Part 2 of the journey through Southamerica in august 2015 took us from San Pedro de Atacama to Peru and Bolivia towards unique places of cultural interests of the Incas, towards the amazing world of the Andes and the biggest salt desert of the world.
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Oregon Senate GOP: Climate bill walkout begins
Oregon Capital Bureau
Cap-and-trade, designed to reduce Oregon's carbon emissions, has been a touchstone for both parties in the short 2020 legislative session.
Republicans in the state Senate boycotted a floor session Monday morning, putting a stop to the Senate before it could consider a controversial greenhouse gas emissions legislation that has been a political lightning rod.
The Senate requires 20 senators be present to take votes.
Eighteen Democrats and one Republican, Sen. Tim Knopp, of Bend, were present for the 11 a.m. session Feb. 24. The remaining 11 Republicans disappeared to protest the legislation, and denying the Senate the needed quorum to act.
At least two Republicans would be needed on the floor if all Democrats were there.
Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, issued a call of the Senate to get any absent Republicans in the Capitol building to come to the floor. Before the floor session began, state troopers roamed the legislative halls.
Courtney then adjourned the floor session until 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, after an admonishment that policy and budget bills couldn't get done if senators were absent.
Lawmakers are facing a March 8 deadline to close the 2020 session.
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Courtney implored his "fellow senators" to return to the Senate.
"These Oregon Senate Republicans are denying their constituents the representation they deserve and shutting down our democratic institution." — Sen. Ginny Burdick
The shutdown was triggered by a vote in the legislative budget committee minutes earlier, which sent Senate Bill 1530 to the full Senate. The committee rejected a Republican plan to refer the matter to voters.
Republican senators were hard to find on the third and fourth floors of the Senate side of the Capitol building late Monday morning, before the floor session was called.
Staff at the office of Sen. Bill Hansell, R-Athena, said he was "not available at this time."
Sen. Brian Boquist, R-Dallas, has been excused for the next couple of days due to a family medical issue.
Workers in the office of Sen. Lynn Findley, R-Vale, said Findley was "not here" and that "he's not coming back."
In a statement shortly before the floor session, Findley said that "if my colleagues will not allow for a fair process in the building, then I will represent my constituents from outside the building."
Kate Gillem, Senate Republican spokeswoman, said that all have walked out except for a "senator from Bend."
Gillem said they would stay away for the rest of the session. She said they could maybe be drawn back if the bill could be referred to voters.
She didn't say where they went. "I don't know," Gillem said. "They've been super tight-lipped. Even with staff."
Senate Majority Leader Ginny Burdick, D-Portland, blasted the walkout in a statement. "Walking out on the job is a dereliction of duty. Each of us took an oath of office and it is our responsibility to fulfill that oath and represent the voices of our constituents," she wrote. "These Oregon Senate Republicans are denying their constituents the representation they deserve and shutting down our democratic institution.
"Serving in the Legislature is a great honor. Walking out on the job is dishonorable and disrespectful. I am disappointed in the Senate Republicans for taking this irresponsible action."
Across the Capitol building, on the House side, Speaker of the House Tina Kotek, D-Portland, reacted later in the day to the walkout.
"Legislators shutting down the government by walking off the job is a crisis for our democracy," she wrote. "This is not a game. Voters elected us to do our job. The members who refuse to show up and do their jobs are saying to a large majority of Oregonians: your vote doesn't matter."
An Oregon business association that supports cap-and-trade lauded a vote earlier in the day by the Ways and Means Committee — the Legislature's budget-writing body — to move SB 1530 to the Senate Floor.
"This is a promising step for SB 1530," said Tom Kelly, board president of Oregon Business for Climate, shortly after the committee vote. "By moving the bill through Ways and Means, the Legislature is indicating a willingness to provide the funds needed for the success of this bill."
Oregon Capital Bureau reporters Claire Withycombe, Jake Thomas and Sam Stites contributed to this article.
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McNabb's Contract Not as Disastrous as First Feared (But Still Could Be)
Chris Mottram
Good news, Redskins fans: The contact extension Washington gave Donovan McNabb was still a horrible fucking idea, BUT it's actually not as awful as first thought! SILVER LINING.
When news of the deal first came out yesterday, we all heard that it was for $40 million guaranteed. That's a lot of money for a 33-year-old QB who has proven to be nothing but mediocre (at best) in every way this season. But, really, we don't give a shit about the money. It's the commitment to McNabb that is the problem. See, when you have $40 million tied up in a player, you're more apt to continue to try to make it work with him (CoughcoughHaynesworth). Maybe not for all five years of the deal, but for at least a couple. And right now, we don't know if we want McNabb to be the team's QB for next year, and beyond.
BUT THAT'S WHERE THE GOOD NEWS COMES IN!
The deal apparently only guarantees Donovan $3.5 million, not $40 million. The Skins owe him that money on top of his '10 salary, regardless. But, if Washington's death spiral continues, and they decide — hey, maybe we should think about rebuilding through the draft at some point here, huh? — then they can cut or trade McNabb after the season and not owe him another dime. So, that's where this "commitment" thing comes back into play: The Skins don't need to feel obligated to keep McNabb beyond 2010.
Of course, that won't happen. They're going to keep McNabb around and pay him the $12.5 million for 2011 that the contract stipulates. But if nothing else, the contract details make Snyder & Allen look slightly less inept. We have to start somewhere.
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Levelheaded and reasonable fans have wanted this team to rebuild for years. I guess it's just time to realize that it's not going to happen. They have some nice pieces with Trent Williams and Brian Orakpo, but there just isn't enough young talent.
