People want to know! And so do government agencies, information providers, search-and-retrieval companies, electronic publishers, corporate enterprises, and business professionals. But they’re swamped with volumes of structured and unstructured data spewed forth from databases, data warehouses, search engines, corporate intranets, news feeds, and the increasing global Internet. They want critic...

fMRI is becoming an important clinical tool for planning and guidance of surgery to treat brain tumors, arteriovenous malformations, and epileptic foci. For visual cortex mapping, the most popular paradigm by far is temporal phase mapping, although random multifocal stimulation paradigms have drawn increased attention due to their ability to identify complex response fields and their random pro...

Electrophysiologic testing and radiofrequency ablation have evolved as curative measures for a variety of rhythm disturbances. As experience in this field has grown, ablation is progressively being used to address more complex rhythm disturbances. Paralleling this trend are technological advancements to facilitate these efforts, including electroanatomic mapping (EAM). At present, several diffe...

Ecosystems provide services necessary for the livelihoods and well-being of people. Quantifying and mapping supplies and demands of ecosystem services is essential for continuous monitoring of such services to support decision-making. Area-wide and spatially explicit mapping of ecosystem services based on extensive ground surveys is restricted to local scales and limited due to high costs. In c...

Context: Systematic mapping provides an overview of a research area to assess the quantity of evidence existing on a topic of interest. In spite of its relevance, the establishment of consistent categories and classification of primary studies in these categories are manually conducted. Objective: We propose an approach, named SM-VTM (Systematic Mapping based on Visual Text Mining), to support ...

The following Capstone Report seeks to outline difference in cache designs but more thoroughly into the computer architecture of STT-RAM, SRAM, eDRAM. It begins by outlining the use of cache followed by the different protocols for implementation including: direct mapping, fully associative, and set associative configurations. An area of interest in this study is implementing STT-RAM over SRAM b...

In this paper we propose a blind algorithm for peakto-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction in OFDM systems, based on selected mapping (SLM) algorithm as a distortionless method. The main drawback of the conventional SLM technique is the need for transmission of several side information bits, for each data block, which results in loss in data rate transmission. In the proposed method some specia...

High peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of the transmit signal is a major drawback of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Selected mapping (SLM) technique is an efficient PAPR reduction technique for OFDM. In the SLM technique, many data blocks are generated from an OFDM data block using a set of phase sequences, and then the one with the lowest PAPR is chosen and transmitted. In...