2. INTERFERENCE DUE TO OBSESSIVE THOUGHTS SCORE __________ How much do your obsessive thoughts interfere with your work, school, social, or other important role functioning? Is there anything that you don’t do because of them? 0 = None 1 = Slight interference with social or other activities, but overall performance not impaired 2 = Definite interference with social or occupational performance, ...

Based on the wide application of relevant classical and modern economic thoughts, this paper analyzed the implications of price discovery and competition, compared the market auto adjustment mechanism and the government control of economy, explored market failure and price distortion, and drew the conclusion of the necessity of market mechanism design which is especially helpful for the reform ...

In this paper, the modiied MUSIC estimator 1] for near-far resistant delay estimation in DS-CDMA systems is considered. A simpliied cost function is proposed and analytical expressions for the variance of the two algorithms are derived, showing that the asymptotic variance is invariant to the interference power.

We construct a function in AC that cannot be computed by a depth-2 majority circuit of size less than exp(Θ(n1/5)). This solves an open problem due to Krause and Pudlák (1997) and matches Allender’s classic result (1989) that AC can be efficiently simulated by depth-3 majority circuits. To obtain our result, we develop a novel technique for proving lower bounds on communication complexity. This...

This paper examines the nature of connection and churn charges that would arise in a context of network competition. Connection charges are incurred when customers initially connect to a network while churn charges are imposed on customers that disconnect. It is demonstrated that in a competitive equilibrium, the weighted sum of connection and churn charges, rather than their individual levels,...

The application of Wigner distribution (WD)-based signal synthesis to signal separation problems is often adversely affected by WD interference terms. We present a modified signal synthesis method where the use of a masked WD allows the definition of don’t-care regions. In the don’t-care regions, detrimental interference terms (whose timefrequency location is assumed to be known) are ignored. T...

Stroop interference is thought to index reading automaticity and is expected to increase with reading practice and to decrease with improved color naming. We investigated the effects of practice in word reading and color naming on interference in 92 adults and 109 children in Grades 4-5. For children, interference was reduced after reading practice with color words. In neither group was interfe...

We study auctions with severe bounds on the communication allowed: each bidder may only transmit t bits of information to the auctioneer. We consider both welfareand profit-maximizing auctions under this communication restriction. For both measures, we determine the optimal auction and show that the loss incurred relative to unconstrained auctions is mild. We prove non-surprising properties of ...

This paper experimentally investigates free-riding behavior on communication cost in a coordination game and finds strong indications of such free-riding. Firstly, the subjects wait for others to send a message when communication is costly, which does not happen when communication is costless. Secondly, the proportion of games where no communication or one-way communication takes place is much ...