1 From the standard and regulations to front-end specifications 1.1 Regulations characteristics The WiMAX standard includes two sub-standards. The first standard is the 802.16a or Fixed WiMAX and the second standard is the 802.16e or Mobile WiMAX. We focus here only on the Mobile WiMAX. The basic radio channel features are summarized in the Table 1.

This paper studies the problem of emotion classification in microblog texts. Given a microblog text which consists of several sentences, we classify its emotion as anger, disgust, fear, happiness, like, sadness or surprise if available. Existing methods can be categorized as lexicon based methods or machine learning based methods. However, due to some intrinsic characteristics of the microblog ...

WE STUDY THE DISCRIMINATION OF EMOTIONS ANNOTATED IN FREE TEXTS AT THE SENTENCE LEVEL: a sentence can either be associated with no emotion (neutral) or multiple labels of emotion. The proposed system relies on three characteristics. We implement an early fusion of grams of increasing orders transposing an approach successfully employed in the related task of opinion mining. We apply a filtering...

Becoming a democracy and having a market driven economy seem to be the goals of virtually every country in the world nowadays. The market system has led to a higher standard of living for more people than any other economic system yet invented. Similarly, democracy has brought the freedom to enjoy that standard of living to billions of people. The recent years have witnessed the transition from...

Society today expects the physician of the future to concern himself increasingly with social justice, the environment and government regulations. However, when attempts are made to deal with these subjects they usually focus on the 'here and now' and not the historical underpinning. The student, practitioner and public, often through the media, marvel at the contemporary medical scene with its...

Prospective clinical research is given the greatest weight in evidence-based clinical practice recommendations, and therefore has the greatest potential to change care and help the largest number of patients. This article briefly describes the history of government regulation of prospective clinical research, how a prospective clinical research project is developed, and how the researcher seeks...

The ability to adaptively regulate emotion is essential for mental and physical well-being. How should we organize the myriad ways people attempt to regulate their emotions? We explore the utility of a framework that distinguishes among four fundamental classes of emotion regulation strategies. The framework describes each strategy class in terms their behavioral characteristics, underlying psy...

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iv TABLE OF CONTENTS v INTRODUCTION 1 METHOD 9 Participants Measures Stimuli Procedure RESULTS 15 Mood Induction Mood Reactivity & Recovery Attentional Bias Bias for sad stimuli Bias for happy stimuli Mood reactivity as a moderator Bias for sad faces Bias for happy faces Emotion Regulation Emotion regulation as a mediator Emotion regulation processes and mood reactivity and...