 1450–1461, 2007 H Iiduka, W Takahashi, and M Toyoda, “Approximation of solutions of variational inequalities for monotone mappings,” ... Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 241, no 1, pp 46–55, 2000 H.-K Xu, “Viscosity approximation methods for nonexpansive mappings,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications,

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... mixture-based equaliza- tion at B d T = 10 −2 . Table 1: Saleh-Valenzuela model parameters. Parameter and units Notation and numerical value Intercluster arrival rate (1/s) Λ = 5/T Intercluster decay ... with N = 2 are still satisfactory. Again, the channel MSE after the smoothing pass is much smaller than after forward filtering alone. 4.2. Performances on a Realistic Channel Model. A realistic ... Blind SISO Equalization Using a Gaussian Mixture Approach In this section, we derive a fixed-interval smoother by propagating a mixture of N Gaussians per ISI state forward and backward in the ISI

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20

... Behrouz Emamizadeh, bemamizadeh@pi.ac.ae Received 28 January 2010; Accepted 10 June 2010 Academic Editor: Marta Garc? ?a- Huidobro ı Copyright q 2010 Behrouz Emamizadeh This is an open access article ... its mathematical formulation that leads to the inequality we are interested in An elastic membrane of varying density a x is occupying a region Ω, a disk in the plane R2 The membrane is fixed at ... to make a comparison between the deflection of a membrane with a varying density with that of a membrane with a uniform density Some mathematical consequences of the inequality including a stability

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... effective;however,mostoftheTFanalysis are restricted to visualization of TFDs and do not focus on quantification or parametrization that are essential for feature analysis and pattern classification. In this paper, ... matrix factors W and H to be nonnegative. In a previous study [15], we demonstrated that NMF decomposed factors promise a higher TF representation and localization compared to ICA and PCA factors. ... normal and 161 pathological speech signals in MEEI database. As evident in this figure, the pathological samples have higher abnormality measure compared to the normal samples. Each signal is classified

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... than that of TLOSA approach and converges to its theoretical value The collision probability of optimal OSA approach is close to that of TLOSA approach, and they are less than and converge to ... TLOSA approach is optimal OSA approach In simulation, we generate the channel-usage patterns using generalized Pareto distribution random number generator in MATLAB and the following parameters: ... utilization of optimal OSA approach is much better than that of TFOSA approach and converges to its theoretical value The collision probability of optimal OSA is close to that of TFOSA approach, and

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... Rassias and K Shibata, “Variational problem of some quadratic functionals in complex analysis,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 228, no 1, pp 234–253, 1998 68 K Ravi and ... vruta, ? ?A generalization of the Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability of approximately additive a ¸ mappings,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 184, no 3, pp 431–436, 1994 18 J M Rassias, ... functional 1.1 in fuzzy Banach spaces for an even case Throughout this paper, assume that X is a vector space and that Y, N is a fuzzy Banach space Generalized Hyers-Ulam Stability of the Functional

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... [14, 18] as special cases The algorithm is here applied to receivers with either a uniform circular array (UCA) or a uniform linear array (ULA) but can easily be extended to an arbitrary geometry ... Spatial filtering A spatial filter exploits the fact that user signals incident on the antenna array with greater spread in AOA interfere with each other less than signals that are closely spaced ... spatial filter to mitigate the CCI or maximum ratio diversity combining to achieve diversity gain Simulation results and a complexity analysis indicate that the approach is suitable for practical

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... firearm types in both fatal and nonfatal firearm use can lead toward the fact-based formation of policy and gun regulation. Upon gathering this information and analyzing the data, it may be ... Weisburd, Groff, and Yang, 2011). First, this research has found that a small proportion of street segments in a city—sometimes as small and 3.5 to 5%—account Toward a Research Agenda for the Rochester ... the relationship between gang set space—defined as the actual area within a neighborhood where gang members come together as a gang—and crime counts at open-air drug markets (Taniguchi, Ratcliffe,...

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Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20

... Beyond: A Decadal Research Strategy in Solar and Space Physics http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10477.html The Sun to the Earth —and Beyond A Decadal Research Strategy in Solar and Space Physics Solar and ... Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Air ... Sun to the Earth and Beyond: A Decadal Research Strategy in Solar and Space Physics http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10477.html xi Preface The Sun to the Earth—and Beyond: A Decadal Research Strategy...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 11:21

... non- metropolitan areas, offering a unique opportunity to understand variation in mental health treatment across rural subpopulations. The availability of detailed medical histories will allow us to examine ... state and regional variation of mental health care policies, structure and fiscal support. Systems level data about organization and financing of mental health care, related to CWS populations ... income adults minority adults and children; and (3) identify and implement mechanism to extend mental health research into areas relevant to reducing ethnic and racial disparities in access to...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:20

... medications in the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Drug Approvals database, located at http://www.fda.gov/cder/da/da.htm. While the FDA database is rather large and difficult to navigate, ... Commercial Databases In addition to resources maintained by official agencies, other databases exist that are commercial ventures addressing medical professionals. Here are some examples that may ... becomes available from academic and clinical research, recommended treatments and drug therapies may undergo changes. The authors, editors, and publisher have attempted to make the information...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 05:20

... fear and anxiety behaviors is also well conserved. Classic fear-conditional approaches have implicated the amygdala, a limbic forebrain area, as playing a pivotal role in the acquisition and ... vivo imaging research in an area that encompasses five major medical /research institutions, in addition to a major animal medical center. Three of these institutions share a common animal service, ... Health and Human Services (OS), the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), the Administration on Aging (AOA), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Agency for Toxic...

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