Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (8)
- Engineering (7)
- Economics (5)
- Electrical and Computer Engineering (5)
- Arts and Humanities (2)
-
- Astrophysics and Astronomy (2)
- Library and Information Science (2)
- Physical Sciences and Mathematics (2)
- Aerospace Engineering (1)
- Art and Design (1)
- Business (1)
- Communication (1)
- Economic History (1)
- Engineering Education (1)
- Industrial Engineering (1)
- Journalism Studies (1)
- Macroeconomics (1)
- Mass Communication (1)
- Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering (1)
- Other Astrophysics and Astronomy (1)
- Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures (1)
- Other Physics (1)
- Physics (1)
- Political Economy (1)
- Public Economics (1)
- Systems Engineering (1)
- Taxation (1)
- Keyword
-
- Adaptive signal detection (1)
- American Militia (1)
- Anti-merger (1)
- Articles (1)
- Cellular radio (1)
-
- Computational complexity (1)
- Conscription (1)
- Digital circuits (1)
- Digital phase locked loops (1)
- Faculty Instructional Development Program (1)
- Gases (1)
- Identification (1)
- Interference suppression (1)
- Iterative decoding (1)
- Journal Articles (1)
- Journals/Collections (1)
- MMIC (1)
- Microelectronics process engineering (1)
- Molecular (1)
- Multiuser channels (1)
- Peer Reviewed Journal Articles (1)
- Phase shift keying (1)
- Programmable circuits (1)
- Publications (1)
- Quadrature amplitude modulation (1)
- Quadrature phase shift keying (1)
- Radio receivers (1)
- Reassessment (1)
- Reconfigurable architectures (1)
- Refereed Journal Articles and Academic Journal Book Reviews (1)
Articles 1 - 19 of 19
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
Watts Towers, Jo Farb Hernandez
Chicago Newspaper Theater Critics Of The Early 20th Century, Scott B. Fosdick
Chicago Newspaper Theater Critics Of The Early 20th Century, Scott B. Fosdick
Faculty Publications
In the early years of the twentieth century, when live theater dominated the entertainment world and print media led public discourse, each without competition from electronic forms, the daily newspaper theater critic mediated ideas and values quite differently than today’s critics, whose main function has been reduced to that of a consumer guide. This article examines the corps of theater critics who served ten Chicago newspapers about 100 years ago. At a time when news editors were reluctant to cover new ideas and social movements, such as the push for women’s suffrage, theater critics were encountering radical new social ideas …
Introducing Cooperative Learning Through A Faculty Instructional Development Program, Nikos J. Mourtos, Emily L. Allen
Introducing Cooperative Learning Through A Faculty Instructional Development Program, Nikos J. Mourtos, Emily L. Allen
Faculty Publications
Cooperative Learning was officially introduced in the College of Engineering at San Jose State University in 1995 with a two-day workshop. The Faculty Instructional Development Program in the college maintains interest in the subjsect and provides support for instructors who use Cooperative Learning, through workshops and informal discussions (Conversations on Teaching). This paper discusses the effectiveness of the program in introducing, promoting, and implementing Cooperative Learning among the faculty and students in the college of engineering. A variety of performance criteria have been used in this assessment, some faculty-centered and some student-centered. The results indicate that although a relatively small …
The American Militia And The Origin Of Conscription: A Reassessment, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
The American Militia And The Origin Of Conscription: A Reassessment, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Storytelling, Folktales And The Comic Book Format, Gail De Vos
Storytelling, Folktales And The Comic Book Format, Gail De Vos
Faculty Publications
The reading process in comics is an extension of text. In text alone the process of reading involves word-to-image conversion. Comics accelerate that by providing the image. When properly executed, it goes beyond conversion and speed and becomes a seamless whole. In every sense, this misnamed form of reading is entitled to be regarded as literature because the images are employed as a language. There is a recognizable relationship to the iconography and pictographs of oriental writing. When this language is employed as a conveyance of ideas and information, it separates itself from mindless visual entertainment. This makes comics a …
Entrance Capacity Of An Automated Highway System, Randolph W. Hall, Ali Nowroozi, Jacob Tsao
Entrance Capacity Of An Automated Highway System, Randolph W. Hall, Ali Nowroozi, Jacob Tsao
Faculty Publications
This paper evaluates the entrance capacity and queueing delay for Automated Highway Systems through use of simulations and analytical modeling. Queueing statistics are also used to determine the sustainable capacity of alternative concepts, taking trip length distribution and spacing between ramps into consideration. Based on safety-spacing headways (produced in a separate analysis), the most promising concept utilizes platoons both on the highway and on on-ramps. However, it is unclear whether comparable capacity can be achieved on exit, when vehicles must be decoupled from their platoons, and whether it is safe for vehicles to enter the highway in closely spaced platoons. …
Developing A Program For Heritage Learners In A Small Liberal Arts Setting, Anne Fountain
Developing A Program For Heritage Learners In A Small Liberal Arts Setting, Anne Fountain
Faculty Publications
Discusses a new Spanish program for heritage language speakers at Peace College in North Carolina. While most programs designed for native speakers have been implemented in large institutions near a strong Hispanic community, the efforts at Peace College show how a program can be effectively developed even in a small women's college with a relatively new heritage population.
