Environmental problems and the related adaptation strategies have grown in importance and complexity during the last years. The large amount of data and information that needs to be handled and integrated requires specific methodologies and tools. Several research and application activities are undergoing worldwide for the development of Decision Support Systems (DSSs) that allow management of ...

Losses reduction initiatives in distribution systems have been activated due to the increasing cost of supplying electricity, the shortage in fuel with ever-increasing cost to produce more power, and the global warming concerns. These initiatives have been introduced to the utilities in shape of incentives and penalties. Recently, the electricity distribution companies in Oman have been incenti...

Assistant Professor, Dept. of ECE, JNNCE, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract – CDMA is a type of channel access method in which users using the same channel will use the same frequency band and also can access the channel at the same time. Using CDMA, mo...

Future mobile networks not only envision enhancing the traditional link quality and data rates of mobile broad band (MBB) links, but also development of new control channels to meet the requirements of delay sensitive use cases. In particular, the need for ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) for many internet of things (IoT) users is greatly emphasized. In this paper, we present a...

Main Clinical Manifestation (MCM)-oriented diagnosis starts with a chief problem and reasons about possible diagnoses that can be manifested in that way. The reasoning process often starts by considering abstract diagnosis groups (e.g., infectious vs. non-infectious diarrhea) and refines them. Most existing diagnostic decision-support systems (DSSs) are not specially tailored toward assisting n...

Direct Sequence/Spread-Spectrum (DSSS) signals are characterized by a wide bandwidth and a low-power spectral density. These characteristics make them very robust with respect to the jamming. The Jamming represents one of the main concerns for secure communication and communication in a crowded spectrum. When the jamming to signal power ratio is greater than the Process Gain, even the use of DS...

David Garrett and Mircea Stan [email protected], [email protected] University of Virginia, Department of Electrical Engineering AbstractDirect Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) transmissions require a despreading stage within the standard receiver block to recover the spread spectrum signal. For long spread spectrum codes, the correlation block can be a large portion of the receiver size, he...

This paper examines, via simulation, the performance of an 802.11e MAC over an 802.11g PHY operating in DSSS-OFDM mode. The DSSS-OFDM scheme provides data rates of up to 54Mb/s as well as interoperability with 802.11b nodes. Due to the widespread use of 802.11b nodes, such interoperability is an important consideration. This paper involves a study of the number of simultaneous bidirectional G.7...

A knowledge-based society determines organizations to focus their activities on improving management quality by using knowledge. Huge data stores become important once the real significance of data is discovered. Data mining techniques are involved in different knowledge processes, as one can notice in various public applications of the researchers. Managers can use these techniques in order to...

BACKGROUND The current investigation examined the psychometric properties of the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness (ISMI) scale in a sample of patients with mental illness. In addition to the internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and concurrent validity that previous studies have tested for the ISMI, we extended the evaluation to its construct validity and measurement invariance us...