More than 20 states will increase their minimum wage this year, boosting paychecks for millions of workers as rising costs squeeze household budgets. Both Democratic- and Republican-led states, from ...

Abstract: Motivated by high-density storage needs, symbol-pair codes were introduced by Cassuto and Blaum to address channels with overlapping symbol outputs. In this paper, we present a systematic ...

Abstract: We apply the innovations method to Viterbi decoding of convolutional codes. First, we calculate the covariance matrix of the innovation (i.e., the soft-decision input to the main decoder in ...

Out of the 50 largest metropolitan areas, the Philadelphia region is where minimum-wage earners must work the most hours to afford rent. Two workers who make Pennsylvania’s $7.25 minimum hourly wage ...

PHOENIX -- Sometime in the next five years or so, some Southern Arizona residents are going to find out that their new neighbors have a different area code. But no current customer will get a new ...