Phase 3 of the study is currently under way. One hundred and twenty students from the University of Sydney are being tested at six different times across their final medical school year (Year 4) and the internship year. The core measurement tools have again been administered and, in addition, the General Health Questionnaire,4 the International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE, ICD-10 mod...

We present experimental results on the critical exponent QE&E describing the divergence of the Kerr constant of binary liquid mixtures near the critical consolute point. We show that the measured value of its„E agrees with the theoretical prediction only if the measurement is performed with a mixture of two liquids presenting a small mismatch in the dielectric constant, and that the measured Ps...

In this paper, we present the Deployment Support Network (DSN), a new methodology for developing and testing wireless sensor networks (WSN) in a realistic environment. With an additional wireless backbone network a deployed WSN can be observed, controlled, and reprogrammed completely over the air. The DSN provides visibility and control in a similar way as existing emulation testbeds, but overc...

Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) systems which act as backbone networks are very promising means of reducing overall costs of 60 GHz WPANs, as well leading to networks with limited intercellular interference. The main objective of this paper is to compare the performance of two systems that generate Optical Single Side Band (OSSB) OFDM signals at the mm-wave band with and without optical up-conversion. B...

Let S be a connected and simply connected unimodular solvable Lie group, K a connected compact group acting on S as automorphisms. We call the pair (K;S) a Gelfand pair if the Banach -algebra L 1 (KnKnS=K) of allK-biinvariant integrable functions on K n S is commutative. The assumption that (K;S) is a Gelfand pair prescribes the structure of S. For example, if (K;S) is a Gelfand pair, then S is...

Very Preliminary and Incomplete. In this paper, I present and estimate a flexible partial equilibrium on-the-job search model with the goal of better understanding wage dynamics. A very recent literature uses search models to understand the dynamics that govern the evolution of wages. This literature tries to solve the problem of lack of structural interpretation that affects univariate models ...

We introduce and study anisotropic versions of the total variation based noiseremoval model developed by Rudin, Osher, and Fatemi (ROF) in [4]. Recall that the goal of the original ROF model is to remove noise from a corrupted digital image without blurring object boundaries (i.e. “edges”). If the corrupted image is denoted f(x), one tries to recover the clean image as the minimizer of the foll...

In summary it can be stated that in Bx' the sy)+, Bx+, fu+ loci as well as x, a locus to the right of fu+, are duplicated'. The classical example of multiple allelism is the series of eye-color mutants at the white (w) locus in Drosophila melanogaster. The altemative interpretation of this series, namely, that it is made up of "pseudoalleles," or closely linked genes with similar effects, has u...

In this paper 1 we present a novel no-reference (NR) metric to measure block impairment (blockiness) in JPEGcoded images. The proposed metric integrates several key human visual sensitivity factors such as edge amplitude, edge length, background activity and background luminance to evaluate the effect of block edge impairment on perceived image quality. The subjective test results of our metric...

A randomized crossover trial of a new form of pediatric rehabilitation was conducted with 18 children with hemiparesis. Half were randomly assigned to receive pediatric constraint-induced therapy involving constraint of the functional upper extremity and intensive therapy with the hemiparetic upper extremity. Controls received conventional physical and occupational therapy and then were crossed...