The relationship between the degree of overlap in direct modulation chirp spread spectrum systems with binary phase shift keying and intersymbol interference (ISI) is analyzed. It is observed that the ISI due to overlap fluctuates or monotonically increases as the number of overlaps changes and that, in some cases, the overlap does not incur ISI at all. key words: CSS, DM, BER, chirp, overlap

We propose a new metric and data source to assess journal impact in the field of Economics & Business. The metric – Hirsch’s h-index – improves on the traditionally used ISI Journal Impact Factor by providing a more robust and less time-sensitive measure of journal impact. The data source – Google Scholar – provides a more comprehensive coverage of citations than ISI, including citations in boo...

AIMS To assess the construct validity of the incontinence severity index (ISI) by testing its correlation with two health-related quality of life measures, the short forms of the Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI-6) and the Incontinence Impact Questionnaire (IIQ-7), in women with urodynamic stress incontinence. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cohort of 170 women with the urodynamic stress incontinen...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether pre- to postoperative changes of increased signal intensity (ISI) of the spinal cord as seen on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reflect the surgical outcome in patients with cervical spinal cord injury without radiologic evidence of trauma (SCIWORET). In this study, 54 patients with SCIWORET who underwent expansive laminoplasty w...

This study examined, using the Concealed Information paradigm, whether interstimulus intervals (ISI) typically used for electrodermal measurement can be shortened. An ISI ranging from 16 s to 24 s (with a mean of 20 s) was compared with an ISI shortened by 50% using a within-participants design. It was demonstrated that this shortening had no effect on the differential skin conductance response...

The e!ects of positive and negative correlation, c, between (N"100) random synaptic inputs (each "ring at 100 Hz) on the mean and coe$cient of variation (CV) of interspike interval (ISI) of the Hodgkin}Huxley model are examined, for di!erent IPSP/EPSP frequency ratios, r. Mean (ISI) and CV are approximately constant (30}40 ms, and 0.75, respectively) under independence for r3[0,1], unlike the l...

AIM To compare the International Sensitivity Index (ISI) of the Thrombotest reagent used with a steel ball coagulometer (KC) to the ISI of the same reagent used with the manual (tilt tube) technique. METHODS The study was carried out by eight laboratories using their own KC instrument and method of testing. All laboratories used the same batch of Thrombotest to determine the clotting times of...

The contribution of the thromboplastin international sensitivity index (ISI) to the interlaboratory coefficient of variation (CV) of the international normalised ratio (INR) with individual reagents was assessed. In theory the precision of the INR should increase with lower ISI values. An empirical relation has been established between the ISI, the INR, and its CV for two rabbit thromboplastins...

Thispaperpresentsanoveldynamicelementmatching (DEM) technique for multi-bit digital-to-analog converters (DACs). The proposed technique can address errors due to both static element mismatch and dynamic inter-symbol-interference (ISI). The proposed technique ensures no ISI-induced distortion even at large signal amplitudes by de-correlating the instantaneous number of DAC transitions from the s...