In a few years, Eli Manning will be 33-34, so maybe the Redskins can cook up a trade for him then.
Kev29
On the even brighter side, there might not be a football season in 2012. Undefeated!
Terps77
Smells less like Vinny Cerrato.
DuhCorky!
F*&@%$g duh! Guess who broke the story? ESPN. Guess who telecasted the game? ESPN. I wonder what would give this event more ratings? Maybe a "breaking story" of a huge undeserved contract to a future hall of fame quarterback that has been in the midst of controversy for two weeks.
The evil empire continues to "break" non-stories and then even has the gall to question whether or not it's even true (see Chris Mortensen's post game: http://search.espn.go.com/chris-mortensen/). Also he said the EXACT same thing in the pregame with Golic.
I am more than ready to clean slate and start over. I can handle a few shitty seasons of rebuilding for the future knowing that we could be a potential contender. With that said I agree with krem and know this will never happen….. INFINITE SADNESS!!
pearlbullets
This is good news. Hopefully the Skins move in a direction that does not involve Donovan McNabb.
DocJ
Trade him to the Vikings/Cardinals/whatever sucker we can find after the season is over. maybe we can get a 3rd round pick for him. Need to get rid of quite a few guys and start fresh. Orakpo, McIntosh, Landry, Alexander are all guys we need to build the D around. Cooley is about the only offensive player I would keep, along with Brown(give him one more season) and Williams and maybe Davis and Armstrong.
But, see, here's the problem:
1) you cut him at the end of the year to save money because Shanny hates him (probably), leaving you with nothing to show for everything you traded away to get him.
2) you keep him and end up owing a ton of money to a guy on the decline. And trading him becomes much harder because everyone knows he's overpriced and will have a year's evidence that he couldn't pick up a new playbook and couldn't win games for the team. So if you think that he's overpriced now, he'll be really, REALLY overpriced by January.
The bottom line is that the Skins overpaid when they didn't have to – again – and also have no young QB to groom and grow into Shanny's playbook.
Well, yeah: The bottom line is that trading for McNabb in the first place was a massive mistake. We've said that here from Day 1. But we can't harp on that forever. At least the Skins have an out now that won't cost them even more than they've already given up.
"F*&@%$g duh! Guess who broke the story? ESPN. Guess who telecasted the game? ESPN."
Also, the franchise and owner are in bed with ESPN anyway – through 980. People blast the Post for never getting stories anymore, but the playing field is set up so they never will.
Also, we can talk about QB contracts until were blue in the face, the team isnt going anywhere until they get some help on the O-line.
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Tickets On Sale April 22 for Folds of Honor Tennessee Rock 'N Jock Celebrity Softball Game
Stars gather for celebrity softball game in support of the families of America's fallen and injured service members.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 21, 2022) - Folds of Honor Tennessee announces their 2nd Annual Rock N' Jock Celebrity Softball Game at First Horizon Park on June 6 at 6:30pm. With tickets going on sale tomorrow, April 22, this is one of the most anticipated events for the organization benefiting the families of America's fallen and disabled service members. With confirmed celebrity players including Lee Brice, Russell Dickerson, Chris Lane, Michael Ray, Jameson Rodgers, Jessie James Decker and Eric Decker, and Shawn Johnson, this unofficial CMA week kickoff event is one you don't want to miss. Sarah Duncan, Folds of Honor Regional Development Officer of North Texas, will make an appearance as the guest speaker at the event. Click here to view Duncan's full bio. Tickets can be purchased online here beginning Friday, April 22 at 10:00 a.m. and at the First Horizon Park Ticket Office.
The first annual Rock 'N Jock game was a very successful inaugural game. Click here to view the full Rock 'N Jock one sheet along with last year's recap video.
Join us for a night of Nashville's hottest musicians, professional athletes, comedians, and veterans going head to head in the 2nd Annual Rock 'N Jock Celebrity Softball Game benefiting Folds of Honor Tennessee. The event will take place on Monday, June 6 at 6:30pm CST at First Horizon Park. Click here to purchase tickets. Limited edition merchandise and other auction items will be available, as well.
Lt Col. Dan Rooney, Founder & CEO, Folds of Honor commented on the upcoming event saying, "The Folds of Honor Tennessee Chapter's 2nd annual Rock 'N Jock Celebrity softball game is one of our most anticipated events around the country! We are so blessed to have so many artists, athletes, and comedians out there to garner support for the military families that Folds of Honor supports. I guarantee that this is an event that you will not want to miss!"
Chris King, Executive Board President, Folds of Honor Tennessee Chapter added, "We are so proud of the Folds of Honor Tennessee Young Professionals Board for putting on this star-studded fundraiser to help the families of fallen and disabled service members. Thank you to all of the celebrities and fans for coming out to support the Folds of Honor mission to honor their sacrifice and educate their legacy."
Jenner Kreifels, Executive Director, Folds of Honor Tennessee also commented on the highly anticipated event saying,"We are so grateful for the community of Nashville's embrace of the Folds of Honor mission. Our celebrity softball game is an event for talent and fans to really come together for a night of raising awareness, supporting the mission, and fun!
About Folds of Honor
It began with Lieutenant Colonel Dan Rooney's flight home from his second tour of duty in Iraq. An F-16 fighter pilot in the Oklahoma Air National Guard, he became painfully aware of the realities families face when a loved one in uniform is fallen or disabled. As his flight landed, the pilot announced they carried the remains of Corporal Brock Bucklin on board. Lt. Colonel Rooney watched as Corporal Bucklin's twin brother walked somberly alongside the flag-covered casket to meet his family on the tarmac. Among them was the deceased Corporal's young son, Jacob. Since that night, Lt Col Rooney has committed his life – through the Folds of Honor – to provide scholarships to spouses and children of America's fallen and disabled service members. Jacob Bucklin became the first Folds of Honor scholarship recipient in 2007.


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But I'm a Small Business - Do I Really Need To Blog?
But I'm a Small Business… Do I REALLY Need to Blog?
"Do I really need to blog?".
I get it, you're busy running your business, and even if you feel like you're a strong writer, you would rather be doing "your business" than adding yet another marketing task to your plate.
In this post I'm going to show you how you can get content created FOR YOU so that you can keep up with engagement without spending hours sitting in front of your computer trying to write a blog post.
Don't confuse "Blogging" with "Content Creation".
Content Creation – to both grow traffic to your site and to develop an ongoing relationship with your customers – is key to winning at marketing in 2016…and beyond.
Plus – it's not as hard as you think.
Well-designed content, written with the user experience AND SEO (search engine optimization) in mind, will start to bring you consistent FREE traffic.
When you consistently create content that engages your site visitors, gives them the information they need, and solves a problem/pain point for them, they're going to share it.
Did I just say FREE traffic?
You need to make sure you are utilizing at least the bare bones best practices of good SEO for small business.
Yes, it's true, over 83,000 new blog entries are posted EACH DAY.
But Google loves all of this content, as long as it's relevant.
If you're a florist, don't just blog about the Kardashians because they're newsworthy, make sure your content is important to your prospects.
The internet has given your prospects tons of options to choose from when it comes to shopping around.
Being #1 in the Yellow Pages is pretty much irrelevant – you need to make sure you're beating out your competition by sharing your knowledge and developing a relationship with your prospects.
If you're a plumber, create a YouTube channel with all kinds of "How To" content. There will always be people that will do the fix themselves – but by providing that information to everyone, you establish yourself as an expert in your field, your professionalism will shine through, and people will trust you with their plumbing problems.
If you have great products, make it easy for your customers to share photos of themselves either wearing, using or otherwise interacting with your products or services.
Encourage mid-afternoon selfies by writing cool quotes on your menu board, finding a quirky stand-up cutout from a thrift store, whatever you can provide so that your customers can have fun and create some fun content.
Not ready to jump in with frequent blogging? Just start small – once a week or even once a month is fine.
Look for content all around you.
As long as your keep your Buyer Personas in mind, you will find plenty of relevant content to write and share.
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I don't have to create all this content myself?
Are you a clothing store? Have your customers share pics of themselves in your clothing on Instagram.
Are you a Wedding Planner? Pinterest is a great place to have your clients share photos of their weddings.
Don't leave the burden up to you to create fresh content – your customers will typically love to share their experiences with your products or services as long as you make it easy for them to do so.
Just like videos may be easier for you to make and share, photos are another great way to create fresh content that will continue your ongoing dialogue with your prospects and customers.
Just make sure you label all original photos and include your URL so that you bring in new visitors as it gets shared around online.
Even if you're not in the "event business", sharing local events with your followers on social media is a great way to create content and keep the conversation going.
Are you a landscaping company?
Summer is here – find out about local events in your area and post links on a consistent basis from your Facebook Page.
Do you provide legal services to businesses?
Become the hub for information on local business networking meetings.
Providing your customers with information on events will get your posts shared – and spread your company name all around town.
Want content to get shared?
Work on inspiring your prospects.
Do you focus on small business owners? Create inspirational memes about success, challenge, courage, etc and post them on your social media channels. Again, make sure you include your URL so that you still built awareness as your memes get passed around.
Yes – in today's world of marketing, new content is important.
For some of you, that might mean that yes, as a small business owner you DO need to blog.
However, there are also a bunch of other ways to create great content that will help you attain the real goal – growing the customers you want, keeping the ones you have, and creating life-long fans of your business.
I fell into the trap of thinking blogging was going to be a huge effort. Then I took a blogging challenge (to blog every day for 7 days) and I found that it was easier than I thought. I just had to get past the perfectionism. I liked your examples of various ways to keep content fresh – it doesn't always have to be an original post!
Great Post… Content is very important when you are marketing and it helps to grow you brand… BLOG ON!


