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We live in times of feeble leadership. Those who occupy public offices often seem more willing to advance their own interests than those of the citizens they represent; they tremble at the thought of taking any action or initiative that might involve risk on their part. And so the citizenry suffers to buttress the careerist ambitions of the few.
This type of cravenness has been a feature of governments from the inception of recorded history. Institutions created by man will reflect his defects and corrupt impulses, and perhaps amplify them. Yet there must always be an effort to restore a balance of justice, such that the high principles we say we believe will at least be attempted. We know, for example, that the famed emperor Justinian was genuinely concerned with the welfare of his subjects. His reform of the legal codes was an attempt to impose a uniform and predictable interpretation of law that might regulate public life. One corruption problem that was common in his day was the sale of the provincial governor’s post in the provinces. The practice encouraged abuses of the worst sort, and the emperor was resolved to correct them.
Those given these offices were required to pay a large monetary sum, called a suffragium, which was traditionally distributed to the emperor himself and the praetorian prefect. Not all appointees had the money required to pay, and so would borrow it from third parties. So it would happen that a provincial governor would often take office deeply in debt; and government salaries in those days were not lavish enough to alleviate the debt burden. To meet his obligations, a government official would resort to corrupt practices himself. There were many ways of doing this: he might squeeze his people with excessive taxes, ask for bribes to accomplish routine tasks, or enrich himself through other means.
Obviously such a system eroded faith in government institutions. Justice might be bought and sold to the highest bidder; tax collectors began to be seen as a corrupt and avaricious enemy; and faith in official institutions declined. Justinian’s law, enacted in A.D. 535, abolished the suffragium. Governors would have to live within their means on their own salaries. Anyone caught receiving political bribes would face serious penalties, such as exile, forfeiture of property, or physical punishment. For Justinian the issue was one of national security and public trust; he knew that he could not ask soldiers fighting Goths and Vandals to make the ultimate sacrifice if their families at home were being bled white by greedy, selfish officials.
Other reforms were added to the abolition of the suffragium: one law (from 539) was that any governor leaving office was required to remain in his province for a minimum of fifty days, so that he might be available to answer any indictments brought against him while in office. He also forced local citizens to participate in the administration of their municipalities. In a very real way, he drafted men into positions of responsibility, whether they wanted to be there or not. An office known as defensor civitatis (lit., “defender of the state”) was required to be filled by a local notable for a period of two years. This office was basically a judgeship; the defensor would hear suits involving relatively small sums of money. The idea of compelling people to participate in their communities may not be viewed with favor by us today, but the rule at least had the merit of giving ordinary citizens a stake in their own governance.
These kinds of lessons seem lost on many people whom we call “leaders” today. But a careerist opportunist is not a leader; and sometimes one is left to wonder if many even know the difference. It is as Petrarca said in a letter written to Dionigi de’ Roberti around 1340:
To be a king is something great; to be called one is something small. Kings are more rare than the common crowd believes: the title itself is uncommon. Scepters would use a lot less jewels and ivory if only real kings carried them. [Minus gemmarum atque eboris sceptra consumerent, si soli reges illa portarent].
He goes on to say that true kings, true leaders, do not derive their moral power or authority from clothing, riches, or the symbols of office; they derive their authority from character, conduct, and righteous actions. And this is what seems so lacking in the elected officials of today, at least in the United States; many of them see offices as stepping-stones to further “career ambitions,” or whatever phrase they like to use. Many do not consider, or care about, the consequences of their dictates or rulings. And this is why they have no problem subscribing to the old “do as I say, not as I do” style of leadership.
During the Covid crisis, how many of them were more than willing to order businesses and schools to close, knowing full well that such orders would have a paralytic effect on commerce and education? And how many of them hid behind the word “science” when asked to justify their actions? How many of them actually cared to look at the science that they professed to believe? How many of them continued to receive their full salaries, and who suffered not the slightest economic hardships—or, more accurately, actually profited from their orders by avoiding commutes to work? How many of them were more than willing to play games with the data in order to feed the public hysteria? How many made a sport of data mining, cherry-picking selected facts to create false impressions, and attempted to make the normal sound abnormal? When the moment of crisis was reached—the moment of truth for any true leader—they showed themselves to be selfish, worthless, and deserving of contempt.
