Dissertations / Theses: 'Rape space'

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Apparicio, Alexis Jada. "How Race Dictates Space." Ohio University Art and Sciences Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouashonors1495191082397281.

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Lokshin, Kirill, Amit Puri, Dana Irvin, Frank Ross, and Rebecca Rush. "Implementing Space Link Extension (SLE) for Very High Rate Space Links." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/581642.

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ITC/USA 2012 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Eighth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 22-25, 2012 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California
Space Link Extension (SLE) is a set of recommended standards for mission cross support developed by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS). The SLE recommendations define protocols for extending the space link from ground terminals to other facilities deeper within a ground network, allowing distributed access to space link telecommand and telemetry services. The SLE protocols are widely used to provide cross support between sites, programs, and agencies. Traditional SLE protocol implementations have been limited in their ability to support high data rates and large numbers of concurrent service instances. Such limited solutions were sufficient to support the needs of spacecraft health and status or older, low-rate science data. More recent missions, however, have required significantly increased data rates on both uplink and downlink paths, necessitating a new approach to SLE implementation. This paper discusses the design principles involved in implementing the SLE protocols in support of high channel and aggregate mission data rates, with particular focus on the tradeoffs necessary to provide SLE link capability at sustained single-channel rates above 1 Gigabit per second. The paper addresses significant performance bottlenecks in the conventional SLE protocol stack and proposes potential mitigation strategies for them.

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Tovares, Charles. "Race and the production of public space /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5635.

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Hammerschmidt, Joachim S. "Adaptive space and space-time signal processing for high-rate mobile data receivers /." Düsseldorf : VDI-Verl, 2001. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/329240056.pdf.

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Giacomoni, John Anthony. "PShm: High-rate packet manipulation in user-space." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1433511.

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Zahid, Kazi. "Space-time Processsing for the Wideband-CDMA System." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30783.

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Deployment of antenna arrays is a very promising solution to reduce the Multiple Access Interference (MAI) from high data rate users in the Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) system. Combining the antenna array with a RAKE receiver, both of which exploits multipath diversity, can significantly improve the system performance. In this research, we investigate the performance of these beamformer-RAKE receivers, also known as two-dimensional (2-D) RAKE receiver, for the reverse link of the W-CDMA system. We consider three different Pilot Symbol Assisted (PSA) beamforming techniques, Direct Matrix Inversion (DMI), Least-Mean Square (LMS) and Recursive Least Square (RLS) adaptive algorithms. Two different Geometrically Based Single Bounce (GBSB) statistical channel models are considered, one, which is more suitable for array processing, and the other is conductive to RAKE combining. The performances of the 2-D RAKE receivers are evaluated in these two channel models as a function of the number of antenna elements and RAKE fingers. It is shown that, in both the cases, the 2-D RAKE receiver outperforms the conventional RAKE receiver and the conventional beamformer by a significant margin. Also, the output SINR expression of a 2-D RAKE receiver with the general optimum beamformer is derived.
Master of Science

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Elund, Judith. "The gendered body in virtual space : sexuality, performance and play in four Second Life spaces." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2012. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/544.

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This work is principally an investigation into visual and screen culture, using four specific regions of the three-dimensional virtual world of ‘Second Life’ as case studies. The analysis follows a thematic application of discourse analysis as a basis for critiquing Western screen culture, most importantly the cultural and social conditions that replicate dominant paradigms of power and agency. Of particular pertinence to this study are the framing, representational and spatial practices of gendered and sexual identities within ‘Second Life’ spaces. As is typical of the internet, sexual freedom is a given, yet representational performance (how one appears through their embodied avatar) is predicated on significations from the corporeal. So, within potentially subversive spaces, there is a normativity that persists which reiterates the ideological foundations of identity that are historically and culturally ascribed to. This is particularly prevalent in gendered representation – avatars tend to hyper-gendered expression and the excesses of Western bodily presentation and adornment, so that bodies are seen to move beyond all biological capacity of attainment. That these representational practices carry over into sexually diverse regions is perhaps unsurprising given that gay and lesbian culture has been in a large way subsumed into contemporary mass culture. It is the tensions that occur as a result of the normative acting upon the subversive that forms the basis of investigation, specifically the relationship between corporeal normativity and screen culture as well as the tensions between cultural conservatism, subversive representation and gender conformity.

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Tong, Hui. "A joint data rate - error rate analysis in correlated space-time-wireless channels /." Available online. Click here, 2007. http://sunshine.lib.mtu.edu/ETD/DISS/2007/Electrical&ComputerEng/tongh/diss.pdf.

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Lustgarten, Danielle. "Race and space : mapping the construction of political identity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ59262.pdf.

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Zhang, Zhi. "Error-rate evaluation and optimization for space-time codes." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39634218.

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Zhang, Zhi, and 張治. "Error-rate evaluation and optimization for space-time codes." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39634218.

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Gozali, Ran. "Space-Time Codes for High Data Rate Wireless Communications." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27193.

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Space-time codes (STC) are a class of signaling techniques, offering coding and diversity gains along with improved spectral efficiency. These codes exploit both the spatial and the temporal diversity of the wireless link by combining the design of the error correction code, modulation scheme and array processing. STC are well suited for improving the downlink performance, which is the bottleneck in asymmetric applications such as downstream Internet. Three original contributions to the area of STC are presented in this dissertation. First, the development of analytic tools that determine the fundamental limits on the performance of STC in a variety of channel conditions. For trellis-type STC, transfer function based techniques are applied to derive performance bounds over Rayleigh, Rician and correlated fading environments. For block-type STC, an analytic framework that supports various complex orthogonal designs with arbitrary signal cardinalities and array configurations is developed. In the second part of the dissertation, the Virginia Tech Space-Time Advanced Radio (VT-STAR) is designed, introducing a multi-antenna hardware laboratory test bed, which facilitates characterization of the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel and validation of various space-time approaches. In the third part of the dissertation, two novel space-time architectures paired with iterative processing principles are proposed. The first extends the suitability of STC to outdoor wireless communications by employing iterative equalization/decoding for time dispersive channels and the second employs iterative interference cancellation/decoding to solve the error propagation problem of Bell-Labs Layered Space-Time Architecture (BLAST). Results show that remarkable energy and spectral efficiencies are achievable by combining concepts drawn from space-time coding, multiuser detection, array processing and iterative decoding.
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Glastra, Jazz. "Inequality in Farmworker Wages: Race, Space, and Legal Status." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461228244.

