Analytical Evaluation of Coverage-Oriented Femtocell Network Deployment

This paper proposes a coverage-oriented femtocell network deployment scheme, in which the femtocell base stations (BSs) can decide whether to be active or inactive depending on their distances from the macrocell BSs. Specifically, as the areas close to the macrocell BSs already have satisfactory cellular coverage, the femtocell BSs located inside such areas are kept to be inactive. Thus, all the active femtocells are located in the poor macrocell coverage areas. Based on a stochastic geometric framework, the coverage probability can be analyzed with tractable results. Surprisingly, the results show that the proposed scheme, although with a lower defacto femtocell density, can achieve better coverage performance than that keeping all femtocells in the entire network to be active. The analytical results further identify the achievable optimal performance of the new scheme, which provides mobile operators a guideline for femtocell deployment and operation.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, published in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'13

ArguBlogging:an application for the Argument Web

In this paper, we present a software tool for ‘ArguBlogging’, which allows users to construct debate and discussions across blogs, linking existing and new online resources to form distributed, structured conversations. Arguments and counterarguments can be posed by giving opinions on one’s own blog and replying to other bloggers’ posts. The resulting argument structure is connected to the Argument Web, in which argumentative structures are made semantically explicit and machine-processable. We discuss the ArguBlogging tool and the underlying infrastructure and ontology of the Argument Web

Yes, My Darling Daughter (November 6, 8, 1969)

Program for Yes, My Darling Daughter (November 6, 8, 1969)

Presidential Note

Letter from the American Academy of Health Behavior President, Dr. Mark Reed

To reduce inequalities in research evaluation, give researchers a universal basic income for research impact

As the review of REF2021 begins, Mark Reed proposes that rather than allocating impact funding to a small number of high performing institutions, funding should be allocated more broadly to individual researchers. He argues that not only would this limit the over-concentration of resources in particular institutions, but would also benefit the wider culture of research impact by limiting zero-sum competition between institutions for impact and enabling researchers to pursue, or choose not to pursue, more intrinsically motivated forms of research impact

The American Academy of Health Behavior 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting: Theory and Applications of Multiple Health Behavior Change

The American Academy of Health Behavior (AAHB) hosted it\u27s 19th Annual Scientific Meeting at the Westin Poinsett in Greenville, SC March 10-13, 2019. The meeting\u27s theme was Theory and Applications of Multiple Health Behavior Change. This publication describes the meeting theme and includes the refereed abstracts presented at the 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting