INTRODUCTION The association between depression, somatization and low back pain has been minimally investigated in a Canadian emerging adult population. METHODS 1013 first year Canadian university students completed the Modified Zung Depression Index, the Modified Somatic Perception Questionnaire, and a survey about low back pain frequency and intensity. Multinomial logistic regression was us...

In this work, we propose a Decision feedback equalizer (DFE) for Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) DFT-spread OFDMA. This DFE can handle Multiple users, multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver and the intersymbol interference in the received symbols of the DFT-spread OFDMA. The conventional method used in DFT-spread OFDMA is linear Frequency domain equalization (FDE). The DFE, wit...

Abstract— Wireless communication systems suffer from fading and signal attenuation due to the mobility factor associated with it. OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) is a multicarrier technique that offers high spectral efficiency. MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) configuration provides enhanced capacity with the same transmit power. OFDM combined with MIMO offers increased d...

Filopodia that extend from neuronal growth cones sample the environment for extracellular guidance cues, but the signals they transmit to growth cones are unknown. Filopodia were observed generating localized transient elevations of intracellular calcium ([Ca2+]i) that propagate back to the growth cone and stimulate global Ca2+ elevations. The frequency of filopodial Ca2+ transients was substra...

The Generalized Frequency Hopping (GFH) OFDMA system developed in this paper permeates FH bene ts to multicarrier CDMA transmissions through unknown frequencyselective multipath channels. No single user su ers from consistent fading e ects and multiuser interference is eliminated by design. Constellation-irrespective channel identi ability is guaranteed, and a host of blind channel estimation a...

For massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the real-time channel state information (CSI) acquisition is crucial but difficult in fast time-varying scenarios, especially for downlink (DL) channels frequency division duplex (FDD) systems. This paper proposes an adaptive training-feedback scheme to estimate CSI of DL channels. Specifically, first, base station (BS) determines a sub...

PURPOSE This study examined the number and nature of spatiotemporal channels in the region where the frequency-doubling (FD) illusion would be expected to occur at eight locations spanning the central 30 degrees of the visual field. METHODS The probability of seeing the FD illusion was examined in 17 subjects. Stimuli were presented at 5 octaves of low spatial frequencies, at each of seven fl...