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Spraker, Rachel. "What's Haunting Jackson Ward? Race, Space, and Environmental Violence." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4856.

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This research is about examining the way in which racialized environmental violence contributes to exploitative social relations becoming embedded in the everyday world. I argue that the space of the everyday has been produced through cycles of social relations proceeding from and/or tied to racialized environmental violence. I continue the work of critical scholars in asserting that social and environmental violence is linked in the same ideological impulse which seeks to hide itself behind a variety of alienating processes. The slow way in which environmental violence works is particularly impactful in these processes because of its attritional lethality, contributing to premature death. I studied these processes by examining the histories surrounding the site of a construction day labor firm in Richmond, Virginia. My methodology includes archival research on newspapers, public documents, and secondary sources establishing that the patterned co-location of social and environmental violence does not occur by chance.

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Gong, Yi. "Space-time coding for high data-rate wireless communications over space and frequency selective fading channels /." View Abstract or Full-Text, 2002. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?ELEC%202002%20GONG.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-114). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.

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Audet, Emily. ""White" Space: The Racialization of Claremont, California." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/920.

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The City of Claremont, California—a suburb of Los Angeles and the home of the Claremont Colleges—stands out as disproportionately non-Hispanic white in comparison to neighboring cities and counties. This research employs the concept of racialization of place to examine how Claremont has been racialized as “white.” Through an analysis of land-use regulations and descriptions of the city, this research analyzes the structural and ideological processes that racialized the city. The city government used exclusionary zoning ordinances and private citizens employed racially restrictive housing covenants to maintain Claremont’s majority-white status. The city government and local organizations and businesses also implicitly assert Claremont’s white identity through maintaining that Claremont residents are unique among the area and through relating Claremont to New England. The city government and local organizations also frame the city as peaceful and principled, which is typical of places racialized as “white.” This research focuses on the process of Claremont acquiring a “white” identity, but further research should examine how this identity facilitates disproportionate resource capture.

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Abbas, Nadeen, and nadeen2000@yahoo com. "Psychological and Physiological Effects of Light and Colour on Space Users." RMIT University. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20070213.160424.

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The impact of colour and lighting conditions on the emotions and performance of people is gaining greater importance in our urban societies. While large resources are allocated for well designed spaces with the right choices of colour and lighting conditions, there is little scientific evidence that supports these choices. Although the literature on light and colour is extensive, it does not present a uniform set of findings for a consistent perspective on the influence of colour and light. Most of the research reported in this field uses subjective measures to study the emotional effects of light and colour on people. It has been reported in literature that emotion manifests itself in three separate sections; (i) physiological (i.e. objective measures), (ii) psychological (subjective measures), (iii) behavioral, and it is necessary that studies not be limited to the assessment of a single response but include sample measures from each of the three manifestations. This research is built on the current body of knowledge that there is a need for a study on the emotional effects of light and colour on people using physiological and psychological measures, to ensure the objectivity and reproductivity of the experiments. It is well documented in literature that there is close correlation between emotions, heart rate (HR), and skin conductance (SC). Hence HR and SC are expected to be good physiological measures of environmental conditions on people. Thus this thesis reports changes in the HR, SC and self-assessment reports of arousal and valence (SAM) for people when exposed to different colour and intensity lights. The aim is to help provide an objective rationale for the choice for light intensity and colour by architects, interior designers and other professionals. The experiments were conducted on 15 participants who were exposed to 8 different colour and intensity light conditions. The participants' HR and SC were recorded under each colour and intensity light, and they were asked to complete SAM. The research demonstrates that there is a change in HR, SC, arousal and valence of participants due to change in the colour and intensity of lights. However, the direction of change was subject dependent, where the same colour and intensity light can have different effects on people. The research suggests that architects and designers of any space must take into account the individual differences of the predicted users when designing the lights and colours. It is also seen from the results that some colour and intensity lights have greater impact on the emotions of participants than others. Although it is not possible to correlate the colour and lighting conditions to a specific effect on all participants, general effects for some colour lights were drawn from the results. It is well documented in literature that HR and SC are a good measure of emotion. However the results of this study show very high inter subject variation in HR and SC. This is due to people having different HR and SC in normal conditions. This research demonstrates that the use of HR and SC to measure the effect of a stimulus on a group of people is unreliable because it is hard to compare the results.

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Ladaci, Ayoub. "Rare earth doped optical fibers and amplifiers for space applications." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSES027/document.

