A standalone module for rectangular array multicore fiber (MCF)-based optical interconnect (OI) is realized that includes inherent intercore crosstalk and provides space division multiplexed coupling/decoupling of optical power. The module is integrated in a short-reach communication system to provide bit error probability (BEP). Next, a closed-form equation for BEP applicable to MCF OI with in...

Building information modeling implementation has brought forward the development of planning guides, or BIM Execution Plans (BEP), which support teams in identifying steps and stakeholders responsible for generating managing information. However, numerous BEP templates that exist present a challenge when choosing guide can fit every need. With this study, authors aimed at evaluating small sampl...

During the last century, urban pollution has increased with the growth of cities. Urban air quality has become a high priority as it is directly linked to concerns such as human exposure and health. The present work is dedicated to urban air quality modeling with focus on urban meteorology. The main goal is to improve meteorological and air quality simulations in urban areas. Based on measureme...

PURPOSE Despite a high cure rate in patients with testicular cancer, there remain patients in the poor prognosis group who have a less favorable outcome. Intensive induction chemotherapy using a regimen consisting of carboplatin, bleomycin, vincristine, and cisplatin, followed by bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin (CBOP/BEP), developed at the Royal Marsden Hospital, is designed to overcome the...

C(4) photosynthesis is a series of anatomical and biochemical modifications to the typical C(3) pathway that increases the productivity of plants in warm, sunny, and dry conditions. Despite its complexity, it evolved more than 62 times independently in flowering plants. However, C(4) origins are absent from most plant lineages and clustered in others, suggesting that some characteristics increa...

BACKGROUND Traumatic events such as disasters, accidents, war, or criminal violence are often accompanied by the loss of loved ones, and may then give rise to traumatic grief. Traumatic grief refers to a clinical diagnosis of persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD) with comorbid (symptoms of) posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and/or major depressive disorder (MDD) following confrontat...

5 Ludovic Marcon, Barbara F. Hales and Bernard Robaire. 6 7 8 9 Departments of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 10 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1Y6. 11 12 13 14 Running title: Reversibility of BEP effects in rats 15 16 17

In this paper, we derive a closed-form expression for the Bit Error Probability (BEP) of an orthogonal frequencydivision multiplexing system that utilizes pilot-symbol-aided channel estimation. We assume Rayleigh fading, additive white Gaussian noise, and that the interpolation is linear but otherwise completely arbitrary. It is shown that the minimum mean squared error interpolation also minim...

We derive here a simple and accurate theoretical method for computing the bit-error-probability (BEP) of a direct-sequence spread spectrum (DS-SS) receiver using maximum ratio combiner (MRC), in the presence of code synchronization errors, root raised cosine (RRC) pulse shaping, and Rayleigh fading channels with correlated paths. Theoretical BEP curves with QPSK modulation are validated by link...