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— Patrick Moore (@EcoSenseNow) December 6, 2020
DPM = deaths per million
One of history’s greatest self-inflicted economic disasters was carried out, and yet no one is to blame; no one can be held accountable. Justinian was correct, of course; he knew that public faith in institutions was matter of national security. It seems as if we have forgotten this lesson, if we even cared to know it. The Covid crisis must be seen as a moral crisis. What is particularly contemptible is how, even at this late stage in the game, when the truths are so clearly obvious, many governors and local official refuse to relent. All sorts of games are used to justify measures that by any standard are patently absurd: the unrelenting effort to treat “cases” and “infections” as a meaningful metric; the effort to hide the absurdly high false positive rate of Covid tests; the real degree of harm caused by lockdowns to children and the elderly; the catastrophic effect lockdowns have had on businesses; the dubious utility of masks in most situations; and the constant misrepresenting of hospital occupancy rates. And it goes on and on.
One wonders what Justinian himself would say, if he were alive to see the conduct of those we consider our leaders.
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Reasi : District Level Coordination Committee (DLCC) on National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP), comprising of District Level Heads of Government Departments, Civil Society, Media & Other Stakeholders met here Tuesday under the Chairmanship of Additional District Development Commissioner Reasi, Jyoti Rani Salathia to review implementation of the Tobacco Control measures.
The meeting was convened by District Health Society Reasi in Collaboration with International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease here in the Video Conference hall of District Administrative Complex and attended by Principal Government Degree College Reasi, Chief Agriculture Officer Reasi, Chief Education Officer Reasi, Dy. SP Hqtrs Reasi, ARTO Reasi, Chief Medical Officer Reasi, MS DH Reasi, DHO Reasi, Dy CMO Reasi, DIO Reasi, BMOs all, Nodal Officer RBSK & School Health, ZMO, NGOs etc.
A brief Presentation & Role and Responsibility of designated Committee members on Tobacco Control was given by Chief Medical Officer, Reasi Dr Rajeev K. Sharma.
Further, Shiveta Raina, Divisional Coordinator Jammu (J&K) also gave a detailed presentation on NTPC & COTPA-2003. It was emphasized upon all the participants to help the administration in enforcing the NTCP & COTPA-2003 for the right case.
The ADDC directed strict enforcement of the law, particularly section 4, ban on smoking in public places and section 6(B) prohibition of sale of tobacco products within the 100 yards of Educational institutions in their respective areas.
She called for close coordination among implementing agencies for abolishing the ill effect of this menace from the society.


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In an exclusive interview with ESPN, Tebow talks about his upcoming junior year at QB
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A county’s speed cameras which were switched off last year because of cutbacks are to be switched on again, it has been announced.
Thames Valley Police said 72 fixed camera sites and 89 mobile sites in Oxfordshire will start operating again from next Friday, April 1.
They were switched off on August 1 2010 as a result of a withdrawal of funding by Oxfordshire County Council after cuts to the authority’s road safety grant.
Superintendent Rob Povey, head of roads policing for Thames Valley, said: “We think this is important because we know that speed kills and speed is dangerous.
“We have shown in Oxfordshire that speed has increased through monitoring limits and we have noticed an increase in fatalities and the number of people seriously injured in 2010. We know that speed enforcement does work as a deterrent to motorists.”
The decision to switch the cameras back on has been supported by Thames Valley Police Authority committee chairman for Oxfordshire Ian Abbott and Oxfordshire County Council cabinet member for transport, Councillor Rodney Rose.
Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, said: “Speed cameras are controversial, but work done for us suggests that nationally each year they save 800 people from being killed or seriously injured.
“Today’s decision will be welcomed by the majority of drivers who back their use. Speed cameras are certainly not the only way of saving life on the roads, but Oxfordshire County Council has recognised they are part of it. Hopefully other councils considering turning off their cameras will now rethink their positions.”

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Anothe dev build, 2016.12.09, is available. It adds the following:
- You can once again rename a system when you colonize it. This had stopped working when I created logic to handle race-specific lists of system names a few months ago. Of course, you can still rename systems in the Colonies listing.
- When you launch a transport, it stops drawing the original flight path from the previous system. This bug snuck in when I revamed the UIs.
- The minor alerts detailed in a blog post yesterday have been added to the game. You’ll get them when:
- You catch an enemy spy
- An enemy spy steals a tech or blows up factories or bases
More minor alerts will be added later, most notably when transports fail to land on planets successfully.
The latest dev build can always be found here: https://remnantsoftheprecursors.com/2016/12/02/its-development-build-december/
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Rača is a borough of Bratislava, Slovakia, in the Bratislava III district.
|Coordinates: 48°08′00″N 17°07′00″E / 48.13333°N 17.11667°E|
|First mentioned||1226 (Julian)|
|• Mayor||Michal Drotován|
|• Total||23.66 km2 (9.14 sq mi)|
|Elevation||148 m (486 ft)|
(1 January 2021)
|• Density||1,100/km2 (2,800/sq mi)|
|Time zone||UTC+1 (CET)|
|• Summer (DST)||UTC+2 (CEST)|
|Car plate||BA, BL, BT|
Names and etymologyEdit
The name probably comes from the Slavic personal name Radša/Radoslav or the Slavic stem vorč-/vrača (a fence). [a] The name was adopted by Germans as Rechesdorf (literally Rača's village, 1390). The Germanized form had been used even by the Slovaks themselves, e.g., Račissdorf (1914), Račištorf (1920-1946) except for a short period in 1920 when the official name was Raslavice. In 1946, its original name Rača was restored.
Rača was mentioned for the first time in 1296 as a vineyard village under the name villa Racha. In 1946, the village became a borough of Bratislava.
- ^ Although historic records mention a person Racha/Rechee, the personal name could be derived from the name of the village and not otherwise.
- ^ Ondruš, Šimon (1990). "Rača, Vrača > Brača, Vrakuňa a vrkoč" (PDF). Slovenská reč (in Slovak) (1): 32.
- ^ Horňanský, Imrich (2016). "Z osudov slovenských geografických názvov". Slovenské slovo (in Slovak) (16).

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The following is an excerpt from Fashion & Sustainability: Design for Change (2012, Laurence King) by Kate Fletcher and Lynda Grose.
Biomimicry is the practice of emulating nature’s patterns and strategies to direct product design, processes, and policies, and as such draws its inspiration from the living world. Janine Benyus, founder of the Biomimicry Institute, contrasts the rich and diverse natural world with the systematic taming and simplification of nature through human activity and the subsequent destruction of species. “We understand that the only way to keep learning from nature—and its wellspring of ideas—is to safeguard its naturalness,” she says. That the study of biomimicry can trigger this level of understanding in designers is in itself of great value. It draws us far beyond the limits of the narrow and intellectual habitat of industrialized design and reminds us of the dual nature of our present circumstances as designers: how small a part we play in, and yet what enormous responsibility we have, to the “whole.”
Donna Sgro’s “Morphotex” fabric apes the microscopic structure of the Morpho butterfly’s wings, which appear cobalt blue despite lacking any intrinsic color.
That nature’s processes are irrational and spontaneous and may take millennia to evolve can be a challenging concept for designers to grasp since we work to such short deadlines and “lock in” our designs before production. But an effective visual metaphor is provided by Donella Meadows’s reference to fractal geometry.
The Koch snowflake illustrates that biomimicry is not simply a tool for copying.
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Secrecy Outage Probability for Two-Way Integrated Satellite Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Relay Networks with Hardware Impairments
1 College of Public Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China
2 School of Space Information, Space Engineering University, Beijing, 101407, China
* Corresponding Author: Kefeng Guo. Email:
(This article belongs to this Special Issue: Recent Advances in Backscatter and Intelligent Reflecting Surface Communications for 6G-enabled Internet of Things Networks)
Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2023, 135(3), 2515-2530. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2023.024857
Received 09 June 2022; Accepted 14 July 2022; Issue published 23 November 2022
AbstractIn this paper, we investigate the secrecy outage performance for the two-way integrated satellite unmanned aerial vehicle relay networks with hardware impairments. Particularly, the closed-form expression for the secrecy outage probability is obtained. Moreover, to get more information on the secrecy outage probability in a high signal-to-noise regime, the asymptotic analysis along with the secrecy diversity order and secrecy coding gain for the secrecy outage probability are also further obtained, which presents a fast method to evaluate the impact of system parameters and hardware impairments on the considered network. Finally, Monte Carlo simulation results are provided to show the efficiency of the theoretical analysis.