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Les fibres dopées aux terres rares (REDFs) représentent un composant clef dans la fabrication de sources laser et d’amplificateurs optiques (REDFAs). Leurs hautes performances rendent cette technologie particulièrement attractive pour les applications spatiales en tant que partie active des gyroscopes à fibres optiques, pour le transfert de données et les applications LIDARS. Cependant, la grande sensibilité de ces fibres actives limite l’intégration des REDFAs au sein des missions spatiales. De nombreuses études ont été menées pour dépasser ces limitations et différentes techniques de mitigation ont été identifiées telles que le co-dopage au Cérium ou le chargement en hydrogène de ces fibres optiques. Toutes ces solutions interviennent au niveau du composant sensible et sont classées parmi les stratégies de durcissement par composant permettant la fabrication de fibres dopées aux terres rares résistantes aux radiations adaptées aux besoins des missions spatiales actuelles associées à de faibles doses d’irradiation. Cependant, l’avènement de nouveaux programmes, de nouvelles missions invitent à considérer des doses d’irradiation plus importantes, nécessitant des REDFs et des RDFAs encore plus tolérants aux radiations. A cette fin, une optimisation de l’amplificateur optique au niveau système est étudiée dans le cadre de ce doctorat en exploitant une approche couplant simulation et expériences dont les avancées pourront venir en appui des techniques de durcissement plus conventionnelles. Après la présentation du contexte, des objectifs de ce travail (Chapitre I), les mécanismes fondamentaux de l’amplification et des effets des radiations sont brièvement décrits dans le Chapitre II. Les outils de simulation basés sur l’enrichissement d’un code à l’état de l’art et ses nouvelles fonctionnalités, décrites au Chapitre III, permettent non seulement l’évaluation des performances optiques du REDFA mais aussi de prédire leurs évolutions sous irradiation. De nombreuses études expérimentales ont été réalisées sur différents REDFAs développés durant la thèse et présentés dans le chapitre IV, leurs résultats comparés à ceux issus de la simulation afin de valider nos outils de simulation. Une fois validé, le code a été utilisé pour montrer comment l’optimisation de l’architecture du REDFA permet de mitiger les effets des radiations sur ses performances (Chapitre V). Finalement, le Chapitre VI présente l’étude de l’implémentation dans le code de nouveaux effets, tels que les effets thermiques, le multiplexage du signal d’entrée à travers un couplage théorie/expérience
Rare earth doped fibers (REDFs) are a key component in optical laser sources and amplifiers (REDFAs). Their high performances render them very attractive for space applications as the active part of gyroscopes, high data transfer links and LIDARs. However, the high sensitivity of these active fibers to space radiations limits the REDFA integration in actual and future missions. To overcome these issues various studies were carried out and some mitigation techniques were identified such as the Cerium co-doping or the hydrogen loading of the REDFs. All these solutions occur at the component level and are classified as a hardening by component strategy allowing the manufacturing of radiation hardened REDFAs with adapted performances for low doses space mission. However, with the new space research programs, more challenging space missions are targeted with higher radiations doses requiring even more tolerant REDFs and REDFAs. To this aim, an optimization of the REDFA at the system level is investigated in this PhD thesis exploiting an approach coupling simulations and experiments offering the opportunity to benefit from the outputs of this hardening by system strategy in addition to other state-of-the-art approaches. After presenting the context, objectives of this work, the basic mechanisms about amplification and radiation effects as well as the architectures of REDFAs are described in chapters I and II. After that, we update a state of art REDFAs simulation code described in Chapter III, to consider not only the REDFA optical performances but also their evolutions when exposed to radiations. Several experiments on dedicated home-made REDFA have been performed using accelerated irradiation tests (Chapter IV) and the comparison between these data and those obtained through the new code validated the simulation tools. Thereafter, we exploit the validated code to highlight how the optimization of the REDFA architecture can participate to the mitigation of the radiation effects on the amplifier performances (Chapter V). Finally, in chapter VI the implementation in the code of several other effects, such as thermal effects, input signal multiplexing was investigated both from experimental and calculation point of views

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Barringer, Bruce O. "A CCSDS Compatible High-Rate Telemetry Formatter for Space Application." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/611600.

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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 30-November 02, 1995 / Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
OSC is presently developing a high-rate telemetry collection and formatting component for NASA's EOS-AM1 spacecraft. This device, called the Science Formatting Equipment, is capable of collecting data at aggregate rates exceeding 130 Mbps. The collected data is formatted into CCSDS compatible data structures, error coded, and then routed either to a downlink output or to a recording device at data rates up to 150 Mbps. This paper serves as a brief introduction to this component.

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Morrison, Angeline Dawn. "Liminal blankness : mixing race & space in monochrome's psychic surface." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/706.

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Blank space in western Art History and visual culture is something that has tended to be either explained away, or ignored. Pictures that do not depict challenge the visual basis of the ego and its others, confronting what I call the 'Phallic reader' (who sees according to the logic and rules of the Phallogocentric system he inhabits) and potentially disturbing his sense of the visible. The Phallic reader, the visible and the seeing ego's sense of how to see, meet in what I call the 'psychic surface'. Deploying this notion of a 'psychic surface' allows for readings which move on from the potentially confining logic of the Phallus. Paradoxically, the psychic structure of monochrome's liminal blankness is homologous to the indeterminate Mixed Race subject, whose body transgresses not only the foundational historical binarism of 'Black/White', but also Lacanian psychoanalysis. This thesis aims to concentrate on exploring blank spaces, with particular reference to the monochrome within western Art History. Building on the considerable work since at least the 1960s that critiques the binary logocentrism of Eurocentric, Hegelian-originated Art History, this thesis aims to explore the specific ways monochrome evades, undermines and tricks commonly accepted 'groundrules' of Art History. The Phallic reader is severely restricted in understanding that which falls outside of the signifying logic of a particular system of Art History that follows a binary, teleological and Phallogocentric course. Both monochrome and the Mixed Race subject fall outside of this logic, as both contain the structure of the trick. In each case, the trick is activated in the tension between the prychica nd the opticals urfaces. I suggestt hat monochrome's psychic space is pre-Phallic, a space of eternal deferral of meaning, a space that playfully makes a nonsense of binary structures. Psychoanalysis is largely used here as an analytic tool, but also appears as an object of critique. Art History provides an anchor for the optical surfaces under discussion. Theories of 'radical superficiality' both contradict and complement these ways of theorising the psychic surface. The trick/ster is a significant/signifiant means of deploying interdisciplinary methodologies to negotiate this difficult terrain between Black, White and monochrome. An interdisciplinary approach also enacts the psychic structure of indeterminacy of my objects of study. I hope that by proposing a potential transgressive power for those indeterminate things that continue to confound the binary systems that aim to contextualise and confine them, I will contribute to the areas of Visual Culture and 'Race' Theory.

