Abstract: As capacity-achieving codes under successive cancellation (SC) decoding, nested polar codes have been adopted in 5G enhanced mobile broadband. To optimize the performance of the code ...

After a 2024 breakthrough album about her father’s death, the audacious Vermont singer-songwriter squares up to her mother’s living absence—and, without her, finds her own way forward. Frances’ ...

Gilbert Gee and Annie Ro depict systemic racism as the hidden base of an iceberg 10 (see illustration in online appendix exhibit 1). 11 The iceberg’s visible part represents the overt racism that ...

The body is, for all intents and purposes, an extraordinarily complex machine. This requires a multitude of parts all working together in complicated relationships from the micro- to macromolecular ...

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Camera lens names might look like gibberish, but they have meaning. We decode the naming conventions of 11 lens manufacturers, including Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, and other major brands. Images, and the ...

In organizations with more straightforward nested leadership, things flow down through hierarchical levels with as little change as possible, much like how smaller and smaller Russian dolls are nested ...