An interference prediction scheme is proposed for power control in packet-switched TDMA wireless networks. The prediction scheme is based on the interacting multiple model (IMM) estimator, and it is adaptive to a wide range of nonstationary dynamic characteristics of the interference power. Compared to Leung’s scheme, it can predict the interference power more accurately and allow us to adjust ...

This paper presents an adaptive interference control method to mitigate undesirable interference from femtocells to macrocell users in hierarchical cellular networks. Such mechanisms usually require over-the-air signalling for estimation of interference resulting significant bandwidth overhead. The proposed ‘Adaptive Interference Scaling’ (AIS) method uses geolocation information for femtocell ...

micrornas are tiny, 18-25 nucleotides in length, non-coding rna molecules preserved throughout evolution. these molecules primarily control gene expression at the post-transcriptional and transcriptional levels. micrornas control target gene expression by a phenomenon known as rna interference. rna interference based therapeutics that utilize target gene silencing/degradation by specific micror...

We investigate the decidability of observational equivalence and approximation in Reynolds’ “Syntactic Control of Interference” (SCI), a prototypical functionalimperative language in which covert interference between functions and their arguments is prevented by the use of an affine typing discipline. By associating denotations of terms in a fully abstract “relational” model of finitary basic S...

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The relation between attention and consciousness has been a controversial topic over the last decade. Although there seems to be an agreement on their distinction at the functional level, no consensus has been reached about attentional processes being or not necessary for conscious perception. Previous studies have explored the relation of alerting and orienting systems of attention and conscio...

In traditional interference lithography, interference fringes are typically phase locked to a stationary substrate using analog homodyne photodiode signals that are fed back to control a phase-shifting device such as an electro-optic modulator or a piezoelectrically transduced mirror. Commercially available fringe-locking systems based on this approach often achieve stability of the interferenc...