Several results have been reported in the literature on the performance of various diversity combining schemes for wireless communications systems. Typically for convenience it is assumed that the signal envelopes in the diversity branches are uncorrelated with one another. However, in practice the envelopes will be correlated. In this paper a procedure to generate two equal power Rayleigh fadi...

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Many methods of analysing security protocols have been proposed, but most such methods rely on analysing a protocol running only a finite network. Some, however—notably, data independence, the strand spaces model, and the rank functions model—can be used to prove correctness of a protocol running on an unbounded network. Roscoe and Broadfoot in [17] show how data independence techniques may be ...

There is broad consensus among policy makers and consumer groups that greater transparency in healthcare will improve the quality and costs of care delivered. In recent years several government-led transparency initiatives have focused on healthcare institutes like hospitals (Jha et al. 2005, Harris and Buntin 2008). Up to now patients still have very little means of discerning the quality of p...