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Weld for VP? He'd Get My Vote
Posted: May 25, 2016 12:00 PM
William Weld ran for governor of Massachusetts in 1990 on a platform of unabashed libertarian conservatism, and for one brief shining moment after taking office in January 1991, he actually seemed to mean it. In his inaugural address, he declared that the people of Massachusetts had "voted to disenthrall themselves from the failed dogmas of big government." He committed himself to making state government better by making it smaller, cheaper, and more humble: "Sometimes the most helpful thing to do," Weld said, "is to get out of the way."
I confess: I took him at his word. I was galvanized by Weld's vow to "blow up" and "knock down" unneeded agencies and outdated programs. I avidly anticipated the Great Downsizing he promised. I applauded as he pronounced Beacon Hill "rotten to the core" and pledged to carve $1 billion from the state budget.
Alas, it never happened. Weld quickly went native. Spending soared, regulations proliferated, and the Legislature's "rotten" leaders became the governor's new best friends. The "failed dogmas of big government" remained as entrenched as ever. For Weld, I eventually realized, politics and government were merely entertainment, and nothing he said was to be taken too seriously.
But if he's on the Libertarian Party's national ticket this November, I'll vote for him without a qualm.
Weld confirmed last week that he is seeking to be the Libertarian nominee for vice president, joining forces with another former Republican governor, New Mexico's Gary Johnson. With Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump poised to be the two major-party presidential nominees, Weld said in a TV interview on Sunday, there is real "disquietude" in the electorate, and consequently a "real political opportunity" this year for a credible third-party ticket.
Disquietude there certainly is. Clinton and Trump are perhaps the most widely detested presidential candidates ever to face each other in a general election, and polls routinely show voters wistfully yearning for a more appealing alternative. But the Libertarian Party has never attracted more than a sliver of support in the past, and this year isn't likely to be different. Johnson, the party's presidential nominee in 2012, drew just 1.2 million votes. Barring divine intervention, Johnson/Weld have no chance of outperforming the Clinton and Trump campaigns on Election Day.
The Libertarian Party will choose its nominees at a convention this weekend, and in a Facebook post Weld makes the case for his candidacy. He highlights his early work in "fighting corruption, protecting taxpayers, and ending abuses by financial institutions," cites his fiscal record as governor of Massachusetts, and claims to have "fought hard to keep government out of citizens' personal and financial lives." He has always been a libertarian, Weld writes, and he has always regarded "The Constitution of Liberty" and "The Road to Serfdom" — two great works in defense of political freedom by the Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek — as his personal "bibles."
In truth, Weld is no libertarian crusader. As governor he was rarely willing to expend political capital in defense of the small-government principles he'd campaigned on. He has almost always been more accommodating toward liberal Democrats than toward libertarians, conservatives, or Republicans. In 2008, Weld didn't just endorse Barack Obama for president, he did so enthusiastically. On one infamous occasion, he even extolled Hillary Clinton's "rock-like integrity."


