Introduction: Firefighting requires the performance of many physically demanding tasks which can place firefighter at risk injury. Firefighters will often continue to work despite being injured. Depending on number injuries and their location, certain physical could be affected. The aim this study was determine differences in fitness test relative injury location between uninjured structural fi...

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The use of multi-antenna relays has emerged as a very promising technique for combating fading, enhancing throughput and extending coverage in emerging w ireless broadband netw orks.In practical mult i-user multi-relay systems, not all nodes are able (or allow ed) to cooperate during data transmission. Selecting subsets of advantageous relays and users simultaneously for cooperation and communi...

Many questions in evolutionary biology require the quantification and comparison of rates of phenotypic evolution. Recently, phylogenetic comparative methods have been developed for comparing evolutionary rates on a phylogeny for single, univariate traits (σ(2)), and evolutionary rate matrices (R) for sets of traits treated simultaneously. However, high-dimensional traits like shape remain unde...

High-resolution image mosaics construction is one of the significant topics of research in the fields of computer vision, image processing, and computer graphics. Video mosaics contain enormous valuable information but when analyzing, searching or browsing a video, redundancy between frames creates problem. Therefore it is more suitable to bring together all the frames of a shot into one single...

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We present a method to combine error-correction coding and spectral-efficient modulation for transmission over the Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel. The code employs signal shaping which can provide a so-called shaping gain. The code belongs to the family of sparse graph codes for which efficient decoding algorithms can be derived. Simulation results show that the performance of the...

In this paper I argue that vowel reharmonization anomalies in Tuvan (Harrison 2000) and Finnish (Vago 1988) are best analyzed as cases of “the preservation of the marked,” in the sense of de Lacy (2002). This analysis is more tightly constrained and more explanatory than the underspecification analysis proposed by Harrison (2000) and Harrison and Kaun (2000), and provides support from a new dom...