This three-day course is designed for satellite communications engineers, spacecraft engineers, and managers who want to obtain an understanding of the “big picture” of satellite communications. Each topic is illustrated by detailed worked numerical examples, using published data for actual satellite communications systems. The course is technically oriented and includes mathematical derivation...

The motivation behind the University of Strathclyde’s approach to this years HARD track was inspired from previous experiences by other participants, in particular research by [1], [3] and [4]. A running theme throughout these papers was the underlying hypothesis that a user’s familiarity in a topic (i.e. their previous experience searching a subject), will form the basis for what type or style...

We describe a method and an implementation for producing a highly compressed representation of speech, in the order of 40 bps. This compression method uses a speech recognition engine to analyze the speech signal at the morphological level, i.e. the words. The words are then coded using a wordlevel text compression mechanism. After decompression, the speech message is recovered using Text-To-Sp...

Although I was asked to give a talk on transgenic plants and issues concerning genetically modified organisms (GMOs), I decided that this was too broad a topic. I would only be qualified to describe a few examples of the transgenic plants that have been a part of my research. I chose these examples only because of my familiarity with them, nothing more. Hence, this article should not be conside...

Recent studies have shown that ability to recognize an imitated voice is affected by topic and familiarity with the person being imitated. The signal detection methods used in those studies give no specific information about the distribution of non matching positive responses (false alarms) amongst voices used as distracters (foils). This paper shows that there was a selective listener preferen...

background: failure in reaching the predetermined goals of education can be considered as one of the most important problems of educational systems. today, it is believed that active teaching methods are more effective than lecturing which lead to effective teaching. participation of students in education is one of the major factors of active learning. the purpose of the present study is to det...

1 Use of source literature. Does the thesis demonstrate that the author has familiarised himself/herself extensively with the literature relevant to the topic? Are references used correctly? 2 Familiarity with the topic. Does the approach and the results the author has chosen to present show that the author has studied the topic thoroughly and understood the subject matter well? 3 Use of method...

Anthropomorphic Technology (AT) is technology that human-like in design and motivates anthropomorphism. Anthropomorphism the attribution of characteristics to nonhuman objects. Extant research informs user responses familiarity acceptance AT, but also withdrawal from rejection AT. There little integration on this topic. We examine synthesize studies AT published leading IS journals. identify ki...