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McEwen, Haley. "Rural transformation? Race and space in Prince Albert, South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8954.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-128).
This critical ethnographic study is concerned with dynamics of race and space in Prince Albert, a rural South African town. Proceeding in the wake of previous studies which have identified mechanisms of informal segregation in urban, post-apartheid contexts, this study aims to explore the ways in which transformation, as a national imperative to democratize South Africa‘s economic, political, and social landscape, is taking shape in small rural towns. It is found that fifteen years after the end of apartheid, Prince Albert’s coloured and white residents remains spatially segregated. It is argued here that this persistent segregation and inequality has become further entrenched by changes which have occurred upon the arrival of white middle class English speaking South Africans during the past fifteen years. Specifically, in advocating for the protection of Prince Albert’s ‘heritage value’ and concomitant development of the tourism industry, these new residents exert a symbolic control of space which centers their own interests and identities and ultimately re-assigns coloured residents a peripheral, disenfranchised socio-economic status.

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Kuske, Laura Eileen. "Border stories : race, space, and captivity in early national fiction /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9395.

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Kassalias, Ioannis. "Attitude determination for the three-axis spacecraft simulator (TASS) by application of particle filtering techniques." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Jun%5FKassalias.pdf.

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Rice, Stian. "Rubber, Rice, Race, and Space: A Socio-Ecological Approach to the Remaking of Agricultural Space in East Sumatra." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1341750138.

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Dang, Xiaoyu. "Space-Time Shaped Offset QPSK." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/606190.

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ITC/USA 2008 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Fourth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 27-30, 2008 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California
This paper describes the use of orthogonal space-time block codes to overcome the performance and complexity difficulties associated with the use of Shaped Offset QPSK (SOQPSK) modulation, a ternary continuous phase modulation (CPM), in multiple-input multiple-output telemetry systems. The orthogonal space-time block code is applied to SOQPSK waveforms in the same way it would be applied to symbols. The procedure allows the receiver to orthogonalize the link. The main benefits of this orthogonalization are the easy realization of the transmit diversity for the offset-featured SQOSPK, and the removal of the noise correlation at the input to the space-time decoder and the elimination of I/Q interference when space time orthogonalization is applied to the symbol level.

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Chow, Catherine W. "Chinatown geographies and the politics of race, space and the law." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31636.

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Vancouver's Chinatown has a dual personality: it is constructed by Chinese Canadians for themselves, and for and by a white settler society. Its material and symbolic constitution reveals an equal social order: the constitution of the space of Chinatown reproduces racial hierarchies through spatial and legal mechanisms. This thesis explores how place becomes race through law. Building from historic or cultural examinations of Chinatown, this thesis investigates the place-based mechanisms of law on the racialization of Chinatown in the 1960's. During this dynamic period of Chinatown's growth, the City of Vancouver initiated three construction projects: slum clearance, beautification and the freeway. Within these projects, there were intense struggles over the identity of Chinatown, and the Chinese. Chinatown's resistance against and complicity with these place-based legal mechanisms has been geographically articulated in its landscape, accounting for its dual personality.
Law, Peter A. Allard School of
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Thompson, Mark Allen Dupont Jill. "Space race African American newspapers respond to Sputnik and Apollo 11 /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-5115.

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Chu, Alice Pin-Chen. "High-Rate Space-Time Block Codes in Frequency-Selective Fading Channels." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10360.

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The growing popularity of wireless communications networks has resulted in greater bandwidth contention and therefore spectrally efficient transmission schemes are highly sought after by designers. Space-time block codes (STBCs) in multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) systems are able to increase channel capacity as well as reduce error rate. A general linear space-time structure known as linear dispersion codes (LDCs) can be designed to achieve high-data rates and has been researched extensively for flat fading channels. However, very little research has been done on frequency-selective fading channels. The combination of ISI, signal interference from other transmitters and noise at the receiver mean that maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) requires high computational complexity. Detection schemes that can mitigate the signal interference can significantly reduce the complexity and allow intersymbol interference (ISI) equalization to be performed by a Viterbi decoder. In this thesis, detection of LDCs on frequency-selective channels is investigated. Two predominant detection schemes are investigated, namely linear processing and zero forcing (ZF). Linear processing depends on code orthogonality and is only suited for short channels and small modulation schemes. ZF cancels interfering signals when a sufficient number of receive antennas is deployed. However, this number increases with the channel length. Channel decay profiles are investigated for high-rate LDCs to ameliorate this limitation. Performance improves when the equalizer assumes a shorter channel than the actual length provided the truncated taps carry only a small portion of the total channel power. The LDC is also extended to a multiuser scenario where two independent users cooperate over half-duplex frequency-selective channels to achieve cooperative gain. The cooperative scheme transmits over three successive block intervals. Linear and zero-forcing detection are considered.

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Thompson, Mark A. "Space Race: African American Newspapers Respond to Sputnik and Apollo 11." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5115/.

