1. Introduction Recently, a multi-standard transceiver has started to attract more attention with the overwhelming increase of various wireless standards that covers different frequency bands and uses diverse modulation standards. Moreover, the realization of a single chip that covers all the standards is desired for low-cost and downsizing. For this reason, a power amplifier that can tune the ...

The present research tested whether gender selfconcepts influence behavior through self-regulatory processes, with emotions and self-esteem signaling that people’s responses meet or fail to meet their gender standards. In the first study, cross-sectional survey data from 3,174 young adults living in the United States revealed that esteem increased with behavioral conformity to gender standards ...

We argue and demonstrate that setting high standards, an essential aspect of perfectionism, is not associated with maladaptive responses in and of itself. Rather, our findings suggest that people’s responses to their perceptions that they consistently fail to meet their own standards are maladaptive. More importantly, in the present survey study (n1⁄4 293), we extend previous research by showin...

The communication standards tend to be extremely technical and tedious documents defining the very behaviour of a given system. The IEEE 802 set of wireless communications standards for the Personal/Local/ Metropolitan Area Network mainly specify the two lowest OSI layers (physical and link) of the system, yet they comprise hundreds of pages requiring time and trained personnel to be comprehend...

Existing methods for estimating heat stress, enshrined in British/International Standards (the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) index [BS EN 27243] and the Required Sweat Rate equation [BS EN 12515; ISO 7933 modi®ed]), assume that the clothing worn by the individual is water vapour permeable; the WBGT index also assumes that the clothing is relatively light. Because most forms of personal prot...

This work intends to explain step-by-step the special role of standards and their complexity in exercising innovation policy in the European Union. Standards might be an important policy tool for intentional diffusion of market sectors beyond textually available official policy documents/guidelines. This diffusion, having been initiated intentionally, continues in a self-regulated way as the in...

Recent interest in semistructured data has led to a proliferation of XML-based standards which encompass applications ranging from multimedia applications and sensor data processing applications to financial applications and myriads of other more traditional applications. When semistructured paradigms are used to store sensor data and multimedia (e.g. image) data, we need to be able to handle u...