Special Considerations in Estate Planning for Same-Sex and Unmarried Couples

Sub-Nyquist sampling makes use of sparsities in analog signals to sample them at a rate lower than the Nyquist rate. The reduction in sampling rate, however, comes at the cost of additional digital signal processing (DSP) which is required to reconstruct the uniformly sampled sequence at the output of the sub-Nyquist sampling analog-to-digital converter. At present, this additional processing is computationally intensive and time consuming and offsets the gains obtained from the reduced sampling rate. This paper focuses on sparse multi-band signals where the user band locations can change from time to time and the reconstructor requires real-time redesign. We propose a technique that can reduce the computational complexity of the reconstructor. At the same time, the proposed scheme simplifies the online reconfigurability of the reconstructor

Mechanikal Applications of the Harmless Error Rule in Cases of Prosecutorial Grand Jury Misconduct

Even though time-interleaved analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) help to achieve higher bandwidth with simpler individual ADCs, gain, offset, and time-skew mismatch between the channels degrade the achievable resolution. Of particular interest is the time-skew error between channels which results in nonuniform samples and thereby introducing distortion tones at the output of the time-interleaved ADC. Time-varying digital reconstructors can be used to correct the time-skew errors between the channels in a time-interleaved ADC. However, the complexity of such reconstructors increases as their bandwidth approaches the Nyquist band. In addition to this, the reconstructor needs to be redesigned online every time the time-skew error varies. Design methods that result in minimum reconstructor order require expensive online redesign while those methods that simplify online redesign result in higher reconstructor complexity. This paper proposes a technique that can be used to simplify the online redesign and achieve a low complexity reconstructor at the same time

Wage Differentials and Gender Discrimination - Changes in Sweden 1981-1998

The purpose of this paper is to follow the development of the Swedish gender earnings gap through the 1980s and 1990s. We follow the changes in the wage gap and in factors to which it can be related, step-by-step, and year-by- year. This is done by analysing cross sectional data from statistics Sweden (HINK) for the years 1981, 1983-1991 and 1993-1998. The preliminary results show that the unadjusted wage gap varied between 15-20 percent up to 1989 when the differentials began to increase. During the 90s the size of the gap was around 25 percent. There is an increase in the wage differentials between the 1980s and late 1990s. In a decomposition analysis we find that the measured differences in jobs and qualifications between women and men can account only for between two and three fifths of the gender wage gap, if they are assumed to be rewarded according to the wage function for men. If the female wage function is applied, considerably less of the differentials are explained. Differences in the educational requirements for jobs have contributed considerably to gender earnings inequality. The impact has, however, decreased over the period studied and is about half as large in the 1990s as it was in the 1980s.Gender differentials; wage differentiation; Swedish labour market discrimination

Var är egentligen liten vit och skär och alla små brokiga? ­ En undersökning av mångfald i bilderböcker

Syftet med föreliggande arbete är att undersöka och synliggöra hur etnicitet, kultur och mångkulturalism konstrueras i ett urval av samtida bilderböcker riktade till barn i förskoleåldern. Bilderboksgenren har varit relativt styvmoderligt behandlad av den tidigare forskningen ­ i synnerhet med avseende på hur mångkulturalism, kultur och etnicitet (re)produceras i bilderböckerna. De frågeställningar examensarbetet arbetar med rör relationen mellan hur olika etniska och kulturella grupper framställs i bilderböckerna. Svaren på dessa frågor undersöks utifrån en (multimodal) diskursanalys för att synliggöra det för-givet-tagna i bilderböckernas framställningar. Detta görs mer specifikt genom att undersöka hur begreppen mångkulturalism, kultur och etnicitet (re)produceras i samspelet mellan bild och text och i de perspektiv som återfinns i bilderböckernas handlingar. Undersökningsmaterialet utgörs av 5 bilderböcker utgivna i Sverige under 007 som av Bokjuryn rekommenderas för bl.a. landets förskolor. Resultaten visar inte oväntat att bilderböckerna i stor utsträckning (re)producerar en vit svensk eller västerländsk norm mot vilken olika framställningar av den Andre tecknas. Detta går bl.a. igen i att de flesta av bilderböckernas huvudkaraktärer kan placeras inom den överordnade vita svenska eller västerländska normen och att de från normen avvikande karaktärerna (den Andre) på olika sätt begränsas i sitt handlingsutrymme, pekas ut eller tvingas representera något annorlunda som motpol till det normala. Betydelsen för läraryrket av dessa resultat är vikten av att pedagogen via ett kritiskt förhållningssätt till mångkulturalism synliggör och erkänner bredden av olika perspektiv och därmed även utmanar de dominerande och överordnande perspektiven i kampen om att skapa social rättvisa. Detta uppnås dels via ett medvetet urval av bilderböcker och dels via flerstämmiga dialoger inom ramen för boksamtal

Civil Society Elites: A Research Agenda

This editorial introduces the thematic issue on ‘civil society elites,’ a topic that has been neglected in elite research as well as civil society studies. It elaborates on the concept of ‘civil society elites’ and explains why this is an important emerging research field. By highlighting different methodological approaches and key findings in the contributions to the thematic issue, this article aims at formulating an agenda for future research in this field

A Case of Depressive Personality Disorder: Aligning Theory, Practice, and Clinical Research

Depressive personality disorder (DPD) is highly studied and common in clinical settings. Nevertheless, it is rife with controversies and often overshadowed by major depression and dysthymia with which it shares many similarities but also is clinically distinct. Possibly as a result, DPD is underdiagnosed and misunderstood in clinical care. Thus the goal of this practice review is to present a case from psychiatric clinical work illustrating how DPD may be commonly overlooked in routine care, and how the conceptualization of this case and its treatment plan changed course once DPD was considered by treating staff, ultimately contributing to the successful outcome of the case. Questions elicited by the case are subsequently discussed in the context of the empirical literature on DPD, allowing for a clearer picture to emerge on DPD and its role in the development, course, and treatment of depression

A Low-Complexity Post-Weighting Predistorter in a mMIMO Transmitter Under Crosstalk

In hybrid beamforming, the beam oriented digital predistortion (BO-DPD) is incompetent to linearize the output in different directions except the desired direction to the transmitter. Therefore, subsequent to the BO-DPD operation, we perform a post-weighting (PW) processing to minimize the nonlinear radiations in the wide range of directions. Here, the optimized PW coefficients are multiplied by the polynomial basis functions of the BO-DPD, then, the resultant signals are distributed to the PAs to compensate the nonlinear radiations. In this work, first, we propose fully-featured post-weighting (FF-PW) scheme, then, we derive a low-complexity post-weighting (LC-PW) scheme.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure