Bad writing prospers in the humanities and social sciences, so we are spoilt for examples. In one famous case, Martha Nussbaum rounded on Judith Butler for her obscurity, arguing it was an insidious form of stylistic collaboration with the power structures targeted by her writings. Nussbaum’s review, ‘The Professor of Parody,’ raised the profile of a sentence already legendary as a result of Bu...

A switched-beam array system, capable to produce four orthogonal uniform beams and some low sidelobe beams, is presented in this work. The system is consisted of a four-element linear phased array and a 4x4 Butler-matrix beamforming network. System’s design and optimization was based on experimental results and computer simulations. New, small and easy to fabricate microstrip layout topologies ...

In this paper, the design of 4x4 smart antenna array antenna along with the butler matrix network which can be used for beamforming (pointing an antenna array). Unlike the conventional schemes where an array of microstrip patch antennas are used, the radiation becomes omnidirectional and therefore the power losses are more. In the proposed design, the designed antenna is operating at the freque...

The present commentary addresses the main results obtained in the Butler and Klein [Butler, B. C., & Klein, R. (2009). Inattentional blindness for ignored words: Comparison of explicit and implicit memory tasks. Consciousness and Cognition, 18, 811-819.] study and discusses them in relation to the Perceptual Load Theory of Lavie [Lavie, N. (1995). Perceptual load as a necessary condition for se...

Speech interfaces are about to be integrated in consumer appliances and embedded systems and are expected to be used by mobile users in ubiquitous computing environments. This paper discusses some major usability and HCI related problems that may be introduced by this development. It is argued that a human-centered approach should be employed when designing and developing speech interfaces for ...

A novel composite right/left handed transmission line (CRLH TL) is proposed, for the first time using the Wunderlich-shaped dentiform capacitor and meandered-line short-circuited stub inductor (SSI). The CRLH TL features a larger value of CL and in turn a lower resonance relative to the previous one employing an interdigital capacitor and an SSI. The unique feature of the CRLH TL is applied to ...