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Using African American newspapers, this study examines the consensual opinion of articles and editorials regarding two events associated with the space race. One event is the Soviet launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957. The second is the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. Space Race investigates how two scientific accomplishments achieved during the Cold War and the civil rights movement stimulated debate within the newspapers, and that ultimately centered around two questions: why the Soviets were successful in launching a satellite before the US, and what benefits could come from landing on the moon. Anti-intellectualism, inferior public schools, and a lack of commitment on the part of the US government are arguments offered for analysis by black writers in the two years studied. This topic involves the social conditions of African Americans living within the United States during an era when major civil rights objectives were achieved. Also included are considerations of how living in a "space age" contributed to thoughts about civil rights, as African Americans were now living during a period in which science fiction was becoming reality. In addition, this thesis examines how two scientific accomplishments achieved during this time affected ideas about education, science, and living conditions in the U.S. that were debated by black writers and editors, and subsequently circulated for readers to ponder and debate. This paper argues that black newspapers viewed Sputnik as constituting evidence for an inferior US public school system, contrasted with the Soviet system. Due to segregation between the races and anti-intellectual antecedents in America, black newspapers believed that African Americans were an "untapped resource" that could aid in the Cold War if their brains were utilized. The Apollo moon landing was greeted with enthusiasm because of the universal wonder at landing on the moon itself and the prowess demonstrated by the collective commitment and organization necessary to achieve such an objective by decades end. However, consistently accompanying this adulation is disappointment that domestic problems were not given the same type of funding or national commitment.

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Williams, Ashleigh Mae. "Taking it to the Streets: Race, Space, and Early D.c. Punk." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550154014.

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This work examines race and class in early Washington, D.C. punk from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. It is my contention that written punk memoirs rarely give a contextual look at each movement. From rose-colored memoirs, many inside or outside the punk community view the movements as genuine rebellions against mainstream American music and values. It is my view that subversive movements do not emerge completely free from institutional oppression. The same is true with punk. to examine punk's beginnings, I analyze punk movements in the United Kingdom and Los Angeles before turning to a detailed account of early Washington, D.C. punk. in order to contextualize early DC punk, I give a robust historical background of the city of Washington, DC from its' beginnings up to the 1960s. From there I examine two DC bands, Minor Threat and Bad Brains, giving special regard to how each band moves throughout racialized areas of DC. It is my aim to complicate how we view cultural movements that seem, on the surface, to reject mainstream American values.

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Laske, Mary Therese. "How Structural Disadvantage Affects the Relationship Between Race and Gang Membership." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1195233186.

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Klyukovski, Andrew A. "The space race as the American dream : fantasy theme analysis of the New York Times' coverage /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3060115.

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Harries, Bethan. "Talking race in everyday spaces of the city." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.559357.

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This thesis explores the lived experience of race as told through narratives of the city. It draws on photo diaries, observations and qualitative interviews with 32 people aged between 20 and 30 years old in three areas of Manchester. It examines how discourses, which construct UK cities as tolerant and multicultural spaces, are reproduced by the respondents and yet are contradicted by their everyday experiences. It argues that narratives that actively silence race, for example through notions of tolerance and colour-blindness, obscure the ways that people are differentially positioned and makes it difficult to name difference and name racism. The thesis explores a series of dilemmas that form part of the struggle to reconcile multiple and often contradictory levels of experience and situates these within the broader political context. The thesis engages with discussions around what have been broadly defined as ideas of ‘post-race’. It argues that the city becomes a useful avenue through which to direct this discussion, because it acts as a location in which race is imagined in conflicting ways; simultaneously as a site of segregation and conflict and cosmopolitanism and ‘mixing’.The thesis explores how people talk race through their representations of different spaces of the city. It argues that people’s stories about their relationship to place help make perceptible the different ways that they deal with difference. Race is silenced in narratives of place, emerging primarily through coded references to class and criminality, except when it is articulated with exotic and ‘sympathetic’ representations of the ‘ethnic’ or ‘migrant’ neighbourhood, or with a white underclass. It also examines how, within these narratives, people talk about knowing others that they emphasise are racially or ethnically different. Notions of tolerance and colour-blindness are invoked throughout these narratives and used to suggest that they are emblematic of a new generation. The thesis argues that the respondents' narratives resonate with national discourses of multiculture that imagine liberal spaces of cosmopolitanism and, simultaneously, silence inequalities and exclusion. The central problem is that these discourses and processes of silencing do not take account of the meanings of race and how people are differentially positioned. Consequently, they disable questions about the significance and the effects of race. This has implications for how racism can(not) then be named. People subjected to racism are, instead, under pressure to assimilate and conform to the behavioural norm. The thesis argues that respondents’ narratives of the everyday can, therefore, be interpreted as a form of orientalism (Puwar 2004). They are indicative of the kind of multiculturalism that ‘tolerates’ and ‘bestows rights’ on the racialised Other, but does nothing to demythologise the Other, or engage with the needs of minorities (Amin, 2010). The façade of ‘racial etiquette’ when it is constructed as such, thus implies a ‘refusal to understand’ (Foucault 1978), because to do so would necessitate confronting the currency of racism and the fact of white privilege.

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Qayum, Seemin. "Creole imaginings : space, race and gender in the making of Republican Bolivia." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395389.

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Khan, Muhammad Kalimuddin. "The design of high rate space-time LDPC codes for IEEE 802.16d." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.437935.

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Peters, Simone Maxine. "Researching Race, Space and Masculinities in Bishop Lavis: A Critical Ethnographic Study." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33729.

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Research done on ‘coloured' men and communities have problematized ‘coloured' masculinities and communities. Studies showed ‘coloured' men to be the most likely to perpetrate violence and rape. These studies further suggest that violence, drug abuse, gangsterism and alcoholism are a prominent feature of ‘coloured' communities, one such community being Bishop Lavis. Such narratives have led to this complex group of people and their communities being reduced to negative stereotypes. This research aimed to showcase more holistic and alternative narratives on Bishop Lavis, its community and ‘coloured' identities through a critical ethnographic methodology. Multiple methods to collect the data was utilised, namely narrative interviews with eight community stakeholders and six older men (aged 35 and above). Additionally, a Photovoice method was used with six men (aged 18 to 34), where a focus group, individual narrative interviews, and visual (photographs) and narrative data were collected. The data was analysed using multiple theoretical frameworks and data analysis tools to highlight the complexities of the participant's lived experiences. The results found that participants used their talk to challenge dominant narratives that exist on ‘coloured' men and communities and confirm and reproduce stigmatised narratives . Furthermore, it was found that race, location, gender, class and other identities intersected to produce particular experiences for the participants.

