A transversal equalizer with half Baud spaced taps in the center and extended with Baud spaced taps on both sides is presented. This hybrid equalizer combines the benefits of Baud spaced equalizers like superior equalization of notches in the middle of the transmission band and fractionally spaced equalizers, which have a superior performance when equalizing asymmetric notches in the slope of t...

MOTIVATION The DNA sequences of entire genomes are being determined at a rapid rate. Whereas initial genome sequencing efforts were for organisms chosen to be widely spaced in the tree of life, there is a growing emphasis on projects to sequence a species that is sufficiently similar to an already-sequenced species to allow direct comparison of those two DNA sequences. This and other changes in...

Irregularly observed time series and their analysis are fundamental for any application in which data are collected in a distributed or asynchronous manor. We propose a theoretical framework for analyzing both stationary and non-stationary irregularly spaced time series. Our models can be viewed as extensions of the well known autoregression (AR) model. We provide experiments suggesting that, i...

Newly up-potted ‘Soft Touch’ Japanese hollies (Ilex crenata Touch’) were grown in Mobile, AL 1.5 L containers to evaluate the effects of growth from black or white container colors and spacing (jammed spaced) relation root zone temperature. Two treatments, color spacing, evaluated ratings reported. At termination, an interaction was observed 43 141 days after potting between spacing. Both treat...

We present half-life regression (HLR), a novel model for spaced repetition practice with applications to second language acquisition. HLR combines psycholinguistic theory with modern machine learning techniques, indirectly estimating the “halflife” of a word or concept in a student’s long-term memory. We use data from Duolingo — a popular online language learning application — to fit HLR models...