It is reported that satellite communication (SatCom) is considered to be a wishing way for the sixth generation (6G) and beyond next generation (BNG) wireless communication system for its special characters, such as the wide coverage and particular services [1–5]. Owing to similar reasons, it can make up for the shortage of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks along with the high data transmission and wide coverage. Based on this foundation, to both utilize the advantage of the SatCom and UAV networks, the framework for the integrated satellite UAV relay network (ISUAVRN) appears, which is considered the major part of the future wireless communication networks [6,7]. Besides, owing to the transmission beam’s wide coverage, many users or relays existed in one beam [7–11]. In , a selection scheme based on the threshold was provided to keep the balance between the system performance and system complexity for the considered network. Furthermore, the outage probability (OP) was studied. In , one partial selection scheme was utilized to enhance the system performance for the considered networks. In , the authors studied the OP for the cognitive networks, which combined the satellite and the terrestrial networks. In , the OP was researched for the considered networks along with the secondary network selection scheme under the cognitive technology. In , the authors gave a terrestrial and user scheduling scheme based on the maximal performance for the ISUAVRNs in the presence of many terrestrial relays and many users. In , the ergodic capacity for the ISUAVRNs with a selection scheme and multiple terrestrial relays was researched. In , the OP was investigated for the ISUAVRNs with multiple users and an opportunistic user scheduling scheme. To enhance the spectrum efficiency and time utilization, a two-way relay technique is proposed for the ISUAVRNs . In , the OP was researched for the ISUAVRNs with hardware impairments (HIs) and the two-way terrestrial relay. In , the OP was analyzed for the ISUAVRs in the presence of many two-way terrestrial relays and a partial selection scheme. In , the OP was investigated for the considered ISUAVRNs with multiple terrestrial relays and an opportunistic selection scheme under the non-orthogonal multiple access scenario. However, due to the inherent characters of wireless communications particularly for the SatCom, the secrecy issue has been regarded as the major point for the SatCom . The physical layer security (PLS) is considered as the hopeful method to investigate the difference between the eavesdroppers’ and legitimate channels, which is a popular research issue over recent years [19,20]. In , a proposed beamforming (BF) scheme was utilized for the cognitive ISUAVRNs to enhance the secrecy performance. In , the authors researched the secrecy-energy efficient hybrid BF scheme for the ISUAVRNs. In , the non-ideal channel state information (CSI) and cognitive technology were both investigated for the secrecy ISUAVRNs along with secrecy performance. In practical systems, all nodes are not often ideal, which means they always suffer the I/Q imbalance, phase noise, and amplifier non-linearities [23–25], which results in the HIs in the transmission nodes. In , all the HIs issues are concluded, which leads to a general HIs model, widely utilized for many former works [27–31]. Above all, to the authors’ best effort, the investigation for the effects of two-way terrestrial relays on the secrecy ISUAVRNs with HIs is still not published, which motivates our paper.
From the former discussions, by considering the two-way UAV relay and an eavesdropper into our sight, we investigate the secrecy performance for the considered network. The contributions of this paper are presented in the following:
• By utilizing the two-way UAV relay and an eavesdropper into consideration, the framework for the secrecy ISUAVRN is founded. Besides, the decode-and-forward (DF) mode is used in the UAV to help the source to transmit the signals. Due to the heavy fading and other obstacle reasons, no direct link is assumed for the legitimate transmission link for the two sources. In addition, all the nodes are assumed to suffer from the HIs.
• Based on the considered system model, the detailed analysis for the secrecy outage probability (SOP) is obtained, which gives the easy method to investigate the SOP. Besides, these theoretical results can direct the engineering guide.
• To derive the further results of the system parameters on the SOP for the system, the asymptotic behaviors for the SOP are derived, which provide the secrecy diversity and order secrecy coding gain.
The remaining of this paper is shown in the following. A detailed illustration for the considered system is given in Section 2. The analysis for the secrecy OP is derived in Section 3. Some computer simulations namely Monte Carlo (MC) results are given in Section 4 to show the efficiency of the analytical results. The conclusion of the work is provided in Section 5.
Notations: represents the absolute value of a complex scalar. is the expectation operator, denotes the complex Gaussian distribution of a random vector and covariance matrix . and represent the cumulative distribution function (CDF) and probability density function (PDF) the of random variable y, respectively. The abbreviations are given in Table 1.