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Kuguoglu, Akin Fahrettin. "Framework and Analysis of Rate one and Turbo Coded MIMO-CDMA Communication Systems." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1150245617.

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Oliveira, João Paulo dos Santos. "Rabbit: A novel approach to find data-races during state-space exploration." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2012. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/10891.

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Data-races are an important kind of error in concurrent shared-memory programs. Software model checking is a popular approach to find them. This research proposes a novel approach to find races that complements model-checking by efficiently reporting precise warnings during state-space exploration (SSE): Rabbit. It uses information obtained across different paths explored during SSE to predict likely racy memory accesses. We evaluated Rabbit on 33 different scenarios of race, involving a total of 21 distinct application subjects of various sources and sizes. Results indicate that Rabbit reports race warnings very soon compared to the time the model checker detects the race (for 84.8% of the cases it reports a true warning of race in <5s) and that the warnings it reports include very few false alarms. We also observed that the model checker finds the actual race quickly when it uses a guided-search that builds on Rabbit’s output (for 74.2% of the cases it reports the race in <20s).

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Hanley-Tejeda, David Alva. "I am a Merry Midwest Mestizo: Race, Space, and the Landscaping of Identity." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/928.

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This dissertation examines my regional identity-in-context. First, I frame opening questions related to space, race, landscape, and identity, using the metaphor of walking. Secondly, I outline my notion of "mixed methods" for the study, which I call "a moving methodological mestizaje." Third, I weave personal narrative and poetry to I examine what it means to come to racial consciousness as a biracial, mixed-race person of color in the Midwest-South. Reflecting on the geographic and cultural features of Southern Illinois, I come to understand the region of the country as a "borderlands." Following Gloria Anzaldúa's writing, I identify myself as "a mestizo," or person of mixed race ancestry, but in the context of the Southern Illinois. The title poem of the dissertation expands on "mulatez" or African mestizaje to articulate an Afro-Latino political alliance. Fourth, I explore multiple space that I have lived across the country, to examine qualities of Whiteness to ultimately work against White identity. Then, I deploy the metaphor of drinking hot sauce as a reclaiming Mexican, Aztec mythopoetic. I come to name myself as "Merry Midwest Mestizo," to fully embrace my biracial, Latino, and White self and to find my identity-in-context. Finally, I offer a reclamation of my Mexican mother's life and death using Gloria Anzaldúa's notion of "autohistoria." I close with further ramifications of the study.

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Nyachae, Tiffany M. "'Race Space' Critical Professional Development as Third Space| Cultivating Racial Literacy, Ideological Becoming, and Social Justice Teaching with/in Urban Teachers." Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10816448.

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Racial injustice in U. S. society cannot be separated from that which happens in U.S. classrooms. Indeed, many battles between white supremacy and antiracism are waged in the public school arena—such as, the whitewashing of slavery in textbooks, and the Supreme Court decision to ban Mexican American Studies in Arizona. Thus, this dissertation took into account teacher learning and classroom practice around race, racism, and social justice through professional development. Specifically, among teachers committed to social justice, this dissertation investigated the role professional development plays in shaping how their commitment translates into classroom practice. I designed ‘race space’ Critical Professional Development (CPD) (Kohli, Picower, Martinez, & Ortiz, 2015) to support in-service urban teachers in learning about race, racism, and what it means to engage in social justice teaching. I employ the term ‘race space’ to describe an aim to engender transformational, reflective, real talk and action around race and racism, through collective effort. With the theoretical groundings of critical race theory (CRT) in education, ideological becoming, and Third Space, I asked: What is the nature of ‘race space’ CPD? Specifically, among urban in-service teachers committed to social justice, how does a ‘race space’ CPD cultivate: a) racial literacy; b) social justice teaching, and; c) ideological becoming?

Methodologically, this research project consisted of an ethnographic case study of the ‘race space’ CPD. During the 2016-2017 academic year, three in-service, social justice-oriented public school teachers, who teach mostly students of color, participated in twelve ‘race space’ CPD sessions over the course of eight months. I facilitated the sessions, completed 1-2 classroom observations of each teacher every week, and interviewed teachers and two of their students. Shay is a Black female Academic Intervention Services (AIS) and English Language Learners (ELL) teacher. Josh, a white male sixth grade special education teacher, teaches in a self-contained classroom. Gigi, a white female secondary biology teacher, teaches in a nontraditional high school. Primary data sources included: a) audio and video of ‘race space’ CPD sessions and classroom interactions, b) field notes, c) teacher and student interviews, and d) pre- and post-questionnaires of teachers. I transcribed audio of ‘race space’ CPD sessions and teacher and student interviews. Employing descriptive and process coding, I analyzed 591 pages of session transcriptions for narratives and dialogic exchanges around racial literacy, social justice understandings, meaning-making around social justice teaching, classroom practice, curriculum planning, and social justice ideological becoming. I then conducted a critical discourse analysis of focal dialogic exchanges to understand collective and individual racial literacy cultivation, social justice ideological becoming, and social justice teaching engagements.

Data analysis revealed three major findings. First, ‘race space’ CPD cultivated racial literacy by being responsive to the racial literacy teachers already displayed while providing support in responding to the racial consciousness of students of color. Second, ‘race space’ CPD cultivated social justice teaching among teachers through dialogic exchanges that pushed thoughtful and meaningful social justice curriculum planning that co-exists with the organic social justice teachable moments that arise. Third, ‘race space’ CPD cultivated social justice ideological becoming among teachers, through dialogic exchanges that advanced and critiqued the oppressive nature of school. Through the actualization of a Third Space within ‘race space’ CPD, participant and facilitator ways of knowing/acting were both welcomed and called into question, for the purposes of interrupting and revising their performances of the present. Implications include extended time and space in professional development initiatives for learning around race, racism, and social justice.

