Correlation radiometers make true differential measurements in power with high accuracy and small systematic errors. This receiver architecture has been used in radio astronomy for measurements of continuum radiation for over 50 years; this article examines spectroscopy over broad bandwidths using correlation techniques. After general discussions of correlation and the choice of hybrid phase ex...

Accumulator models have a relatively long history of application to choice and response time, especially for binary choice. When the number of response options is greater than two, these models usually posit one accumulator per response option. Here, we propose a theoretical framework in which there is one accumulator for every ordered pairwise difference between choices, each quantifying the e...

With growing evidence for the positive health outcomes associated with a plant-based diet, the study's purpose was to examine the potential of shifting adolescents' food choices towards plant-based foods. Using a real world setting of a school canteen, a set of small changes to the choice architecture was designed and deployed in a secondary school in Yorkshire, England. Focussing on designated...

A communication subsystem consists of protocol functions and operating system mechanisms that support the implementation and execution of protocol stacks. To effectively parallelize a communication subsystem, careful consideration must be given to the process architecture used to structure multiple processing elements. A process architecture binds one or more processing elements with the protoc...

The threadblock size and shape choice is one of the most important user decisions when a parallel problem is coded to run in GPU architectures. In fact, threadblock configuration has a significant impact on the global performance of the program. Unfortunately, the programmer has not enough information about the subtle interactions between this choice of parameters and the underlying hardware. T...

Research on choice architecture is now shaping policy around the world, touching on areas ranging from retirement economics to environmental issues. Recently, researchers and policy makers have started to pay more attention not just to choice architecture but also to information architecture: the format in which information is presented to people. Here, we investigate information architecture a...

For a long time, industry projects solved big data problems with Hadoop. The massive scalability of MapReduce algorithms and the HBase database brought solutions to an unanticipated level of computing. But this obstructs the view for the need of change. Business goals that emerge from Industry 4.0 or IoT have long been addressed with a suboptimal architecture. New business goals require a rethi...

The requirements that force decisions towards building distributed system architectures are usually of non-functional nature. Scalability, openness, heterogeneity, and fault-tolerance are examples of such non-functional requirements. The current trend is to build distributed systems with middleware, which provide the application developer with primitives for managing the complexity of distribut...