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Papers by Mac White
According to the WHO, depression is a common mental disorder which contributes significantly to t... more According to the WHO, depression is a common mental disorder which contributes significantly to the global burden of disease. It affects people across communities in the world. It is characterized by sadness, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, feelings of tiredness, and poor concentration, as stated by the WHO. Source: http://www.marketresearchstore.com/report/antidepressant-market-in-the-us-2015-2019-4322
Equine health refers to veterinary services intended to treat horses to enhance their quality of ... more Equine health refers to veterinary services intended to treat horses to enhance their quality of life, increase their lifespan, and develop better quality animal food. Equine diagnostic products, equine therapeutic products, and equine supplement products are the three major product types discussed in this report. Source: http://www.marketresearchstore.com/report/global-equine-healthcare-market-2015-2019-3913
Interference-oriented concurrent link communications are designed as using each link's TX/RX beam... more Interference-oriented concurrent link communications are designed as using each link's TX/RX beamforming vectors to null co-channel interference on existing links. Representative solutions in this area mainly include SPACEMAC and NullHoc protocols, which inherently rely on zero-forcing beamforming vectors and are not efficient in the sense that they only null the interference on existing links, but have little consideration for SNR maximization within the desired link. Motivated by this critical observation, in this paper we will present a new concurrent link solution, named as Net-Eigen MAC, which not only nulls the interference on existing links, but also maximizes the post-processing SNR within the desired link. Particularly, we implement above design objective via three sequential steps: (i) initial TX vector derivation that nulls interference on existing links; (ii) RX side whitening filter that transforms spatial colored interference into white Guassian noise; and (iii) TX/RX vector updating and eigen-value derivation for post-processing SNR maximization within the desired link. To demonstrate our proposed design, we first present a theoretical framework describing the mathematical principle of Net-Eigen MAC. Then we further propose a distributed handshaking process that implements the Net-Eigen MAC in a realistic way. Simulation results verify that our Net-Eigen MAC can guarantee each link's throughput to be no less than single link MAC's counterpart. And its ergodic link throughput is 28% higher than that of single link MAC or SPACEMAC.
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004
This paper examines two major forces that may soon increase competition in the U.S. secondary con... more This paper examines two major forces that may soon increase competition in the U.S. secondary conforming mortgage market: 1) the expansion of Federal Home Loan Bank mortgage purchase programs, and 2) the adoption of revised risk-based capital requirements for large U.S. banks (Basel II). We argue that this competition is likely to reduce the growth and relative importance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and hence their franchise values and effective capital. Such developments could, in turn, lead to more risky behaviors by these two GSEs. It is this last consequence that warrants greater regulatory awareness. JEL Classification Numbers: G21, G28
Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia-journal Canadien D Anesthesie, 1988
The minimum alveolar concentration of sevoflurane necessary to prevent movement in 50 per cent of... more The minimum alveolar concentration of sevoflurane necessary to prevent movement in 50 per cent of patients (MAC) was determined to be 2.05 per cent in 20 adult surgical patients. Because this value was higher than the only other experimentally determined human MAC value for sevoflurane (1.71 per cent), MAC was also determined in New Zealand white rabbits. Comparisons of the MAC ratios of sevoflurane to other volatile anaesthetics in both the human and the rabbit suggest that the human MAC value we obtained for sevoflurane is consistent with experimental determinations of MAC of other volatile anaesthetics in humans. La concentration alvéolaire minimale du sévoflurane nécessaire afin de prévenir les mouvements dans 50 per cent des patients (MAC) a été déterminée à 2.05 per cent chez 20 patients adultes subissant une chirurgie. Etant donné que cette valeur était plus élevée que celle obtenue expérimentalement chez les humains avec le sévoflurane (1.71 per cent), le MAC a aussi a été déterminé chez les lapins blanc de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Des comparaisons des rapports de MAC entre le sévoflurane et ďautres agents anesthésiques volatiles tant chez ľhumain que chez le lapin suggèrent que les valeurs du MA C qu’on a obtenues chez ľhumain avec le sévoflurane sont comparables avec celles déterminées expérimentalement pour ďautres agents anesthésiques volatiles chez ľhomme.
