In order to transmit a video signal over a limited bandwidth channel many techniques have been developed which can reduce the quantity of data required to represent moving image sequences. Almost all current coders use techniques based on reducing the statistical redundancy of the signal and psychophysically less significant details. Such coders are relatively successful for coding signals at b...

are oestrogen-dependent (Katzenellenbogen, 1980; McGuire, 1980). The MCF-7 cell line (Lippman & Bolan, 1975), a human breast cancer cell line, has been especially useful for understanding the mechanism of action of oestrogen. The pS2 protein (Mr 6500) is an abundant oestrogen-induced protein secreted by MCF-7 cells and found in breast tumour tissue (Masiokowski et al., 1982; Jakowlew et al., 19...

This thesis presents a Differential Binary Phase Shift Key (DBPSK) source separation system implemented with the GNU Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform and interfaced with the existing MIT community Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system. Source separation, well studied in the theoretical signal processing setting, presents an opportunity to achieve higher throughput in a practical SDR...

Tamoxifen citrate (ICI46474) is an antiestrogenic agent used in cases of disseminated breast carcinomas and as adjuvant postoperative therapy. Toxic reactions to tamoxifen, such as decreased visual acuity, bilateral macular edema, and yellow-white dots in the paramacular and foveal areas, are relatively rare (reported incidence between 0.9%-12%). In 1978, Kaiser-Kupfer and Lippman first reporte...

The need for routine amblyopia screening of all children, making such screening "as important a part of medical care as immuni­ zations," is all but self-evident. Although, as Lippman points out, many of the traditional incidence statistics need interpretation to be meaningful, most recent large-scale screening efforts of children indicate an amblyopia in­ cidence of 1 to 3 % in the general pop...

Operations Management (OM) is concerned with the study of technological systems that produce good or services through the repetitive execution of standardized tasks. Although most of these systems are decentralized with an owner (or principal) delegating operational control to one or more noncooperative decision makers (or agents), traditional OM models suppress that feature for analytical trac...

Text adaptation is a teacher practice used to help with reading comprehension and English language skills development for English language learners (ELLs) (Carlo, August, McLaughlin, Snow, Dressler, Lippman, Lively, & White, 2004; Echevarria, Vogt and Short, 2004; Yano, Long and Ross, 1994). The practice of text adaptation involves a teacher’s modification of texts to make them more understanda...

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The total positivity of order two is a fundamental property to investigate the sequential decision problem, and it also plays an important role in the Bayesian learning procedure for a partially observable Markov process. For this process, we also deals with a job search, and observe the probability densities on the state space after some additional transitions by employing the optimal policy. ...

There is a misguided perception that RF spectrum space is fully allocated and fully used though even a superficial study of actual spectrum usage by measuring local RF energy shows it largely empty of radiation. Traditional regulation uses a fence-off policy, in which competing uses are isolated by frequency and/or geography. We seek to modernize this strategy. Given advances in radio technolog...