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MUMBAI , November 10, 2016: FCA India, a wholly owned subsidiary of the automaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles plans to go 'cohesive' with its network strategy in India. FCA's network strategy is being rolled out considering the company's growing portfolio of Fiat and Jeep vehicles. With Jeep vehicles added to its Fiat portfolio, the company is preparing for an increase in its Indian customer base, especially with the upcoming launch of the localized Jeep Compass mid next year.
In active network-expansion mode since the launch of its two iconic SUVs – the Jeep Wrangler and the Jeep Grand Cherokee this August, as planned, FCA has added three more sales and service outlets to its existing distribution and after-sales service base in upscale locations. The company opened India's first FCA Destination Store in Worli, Mumbai that will cater to Fiat, Abarth as well as Jeep customers. Chennai gets its first Jeep Destination Store, a 3S facility located on the Old Mahabalipuram Road and New Delhi too is ready with its first Jeep Destination Store on Mathura Road. Concept Motorcar Pvt. Ltd., FCA's first Jeep Destination Store was opened in Ahmedabad, Gujarat in September this year.
FCA claims that it is focusing on after-sales as one of its key drivers of growing business in India. For Jeep vehicles, the company has crafted some schemes that will give customers peace of mind and a satisfying Jeep ownership experience.


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Q: Counting the number of occurrences of each element in Matlab What is the most efficient way that can be implemented in MATLAB in order to find the number of occurrences of each element in a vector?
For example:
A = { 'AA AB AC CD'; 'BA AC CF GD'; 'AA AB AC CD'; 'CF GD TH EF'; 'AA AB AC CD'}

I want to get that "AA AB AC CD" was repeated 3 times, "BA AC CF GD" was repeated once, and "CF GD TH EF " was repeated once.
I don't actually care if the output of the function was 2 vectors, one for the strings and the other for the count, or any other output that would do the job.
My approach was to take each string and count the number of occurrences and remove all the occurrences from the initial vector, so that the worst case running time would be in the order of n^2 where n is the number of elements in A.
But I need a more efficient approach. Using C++ for example, I can use maps in order to make the running time almost linear, but sadly, Maps are not implemented in MATLAB.

