The existence of modiied group divisible designs with block size four is settled with a handful of possible exceptions.

Stouffer=s Z, a meta-analytic technique, was proposed by W. Braver and Braver (1988) for analyzing data collected from a Solomon Four-group Design. Sawilowsky, Kelley, Blair, and Markman (1994) showed that this technique produces inflated Type I error rates. Recommendations are made to control the false positive inflation of their procedure. According to Campbell and Stanley (1963), the Solomon...

Interleaved Reed–Solomon codes are applied in numerous data processing, data transmission, and data storage systems. They are generated by interleaving several codewords of ordinary Reed–Solomon codes. Usually, these codewords are decoded independently by classical algebraic decoding methods. However, by collaborative algebraic decoding approaches, such interleaved schemes allow the correction ...

A new species of Nicrophorus in the nepalensis species-group, Nicrophorus efferens Sikes and Mousseau, is described from Bougainville Island in the Solomon Islands archipelago. It is distinguished from the known species of the genus Nicrophorus and its likely closest relative, Nicrophorus reticulatus Sikes and Madge, based on external morphology. A comparison among the four Nicrophorus species ...

The diagram below shows the high level architecture of the Reed-Solomon decoder. It also indicates communication between modules using FIFOs. The blocks highlighted in orange are the primary modules of the algorithm, and are thus also the most complex. The primary modules receive t, and the error corrector received k from the iteration control module through FIFO decoupled paths. This detail is...

With the end goal of implementing optimal Reed-Solomon error control decoders on FPGAs, we characterize the FPGA performance of several finite field multiplier designs reported in the literature. We discover that finite field multipliers optimized for VLSI implementation are not optimized for FPGA implementation. Based on this observation, we discuss the relative merits of each multiplier desig...