Previous research has found that impatient time preferences and self-control problems (present bias) are related to increased obesity risk. However, scant evidence exists pertaining to whether parents' impatience and self-control problems impact the obesity status of their children, too. Accordingly, we explore this study question among a large national sample of US adults and their children. S...

A novel technique for a self-equalized distributed amplifier is presented by showing the analogy between transversal filters and distributed amplifier topologies. The appropriate delay and gain coefficients of amplifier circuit are obtained by a Fourier expansion of the raised cosine spectrum in the frequency range of 0-40GHz.

Cyclic Delay Diversity (CDD) is a simple and efficient space-time diversity technique. It can be used in OFDM and DFT-Spread-OFDM. The traditional CDD has low complexity and system overhead, however, also has some limitations on performance and is sensitive to propagation environment. In this paper, two improved CDD scheme including open-loop and closeloop strategies for uplink and downlink of ...

Shao-Jen Lim and John G. Harris Computational Neuro-Engineering Laboratory University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 Abstract| Transversal lters using ideal tap delay lines are a popular form of short-term memory based ltering in adaptive systems. Some applications where these lters have attained considerable success include system identi cation, linear prediction, channel equalization and ec...

We consider a general model of self-propelling particles interacting through a pairwise attractive force in the presence of noise and communication time delay. Previous work by Erdmann [Phys. Rev. E 71, 051904 (2005)] has shown that a large enough noise intensity will cause a translating swarm of individuals to transition to a rotating swarm with a stationary center of mass. We show that with t...

This paper evaluates impact of self-heating in wire interconnection on signal propagation delay in an upcoming 32 nm process technology, using practical physical parameters. This paper examines a 64-bit data transmission model as one of the most heating cases. Experimental results show that the maximum wire temperature increase due to the selfheating appears in the case where the ratio of inter...