is large. A one-standard-deviation increase in the other four centrality measures is associated with a 6.6 to 8.2 percentage point increase from the unconditional survival probability of 66.8%, holding all other covariates at their sample means. C. Portfolio Company Exit Finally, we equate good performance

in defining the boundaries of coping ranges -thresholds of relatively benign experience beyond which systems feel significant effects from change and/or variability in their environments. Section 2 uses a more formal representation of vulnerability to show how overall coping capacity might be judged

The CSA has initiated a feasibility study for a constellation of low-cost small SAR satellites to ensure C-band data continuity beyond RADARSAT-2. The concept involves three satellites with an option of flying up to six satellites. This is to provide operationally SAR imagery for key maritime

There are many policies in place or already planned today to support the growth of low-carbon technologies and to moderate the growth of energy demand until 2020 and beyond. These policies are embodied in the New Policies Scenario of the World Energy Outlook (WEO), a scenario consistent

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Study of adolescent sexual behavior still reverberates in the scope of re s e a rch on teenagers. (An amendment sponsored by Sen. Jesse Helms [R.-NC] prohibited the funding of that survey, along with one of adults, “in fiscal year 1992 or any subsequent fis c a l y e a r. ”2 Despite warnings

mandate (and many had gone be-yond the minimum levels required by law).1 Moreover, as an article published elsewhere in this issue documents,2 the ex-pansion of Medicaid eligibility in Florida in 1989 not only increased by almost half the number of deliveries funded by Medic-aid, but also expanded women’s

experimental techniques will yield data that might challenge the present paradigms in that they will (1) demonstrate the computational importance of microscopic structural and physiological complexity and specificity; (2) highlight the importance of models of large brain structures engaged in a variety

to 2100. The temperature change for the Reference cases increases to 5.2˚C (9.4˚F) in 2225 and remains there for at least 40 human generations. By design, the tem-perature change for the Fair Plan increases only to 2˚C (3.6˚F)—the limit adopted by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change “to prevent

The compressive sensing (CS) framework aims to ease the burden on analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) by exploiting inherent structure in natural and man-made signals. It has been demon-strated that structured signals can be acquired with just a small number of linear measurements, on the order of the signal complexity. In practice, this enables lower sampling rates that can be more easily achieved by current hardware designs. The primary bottleneck that limits ADC sam-pling rates is quantization, i.e., higher bit-depths impose lower sampling rates. Thus, the decreased sampling rates of CS ADCs accommodate the otherwise limiting quantizer of conventional ADCs. In this thesis, we consider a different approach to CS ADC by shifting towards lower quantizer bit-depths rather than lower sampling rates. We explore the extreme case where each measurement is quantized to just one bit, representing its sign. We develop a new theoretical framework to analyze this extreme case and develop new algorithms for signal reconstruction from such coarsely quantized measurements. The 1-bit CS framework leads us to scenarios where it may be more appropriate to reduce bit-depth instead of sampling rate. We find that there exist two distinct regimes of operation that correspond to high/low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In the measurement