In this paper, we provide a performance analysis of a new class of serial concatenated convolutional codes (SCCC) where the inner encoder can be punctured beyond the unitary rate. The puncturing of the inner encoder is not limited to inner coded bits, but extended to systematic bits. Moreover, it is split into two different puncturings, in correspondence with inner code systematic bits and pari...

Patient-centered care has become an increasing priority in the United States and plays a prominent role in recent healthcare reforms. One way the country has managed to advance patient-centered care is through establishment of a family of national patient experience surveys (the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Plans (CAHPS). CAHPS is publicly reported for several types o...

OBJECTIVES This paper aims to assess the relationship between the determinants of the psychosocial work environment, as expressed in terms of JDC or ERI models, and all-cause mortality in older individuals. MATERIALS AND METHODS The baseline study was conducted on a cohort comprising a random sample of 65-year-old community-dwelling citizens of Kraków, Poland. All of the 727 participants (410...

We investigate a common value bilateral bargaining model with two sided private information and no aggregate uncertainty. A seller owns an asset whose common valuation is a deterministic function of the two traders’private signals. We …rst establish a no-trade theorem for this environment, and proceed to study the e¤ect of the asset valuation structure and the trading mechanism on extent to whi...

The purpose of the research paper is coverage process deployment Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s humanitarian mission in Hungary, determination its scope and addressees, evaluation aid results.
 scientific novelty lies fact that for first time JDC’s shown Hungarian territories – during First World War, as part Austria-Hungary, after an independent State. role helping both Jews refuge...

In experiments, people do not always appear to think very strategically or to infer the information of others from their choices. We report experimental results in games of private information with three information states, which vary in strategic complexity. “Mousetracking” is used to record which game payoffs subjects look at, for how long, to learn more about the thinking process. Subjects o...

Background: During of adolescence, transformations in neural circuitry of brain's reward system can lead to vulnerability which paves the way for involvement in criminal and addictive behaviors. Some of mental disorders e.g., conduct disorder because of their special nature are more comorbid with substance use disorders. Objectives: This study aimed to study the role of anhedonia and low arous...

1.1 Introduction 1.1.1 Goals and scope of the component model This chapter is based on a component model for distributed components called GCM for Grid Component Model. We present here this component model, its reference implementation based on the Java middleware ProActive, our specification language, JDC, adapted to distributed software components, and the associated specification platform: V...

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Effective strategies for preventing low back pain (LBP) have remained elusive, despite annual direct health care costs exceeding $85 billion dollars annually. In our recently completed Prevention of Low Back Pain in the Military (POLM) trial, a brief psychosocial education program (PSEP) that reduced fear and threat of LBP reduced the incidence of health care–seeking for LBP...

1.1 Introduction This technical report is based on a component model for distributed components called GCM for Grid Component Model. We present here this component model, its reference implementation based on the Java middleware ProActive, our specification language JDC adapted to distributed components, and the associated specification platform: Vercors. Our aim is, from the specification of c...