Alien Registration- Belleville, Camille (Lewiston, Androscoggin County)

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Alien Registration- Belleville, Alponse (Lewiston, Androscoggin County)

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Reliable multicast transport by satellite: a hybrid satellite/terrestrial solution with erasure codes

Geostationary satellites are an efficient way to provide a large scale multipoint communication service. In the context of reliable multicast communications, a new hybrid satellite/terrestrial approach is proposed. It aims at reducing the overall communication cost using satellite broadcasting only when enough receivers are present, and terrestrial transmissions otherwise. This approach has been statistically evaluated for a particular cost function and seems interesting. Then since the hybrid approach relies on Forward Error Correction, several practical aspects of MDS codes and LDPC codes are investigated in order to select a code

Federal Procedure - Jurisdiction - Statutory Change in Jurisdictional Amount and Corporate Citizenship

A recent congressional amendment of federal district court jurisdictional requirements for both diversity of citizenship and federal question litigation has raised the required amount in controversy from $3,000 to$10,000. The trial court has also been given discretion either to deny costs or assess them against the plaintiff if he is finally adjudged entitled to recover less than $10,000, determined without regard to any set-off or counterclaim and exclusive of interest and costs. Further, for purposes of diversity jurisdiction and removal, a corporation is now deemed a citizen of any State by which it has been incorporated and of the State where it has its principal place of business. 28 U.S.C. (Supp. V, 1958) §§1331, 1332

Alien Registration- Belleville, Leonie (Lewiston, Androscoggin County)

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The Long-Term Behavioral Effects of Concussions and Post-Concussion Syndrome

The focus of this thesis is to examine the effects of concussions on college athletes, specifically their social activity and behavioral changes. Concussions are mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) that occur after receiving a blow to the head or a whiplash injury that causes an altered state of consciousness, including but not limited to, being unconscious. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) reports that in the past five years college athletes have suffered 10,500 concussions. Unlike professional athletes, who have the luxury of being able to rest until fully healed, college student athletes have the demands of academics often rushing them back to the classroom before they are healed completely. This demand can lead to prolonged symptoms. This thesis will explore how concussions can have lasting effects on behavior and academics, not just acute effects during the healing process. The PROMIS-29 survey was conducted to study the behavioral and social aspects of Division I student athletes in five sports. The response rate was low, however the data that was collected was trending along with studies that have been conducted previously

Group size estimation for hybrid satellite/terrestrial reliable multicast

This paper addresses the problem of group size estimation for hybrid satellite/terrestrial multipoint communications. Estimators based on the maximum likelihood principle are investigated. These estimators assume that a Nack suppression mechanism is implemented at transport layer. The performance of these estimators is studied theoretically and via simulations. The integration of an appropriate group size estimator in a transport mechanism is finally considered

A Meta-Analysis of Sleep Disturbances in Panic Disorder

The nature and prevalence of sleep disturbances in panic disorder (PD) have been often discussed but remain unclear. The objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to document sleep disturbances in PD. Systematic database search and standardized extraction were conducted. Meta-analysis was computed on self-report (subjective) and polysomnographic (PSG) (objective) data and on prevalence rates of nocturnal panic attacks (NPA). Of the 1262 publications retrieved, 31 were included. PD patients were compared to healthy controls on subjective and objective measures. Patients had higher Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) global scores (hedges’ g = 1.306, 95% CI [0.532, 2.081]), longer PSG sleep latency (hedges’ g = 0.81, 95% CI [0.576, 1.035]), poorer PSG sleep efficiency (hedges’ g = −0.79, 95% CI [−1.124, −0.432]), and shorter stage 2 (hedges’ g = 0.70, 95% CI [−1.231, −0.120]) and total sleep time (hedges’ g = −0.739, 95% CI [−1.127, −0.351]). Among patients, 52.1% (95% CI [0.464, 0.577]) reported NPA (≥1/lifetime). Patients with PD demonstrate subjective and objective sleep alterations. More than half have experienced NPA. These sleep disturbances could have a significant role in maintaining PD symptoms

Act Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: Slowing Contagion with Unknown Spreaders, Constrained Cleaning Capacities and Costless Measures

What can be done to slow contagion when unidentified healthy carriers are contagious, total isolation is impossible, cleaning capacities are constrained, contamination parameters and even contamination channels are uncertain? Short answer: reduce variance. I study mathematical properties of contagion when people may be contaminated by using successively devices, such as restrooms, which have been identified as a potential contamination channel for COVID19. The expected number of exposures (at least one previous user was already contaminated and is thus a “spreader”) and new contaminations (which may increase with the number of spreaders among previous users and may also decrease with time) are always convex functions of the number n of users. As a direct application of Jensen inequality, contamination can be reduced at no cost by limiting the variance of n. The gains from optimal use and cleaning of the devices can be substantial in this baseline framework: with a 1% proportion of (unknown) contaminated people, cleaning one device after 5 uses and the other after 15 uses increases contamination by 26 % with respect to the optimal organization, which is cleaning each device after 10 uses. The relative gains decrease when the proportion of spreaders increases. Thus, optimal organization is more beneficial at the beginning of an epidemic, providing additional reason for early action during an epidemic (the traditional reason, which is first-order, is that contamination is approximately exponential over the expansion phase of an epidemic). These convexity results extend only partially to simultaneous use situations, since the exposure function becomes concave above a threshold which decreases with the proportion of spreaders: once again, this calls for early action. Simultaneous use is the framework most often analyzed in the network literature, which may explain why the above convexity results have been overlooked. When multiple spreaders increase the probability of contamination, the degree of convexity depend on the precise effects of each additional spreader. With linear probabilities, the expected contamination curves are semi-parabolas, both for successive and simultaneous use. For other inverse link functions, convexity is always ensured in the successive use case but must be determined case by case for simultaneous use

Efficient size estimation and impossibility of termination in uniform dense population protocols

We study uniform population protocols: networks of anonymous agents whose pairwise interactions are chosen at random, where each agent uses an identical transition algorithm that does not depend on the population size $n$. Many existing polylog$(n)$ time protocols for leader election and majority computation are nonuniform: to operate correctly, they require all agents to be initialized with an approximate estimate of $n$ (specifically, the exact value $\lfloor \log n \rfloor$). Our first main result is a uniform protocol for calculating $\log(n) \pm O(1)$ with high probability in $O(\log^2 n)$ time and $O(\log^4 n)$ states ($O(\log \log n)$ bits of memory). The protocol is converging but not terminating: it does not signal when the estimate is close to the true value of $\log n$. If it could be made terminating, this would allow composition with protocols, such as those for leader election or majority, that require a size estimate initially, to make them uniform (though with a small probability of failure). We do show how our main protocol can be indirectly composed with others in a simple and elegant way, based on the leaderless phase clock, demonstrating that those protocols can in fact be made uniform. However, our second main result implies that the protocol cannot be made terminating, a consequence of a much stronger result: a uniform protocol for any task requiring more than constant time cannot be terminating even with probability bounded above 0, if infinitely many initial configurations are dense: any state present initially occupies $\Omega(n)$ agents. (In particular, no leader is allowed.) Crucially, the result holds no matter the memory or time permitted. Finally, we show that with an initial leader, our size-estimation protocol can be made terminating with high probability, with the same asymptotic time and space bounds.Comment: Using leaderless phase cloc