BACKGROUND In resource-poor countries, such as Solomon Islands, the research agenda on health is often dominated by researchers from resource-rich countries. New strategies are needed to empower local researchers to set directions for health research. This paper presents a process which seeks to enable a local and potentially more equitable research agenda at a remote hospital in Solomon Island...

The compound and integrated parallel Reed-Solomon (RS) codes for multichannel communication systems are suggested. The matrix model of errors for such codes is investigated. Methods of coding and decoding of parallel RS codes, and also methods of increase of their error correcting capability are developed.

This paper introduces an analogue of the Solomon descent algebra for the complex reflection groups of type G(r, 1, n). As with the Solomon descent algebra, our algebra has a basis given by sums of ‘distinguished’ coset representatives for certain ‘reflection subgroups’. We explicitly describe the structure constants with respect to this basis and show that they are polynomials in r. This allows...

Separating codes have their applications in collusion-secure fingerprinting for generic digital data, while they are also related to the other structures including hash family, intersection code and group testing. In this paper we study upper bounds for separating codes. First, some new upper bound for restricted separating codes is proposed. Then we illustrate that the Upper Bound Conjecture f...

A transform that enables generator-matrix-based Reed-Solomon (RS) coded data to be recovered under interpolation-based list decoding is presented. The transform matrix needs to be computed only once and the transformation of an element from the output list to the desired RS coded data block incurs k field multiplications, given a code of dimension k. Index Terms Galois Field Fourier Transform, ...

This paper presents an iterative decoding algorithm for concatenated codes consisting of a Reed-Solomon and a convolutional code, focusing on the code of the DVB-S standard. Existing solutions for the different decoding stages and their interfaces are discussed and their performance is compared. Besides, a new procedure is proposed to define the feedback signal from the output of the Reed-Solom...