New Anti-Merger Theories: A Critique, Edward J. Lopez
New Anti-Merger Theories: A Critique, Edward J. Lopez
Faculty Publications
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate these new anti-merger instruments on the basis of economic theory and evidence. I first discuss how the economics of antitrust has developed over the years, with the intention of characterizing the intellectual inheritance of 1990s' antitrust regulators. Within this context, I then discuss each anti-merger instrument, how it has been applied in specific cases, and how it accords with underlying economic science. On the basis of these arguments, antitrust regulators should pause and reconsider the theoretical and empirical bases of applying unilateral effects and innovation markets to merger investigations.
Technology And Market Failure, Fred Foldvary, Daniel Klein
Technology And Market Failure, Fred Foldvary, Daniel Klein
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Measurement Of Inequality, Concentration, And Diversification., Fred Foldvary
The Measurement Of Inequality, Concentration, And Diversification., Fred Foldvary
Faculty Publications
The Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient are typically used to measure inequality. A different way to measure inequality is introduced here: I = CN, the product of concentration and number of units. The resultant index can be interpreted with reference to an inequality base where one unit owns all and the rest nothing. This inequality index also integrates the measurement of inequality, concentration, and diversification into one system, where diversification is measured as the inverse of concentration. I = CN accommodates various measures of concentration, including the Herfindahl-Hirschman and Tideman-Hall indexes. The Tideman-Hall concentration index also provides indexes of concentration, …
The Ethics Of Taxation, Fred Foldvary
The Ethics Of Taxation, Fred Foldvary
Faculty Publications
The judgment of taxation by ethical standards requires a universally applicable ethic. Such an ethic, natural moral law, can be derived using the Lockean framework based on equality. By this universal ethic, persons have property rights in their bodies and lives, and thus in their labor. The taxation of wages and of products of labor are therefore morally wrong. The equality premise, combined with the Lockean proviso on land, leads to the conclusion that public revenues may be justly obtained from the rental benefit of natural resources. Voluntary user fees and invasion penalties such as pollution charges are also morally …
A Two-Stage Decoder For Pragmatic Trellis-Coded M-Psk Modulation Using A Symbol Transformation, Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza, Advait Mogre
A Two-Stage Decoder For Pragmatic Trellis-Coded M-Psk Modulation Using A Symbol Transformation, Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza, Advait Mogre
Faculty Publications
A two-stage decoding procedure for pragmatic trellis-coded modulation (TCM) is introduced. It applies a transformation from the received I-channel and Q-channel samples onto points in a two-dimensional (2-D) signal space that contains a coset constellation. For pragmatic TCM over M-PSK signal sets with ν coded bits per symbol, ν=1, 2, the signal points in the coset constellations represent cosets of a B/QPSK signal subset-associated with the coded bits-in the original M-PSK signal constellation. A conventional Viterbi decoder operates on the transformed symbols to estimate the coded bits. After reencoding these bits, the uncoded bits are estimated in a second stage, …
A Software Defined Radio Platform With Direct Conversion: Soprano, Shinichiro Haruyama, Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza
A Software Defined Radio Platform With Direct Conversion: Soprano, Shinichiro Haruyama, Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza
Faculty Publications
A new software defined radio platform with multiport-based direct conversion is proposed, named SOPRANO (Software Programmable and Hardware Reconfigurable Architecture for Network). The main features of SOPRANO are a high-level design methodology for digital circuits, a new mixer-less direct conversion method, and software algorithms for multi-band and multi-mode operation. We built the first prototype SOPRANO 1.0, which was able to receive PSK and QAM signals with two different carrier frequencies at 2.45 GHz and 5.25 GHz by changing signal processing software.