According to the WHO, depression is a common mental disorder which contributes significantly to t... more According to the WHO, depression is a common mental disorder which contributes significantly to the global burden of disease. It affects people across communities in the world. It is characterized by sadness, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, feelings of tiredness, and poor concentration, as stated by the WHO. Source: http://www.marketresearchstore.com/report/antidepressant-market-in-the-us-2015-2019-4322
Equine health refers to veterinary services intended to treat horses to enhance their quality of ... more Equine health refers to veterinary services intended to treat horses to enhance their quality of life, increase their lifespan, and develop better quality animal food. Equine diagnostic products, equine therapeutic products, and equine supplement products are the three major product types discussed in this report. Source: http://www.marketresearchstore.com/report/global-equine-healthcare-market-2015-2019-3913
Interference-oriented concurrent link communications are designed as using each link's TX/RX beam... more Interference-oriented concurrent link communications are designed as using each link's TX/RX beamforming vectors to null co-channel interference on existing links. Representative solutions in this area mainly include SPACEMAC and NullHoc protocols, which inherently rely on zero-forcing beamforming vectors and are not efficient in the sense that they only null the interference on existing links, but have little consideration for SNR maximization within the desired link. Motivated by this critical observation, in this paper we will present a new concurrent link solution, named as Net-Eigen MAC, which not only nulls the interference on existing links, but also maximizes the post-processing SNR within the desired link. Particularly, we implement above design objective via three sequential steps: (i) initial TX vector derivation that nulls interference on existing links; (ii) RX side whitening filter that transforms spatial colored interference into white Guassian noise; and (iii) TX/RX vector updating and eigen-value derivation for post-processing SNR maximization within the desired link. To demonstrate our proposed design, we first present a theoretical framework describing the mathematical principle of Net-Eigen MAC. Then we further propose a distributed handshaking process that implements the Net-Eigen MAC in a realistic way. Simulation results verify that our Net-Eigen MAC can guarantee each link's throughput to be no less than single link MAC's counterpart. And its ergodic link throughput is 28% higher than that of single link MAC or SPACEMAC.
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004
This paper examines two major forces that may soon increase competition in the U.S. secondary con... more This paper examines two major forces that may soon increase competition in the U.S. secondary conforming mortgage market: 1) the expansion of Federal Home Loan Bank mortgage purchase programs, and 2) the adoption of revised risk-based capital requirements for large U.S. banks (Basel II). We argue that this competition is likely to reduce the growth and relative importance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and hence their franchise values and effective capital. Such developments could, in turn, lead to more risky behaviors by these two GSEs. It is this last consequence that warrants greater regulatory awareness. JEL Classification Numbers: G21, G28
Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia-journal Canadien D Anesthesie, 1988
The minimum alveolar concentration of sevoflurane necessary to prevent movement in 50 per cent of... more The minimum alveolar concentration of sevoflurane necessary to prevent movement in 50 per cent of patients (MAC) was determined to be 2.05 per cent in 20 adult surgical patients. Because this value was higher than the only other experimentally determined human MAC value for sevoflurane (1.71 per cent), MAC was also determined in New Zealand white rabbits. Comparisons of the MAC ratios of sevoflurane to other volatile anaesthetics in both the human and the rabbit suggest that the human MAC value we obtained for sevoflurane is consistent with experimental determinations of MAC of other volatile anaesthetics in humans. La concentration alvéolaire minimale du sévoflurane nécessaire afin de prévenir les mouvements dans 50 per cent des patients (MAC) a été déterminée à 2.05 per cent chez 20 patients adultes subissant une chirurgie. Etant donné que cette valeur était plus élevée que celle obtenue expérimentalement chez les humains avec le sévoflurane (1.71 per cent), le MAC a aussi a été déterminé chez les lapins blanc de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Des comparaisons des rapports de MAC entre le sévoflurane et ďautres agents anesthésiques volatiles tant chez ľhumain que chez le lapin suggèrent que les valeurs du MA C qu’on a obtenues chez ľhumain avec le sévoflurane sont comparables avec celles déterminées expérimentalement pour ďautres agents anesthésiques volatiles chez ľhomme.