The 'watch dog' role of the media, the impact of migration processes, health care access for children in developing countries, mitigation of the effects of Global Warming are typical examples of governance issues – issues to be tackled at the base; issues to be solved by creating and implementing effective policy. students to pave the road for innovative policy developments in Europe and the wo...

Time-domain equalizers (TEQ) are used in the discrete multitone (DMT) transceivers in order to reduce the duration of the overall response of the transmission system, so that a shorter-length cyclic prefix could be used. The optimum TEQ is the one that results in maximum bit allocation to each block of DMT. However, the optimum design of TEQs turns out to be a very difficult task. In this paper...

High peak-to-average power ratio is a major problem that is inherent in all multicarrier communication systems. Clipping the high-peak power samples introduces (extra) clipping noise, which degrades the system performance in terms of bit-error rate (BER). Measuring BER usually requires a very long simulation time, as clipping occurs very rarely. In this letter, we propose a method called clippi...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.063 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (S.-H. Li In order to determine how data mining techniques (DMT) and their applications have developed, during the past decade, this paper reviews data mining techniques and their applications and development, through a survey of literature and the cla...

Another Application for Trellis Shaping: PAR Reduction for DMT (OFDM) Werner Henkel, Member, IEEE, and Björn Wagner Abstract—A bound for the possible reduction of the peak-to-average ratio (PAR) dependent on the rate as well as possible practical procedures are presented. The idea of trellis shaping, originally used to minimize average transmit power in single-carrier systems, is applied to the...

This paper proposes a new blind adaptive channel shortening approach for multi-carrier systems. The performance of the discrete Fourier transform-DMT (DFT-DMT) system is investigated with the proposed DST-DMT system over the standard carrier serving area (CSA) loop1. Enhanced bit rates demonstrated and less complexity also involved by the simulation of the DST-DMT system.

In recent decades, the declarations of “independent” central banks and the conduct of monetary policy have been assigned an ever increasing role in the pursuit of economic and financial stability. This is curious since there is, in practice, no body of scientific knowledge (evidence based beliefs) solid enough to have ensured agreement among central banks on the best way to conduct monetary pol...

OBJECTIVE All previous studies on monetary diet cost have examined the relationship of monetary cost of self-reported diet to self-reported, rather than biomarker-based, estimates of dietary intake. The present cross-sectional study examined the association between monetary costs of self-reported diet and biomarker-based estimates of nutrient intake. DESIGN Monetary diet cost (Japanese yen/10...

This study captures regime-switching, monetary policy responses to financial market disturbances in Canada. Monetary policy is identified within a nonlinear, structural VAR framework with a regime-switching policy block that allows for contemporaneous policy reactions in a small open economy. The key finding is that monetary policy in Canada has undergone important changes in monetary policy re...