Performance Analysis of Cooperative Communication for Wireless Networks by Ramesh Chembil Palat Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Electrical Engineering Jeffrey H. Reed (Co-chair) A. Annamalai (Co-Chair) William H. Tranter Steven W. Ellingson Calvin J. Ribbens December 8‚ 2006 Blacksburg‚ Virginia Keywords: Cooperative Communication‚ Relaying
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directly to consumers and potential business partners by means of relationship referrals and word of mouth marketing‚ critics have charged that most MLMs are pyramid schemes. MLM companies have been a frequent subject of criticism as well as the target of lawsuits. Criticism has focused on their similarity to illegal pyramid schemes‚ price-fixing of products‚ high initial start-up costs‚ emphasis on recruitment of lower-tiered salespeople over actual sales‚ encouraging if not requiring salespeople
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sentenced to 150 years in prison for one of the biggest most fraudulent schemes (Business Insider 2014). He was charged with multiple counts of fraud‚ money laundering‚ theft‚ and perjury. Bernie manipulated numerous investors into handing over their earnings‚ and then guaranteeing them a profit in return of their investment. He conned all his investors out of almost $65 million dollars (Business Insider 2014). Madoff used a Ponzi scheme that enticed investor in‚ by promising them a higher advancement return
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with little thought or worry over what tomorrow may hold. Analysis This five-stanza poem takes on a playful rhyme scheme and meter‚ despite its serious and somewhat morbid subject. The first four stanzas are ABCB quatrains‚ each made up of terse lines to communicate the brevity of life‚ which is the subject of this poem. The final stanza‚ however‚ is an AABB rhyme scheme‚ a pair of rhyming couplets‚ which lends an even more playful quality to the poem as a whole while offering a moral or coda
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In the poem Anyone Lived in a Pretty how Town E. E. Cummings plays with jumbled syntax‚ a seemingly random rhyme scheme‚ and the paradox of non-identical repetition to convey his message about the ordinariness of daily life‚ the passing of time‚ and the inclusive anonymity of people we encounter in our lives. Anyone Lived in a Pretty how Town describes the daily lives of the people who live in a certain‚ nameless town. The town is not named and neither are any of the townspeople‚ other than to give
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The Use of Prose and Verse in Romeo&Juliet Table of Contents page 1 Introduction 3 2 Technical terms 3 2.1 Metre 3 2.2 Foot 3 2.3 Enjambment and End-stopped Line 4 2.4 Rhyme 4 2.5 Rhyme Scheme 5 3 Prose 5 4 Verse 5 4.1 Rhymed verse 6 4.1.1 Sonnet 6 4.2 Blank Verse 6 4.3 Free Verse 7 5 Verse and Prose in Romeo and Juliet 7 5.1 Functions of the Use of Prose 7 5.1.1 Function of Variation 7 5.1.2 Class-Differing Function 8 5.1.3 Empathy-Creating Function 8 5.1.4 Realness-Creating
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you" - and variations on it - can be described as a refrain (lines that are repeated in a song). The use of repetition reflects the speaker’s insistent concentration on the present. The poem has a regular rhyme scheme in the four stanzas‚ adding to the poem’s musical quality. The rhyme scheme in these four stanzas can be described as a-b-c-c-b (with the final b in the extra line of the last stanza). The stanza in the centre of the poem makes use of half rhyme. The contrasting rhyme of "Elysees" and "sleazy" gives
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“Photograph” by Nickelback it becomes easier to realize that… [While the 2 poems can be quite different in tone‚ rhyme scheme‚ style‚ and other poetic devices‚ the author’s raw emotion is so similar despite this.] The rhyme schemes are not very similar when talking about “Love” and “Photograph”. Boland uses about 10 syllables per line but there is really no structured rhyme scheme. There is definitely a flow when Boland says something like “I am your wife. It was years ago. Our child was healed
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1. Write out a Curriculum policy for your school. List of important outcomes a child should achieve once they have completed the curriculum at my school. - Social skills - Emotional stability - Physical development - Language and vocabulary - Independence - Love for learning - Aware of their cosmic task - Complete and successful assessment - NB! Can only attain full Montessori curriculum if the child completes the full 3 year cycle. POLICY: At Great Expectations Montessori School
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The poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is structurally created with four stanzas and 5 lines within each stanza. The poem has a rhyme scheme of A B A A B‚ which helps the poem flow. This connection between each of these stanzas causes the poem to be linked at every point‚ never disconnected. Also‚ there is a similar syllable structure for the first line of every stanza‚ further keeping the poem connected at each break. The title of the poem acts as foreshadowing for the piece of poetry. The
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