As plotted in Fig. 1, we consider an ISUAVRN with HIs in this paper, which contains a satellite source , one terrestrial user , a two-way UAV R and an eavesdropper E. The two-way UAV R works in DF mode. The whole nodes are considered to have one antenna and suffer from the HIs1. At the same time, an eavesdropper UAV E2 exist in the similar transmission beam with R and wants to overhear the transmission signals from , and R. Due to the high building and the other reasons, no direct transmission link is considered between the and , which results in that the signal can only be transmitted by R3.
It will use two time slots for the whole transmission. During the first time slot, and send its own symbols in the same time slot, i.e., with and with to R, respectively. So, the obtained signal at R is shown as
where represents the transmitted power of , represents the power for the . denotes the channel coefficient for the transmission link with modeling as the shadowed-Rician (SR) fading. represents the channel coefficient for the link with Rayleigh shadowing. As presented before, the transmission nodes suffer from the HIs; and denote the distortion noise due to HIs at and , respectively, which are shown as and . and represent the HIs level at the and , respectively . represents the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) at R with modeling as .
Since E and R are located in the same transmission beam, the overhear signal at E in the first time slot is shown as
where represents the signal received at E from the p-th source, denotes the p-th source’s power, is the channel fading between the p-th source and E with SR and Rayleigh fading, respectively. denotes the AWGN at E with modeling as .
In the second time slot, owing to the utilized DF protocol, the UAV relay will use some techniques to decode the signals received and then re-transmit the re-encoded signal to , respectively. Since knows their own signals, and they can know its signals and delete the self-interference, the obtained signal at is shown as
where represents the R’s power, is the distortion noise which comes from the HIs with , is the impairments’ level at R . denotes the AWGN at which has the presentation as .
As the same assumption, R and E are located in the similar transmission beam. Thus, the obtained signal at E in the second time slot is represented as
where represents the channel coefficient between E and R, which is shown as Rayleigh fading.
By utilizing Eqs. (1) and (3), the obtained signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at R from the p-th source is obtained as
where and .
The derived signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at is given as
With the help of Eqs. (2) and (4), the obtained SNR at E is, respectively, obtained as
where and .
According to , the capacity for secrecy performance has the definition which is shown as the difference between the capacity of the legitimate users’ channel and the eavesdroppers’ channel. By utilizing Eqs. (5)–(9), the secrecy capacity for the considered network is represented as
where , , , , and with .
The detailed analysis for the SOP will be obtained in this part. At first, the channel model for the transmission link is presented.
3.1.1 The Terrestrial Transmission Link
The channel model for the terrestrial transmission link is modeled as independent and identically distribution (i.i.d) Rayleigh fading. From , the PDF and CDF of , are respectively derived as
where represents the average channel gain.
3.1.2 The Satellite Transmission Link
The geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) satellite is taken for the analysis. In addition, we also consider the satellite having multiple beams for the considered system model. Particularly, time division multiple access (TDMA)  scheme is utilized in the considered model, which means that only one UAV R is suitable to forward the information signal at the next time slot.
The channel coefficient between the downlink on-board beam satellite and UAV is presented as
where represents the random SR coefficient, represents the effects of the antenna pattern and free space loss (FSL), which can be re-given by
where denotes the frequency carrier’s wavelength, d is the length between UAV/eavesdropper and the satellite. km represents the antenna gain for UAV/eavesdropper and represents the satellite’s on-board beam gain.
With help of , can be written as
where represents the maximum beam gain at the boresight, and denotes the angle of the off-boresight. Recalling , by considering as the angle between UAV/eavesdropper position and the satellite. In addition, represents the 3 dB angle of satellite beam. The antenna gain can be shown as [2,35]
where presents the maximal beam gain, , and denote the 1st-kind bessel function of order 3 and 1, respectively. In order to gain best performance, thus, is set, which leads to . Relied on this consideration, we derive with .
For , a famous SR model was proposed in , which fits land mobile satellite (LMS) communication . By utilizing , the channel coefficient can be re-given as , where the scattering components follows the i.i.d Rayleigh fading distribution while represents the element of line of sight (LOS) component which obeys i.i.d Nakagami-m distribution4.
With the help of , the PDF for is given by
where , , and with regarding as the fading severity parameter with integer being. represents the average power of the multi-path component. represents the LOS component’s average power. represents the transmission link’s average SNR.
Relied on Eq. (17) and utilizing , the CDF of is re-derived as
3.1.3 Secrecy Outage Probability
From , the SOP defined as
where with defined as the target threshold.
