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A space communication study Progress report, 15 Sep. 1966 - 15 Mar. 1967
Space communications studies of optimal signal reception, threshold extension, signal detection against noise, channel simulation, and synchronization technique
A space communications study Status report, 15 Dec. 1968 - 15 Mar. 1969
Harmonic distortion in frequency demodulator using feedback, delta modulation, recursive signal processing techniques, and multipath fadin
A space communication study Final report, 15 Sep. 1967 - 15 Sep. 1968
Transmitting and receiving analog and digital signals through noisy media - space communications stud
A Space Communications Study Final Report, Sep. 15, 1965 - Sep. 15, 1966
Reception of frequency modulated signals passed through deterministic and random time-varying channel
A space communications study Final report, 15 Sep. 1968 - 15 Sep. 1969
Analog and digital signal reception problems through noisy channels, and computerized digital TV system for space communication
Analysis of an F.M. Discriminator with Fading Signal plus Additive Gaussian Noise
Fading signal plus additive Gaussian noise applied to frequency modulation discriminator for determining fading effects on threshol
Identification of Coulomb blockade and macroscopic quantum tunneling by noise
The effects of Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling (MQT) and Coulomb Blockade (CB)
in Josephson junctions are of considerable significance both for the
manifestations of quantum mechanics on the macroscopic scale and potential
technological applications. These two complementary effects are shown to be
clearly distinguishable from the associated noise spectra. The current noise is
determined exactly and a rather sharp crossover between flux noise in the MQT
and charge noise in the CB regions is found as the applied voltage is changed.
Related results hold for the voltage noise in current-biased junctions.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, epl.cls include
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Free healthy breakfasts in primary schools: A cluster randomised controlled trial of a policy intervention in Wales, UK
Objective: The present study evaluated the impact of a national school programme of universal free healthy breakfast provision in Wales, UK.
Design: A cluster randomised controlled trial with repeated cross-sectional design and a 12-month follow-up. Primary outcomes were breakfast skipping, breakfast diet and episodic memory. Secondary outcomes were frequency of eating breakfast at home and at school, breakfast attitudes, rest-of-day diet and class behaviour.
Setting: Primary schools in nine local education authority areas.
Subjects: A total of 4350 students (aged 9–11 years) at baseline and 4472 at follow-up in 111 schools.
Results: Students in intervention schools reported significantly higher numbers of healthy food items consumed at breakfast and more positive attitudes towards breakfast eating at 12 months. Parents in intervention schools reported significantly higher rates of consumption of breakfast at school and correspondingly lower rates of breakfast consumption at home. No other significant differences were found.
Conclusions: The intervention did not reduce breakfast skipping; rather, pupils substituted breakfast at home for breakfast at school. However, there were improvements in children’s nutritional intake at breakfast time, if not the rest of the day, and more positive attitudes to breakfast, which may have implications for life-course dietary behaviours. There was no impact on episodic memory or classroom behaviour, which may require targeting breakfast skippers
XMM-Newton Observation of the Northwest Radio Relic Region in Abell 3667
Abell 3667 is the archetype of a merging cluster with radio relics. The NW
radio relic is the brightest cluster relic or halo known, and is believed to be
due to a strong merger shock. We have observed the NW relic for 40 ksec of net
XMM time. We observe a global decline of temperature across the relic from 6 to
1 keV, similar to the Suzaku results. Our new observations reveal a sharp
change of both temperature and surface brightness near the position of the
relic. The increased X-ray emission on the relic can be equivalently well
described by either a thermal or nonthermal spectral model. The parameters of
the thermal model are consistent with a Mach number M~2 shock and a shock speed
of ~1200 km s^-1. The energy content of the relativistic particles in the radio
relic can be explained if they are (re)-accelerated by the shock with an
efficiency of ~0.2%. Comparing the limit on the inverse Compton X-ray emission
with the measured radio synchrotron emission, we set a lower limit to the
magnetic field in the relic of 3 muG. If the emission from the relic is
non-thermal, this lower limit is in fact the required magnetic field.Comment: 11 pages, ApJ in pres
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