The Phase-Locked Loop is used to track an incoming signal and provide accurate carrier phase measurements on GPS receivers. However, the PLL performance is affected by the thermal noise and dynamic stress. In order to resolve the conflict between reducing PLL noise and overcoming the dynamic stress, some compromises must be taken in PLL design. This paper proposes a wavelet packet de-noising te...

Conflicts over sacred values may be particularly difficult to resolve. Because sacred values are nonfungible with material values, standard attempts to negotiate, such as offering material incentives to compromise, often backfire, increasing moral outrage and support for violent action. We present studies with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza demonstrating three other ways sacred values m...

A conflict has been reported between the baryon density inferred from deuterium observations and that found from recent CMB observations by BOOMERanG and MAXIMA. Despite the flurry of papers that attempt to resolve this conflict by adding new physics to the early universe, we will show that it can instead be resolved via a more careful usage of statistics. Indeed, the Bayesian analyses that pro...

This chapter1 reviews formal dialogue systems for persuasion. In persuasion dialogues two or more participants try to resolve a conflict of opinion, each trying to persuade the other participants to adopt their point of view. Dialogue systems for persuasion regulate how such dialogues can be conducted and what their outcome is. Good dialogue systems ensure that conflicts of view can be resolved...

We present a method for (two) agents to resolve conflicts amongst themselves, when these conflicts arise from the agents suggesting different realizations of the same goal. The method uses generalpurpose dialogues to allow agents to exchange views. These are in the form of rules, assumptions and contraries of assumptions, in the format underlying Assumption-Based Argumentation (ABA). Thus, the ...

I investigate the structure of an argument that culture cannot be maintained in a population if each individual acquires a given cultural variant from a single person. I note two puzzling consequences of the argument: It appears to conflict with (a) many models of cultural transmission and (b) real-world cases of cultural transmission. I resolve the first puzzle by showing that one of the model...

Hardware resources can be shared to reduce the area of the resulting design. The synthesis system must ensure that no resource conflicts arise due to simultaneous access of a shared hardware resource. With traditional scheduling formulations where operations are statically assigned to control steps, conflict resolution simply determines whether two operations can execute concurrently based on t...

objectives: violence is a widespread problem that occurs all over the word among all ages, genders, races, educational level and socio- economic groups.  the aim of this study was to investigate modeling of different processes that could account for the link between experiencing spouse abuse in women and psychology, psychopathology, social and demographic factors. methods: data were gathered th...

Current research efforts are being directed to commit with the long-term view of self-management properties for wireless telecommunications. One of the key approaches that have been recognized as an enabler of such a view is policy-based management. Policy-based management has been mostly acknowledged as a methodology that provides flexibility, scalability, adaptability and support to automatic...

Allosteric modulators have the potential to fine-tune protein functional activity. Therefore, the targeting of allosteric sites, as a strategy in drug design, is gaining increasing attention. Currently, it is not trivial to find and characterize new allosteric sites by experimental approaches. Alternatively, computational approaches are useful in helping researchers analyze and select potential...