attribution of the source of stress and the significance of exposure to its local manifestations. Finally, it is essential to note that exposure to variability and to extreme events is an important source of vulnerability. In fact, systems typically respond to variability and extreme events before

of populations, but the actual power of the correlation to reveal the underlying relationship also depends on the standard errors surrounding the point estimates used in the correlation. Thus, this nested approach to determining sample sizes was deemed appropriate. Alternative weighting methods (number

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to explain how these customary beliefs may enter into the standard economic model. Since Muth (1960Muth ( , 1961 and Lucas (1976) nearly all research in economics has endogenized beliefs, under the rational expectations assumption that subjective and objective beliefs coincide. But the assumption

Abstract—Mathematical models play a pivotal role in understanding and designing advanced low-power wireless systems. However, the distributed and uncoordinated operation of traditional multi-hop low-power wireless protocols greatly complicates their accurate modeling. This is mainly because

Beamforming is a classical method of processing temporal sensor array measure-ments for signal estimation, interference cancellation, source direction, and spectrum estimation. It has ubiquitously been applied in areas such as radar, sonar, wire-less communications, speech processing, and medical imaging (see, for example,

computer, and outline stable population theory for the density-independent model (l, sensitivity/elasticity analysis, etc.) under assumptions very similar to those for matrix models. For density-dependent models, we give a criterion for local stability of a steady state population. The general theory

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of the denatured state relative to states lacking such structure. Differences in the magnitude of the residual denatured state structure from one unfolded protein to another would thus be expected to produce significant scatter around any underlying power-law relationship across a diverse set of unfolded proteins

radio channel periodically. Consequently, communications will not suffer from the same interference each time; instead, it should be fairer and more stable. This thesis investigates the aforementioned problem in the field of low power wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things where Contiki OS