Search for Scalar Leptoquarks with polarized protons (and neutrons) at HERA and future ep(n)ep(n) Machines

The effects of Scalar Leptoquarks in various channels have been analysed for the HERA collider and also for an eventual new $ep$ machine running at higher energies. We emphasize the relevance of polarized beams.Comment: Latex file, 3 pages and 3 ps fig. Need style files : twoside,fleqn,espcrc2,epsfig. To appear in the proceedings of the DIS99 Workshop, DESY-Zeuthen, Germany, April 199

A New Step Size Control Technique for Blind and Non-Blind Equalization Algorithms

A new variable step size (VSS) control technique employing cross correlation between channel output and error signal has been proposed as a solution to the problem of slow convergence of blind and non-blind equalization algorithms. The new method resolves the conflict between the convergence rate and low steady state error of the fixed step-size conventional blind and non-blind equalization algorithms, such as Constant Modulus Algorithm (CMA) and Least Mean Squares (LMS) algorithm. Computer simulations have been performed to verify the performance of the proposed method in frequency selective Rayleigh fading channels. The proposed technique has been compared with the popular non-blind equalizers, LMS and Recursive Least Squares (RLS) algorithms, and blind equalizers, the conventional CMA, Zhao’s VSS-CMA and Demir’s VSS-CMA as benchmarks. The obtained simulation results have demonstrated that the proposed VSS-CMA and VSS-LMS algorithms have considerably better performance than the conventional CMA, Zhao’s VSS-CMA and Demir’s VSS-CMA blind equalization algorithms, and the conventional LMS non-blind equalization algorithm

Early Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization in cystic fibrosis patients

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The efficacy of inhaled hypertonic saline in children with cystic fibrosis who receive daily DNase.

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