Architecture, Nation, Difference

Gender and Nation-Building: Family Law as Legal Architecture Symposium - Nation Building: A Legal Architecture: Articles and Essays

Fundamental sex difference in human brain architecture.

In PNAS, a report by Ingalhalikar et al. (1) has the makings of a landmark paper. Here I would like to briefly suggest why. Biomedical research in general, and neuroscience in particular, has been built on a false assumption. I refer to the assumption that one may safely ignore potential sex influences, for essentially every domain outside sexual functions and sex-specific issues like prostate ...

Enacting the sacred: nation and difference in the comparative sociology of the police

The Policeman in the Community by Michael Banton is viewed as a seminal work in the Anglo-American sociological study of the police. This article – which draws on and cites a personal dialogue with Banton himself sets this work in context by outlining the intellectual formation of its author in the 1950s, before setting out the main theoretical and methodological aspects of this study. It is ar...

Nation - building

Nations stay together when citizens share enough values and preferences. Homogeneity amongst people can be built with education, teaching a common language to facilitate communication, but also by brute force such as prohibiting local cultures. Democracies and dictators have different incentives when it comes to choosing how much and by what means to homogenize the population. We study and we c...

Difference Metric Soft-Output Detection: Architecture and Implementation

The forward–backward (FB, also known as the MAP or BCJR) detection algorithm provides “soft” reliability estimates for each bit that it decodes. This paper presents a VLSI architecture for soft-output forward–backward detection of Class-IV partial response signaling (PR4) used in magnetic recording. A difference metric version of the FB algorithm is derived. A novel lowcomplexity architecture i...