This paper describes the key design and performance aspects of the Enhanced Spread Spectrum Aloha (E-SSA) physical layer, which represents an essential component of the S-band Mobile Interactive Multimedia European Telecommunication Institute standard. Thanks to advanced signal processing at the gateway side, the E-SSA random access protocol allows to achieve unprecedented spectral efficiency i...

Decentralized delay-dependent local stability and resilient feedback stabilization methods are developed for a class of linear interconnected continuous-time systems. The subsystems are time-delay plants which are subjected to convex-bounded parametric uncertainties and additive feedback gain perturbations while allowing time-varying delays to occur within the local subsystems and across the in...

The primary aim of this study was to quantify genetic and environmental influences on the frequency of spontaneously occurring micronuclei in children and adults. To meet this aim, a total of 63 male and female twin pairs and 19 singletons (145 individuals) were evaluated, ranging in age from 7 to 85 years. Micronuclei frequencies significantly increased with age for both genders (r = 0.49, P <...

. To exclude functions, as in Example L.2.b, that are constant in some direction, it suffices to require that 0 be an isolated point of Pf . That is, to require that there be a number r > 0 such that every nonzero γ ∈ Pf obeys |γ| ≥ r. Proposition L.3 If P is an additive subgroup of IR and 0 is an isolated point of P, then there are d ≤ d and independent vectors γ1, · · · , γd′ ∈ IR d such that...

For every dimension d ≥ 1 there exists a constant c = c(d) such that for all n ≥ 1, every set of at least cn lattice points in the d-dimensional Euclidean space contains a subset of cardinality precisely n whose centroid is also a lattice point. The proof combines techniques from additive number theory with results about the expansion properties of Cayley graphs with given eigenvalues.

We investigated general chemistry students’ intuitive ideas about the expected properties of the products of a chemical reaction. In particular, we analyzed college chemistry students’ predictions about the color, smell, and taste of the products of chemical reactions represented at the molecular level. The study was designed to explore the extent to which novice learners intuitively use an add...

We consider the use of generalized additive models with correlated errors for analysing trends in time series. The trend is represented as a smoothing spline so that it can be extrapolated. A method is proposed for choosing the smoothing parameter. It is based on the ability to predict a short term into the future. The choice not only addresses the purpose in hand, but also performs very well, ...

Let n ∈ N − {1}, and let A be a Banach algebra. An additive map D : A → A is called n-Jordan derivation if D(a) = D(a)a + aD(a)a + ...+ aD(a)a+ aD(a), for all a ∈ A. Using fixed point methods, we investigate the stability of n–Jordan derivations (n–Jordan ∗−derivations) on Banach algebras (C∗−algebras). Also we show that to each approximate ∗−Jordan derivation f in a C∗− algebra there correspon...

In order to construct quantum [[n, 0, d]] codes for (n, d) = (56, 15), (57, 15), (58, 16), (63, 16), (67, 17), (70, 18), (71, 18), (79, 19), (83, 20), (87, 20), (89, 21), (95, 20), we construct self-dual additive F4-codes of length n and minimum weight d from circulant graphs. The quantum codes with these parameters are constructed for the first time.

The toxicity of mixtures of copper, zinc, and diazinon were determined for Ceriodaphnia dubia using 7-d survival and reproduction tests. Fifteen treatments, including combinations of the chemicals at 0, 25, 50, 75, and 100% of their individual median lethal concentrations, adding up to one toxic unit (TU) were tested. The TU was then used to classify each mixture response as additive, greater t...