Do presidents use federal agencies as campaign resources? Scholars of distributive politics have long argued that political elites use public policy outcomes for electoral benefit. Of late, researchers have focused more closely on the president’s role in this process. However, little work examines how differences across agencies condition agency responsiveness to presidential electoral preferen...

Certain classes of chiral four-dimensional gauge theories may be obtained as the worldvolume theories of D5-branes suspended between networks of NS5-branes, the so-called brane box models. In this paper, we derive the stringy consistency conditions placed on these models, and show that they are equivalent to anomaly cancellation of the gauge theories. We derive these conditions in the orbifold ...

Form the past several decades' noise cancellation in speech signal gains researchers' attention. Several techniques were developed for noise cancellation among them optimal wiener filter can be the one of the most fundamental approach for noise cancellation. Later on adaptive filter was introduced to attain better performance. This paper shows the capacity of wiener filter and adaptiv...

abstract background: today, the rate of surgeries is increasing, but surgeries are canceled due to various reasons. unexpected cancellation of surgeries not only results in disorder in the operating room schedule, but also causes stress for patients and their family and increases costs. we determined the number and causes of surgery cancellations and areas for improvement. materials and methods...

Crosstalk is a major problem inmodern DSL systems such as VDSL.Many crosstalk cancellation techniques have been proposed to helpmitigate crosstalk, but whilst they lead to impressive performance gains, their complexity grows with the square of the number of lines within a binder. In binder groups which can carry up to hundreds of lines, this complexity is outside the scope of current implementa...

Full-duplex systems require very strong selfinterference cancellation in order to operate correctly and a significant part of the self-interference signal is due to non-linear effects created by various transceiver impairments. As such, linear cancellation alone is usually not sufficient and sophisticated non-linear cancellation algorithms have been proposed in the literature. In this work, we ...

Successive interference cancellation is a promising technique for increasing the capacity of uplink CDMA channels. In this paper, the technique is extended to a low-earth orbit satellite channel. Unlike terrestrial cellular channels, satellite channels typically have a limited multipath profile, but significant closed-loop power control error due to the round-trip delay incurred in communicatin...

Analog systems to achieve active noise cancellation in headphones were designed and implemented. Our project addresses two distinct technqiues feed forward and feedback systems. The work up to mid-semester, which was focused mainly on a feed-forward system with the motivation of developing a clip-on platform for generic earphones, is presented briefly. Limitations of this approach that lead to ...

A simple algorithm to calculate the group theory factor entering in anomalies at four and six dimensions for SU(N) and SO(N) groups in terms of the Casimir invariants of their subgroups is presented. Explicit examples of some of the lower dimensional representations of SU(n), n ≤ 5 and SO(10) groups are presented, which could be used for model building in four and six dimensions. The consistenc...