A: I am assuming A to be a cell array -
A = { 'AA AB AC CD'; 'BA AC CF GD'; 'AA AB AC CD'; 'CF GD TH EF'; 'AA AB AC CD'}

For solving the stated problem, few approaches can be suggested here.
Approach #1
This is a straight-forward-no-messing-around approach -
[unique_strings,~,labels] = unique(A,'stable');
counts = histc(labels,1:max(labels))

Approach #2
This is a performance oriented solution that works with converting the cell array to a 2D array -
[~,idx,labels] = unique(double(char(A)),'rows','stable')
counts = histc(labels,1:max(labels))
unique_strings = A(idx)

Approach #3
This is another performance oriented solution that works with converting the cell array to a 1D array after merging all characters in a cell into a single number -
num_array = char(A)-0
pow10_vals = 10.^(size(num_array,2)-1:-1:0)
[~,idx,labels] = unique(num_array*pow10_vals','stable') %//'
counts = histc(labels,1:max(labels))
unique_strings = A(idx)

Output you would get -
>> unique_strings
unique_strings =
    'AA AB AC CD'
    'BA AC CF GD'
    'CF GD TH EF'
>> counts
counts =
     3
     1
     1

The output can be shown in a fancy way as well with table -
>> table(unique_strings,counts)
ans =
    unique_strings    counts
    ______________    ______
    'AA AB AC CD'     3
    'BA AC CF GD'     1
    'CF GD TH EF'     1

Please note that if you don't care about the order of strings, you can skip 'stable' option with the above mentioned approaches and that might be a tiny bit more efficient.

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\section{Introduction}
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications can significantly boost the channel capacity and enhance the quality of service (QoS)  of next-generation wireless networks due to large radio frequency (RF) bandwidth in the less crowded spectrum typically from 30 GHz to 300 GHz, e.g., \cite{pi2011introduction,yue2017demonstration,li2018mmwave}. Despite more severe pathloss and atmospheric absorption in mmWave bands compared to the conventional sub-6 GHz frequencies, more antennas can be accommodated into a relatively small hardware area to form large-scale antenna arrays at transceiver ends \cite{huo2014wideband}. These massive antenna arrays can facilitate large beamforming gains to combat the undesired propagation characteristics of mmWave channels, e.g., \cite{akdeniz2014millimeter,huang2018novel,rusek2013scaling}. Compared to the fully-digital beamforming schemes with one dedicated RF chain for each antenna element, hybrid beamforming schemes, implemented by connecting only several RF chains to all the antennas through phase shifters, can achieve almost the same spectral efficiency performance but with lower power consumption, e.g., \cite{liang2014low,el2014spatially}.

\begin{figure}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=2.7in]{Fig_DPA_UE.eps}
\caption{DPA-MIMO architecture facilitating next-generation user equipment design, with a comparison with conventional mmWave beamforming design \cite{huo2018cellular}.}
\label{Fig_DPA_UE}
\vspace{-10pt}
\end{figure}
In order to realize a design tradeoff of both diversity and spatial multiplexing gains in such hybrid analog-digital structures, a natural strategy is to deploy multiple seperated subarray modules at a transmitter (TX) and/or a receiver (RX), where each module can perform independent analog beam steering  \cite{singh2015feasibility}. By considering the practical design principles and constraints of antennas, circuits and systems, and user equipment (UE) designs, a novel reconfigurable architecture, called distributed phased arrays based MIMO (DPA-MIMO), has recently been developed to provide flexible beamforming strategies and high data throughput for fifth generation (5G) cellular communications \cite{huo20175g,zhang2019channel}. Such array of distributed subarrays structure and its practical implementation architecture present more appealing application solutions including but not limited to, e.g., WiFi and cellular co-enabling cost-effective architecture that facilitates 5G super carrier aggregation (`Super-CA') among sub-6 GHz bands and mmWave bands \cite{huo2018cellular}; multi-beam multi-stream mmWave communications for distributed and multi-layer unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks \cite{huo2018millimeter,huo2019distributed}; satellite communications, etc. For example, Fig.{~\ref{Fig_DPA_UE}} further demonstrates a vivid illustration of how this DPA architecture can solve and mitigate human hand/body blockage issue for the 5G and beyond user equipment compared to the conventional mmWave design with single beamforming module.

