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Unequal Error Protection Raptor Codes
We design Unequal Error Protection (UEP) Raptor codes with the UEP property provided by the precode part of Raptor codes which is usually a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code. Existing UEP Raptor codes apply the UEP property on the Luby transform (LT) code part of Raptor codes. This approach …
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Ilimi Haské: Learning in an Unequal World
The thesis analyses the intersections between inequalities, learning outcomes, and aspirations and further investigates why and how some students, particularly girls, succeed in furthering their schooling while others do not. The study focuses on Niger Republic which has some of the lowest rates of …
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Post-school education in an unequal society
In South Africa, a country afflicted by conditions of poverty, inequality, and unemployment, a post-school education can be key to fostering upward mobility. However, many of the country's socioeconomic inequalities are replicated within the post-school education system itself. This means that, …
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All things being unequal : locality in movement
In this thesis I demonstrate that a simplified theory of locality \ has greater success in accounting for locality in movement than more complicated alternatives that have been suggested. In particular, I argue that closeness should not be relativized to minimal domains, and that locality in …
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An Unequal Velocity, Unequal Temperature Two-Fluid Model of Vapor-Liquid Flow and Solution of a Standard Blowdown Problem
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Interest Representation as a Clash of Unequal Allies
Organized interests do not have direct control over the fate of their policy agendas in Congress. They cannot introduce bills, vote on legislation, or serve on House committees. If organized interests want to achieve virtually any of their legislative goals they must rely on and work through …
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Unequal error protection codes based on trellis shaping
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1995.
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Changing the Narrative: Student Empowerment in Unequal School Contexts
<p>Educational experiences affect a wide variety of life outcomes for individuals. The type of education an individual receives influences their occupation, the neighborhood in which they live, and even their risk of mortality (National Research Council, 2013; Sasson, 2016). In particular, the life …
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Challenges of Unequal Power Distribution in University -Community Partnerships
I highlight the importance of formal training of partners to address power discrepancies. It is pointed out that the power discrepancies lead to problems setting agendas that work well for both sides of the partnership. Another important conclusion is that the partnership exclusively works with the …
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Network Effects on Outcomes and Unequal Distribution of Resources
… from networking. We attribute this phenomena to unequal diffusion due to network homophily and provide causal evidence for it in the context of a randomized seeding experiment in networks. Third, we develop a network model that captures the structure of unequal diffusion or access to …
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Land Matters : Agrofuels, Unequal Exchange, and Appropriation of Ecological Space
… the Centre from the Periphery, resulting in an unequal exchange of ecological resources, and a displacement of ecological loads from the Centre to the Periphery. In this way, the colonial pattern of appropriation of land areas is replicated today. At the same time, new powerful actors are …
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The Social Reproduction of Education Inequality: Still Separate Still Unequal
<p>Citing Brown v. The Board of Education and Lewis Terman's The Measurement of Intelligence as theoretical rationale, this critical observation examines my experience as a teacher within a classroom setting. By comparing reflective teacher anecdotes and current literature, the success of European …
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The gilded closet : media, privacy, and power in unequal times
This thesis broadly interrogates the way three media technologies in the history of the United States have been used in relationship to wealth, sexuality, and the emergence of "the right to privacy" in the late 19th century. This includes photography in the First Gilded Age, cable television in the …
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Rateless and rateless unequal error protection codes for Gaussian channels
… different rateless codes and create a rateless unequal error protection code, all for the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. The two rateless codes are examined through both analysis and simulation with the hope of developing a better understanding of how the codes will perform and …
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Digital Technology and Education in India: Unequal Access and Outcomes
This dissertation examines how technology has been integrated in education in India, especially in light of the pandemic, through three interrelated studies. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative insights from the experiences of teachers, students, EdTech professionals, and government officials, …
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UNEQUAL EXPERIENCES: HOW SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS SHAPE PEOPLE¿S ATTITUDES TOWARDS INEQUALITY
This dissertation investigates how social environments—particularly personal networks and socializing institutions—shape individuals' attitudes towards inequality. It fills a critical gap in distributive justice research by exploring the effects of the socioeconomic composition of acquaintances, …
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Social Status, Opportunity And Repeat Victimization: The Unequal Distribution Of Safety
<p>This research examines the relationship between victimization, social status and opportunity. More specifically, the effects of social status and opportunity on repeat victimization are examined. How does social status and opportunity simultaneously effect repeat victimization? This report …
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The Bias of the World : Theories of Unequal Exchange in History
This is a history of theories and theorists of unequal exchange. Starting with mercantilists and Richard Cantillon's theory based on land values, it briefly covers the early Classical economists and Gerald Fitzhugh. Among early 20th century Marxist economists, unequal exchange appeared in Otto …
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