Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) makes multiple mobile users share the same frequency band. In a conventional NOMA scheme, a user pair that can be assigned to the same frequency resource is limited, which reduces the amount of capacity improvement possible. This is because a far user demodulates a signal without canceling an underlaid signal for a near user. In addition, semi-orthogonalmul...

─ Fair scheduling algorithms have been proposed to tackle the problem of bursty and location-dependent errors in wireless packet networks. Most of those algorithms ensure the fairness property and guarantee the QoS of all sessions in a large-scale cellular network such as GSM or GPRS.In this paper, we propose the Weighted-Sacrificing Fair Queueing (WSFQ) scheduling algorithm for small-area and ...

Gambling studies should take a broad view of the field and consider activities that are not strictly gambling but similar to it, such as cleromancy and secular uses of drawing of lots, to give us perspective on societal and cultural aspects of gambling. This paper presents historical data on judicial uses of throwing dice in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Sweden. The focus is on cases of man...

Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers was used to analyze the genetic structure of five Indigenous Egyptian’s chicken populations including Fayoumi, Dokki-4, Golden Montazah, Silver Montazah, and ElSalam, based on the taxa generated by the analysis of ten RAPD markers. The population genetic distances were estimated by using two cluster algorithms (UPGMA & NJ neighbor-joining) accompa...

The @em of harvest maturity andprocessing variables on heat penetration times, firmness, and drained weight of Halley Bos 3155 cv diced tomatoes were evaluated. Core andflesh tissue of green and red tomatoes were cut into cubes (1.27 or 1.91 cm per side), calcium treated, and processed at either 90.5 or 96. I C. Water and tomato juice were used as processing and cooling mediums. Heat penetratio...

This paper tests experiential learning as a debiasing tool against gambling behavior in South Africa. We implement a simple, interactive game that simulates the odds of winning the national lottery through dice rolling. Participants roll one and two dice until they obtain simultaneous sixes and are then informed that the odds of winning the jackpot is equivalent to rolling all sixes with nine d...

Erythroid precursor cells lose the capacity for mRNA synthesis due to exclusion of the nucleus during maturation. Therefore, the stability and translation of mRNAs that code for specific proteins, which function in late stages of maturation when reticulocytes become erythrocytes, are controlled tightly. Reticulocyte 15-lipoxygenase (r15-LOX) initiates the breakdown of mitochondria in mature ret...