For transmission link:
For transmission link:
Firstly, with the help of , can be obtained as
From Eq. (22), the first consideration is to obtain the CDF for and PDF for . The PDF for has been give in Eq. (17) with , thus utilizing the Eqs. (8) and (17), the PDF for can be re-written as
Then by utilizing Eq. (5), the CDF for is re-written as
With the help of Eq. (17) with and Eq. (11) with , then we can get
Then, after some mathematic steps, is re-given by
Next, with the help of , can be obtained as
Then, recalling Eq. (22), Eq. (22) can be re-written as
Then, it should be mentioned that in Eqs. (23) and (24), y should be satisfied with the following condition, which is and . Next, by submitting Eqs. (23) and (24) into Eq. (28), Eq. (28) is rewritten as
where and .
However, try the authors’ best efforts, it is too hard to obtain the closed-form expression of Eq. (29), then by utilizing  and utilizing the Gaussian-Chebyshev quadrature , by inserting Eqs. (24) and (23) into Eq. (29), it can be derived as
and being the number of the terms, denotes the l-th zero of Legendre polynomials, represents the Gaussian weight, which can be found in .
By utilizing the similar ways, the closed-form expressions for the , , and are respectively obtained as
and being the number of the terms, represents the v-th zero of Legendre polynomials, is the Gaussian weight, which is shown in , and .
and being the number of the terms, represents the -th zero of Legendre polynomials, represents the Gaussian weight, which can be seen in , and .
and being the number of the terms, represents the -th zero of Legendre polynomials, denotes the Gaussian weight, which has the definition in , and .
Then, by substituting Eqs. (30)–(33) into Eqs. (19)–(21), respectively. The closed-form expression for the SOP will be obtained, which is omitted here.
In what follows, the asymptotic behaviors for the SOP is obtained. When , , then utilizing and , Eqs. (30)–(33) will be obtained as
Then by substituting Eqs. (34)–(37) into Eqs. (19)–(21), the asymptotic expression will be derived.
Then from the final asymptotic SOP expression, the secrecy diversity order and secrecy coding gain are respectively derived as
During this part, some representative MC simulations are provided to prove the efficiency of the theoretical analysis. Through these results, the impacts of channel parameters are evaluated. Without loss of any generality, we set , and , . The system and channel parameters are shown in Table 2  and Table 3 , respectively.
Fig. 2 examines the SOP vs. for different shadow fading and impairments’ level with = 0 dB and = 0 dB. From Fig. 2, firstly, we can derive that the simulation results are tight across the theoretical analysis, which verify our analysis. In addition, in high SNR regime, the asymptotic results are nearly the same as the simulation results, which show the rightness of the analysis. Moreover, in this figure, it is very interesting that we find the SOP for AS scenario is lower than that of FHS, for the reason that when the channel suffers light fading, the system will have a better system performance. However, we find that the SOP for ILS scenario is the worst, which results in that when the channel is under ILS shadowing, the channel quality for eavesdropper is the best. In ILS scenario, the impact of channel quality on eavesdroppers is superior to that of legitimate users; thus the SOP is the highest. Finally, the lower hardware impairments’ level leads to a lower SOP.
Fig. 3 represents the SOP vs. for different and impairments’ level under AS scenario. From this figure, we can find that the SOP with lower will lead to a lower SOP for the quality of the eavesdroppers gets better. For the reason that a more powerful eavesdropper will derive this phenomenon.
Fig. 4 plots the SOP vs. for different and impairments’ level under AS scenario. It can be derived that, the SOP will be always 1, which means the system is in outage state all the time when the threshold grows to the special value. It can be also seen that this value just has the relationship with the HIs level. In addition, we find that a lower HIs level will bring a larger value. At last, it can be derived that the value for has no impact on this value.
This paper investigated the SOP for an integrated satellite UAV relay network with HIs. Especially, the closed-form and asymptotic behaviors for the SOP were derived. Firstly, it was derived that the SOP would have worse performance with threshold being larger; Secondly, it was found that the SOP would be larger with a larger ; Thirdly, it was seen that the HIs’ level had a great impact on the SOP. A larger impairments’ level brought a larger SOP; Finally, the channel fading also influenced the SOP.
Acknowledgement: The authors wish to express their appreciation to the reviewers for their helpful suggestions which greatly improved the presentation of this paper.
