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Boom and bust in continuous time evolving economic model
We show that a simple model of a spatially resolved evolving economic system,
which has a steady state under simultaneous updating, shows stable oscillations
in price when updated asynchronously. The oscillations arise from a gradual
decline of the mean price due to competition among sellers competing for the
same resource. This lowers profitability and hence population but is followed
by a sharp rise as speculative sellers invade the large un-inhabited areas.
This cycle then begins again.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figures, epjb style. New references. Section on avoiding
boom and bust. Fix bibliograph
Alternative Adaptive Filter Structures for Improved Radio Frequency Interference Cancellation in Radio Astronomy
In radio astronomy, reference signals from auxiliary antennas that receive
only the radio frequency interference (RFI) can be modified to model the RFI
environment at the astronomy receivers. The RFI can then be canceled from the
astronomy signal paths. However, astronomers typically only require signal
statistics. If the RFI statistics are changing slowly, the cancellation can be
applied to the signal correlations at a much lower rate than is required for
standard adaptive filters. In this paper we describe five canceler setups;
precorrelation and postcorrelation cancelers that use one or two reference
signals in different ways. The theoretical residual RFI and added noise levels
are examined and are demonstrated using microwave television RFI at the
Australia Telescope Compact Array. The RFI is attenuated to below the system
noise, a reduction of at least 20 dB. While dual-reference cancelers add more
reference noise than single-reference cancelers, this noise is zero-mean and
only adds to the system noise, decreasing the sensitivity. The residual RFI
that remains in the output of single-reference cancelers (but not
dual-reference cancelers) sets a nonzero noise floor that does not act like
random system noise and may limit the achievable sensitivity. Thus,
dual-reference cancelers often result in superior cancellation. Dual-reference
precorrelation cancelers require a double-canceler setup to be useful and to
give equivalent results to dual-reference postcorrelation cancelers.Comment: 11 pages created using emulateap
Cardiovascular effects of variations in habitual levels of physical activity
Mechanisms involved in human cardiovascular adaption to stress, particularly adaption to different levels of physical activity are determined along with quantitative noninvasive methods for evaluation of cardiovascular function during stess in normal subjects and in individuals with latent or manifest cardiovascular disease. Results are summarized
Influence of an aperture on the performance of a two-degree-of-freedom iron-cored spherical permanent-magnet actuator
Abstract—This paper describes a computational and experimental study of a two-degree-of-freedom spherical permanent-magnet actuator equipped with an iron stator. In particular, it considers the effect of introducing an aperture in the stator core to facilitate access to the armature. The resultant magnetic field distribution in the region occupied by the stator windings, the net unbalanced radial force, and the resulting reluctance torque are determined by three-dimensional magnetostatic finite-element
analysis. The predicted reluctance torque is validated experimentally, and its implications on actuator performance are described
Spatial variation of iron abundance in the high speed solar wind, 1972 to 1976
The Fe/H ratios in the peaks of high speed streams (HSS) during the decline of Solar Cycle 20 and the following minimum (October 1972-December 1976) were analyzed. The response of the 50-200 keV ion channel of the APL/JHU energetic particle experiment (EPE) on IMP-7 and 8 to solar wind iron ions at high solar wind speeds and Fe measurements were compared with solar wind H and He parameters from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) instruments on the same spacecraft. In general, the Fe distribution parameters (bulk velocity, flow direction, temperature) are found to be similar to the LANL He parameters. Although the average Fe/H ratio in many steady HSS peaks agrees within observational uncertainties with the nominal coronal ratio of 4.7 x 10(-5), abundance variations of a factor of up to 6 are obtained across a given coronal-hole associated HSS. Over the period 1973-1976, a steady decrease in the average quiet-time Fe/H ratio by a factor of about 4 is measured on both IMP-7 and 8
On the Minimum Distance of Generalized Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes
Families of generalized spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (GSC-LDPC)
code ensembles can be formed by terminating protograph-based generalized LDPC
convolutional (GLDPCC) codes. It has previously been shown that ensembles of
GSC-LDPC codes constructed from a protograph have better iterative decoding
thresholds than their block code counterparts, and that, for large termination
lengths, their thresholds coincide with the maximum a-posteriori (MAP) decoding
threshold of the underlying generalized LDPC block code ensemble. Here we show
that, in addition to their excellent iterative decoding thresholds, ensembles
of GSC-LDPC codes are asymptotically good and have large minimum distance
growth rates.Comment: Submitted to the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
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Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes Constructed from Protographs
In this paper, we construct protograph-based spatially coupled low-density
parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes by coupling together a series of L disjoint, or
uncoupled, LDPC code Tanner graphs into a single coupled chain. By varying L,
we obtain a flexible family of code ensembles with varying rates and frame
lengths that can share the same encoding and decoding architecture for
arbitrary L. We demonstrate that the resulting codes combine the best features
of optimized irregular and regular codes in one design: capacity approaching
iterative belief propagation (BP) decoding thresholds and linear growth of
minimum distance with block length. In particular, we show that, for
sufficiently large L, the BP thresholds on both the binary erasure channel
(BEC) and the binary-input additive white Gaussian noise channel (AWGNC)
saturate to a particular value significantly better than the BP decoding
threshold and numerically indistinguishable from the optimal maximum
a-posteriori (MAP) decoding threshold of the uncoupled LDPC code. When all
variable nodes in the coupled chain have degree greater than two,
asymptotically the error probability converges at least doubly exponentially
with decoding iterations and we obtain sequences of asymptotically good LDPC
codes with fast convergence rates and BP thresholds close to the Shannon limit.
Further, the gap to capacity decreases as the density of the graph increases,
opening up a new way to construct capacity achieving codes on memoryless
binary-input symmetric-output (MBS) channels with low-complexity BP decoding.Comment: Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theor
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