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Partitioning of DSP tasks to Kahn network

Recently the number of digital signal processing (DSP) applications is increasingly growing. Modern extensive application domains are audio processing, digital communications, speech recognition, spatial positioning, etc. One essential feature of the mentioned applications is hard real time processing of real world signals. Occasionally chosen processing architecture may not satisfy processing ...

The Strauss-Kahn Syndrome

Accumulating evidence shows that the central nervous system (CNS) regulates the activity of the immune system. Concerning the role of immune system in cancer, psychosocial influences on immune function provide a mechanism of association between psychosocial factors (like interpersonal aggression) and cancer prognosis. Social conflicts between males, involving high aggression stress and threat (...

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incidence of adolescent pregnancy.3 Access to contraceptives has become increasingly crucial for adolescents because many are sexually active at earlier ages than in the past. During the mid-to-late 1950s, 8% of adolescent females had had intercourse by age 16. In contrast, by the early-to-mid–1980s, 21% of female teenagers had had sex by age 16. Among all adolescents in the 1990s, 50% had sex ...

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Robots will increasingly take on roles in our social lives where they can cause humans harm. When robots do so, will people hold robots morally accountable? To investigate this question, 40 undergraduate students individually engaged in a 15-minute interaction with ATR’s humanoid robot, Robovie. The interaction culminated in a situation where Robovie incorrectly assessed the participant’s perfo...