Funding Statement: This work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 62001517.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to report regarding the present study.
1We should know that, during this paper, only one antenna is assumed, however the derived results are still fit for the case with many antennas.
2Although this paper just considers one eavesdropper, the derived results are still fit for the model with multiple eavesdroppers. Besides, the model with multiple eavesdroppers will be investigated in our near future.
3Owing to some reasons, direct transmission link between two sources is not available.
4It should be mentioned that, the SR channel is a famous channel model [8,10], which comes from the practical estimation date [37,38].
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DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire gymnastics team scored a season-high 195.575 in defeating Brown University and Centenary College in Saturday's Stick It for the Cure tri-meet at Lundholm Gymnasium.
UNH eclipsed the 195.000 mark for the third straight meet to up its record 6-3 on the season. Brown (7-6) placed second with a 191.600 and Centenary (1-9) totaled a 188.600.
"The 195 score is huge for us," head coach Gail Goodspeed said. "It's where we need to be, and we need to continue to be there. I just think we have started to gel as a team, and we know we can do it. It's confidence."
The Wildcats boasted the top three scorers on each of the four events. Hannah Barile (Sinking Spring, Pa.) spearheaded a team 48.850 on vault with a first-place 9.825. Meghan Pflieger (Barneveld, N.Y.) hit for a 9.800 for second place, and Adrienne Hill (Midlothian, Va.) and Kelsey Aucoin (Double Oak, Texas) shared third place (9.775).
Lauren Brodie (Mogadore, Ohio) scored a personal-best 9.825 on uneven bars to share first place with Erika Rudiger (Slidell, La.). Jannelle Minichiello (Tewksbury, Mass.), who was awarded the meet's Katie Baldwin Expression Award, claimed third place with a 9.775, with Barile (9.750) and Pflieger (9.675) rounding out the top five. The 'Cats compiled a season-high 48.850 on bars.
Kayla Gray (Buffalo, N.Y.) continued her superb season on balance beam with a 9.875, a first-place mark that topped all event scores and headlined UNH's 48.825 team result. Hill finished in second place with a 9.800, and Aucoin registered a 9.775 for third place.
Aucoin capped her memorable meet with a 9.850 on floor exercise to lead all competitors. Erin Machado (Swansea, Mass.) posted a 9.825 for second place, and Minichiello and Barile shared third place (9.800) to help the Wildcats equal their season high floor score (49.050).
Pflieger was crowned all-around champion for the third consecutive meet with a 38.775. Brown's Caroline Morant finished runner-up with a 38.700, followed by her teammate Michelle Shnayder (38.100).
The Wildcats, who have reeled off four straight victories, embark on back-to-back road meets. UNH visits EAGL foe Towson for a tri-meet that also includes William & Mary on Saturday, Feb. 22 (7 p.m.), and the 'Cats travel to George Washington for an EAGL-only tri-meet that also features Maryland on Monday, March 3 (7 p.m.).
"What we do these next two meets will show us what we're made of," Goodspeed said. "If we can duplicate what we did tonight at those two meets, then I'll feel really good."
UNH will play host to the 2014 EAGL Championship at the Whittemore Center on Saturday, March 22, at 2 p.m. The Wildcats challenge George Washington, Maryland, North Carolina, N.C. State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers and Towson. Tickets are on sale now at www.ticketmaster.com.


Researchers in Virginia Tech’s Center for Photonics Technology are on their way to solving a problem that is limiting the range and number of sensors used to safeguard civil and industrial infrastructure.
Real-time monitoring of oil and gas fields and pipelines, power networks, bridges, dams, and buildings is important to economic and national security. A limitation to using sensors with different capabilities to create large, economical sensor networks has been the distance a signal will travel and the limited multiplexing capability. Sensor multiplexing in a fibre sensor system means the sensors along a fibre cable can be interrogated by one optoelectronic signal-processing unit. The optical signal is first converted by light detection into an analogue signal, which is then digitised for further signal processing.
Researchers in the Center for Photonics Technology (CPT) have discovered new methods for fabricating and spacing sensors within optic fibres, called UV-induced intrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometers (IFPIs), and have demonstrated that the resulting fibre optic sensors have a greater range.
“We believe we could place many more sensor elements along a single fibre cable and these fibre cables, placed in different geographical areas, could be linked by a computer network,” said Anbo Wang, professor of electrical engineering at Virginia Tech and director of the Center for Photonics Technology. “In theory, many such computer ‘networks’ can be linked to form a nation wide system.”