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Alam, Fakhrul. "Space Time Processing for Third Generation CDMA Systems." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29669.

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The capacity of a cellular system is limited by two different phenomena, namely multipath fading and multiple access interference (MAI). A Two Dimensional (2-D) receiver combats both of these by processing the signal both in the spatial and temporal domain. An ideal 2-D receiver would perform joint space-time processing, but at the price of high computational complexity. In this dissertation we investigate computationally simpler technique termed as a Beamformer-Rake. In a Beamformer-Rake, the output of a beamformer is fed into a succeeding temporal processor to take advantage of both the beamformer and Rake receiver. Wireless service providers throughout the world are working to introduce the third generation (3G) cellular service that will provide higher data rates and better spectral efficiency. Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) has been widely accepted as one of the air interfaces for 3G. A Beamformer-Rake receiver can be an effective solution to provide the receivers enhanced capabilities needed to achieve the required performance of a WCDMA system. This dissertation investigates different Beamformer-Rake receiver structures suitable for the WCDMA system and compares their performance under different operating conditions. This work develops Beamformer-Rake receivers for WCDMA uplink that employ Eigen-Beamforming techniques based on the Maximum Signal to Noise Ratio (MSNR) and Maximum Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (MSINR) criteria. Both the structures employ Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC) to exploit temporal diversity. MSNR based Eigen-Beamforming leads to a Simple Eigenvalue problem (SE). This work investigates several algorithms that can be employed to solve the SE and compare the algorithms in terms of their computational complexity and their performance. MSINR based Eigen-Beamforming results in a Generalized Eigenvalue problem (GE). The dissertation describes several techniques to form the GE and algorithms to solve it. We propose a new low-complexity algorithm, termed as the Adaptive Matrix Inversion (AMI), to solve the GE. We compare the performance of the AMI to other existing algorithms. Comparison between different techniques to form the GE is also compared. The MSINR based beamforming is demonstrated to be superior to the MSNR based beamforming in the presence of strong interference. There are Pilot Symbol Assisted (PSA) beamforming techniques that exploit the Minimum Mean Squared Error (MMSE) criterion. We compare the MSINR based Beamformer-Rake with the same that utilizes Direct Matrix Inversion (DMI) to perform MMSE based beamforming in terms of Bit Error Rate (BER). In a wireless system where the number of co-channel interferers is larger than the number of elements of a practical antenna array, we can not perform explicit null-steering. As a result the advantage of beamforming is partially lost. In this scenario it is better to attain diversity gain at the cost of spatial aliasing. We demonstrate this with the aid of simulation. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a multi-carrier technique that has recently received considerable attention for high speed wireless communication. OFDM has been accepted as the standard for Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) and Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) in Europe. It has also been established as one of the modulation formats for the IEEE 802.11a wireless LAN standard. OFDM has emerged as one of the primary candidates for the Fourth Generation (4G) wireless communication systems and high speed ad hoc wireless networks. We propose a simple pilot symbol assisted frequency domain beamforming technique for OFDM receiver and demonstrate the concept of sub-band beamforming. Vector channel models measured with the MPRG Viper test-bed is also employed to investigate the performance of the beamforming scheme.
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Nicolov, Eugene Borislavov. "On blind channel estimation without channel ambiguity for single-rate and multi-rate space-time block coded CDMA systems." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99528.

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In this work we study the downlink transmission of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems using the Alamouti code in order to provide space time diversity.
We will propose a novel spreading signature assignment technique for space-time coded single rate CDMA system, which, compared to other signature assignment methods, allows to reduce the number of spreading signatures necessary in order to solve the channel ambiguity problem while performing blind channel estimation. This encoding method is called "rolling signatures".
We also introduce a new method for combining the Alamouti space-time code with multi-rate CDMA. Instead of block coding entire CDMA symbols we will apply Alamouti coding at the chip-level. Such a coding method is called "chip-level" block coding. We present for our chip-level coding technique, various linear decoding structures both joint and disjoint. In the case of joint decoding, space-time and CDMA filtering at the mobile's end is done simultaneously by a single linear receiver. In the case of disjoint decoding, there are two dedicated receive filters, one performing space-time decoding and the other CDMA filtering. We also introduce a blind channel estimation technique and provide a thorough performance analysis of our estimator, in the form of mean-square-error performance analysis. Finally, we provide the Cramer-Rao Bound for our channel estimator.

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Kashyap, Shashi Kant. "Bit Error Rate Performance of 4x2 Space-Time MIMO-OFDM Conjugate Cancellation Techniques." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10604991.

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Wireless communication is a central aspect of our everyday lives. Currently, the main goal in wireless communication research, is to find efficient methods to improve signal transmission by improving the Bit Error Rate (BER) performance of mobile communication systems. To improve the BER performance, the Inter-Carrier Interference (ICI) during signal transmission must be mitigated. The ICI can be caused by conditions such as residual carrier frequency offset, time variations because of the Doppler shift or phase noise; these conditions destroy the orthogonality at the receiver and subsequently degrade the BER performance of mobile communication systems.

