Communication rate

C. Rago, P. Willett, and Y. Bar-Shalom, Censoring sensors A low communication-rate scheme for distributed detection , IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 554-568, April 1996. 

The 6-month regimen Ordinarily this consists of an initial 2-month phase of rifampin, isoniazid, and pyrazinamide and, if clinically indicated, streptomycin or ethambutol, followed by 4 months of rifampin and isoniazid. Reassess the need for a fourth drug when the results of susceptibility testing are known. If community rates of INH resistance are currently less than 4%, an initial treatment regimen with less than 4 P.1008... 

The physical wiring typically used is the plant standard twisted-pair wiring Tor 4- to 20-mA instrumentation. Because of the networking capability of the bus, more than one device can be supported on a single pair of wires, and thus wiring requirements are reduced. Compared to a host level bus such as Ethernet, field buses exhibit slower communication rates, have longer transmission distance capability (1 to 2 km), use standard two-wire installation, are capable of multidrop busing, can support bus-powered devices, do not have redundant modes of bus operation, and are available for intrinsically safe installations. Devices on the field bus network may be either powered by the bus itself or powered separately. 

The Intel iPSC-860 is a hypercube MIMD system that scales to 128 i860 RISC processing nodes with up to 32 Mbyte of memory. The i860 peak performance is 40 MFLOPS for double-precision matrix multiply and 60 MFLOPS for algorithms that can do two adds and a multiply on the same instruction cycle. The interprocessor communication rate is 2.8 Mbyte/s. Each node runs the proprietary N/X operating system and is limited to a single user process. The machine is space-shared, and each partition must be a subcube of the system that is, the number of nodes used for a particular job must be a power... 

Competition in a modified gradostat was considered in Smith and Tang [STa], There the rate E between the vessels (called the communication rate) was allowed to differ from the rate D (the dilution rate) from the feed bottle and to the overflow vessel. This, of course, still maintains the assumption that the volume in each vessel is constant. It was shown that the outcome of competition can be sensitive to the ratio E/D in the following sense As E/D is increased, first one competitor wins the competition, then coexistence occurs, and finally the second competitor wins. The analysis in the case E D k entirely similar to the case E = D discussed in this chapter. In [STa], a number of operating diagrams were determined numerically. For fixed population parameters fly, these oper-... 

Figure 9.1. Operating diagram for two-species competition with a varying communication rate E different from the washout rate D. In region VI, Q = [foj in region V, Q = [ , 2]-, in region II, = l o. iU in regions I and IV, fi = f o, i, 2l in region III, Q, = q, , 2, . (From [STa], Copyright 1989, Journal of Mathematical Biology. Reproduced by permission.)...

Word prediction is another acceleration technique available from many sources. Based on previously selected letters and words, the system presents the user with best guess choices for completing the spelling of a word. The user then chooses one of the predictions or continues spelling, resulting in yet another set of predictions. Prediction systems have demonstrated a reduction in the number of keystrokes, but recent research [Koester and Levine, 1994] reports that the actual communication rate does not represent a statistical improvement over spelling. The reason for word predication s failure to improve rate is that increased time is needed to read and select the word table choices. The cost of discontinuity and increased cognitive load in the task seems to match the benefits of reduced keystrokes. 

Tadoma is a method of communication used by a few people in the deaf-blind community and is of theoretical importance for the development of tactual auditory substitution devices. While sign language requires training by both sender and receiver, in Tadoma, the sender speaks normally. The trained receiver places his or her hands on the face and neck of the sender to monitor lip and jaw movements, airflow at the lips, and vibration of the neck (Reed et al., 1992). Experienced users achieve 80% keyword recognition of everyday speech at a rate of 3 syllables per second. Using no instrumentation, this is the highest speech communication rate recorded for any tactual-only communication system. 

Nucleation is a rate phenomenon therefore, even though the condition oc > c is necessary, it is nonetheless insufficient to bring about nucleus formation. An additional requirement must be satisfied. That is, in order for cluster formation to proceed to completion, the monomers that represent potential candidates for a given critical nucleus must be retained for a sufficiently long period of time within a volume of molecular dimensions. If intermicellar exchange proceeds extremely rapidly, then the candidate monomers will be redistributed before nucleation can occur. Accordingly, it may be deduced that an increase in the communication rate will decrease the probability of nucleus formation. The expected trend of number of nuclei versus the rate of intermicellar exchange (A ex) is illustrated schematically in Fig. 5d. 

Cooper, L., D. Roter, R. Johnson, D. Ford, and D. Steinwachs, "Patient-centered communication Ratings of care, and concordance," Annals of Internal Medicine Journal, 139, pp. 907-915, 2003. 

Figure 6.1 shows the AutoAnalysis configuration for an SIA system with spectrophotometric detection. The branches of the tree in the current configuration pane bear a Crison serial communication channel and an Ocean Optics USB communication channel. Once the required communication channels are chosen, their operational settings (communication rate, word length, number of stop bits, control parity) can be selected in terms of the instruments to be employed. 

These elementary sensitivities have all been derived previously. Although their expression in terms of elementary communications is new, it was implicit in their derivation. For example, the derivation of the sensitivity conferred by a substrate cycle (Newsholme and Crabtree (32) assumed a linear response of the enzyme to the regulator (i.e., r = 1) as well as an irreversible reaction (i.e., R = 1) under these conditions the sensitivity of the net flux to the regulator is equal to that of the elementary communication, rate of forward (or reverse) reaction net flux across cycle. Similarly, the derivation of the effects of reversibility assumed a linear response to effectors, so that the resultant sensitivities are the same as those of the communication, forward (or reverse) processrate of reaction. 

Individual demand for traffic safety partly depends on avoiding the payment of medical expenses which will result from a traffic accident. While some outlay of money and time can be expected with each accident the outlay may be less than the total accident-related medical expense because of community-rated health insurance premiums or public assistance-related third party financing such as Medicaid and Medicare. The potential shift of some medical costs to those not involved in an accident means that individual demand for traffic safety tends to be too low. Similarly the demand may be too low because of the lack of precise experience rating for automobile insurance and possibly incomplete compensation for damaged parties through the courts especially when time costs and death are involved. 

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