... from his personality and diligence, which I will treasure my whole life I also gratefully acknowledge Prof V.O.K Li, Prof G.L Li, Prof Y.C Wu, Prof S.C Chan, Prof T.S Ng and Prof Agnes S.L Lam for ... domain 28 Summary of OFDM system operation This section summarized the process of OFDM systems Fig 2.17 depicts the discrete baseband OFDM system model The baseband transmitted OFDM signals can ... for the number of channel paths L = 2, 4, and 8, over the Rayleigh fading channel 163 Fig 6.5 The variance of OFDM system capacity versus the CP of an OFDM symbol in unit of sample point,...
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... one hundred of negative comments in English and Vietnamese Yet, we can hardly questionnaires of 50 American males and females and by 50 find any research, which fully studies the topic of dispraising ... Percentage of NPS 46.90% 25.71% Lowest Percentage of NPS 41.69% 24.90% Highest Percentage of CS 11.79% 21.72% Lowest Percentage of CS 5.07% 16.73% Table 4.21: The Scale of PPS, NPS and CS in E and V ... made use of “Returning of Being aimed at highlighting the similarities and the differences Dispraise” when communicating to their partners, 2.08% of the of using responses strategies andof being...
... methods and procedures of the paper in the Chapter Three and present some aims and objectives of the study Chapter Four focuses on analyzing the syntactic and semantic features of EIsDF and VIsDF ... catalogues of idiom What are the syntactic features of English and Vietnamese 1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.2.1 Aims of the study The study will focus on: - examining linguistic features of English and ... metonymy, hyperbole, and symmetry Particularly, the EIsDF and VIsDF are constructed on the basic of describing events and phenomena by means of metaphor, means of metonymy and means of simile Besides,...
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... A: HIV/AIDS information and knowledge: a comparative studyof Kenyan and Swedish teenagers Scand J Soc Med 1997, 25:111-118 Abstract Horwath E, Cournos F: Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders ... meaningful responses because of their psychosis were excluded Over the same period of time, a total of 69 consecutive and consenting attendees of the outpatient endocrinology clinic of the Lagos State ... greatest burden of HIV infection and where large-scale ignorance about the cause and prevention of the disease prevails Several studies have reported the knowledge, attitude, and behavior of identified...
... properties of a protein sequence To improve our characterization, we combine these different methods to create of vector of MI scores Using the flexibility of MI and existing knowledge of protein ... overestimation of MI in finite sequences is a factor of the length of the string, alphabet size, and frequency of the characters that make up the string We investigated the significance of this error ... the uncertainty of the value of X H(X) is when the identity of X is known, and H(X) is maximal when all possible values of X are equally likely The mutual information of two variables MI(X, Y )...
... problems of quantum mechanics, and problems of population dynamics and epidemiology (for more details, see [11] and the references therein) Also, by assuring the existence of a solution of a difference ... variables The aim of this paper is to present the generalization of this functional-analytic method for the studyof linear and nonlinear partial difference equations of p variables in the Hilbert ... j,n = 1,2, (For reasons of simplicity, we will use the symbols i, j, and n instead of the symbols i1 , i2 , and i3 , respectively.) Using (2.6), we find the abstract forms of all the terms involved...
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... disclosure and corporate governance environment in Hong Kong and discusses the specific hypotheses of this study Section outlines the research design andstudy sample Section discusses the results of ... questionnaire and the sample of analyst users was asked to rate the importance of each item on a 5-point scale After standardizing the responses to a zero mean and unit variance, a total of 20 of the ... the quality/extent of financial disclosure Chen and Jaggi’s disclosure index score includes both mandatory and voluntary disclosure items but the index score adopted in this study includes only...
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... measurements of Nb-IrMn/NiFe-Nb device 88 5.2.2.1 Measurements of exchange bias and transition temperature 88 5.2.2.2 Summary of the results of MR measurements 90 5.2.3 Numerical analysis of AMR of ... Schematic of Andreev reflection (a) and normal reflection (b) 31 Figure 2.6 Schematic of different kinds of crossed Andreev reflection: CAR in separate FM regions (a), CAR in domain walls (b) and ... energy and causes random alignments of spins 24 Ferromagnet can be categorized into hard FM and soft FM Commonly the former has quite large coercivity around several or tens of kOe such like FePt and...
... building up of interstate tensions 16 A studyof non-Western regionalism has profound implications for regional order and for the growth of IR theory If ASEAN is able to maintain its unity and makes ... ideational perceptions and order-building dynamics within Asia” Another influential and constructive studyof Asian security was edited by G John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno and appeared in 2003 ... Industrialization and the Asian Economy London: Routledge, 1994 Giovanni Andornino, “The nature and linkages of China’s tributary system under the Ming and Qing dynasties” Working Papers of the Global...
... which are often characterised by ‘soft authoritarianism’ and illiberal democracies The fourth contribution of Adler and Barnett is that as a result of their study, the current understanding of security ... idea of security communities, where the focus is to make the threat and use of force in inter-state relations illegitimate 2.4 Concept of “Security Community”: Ideas of Karl Deutsch A studyof ... as a group of people which has become integrated: By integration we mean the attainment, within a territory, of a ‘sense of community’ andof institutions and practices strong enough and widespread...
... University of Singapore), and Chulanee Thianthai of Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University 42 Overall, Thompson and Chulanee painted a fairly positive and optimistic view of the perceptions of 42 Eric ... Klinken, and Desmond Ball Masters of Terror: Indonesia’s Military and Violence in East Timor, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006 130 and lead to uncertainty with a change of government in Thailand arising ... Malaysia and Indonesia have a record of highly nationalistic and destabilizing militarized naval disputes, including the highly emotional conflict over ownership of the islands of Ligitan and Sipadan...
... “in danger of being fractured and bypassed by events in Burma and other parts of Asia that it cannot handle” 22 The ARF consists of a total of 27 states, including the ASEAN states and the major ... ARF’s mandate and capabilities From a constructivist viewpoint, the ARF is first and foremost a ‘forum’, which can lead to the sharing and transference of socializing norms of non-use of force and ... of Chinese and Japanese nationalisms’, and inter-state rivalries over territorial claims and regional influence These five factors are the end of the Cold War antagonisms; the rise of China and...
... end of the Cold War and the onset of the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-98; perceptions of external threats, for example, the threat of Soviet communism; and the strong political support of a ... dynamics of intra-ASEAN problems and relations In terms of the criterion of the degree of regional affinity and trust, a recent study by Christopher Roberts found that more than fifty per cent of the ... to gain a better understanding of the characteristics and the specific nature of both the strengths and limitations of ASEAN regionalism A great strength of the ASEAN Way of cooperative security...