This thesis work involves the implementation of a 4x2 Space-Time Conjugate Cancellation-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (STCC-OFDM) system to mitigate ICI and compares its BER performance to a previously established 4x1 STCC-OFDM system. The 4x1 STCC-OFDM system employs four transmitting antennas and one receiving antenna whereas the 4x2 STCC-OFDM system employs four transmitting antennas and two receiving antennas. The auxiliary antenna employed in the 4x2 STCC-OFDM system provides spatial diversity and redundant data at the receiver side. Results show that the 4x2 STCC-OFDM system has better BER performance compared to the 4x1 STCC-OFDM system. Additionally, all the simulations are performed on MATLAB R2015b software. These simulations show the BER variation at different Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) values for the 4x1 STCC-OFDM and the 4x2 STCC-OFDM systems, with code rates 1 and 0.5 in COS 207 channel. Simulations indicate that as the value of SNR increases the BER value comes down. BER values of the 4x2 STCC-OFDM system are significantly lower than the 4x1 STCC-OFDM system for both the code rates 1 and 0.5. Finally, the result of the simulations shows that the 4x2 STCC-OFDM system is more efficient than the 4x1 STCC-OFDM system.

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Dinat, Deena. "Rereading the city : race, space, and mobility in post 9/11 New York." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54741.

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This thesis examines the way in which the racialized immigrant engages with the modern global city in two recent novels: Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland (2008) and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011). Both texts take post-9/11 New York City as a landscape that focalizes concerns of mobility, race, and the city. I argue that these novels suggest that the ways in which the racialized immigrant interact with the city are shaped by different forms of mobility, and that these reveal different possibilities for a critique of the city as a site of modernity. It is argued that while Netherland ultimately affirms a conservative understanding of race in the post-9/11 city, Open City focuses on a moral ambiguity that allows for a radical critique of the metropole through its engagement with race, history, and the flaneur.
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Thompson, Deborah J. "PERFORMING COMMUNITY: THE PLACE OF MUSIC, RACE AND GENDER IN PRODUCING APPALACHIAN SPACE." UKnowledge, 2012. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/1.

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Traditional, participatory music is a powerful medium through which people express and shape their ideas about identity, mobility, social relations, and belonging, and through which people are in turn shaped. The everyday cultural practices of playing, sharing, and dancing to traditional music, as well as discussions about the nature of traditional music and production of events involving traditional music, all work to construct the region called Appalachia. Through this dissertation, I seek to answer some simple questions that have complicated answers involving place, identity, power, and social relations, with economic, social, and emotional ramifications: Who gets to be an Appalachian musician? How is this accomplished? Who gets to decide? Using a social constructionist theoretical base and drawing on such literatures as cultural geography, music geography, musicology and ethnomusicology, Appalachian studies, and critical regionalism, I employ ethnographic techniques, including participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and discourse analysis to understand the workings of old time music and the self-understanding of musicians that play and sing traditional music in eastern Kentucky, a core area of Appalachia. This dissertation shows that vernacular roots music in eastern Kentucky is both an inclusive and a contested phenomenon. In describing and analyzing the spaces for music in Appalachia, the old-time community in eastern Kentucky, the dynamics of festival hiring negotiations, and interviews with white and African American musicians, both male and female, I show how Appalachian space is produced simultaneously on many different scales. This construction is a dialectical process, articulating between the power expressed on a micro scale between individuals and the power used by individuals and institutions to define the region through representation. This dissertation demonstrates two main processes: how Appalachian space is negotiated and produced through interactions at jam sessions and other events, and how the musicians perform community in these interstitial moments. Contributions of this dissertation include attention to micro scale interactions and embodiment as a key component of spatial production, participant observation as a research method in music geography, and increased understanding of the performance of race and gender in cultural and spatial production.

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Noxolo, Patricia Elaine Patten. "'Dancing a yard, dancing abrard' : race, space and time in British development discourses." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302519.

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Winans, Adrienne Ann. "Race, Space, and Gender: Re-mapping Chinese America from the Margins, 1875-1943." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437702859.

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Chen, Runhua. "A layered space-time coded MIMO architecture for high-data-rate wireless communications /." View Abstract or Full-Text, 2002. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?ELEC%202002%20CHEN.

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Thesis (M. Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-88). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.

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Gasperoni, Giulia. "The Space Race di Alex Latimer. Traduzione del romanzo di un autore sudafricano." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/8156/.

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In the following thesis I present the book The Space Race from South African author Alex Latimer and my translation of some chapters, from English into Italian. Alex Latimer is an illustrator and author based in Cape Town, known mostly for his picture books for children, although his works also appear in magazines and advertisements. The Space Race is his first novel, but it immediately had a good reception amongst readers and critics. The author, his work and his novel The Space Race will be presented in depth in Chapter 1 of the thesis. Then, an overview on the South African fictional production will follow in Chapter 2, focusing mainly on the contemporary trends and trying to understand if and how The Space Race fits. Before presenting my translation and my reflections on the translating process itself, I will outline in Chapter 3 my general approach to the text and its translation, as well as explain the reasons why I chose those specific parts of the book. The original texts and their translations are presented in Chapter 4, preceded by a short introduction to better understand the position of the chapter in the plot and the elements of interests contained in it. A commentary on the translating process will follow in Chapter 5, about problems or just remarks on aspects of interest; also, further elements of complication in the text are described and my solutions presented. The thesis ends with a conclusion on the work done.

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Hanna, Jonathan A. "Closet Space: Investigating Gay Identity through Advertising in Gay Media." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3667.

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The objective of this research was to examine advertising in gay media publications, namely, The Advocate, in order to assess how advertising corresponds with gay identity formation. This study differed from previous inquiries in that the application of hegemony theory formed the basis of the project and was used as a tool to explicate the preponderance of certain images in gay media advertising and what they signify for gay men. Likewise, a phenomenological method of analysis was applied to the advertisements in order to render them more accessible as aesthetic and literary mediums. Classifying the advertisements according to their notional basis resulted in the partitioning of the ads into groups or "parables" of advertising, a method of classification which mimics historical categories recognized in American history and culture. The sum of the project emphasizes the hegemonic structures that characterize gay male images within a broader GLBT sociocultural framework.

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