Search Results - "Rusch, L. A."

The Association between active and passive smoking and latent tuberculosis infection in adults and children in the united states: results from NHANES by Lindsay, Ryan P, Shin, Sanghyuk S, Garfein, Richard S, Rusch, Melanie L A, Novotny, Thomas E

“…Few studies assessing the relationship between active and passive smoking and tuberculosis have used biomarkers to measure smoke exposure. We sought to…”
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Cross-sectional time series analysis of associations between education and girl child marriage in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, 1991-2011 by Raj, Anita, McDougal, Lotus, Silverman, Jay G, Rusch, Melanie L A

“…Girl education is believed to be the best means of reducing girl child marriage (marriage <18 years) globally. However, in South Asia, where the majority of…”
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Few-mode fiber with inverse-parabolic graded-index profile for transmission of OAM-carrying modes by Ung, B, Vaity, P, Wang, L, Messaddeq, Y, Rusch, L A, LaRochelle, S

“…A novel type of few-mode fiber, characterized by an inverse-parabolic graded-index profile, is proposed for the robust transmission of cylindrical vector modes…”
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Impact of the beat noise on the performance of 2-D optical CDMA systems by Tancevski, L., Rusch, L.A.

“…The system performance of 2-D wavelength hopping/time spreading CDMA systems is found to be limited by the occurrence of the beat noise between the components…”
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Passive optical fast frequency-hop CDMA communications system by Fathallah, H., Rusch, L.A., LaRochelle, S.

“…This paper proposes an all-fiber fast optical frequency-hop code division multiple access (FFH-CDMA) for high-bandwidth communications. The system does not…”
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Cyber Sexual Harassment among Adolescent Girls: A Qualitative Analysis by Salazar, Marissa, Raj, Anita, Silverman, Jay G., Rusch, Melanie L. A., Reed, Elizabeth

“…Background: Research efforts are increasingly recognizing young girls’ experiences of technology facilitated sexual harassment, which includes sexual…”
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Changes in Prevalence of Girl Child Marriage in South Asia by Raj, Anita, McDougal, Lotus, Rusch, Melanie L. A

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Cyber Sexual Harassment: Prevalence and association with substance use, poor mental health, and STI history among sexually active adolescent girls by Reed, Elizabeth, Salazar, Marissa, Behar, Alma I., Agah, Niloufar, Silverman, Jay G., Minnis, Alexandra M., Rusch, Melanie L.A., Raj, Anita

“…The current study aims to assess the prevalence, perpetrators, and consequences of cyber sexual harassment (CSH) among adolescent females. Sexually active…”
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Characterization of OAM fibers using fiber Bragg gratings by Wang, L, Vaity, P, Ung, B, Messaddeq, Y, Rusch, L A, LaRochelle, S

“…The reflectogram of a fiber grating is used to characterize vector modes of an optical fiber supporting orbital angular momentum states. All modes, with a…”
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Witnessing Sexual Harassment and Associated Substance Use and Poor Mental Health Outcomes among Adolescent Girls in the US by Reed, Elizabeth, Salazar, Marissa, Behar, Alma, Agah, Niloufar, Wong, Alice, Silverman, Jay, Rusch, Melanie, Raj, Anita

“…Direct experiences of sexual harassment have been found to be associated with substance use and poor mental health among girls. Indirect experiences, such as…”
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SOA Intensity Noise Suppression in Spectrum Sliced Systems: A Multicanonical Monte Carlo Simulator of Extremely Low BER by Ghazisaeidi, A., Vacondio, F., Bononi, A., Rusch, L.A.

“…We present a thorough numerical study of intensity noise mitigation of spectrum sliced wavelength-division multiplexing (SS-WDM) systems employing a nonlinear…”
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Dual phase-shift Bragg grating silicon photonic modulator operating up to 60 Gb/s by Bédard, K, Simard, A D, Filion, B, Painchaud, Y, Rusch, L A, LaRochelle, S

“…We demonstrate PAM-4 and OOK operation of a novel silicon photonic modulator. The modulator design is based on two phase-shifts in a Bragg Grating structure…”
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Mitigating pattern dependent nonlinearity in SiP IQ-modulators via iterative learning control predistortion by Zhalehpour, S, Lin, J, Sepehrian, H, Shi, W, Rusch, L A

“…Silicon based Mach Zehnder modulators, unlike lithium niobate, suffer from nonlinear pattern-dependent behavior beyond simple intersymbol interference. We…”
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Economic Vulnerability among Girls at Risk for Adolescent Pregnancy: Qualitative Findings among a Clinic Sample of Girls Residing in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region by Reed, Elizabeth, Salazar, Marissa, Behar, Alma I, Servin, Argentina E, Ayala, Guadalupe X, Silverman, Jay G, Rusch, Melanie L A, Zuniga, Mari L, Raj, Anita

“…In the U.S., research to identify the risk factors explaining high rates of adolescent pregnancy disproportionately affecting racial/ethnic minorities,…”
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Analysis of large-scale multi-stage all-optical packet switching routers by Xu, Q., Rastegarfar, H., Ben M'Sallem, Y., Leon-Garcia, A., LaRochelle, S., Rusch, L. A.

“…All-optical packet switching can overcome limitations of electronic switches in terms of power consumption, speed, cost, and footprint. Switch architectures…”
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Doped-fiber amplifier dynamics: a system perspective by Bononi, A., Rusch, L.A.

“…Sun et al. [see Electron. Lett., vol. 32, p. 1490, Aug. 1996] succeeded in reducing the set of coupled first-order nonlinear partial differential equations…”
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Linkages Within the Reproductive and Maternal Health Continuum of Care in Bangladesh by McDougal, Lotus, Rusch, Melanie L.A., Silverman, Jay G., Raj, Anita

“…The continuum of care (CoC) is a fundamental approach to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health policy and programs, but linkages along the CoC are…”
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Distribution of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Risk Factors by Work Locations Among Female Sex Workers in Tijuana, Mexico by Rusch, Melanie L. A., Brouwer, Kimberly C., Lozada, Remedios, Strathdee, Steffanie A., Magis-Rodríguez, Carlos, Patterson, Thomas L.

“…Background: Sex work is regulated in the Zona Roja (red light district) in Tijuana, Mexico, where HIV and sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevalence is high…”
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Gain stabilization in gain clamped EDFA cascades fed by WDM burst-mode packet traffic by Karasek, M., Bononi, A., Rusch, L.A., Menif, M.

“…This paper studies via simulation the stabilizing effect of all-optical gain-clamping (AOGC) in a chain of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA) fed by…”
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Output power and SNR swings in cascades of EDFAs for circuit- and packet-switched optical networks by Tancevski, L., Bononi, A., Rusch, L.A.

“…A simple dynamic model of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) that includes self-saturation by amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) is used to analyze the…”
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