Now Wang and his colleagues have received a $500,000 Sensor Initiative Research Grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop ‘Highly Multiplexed Optical Fibre Sensing Networks for Infrastructure Monitoring’.
Infrastructure monitoring requires sensors that can cover a large area with minimum maintenance, are low in cost per unit, and have the ability to operate in harsh environments of different kinds. Semiconductor-based electronic sensors are low cost and can use wireless transmission to cover a large area. However, they are susceptible to electromagnetic interference (EMI), and restricted to relatively low temperatures of mostly below 125 C.
One solution is to combine electronic sensors with the more-expensive optical fibre sensors, which are insensitive to EMI, offer great resolution and accuracy, and have much higher temperature capability. A roadblock has been the rather limited multiplexing capability usually within several hundred sensors along a single fibre cable.
Wang’s group is confident that their sensor technology will increase the multiplexing capability by at least one order of magnitude. “In addition, this capability can be multiplied by many fold through sensor data fusion and computer networking so millions of sensors of different types in one system may become possible for real-time key infrastructure monitoring,” says Wang.
FP interferometers have been used for temperature, strain, pressure, electromagnetic field, and ultrasound sensing. The Virginia Tech experiments demonstrated that the new UV-induced IFPI fibre sensor can also measure different physical parameters, including temperature, strain, and pressure, and have the ability to operate at temperatures above 600 degrees C.
Sensor performance characteristics will be optimised through continued work on sensor fabrication and multiplexing using both mathematical modelling and experimental analysis.


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The $4 billion Avon Pension Fund – one of the UK’s leading hedge fund investors among local authorities – has appointed Record Currency Management to handle active currency hedging.
Record will handle an active currency hedging programme covering the fund’s overseas equity assets. There were around 15 applicants for the mandate, thought to be worth around $16.32 million.
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The global market for methylene chloride is expected to register a CAGR of more than 4% during the forecast period.
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Increasing demand from Pharmaceutical Industry
- Methylene chloride, which is also called Dichloromethane (DCM), is used as a solvent in the pharmaceutical application.
- Methylene chloride is mainly used to extract several compounds and is also used in the production of antibiotics and vitamins. It is also used as a tablet-coating agent.
- The market for pharmaceuticals is emerging rapidly, owing to the growing middle-class, aging, rising incomes, and increasing urbanization in countries, such as the United States, China, and India, among others.
- The healthcare sector in the United States is, by far, one of the most advanced sectors in the country. According to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA), US firms conduct over half the world's R&D in pharmaceuticals and hold the intellectual property rights on most new medicines.
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Asia-Pacific Region to Dominate the Market
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- The higher demand is expected from the major developing countries, such as China, India, Japan, and ASEAN countries.
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“Chronicle meets Iron-Man”
But it’s not a bad movie either. Sleight (2017) is sort of a super-hero story told in an unusually long way that leaves a lot of details out of what gives the protagonist his unique abilities. Both the films mentioned in the promotional image above explain the origin of the powers and abilities pretty well so when they build franchises around them, they don’t have to explain everything all over again.
Sleight, however, takes a break from giving the hero any real explanation outside of some self-augmentation with very little to back-up where it comes from. Bo, the hero played by Jacob Latimore is smart and would have earned a scholarship to be an engineer. His specialty being in electromagnetic energy and the manipulation of it. However, when his mother passes away he is forced to care for his little sister and does so by being a street musician during the day, and a drug courier by night.
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His boss, Angelo is played very well by Dulé Hill who you might know from the Psych TV series. The role is different for Hill and is probably one of the best parts of the movie outside the hero theme. Trouble begins when Bo tries to rush his way ou of Angelo’s work to make a better life for him and his sister by cutting the product to make more and sell more to keep some of the profit for himself.
Granted, it’s hard to label the character a hero considering what he is already doing and how he gets in the predicament. But the theme of the film is survival and escaping dire situations so the story works well, but the pacing does not.
One thing the film could have done without is the love interest. It’s barely believable in a film about someone with powers and frankly eats up time the protagonist could have been built up more. That being said, Sleight is still a good movie and if you can feel like catching a matinee it could be worth sitting through.
The film is rated ‘R’ for the adult situations involving drugs, violence, language and gore.
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