The colossal increase in data communications traffic over recent years, with an expanding Internet population and a steady advance from transmission of simple text, to images, to animated images, has created demands for expanded capacity in optical communications systems. The amount of data carried by a single fibre can be increased by raising the signal transmission speed, or adopting waveleng...

We numerically model the performance of highpower 977-nm fiber lasers and amplifiers pumped at 915 nm, in which the Yb is doped in a ring inside the core of a high-ordermode (HOM) fiber. Light in the spatially coherent LP07 mode is amplified in the fiber, and then coupled to the LP01 mode by longperiod gratings. For the laser, it is found that parasitic oscillation on the 1023-nm four-level tra...

One feature of ‘flexibilisation’ concerns the growth more individualised employment arrangements and career trajectories less connected to employing organisations. Informed by Varieties Capitalism approach, which emphasises embeddedness practices within discrete types capitalist market economy, based on rich qualitative data from interviews with 32 self-employed directly employed ICT profession...

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are quite frequent in languages such as English, but their diversity, the scarcity of individual MWE types, and contextual ambiguity have presented obstacles to corpus-based studies and NLP systems addressing them as a class. Here we advocate for a comprehensive annotation approach: proceeding sentence by sentence, our annotators manually group tokens into MWEs acco...

Cloud technology in a multi-enterprise, collaborative context is one of the most promising topics at IT-Supply Chain (SC) intersection. Cloud comes with well-proven advantages and cost savings; enabling collaboration and business intelligence. Cloud transition is still on-going with individual enterprise-level transitions. However, collaborative paradigm dictates that entire network well-being ...

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this study examined the relationship of the personality factors (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) with each of the three workaholism components i.e. working compulsively, working excessively and combined workaholics. as the study is of exploratory in nature, a sample of 145 academicians was drawn from the two universities of jammu region (india), namely...

Listings Underwater Acoustic Communications: Working at the Intersection of Physics, Signal Processing, and Communications Theory James C. Preisig Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WHIO, MS #11 Woods Hole, MA 02543 [email protected] The underwater environment is widely regarded as one of the most difficult communication channels. Underwater acoustic communications systems are challenged by t...

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