A Method Of Non-Data-Aided Carrier Recovery With Modulation Identification, Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza, Kenta Umebayashi, Ryuji Kohno
A Method Of Non-Data-Aided Carrier Recovery With Modulation Identification, Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza, Kenta Umebayashi, Ryuji Kohno
Faculty Publications
A non-data aided carrier recovery technique using modulation format identification is proposed. This technique can also be interpreted as a modulation identification method that is robust against static phase and frequency offsets. The performance of the proposed technique is studied and analytical expressions derived for the mean acquisition time to detect lock in the cases of M-PSK, M=2,4,8, and 16-QAM modulation, with respect to frequency offset and signal-to-noise ratio. The results are verified with Monte Carlo simulations. The main advantage of the proposed method lies in its simpler implementation and faster lock detection, when compared to conventional methods.
On Interference Cancellation And Iterative Techniques, Ryuji Kohno, Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza
On Interference Cancellation And Iterative Techniques, Ryuji Kohno, Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza
Faculty Publications
Recent research activities in the area of mobile radio communications have moved to third generation (3G) cellular systems to achieve higher quality with variable transmission rate of multimedia information. In this paper, an overview is presented of various interference cancellation and iterative detection techniques that are believed to be suitable for 3G wireless communications systems. Key concepts are space-time processing and space-division multiple access (or SDMA) techniques. SDMA techniques are possible with software antennas. Furthermore, to reduce receiver implementation complexity, iterative detection techniques are considered. A particularly attractive method uses tentative hard decisions, made on the received positions with the …
Microelectronics Process Engineering: A Non-Traditional Approach To Ms&E (Ingeniería De Procesos Microelectrónicos: Un Acercamiento No Tradicional A La Ciencia De Materiales E Ingeniería), E. Allen, Stacy H. Gleixner, G. Young, David W. Parent, Yasser Dessouky, L. Vanasupa
Microelectronics Process Engineering: A Non-Traditional Approach To Ms&E (Ingeniería De Procesos Microelectrónicos: Un Acercamiento No Tradicional A La Ciencia De Materiales E Ingeniería), E. Allen, Stacy H. Gleixner, G. Young, David W. Parent, Yasser Dessouky, L. Vanasupa
Faculty Publications
Materials Science and Engineering straddles the fence between engineering and science. In order to produce more work-ready undergraduates, we offer a new interdisciplinary program to educate materials engineers with a particular emphasis on microelectronics-related manufacturing. The bachelor's level curriculum in Microelectronics Process Engineering (J1ProE) is interdisciplinary, drawing from materials, chemical, electrical and industrial engineering programs and tied together with courses, internships and projects which integrate thin film processing with manufacturing control methods. Our graduates are prepared for entry level engineering jobs that require knowledge and experience in microelectronics-type fabrication and statistics applications in manufacturing engineering. They also go on to …
Dynamics Of Stars And Globular Clusters In M87, Aaron J. Romanowsky, C. S. Kochanek
Dynamics Of Stars And Globular Clusters In M87, Aaron J. Romanowsky, C. S. Kochanek
Faculty Publications
We examine the dynamics of the stars and globular clusters in the nearby giant elliptical galaxy M87 and constrain the mass distribution, using all the available data over a large range of radii, including higher order moments of the stellar line-of-sight velocity distributions and the discrete velocities of over 200 globular clusters. We introduce an extension of spherical orbit modeling methods that makes full use of all the information in the data and provides very robust constraints on the mass models. We conclusively rule out a constant mass-to-light ratio model and infer that the radial density profile of the galaxy's …
Molecular Simulations Of Sound Wave Propagation In Simple Gases, Alejandro Garcia, N. Hadjiconstantinou
Molecular Simulations Of Sound Wave Propagation In Simple Gases, Alejandro Garcia, N. Hadjiconstantinou
Faculty Publications
Molecular simulations of sound waves propagating in a dilute hard sphere gas have been performed using the direct simulation Monte Carlo method. A wide range of frequencies is investigated, including very high frequencies for which the period is much shorter than the mean collision time. The simulation results are compared to experimental data and approximate solutions of the Boltzmann equation. It is shown that free molecular flow is important at distances smaller than one mean free path from the excitation point.
Role Clarification And Role Dilemmas: New Challenges For Teacher-Librarians?, Ken Haycock
Role Clarification And Role Dilemmas: New Challenges For Teacher-Librarians?, Ken Haycock
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.