With the capability of reconfiguring wireless electromagnetic environment, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) becomes a new paradigm for designing future communication systems. In this paper, we consider optical IRS improving performance visible light (VLC) under multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) setting, where mean square error (MSE) IRS-aided MIMO VLC is minimized by jointly transce...

We present a configuration technique for a Large Area Integrated Circuit (LAIC) which is manufactured by wafer stepping. A LAIC consists of four identical subsystems, i.e., a subsystem is the only building block of a LAIC and contains base cells or processing nodes as well as interconnects and pad cells. To ensure a proper cooperation of all subsystems and to enable communication between the su...

Using the difference in the spatial domain (direction or location) between a target signal and noise, a system with a microphone array can achieve the goal of noise reduction and speech enhancement in various environments, especially, in speech-like noisy environments. This paper deals with various issues related to the use of microphone arrays in hearing aids. It includes overall principles, a...

In the last decade, there has been a dramatic growth in research and development of massively parallel commodity graphics hardware both in academia and industry. Graphics card architectures provide an optimal platform for parallel execution of many number crunching loop programs from fields like image processing, linear algebra, etc. However, it is hard to efficiently map such algorithms to the...

HYPOTHESIS Three parallel processing operating rooms (ORs) (concurrent induction and turnover) with a dedicated 3-bed mini-recovery room (mini-postanesthesia care unit [PACU]) will optimize patient throughput and main PACU workload when compared with 4 traditional ORs or 4 parallel processing ORs. DESIGN Statistical and mathematical models projected the impact of parallel processing on case t...

Transaction processing is a mission critical enterprise application that runs on high-end servers. Traditionally, transaction processing systems have been designed for uniform coreto-core communication latencies. In the past decade, with the emergence of multisocket multicores, for the first timewe have Islands, i.e., groups of cores that communicate fast among themselves and slower with other ...

Sensitivity to configural changes in face processing has been cited as evidence for face-exclusive mechanisms. Alternatively, general mechanisms could be fine-tuned by experience with homogeneous stimuli. We tested sensitivity to configural transformations for novices and experts with nonface stimuli (“Greebles”). Parts of transformed Greebles were identified via forced-choice recognition. Rega...

Sensitivity to configural changes in face processing has been cited as evidence for face-exclusive mechanisms. Alternatively, general mechanisms could be fine-tuned by experience with homogeneous stimuli. We tested sensitivity to configural transformations for novices and experts with nonface stimuli ("Greebles"). Parts of transformed Greebles were identified via forced-choice recognition. Rega...

A node may have support for communications using IPv4 and/or IPv6 protocols. Such a node may wish to obtain IPv4 and/or IPv6 configuration settings via the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). The original version of DHCP (RFC 2131) designed for IPv4 has now been complemented by a new DHCPv6 (RFC 3315) for IPv6. This document describes issues identified with dual IP version DHCP interact...

The authors examined the organization of visual short-term memory (VSTM). Using a change-detection task, they reported that VSTM stores relational information between individual items. This relational processing is mediated by the organization of items into spatial configurations. The spatial configuration of visual objects is important for VSTM of spatial locations, colors, and shapes. When co...