Most of the published literature about subarray-based hybrid beamforming designs, e.g., {\cite{singh2015feasibility,gao2016energy,lota20175g}} mainly focus on the narrowband channel model. Practical mmWave MIMO systems, however, need to deal with frequency-selective channels due to the large signal bandwidth, e.g.,  \cite{alkhateeb2016frequency,sohrabi2017hybrid}. The challenge of wideband hybrid precoding designs lies in that a common RF precoder should be shared by all subcarriers while baseband precoding is adopted for individual subcarrier. A Gram-Schmidt based frequency-selective hybrid precoding is proposed based on the designed codebooks of limited feedback for the fully-connected structure \cite{alkhateeb2016frequency}.  Furthermore, an alternating optimization based hybrid precoder design is applied to the wideband partially-connected structure \cite{yu2016alternating}. However,                                                                                with a fixed RF precoder, a non-convex baseband precoder design problem is transformed into a semidefinite relaxation (SDR) problem that consumes high complexity. Recently, alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has received intense attention due to its good behavior in dealing with some non-convex problems in machine learning areas \cite{boyd2011distributed}. Moreover, ADMM has been applied in the mmWave systems for multicast transmission \cite{huang2017low} and energy-efficient hybrid analog-digital transceiver designs \cite{tsinos2017energy}.

In this work, we design hybrid precoding for the wideband DPA-MIMO system implemented using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation, where spatially seperated and distributed, but still cooperative subarrays experience independent mmWave channels. Based on the alternating optimization framework \cite{ni2017near}, we develop an ADMM enabled wideband hybrid precoding method for such array-of-subarrays structures. In details, we first resort to ADMM to solve the non-convex baseband precoder design problem with the fixed RF precoder, and then derive the closed-form expression for the optimal RF precoder with the obtained baseband precoder. Finally, numerical results demonstrate that, with less computation required, the proposed hybrid precoding method can achieve satisfactory performance compared to the SDR based approach \cite{yu2016alternating}.

\textbf{Notation}: Bold uppercase $\mathbf{A}$ (bold lowercase $\mathbf{a}$) denotes a matrix (a vector). $\left[ \mathbf{A}\right]_{i,j}$  and $\left[ \mathbf{A}\right]_{i,:}$ denotes the $\left( i,j \right)$th element and the $i$th row, respectively. ${\mathrm{Tr}}\lbrace \cdot  \rbrace$ stands for the matrix trace operation.  ${{\mathbf{I}}_N}$ denotes a $N \times N$ dimensional identity matrix. ${\left(  \cdot  \right)^H}$, ${\left(  \cdot  \right)^T}$ , ${\left(  \cdot  \right)^ * }$ and ${\left(  \cdot  \right)^{-1} }$ stand for the conjugate transpose, transpose, conjugate and inverse, respectively. ${\mathcal{CN}}\left( \boldsymbol{\mu } , \mathbf{R} \right)$ denotes the complex Gaussian distribution with mean $\boldsymbol{\mu }$ and covariance matrix $\mathbf{R}$. $\Re \left \{ \cdot  \right \}$ and $\Im  \left \{ \cdot  \right \}$ denote the real part and imaginary part of a matrix, respectively. $\left \lceil \cdot  \right \rceil$ is the operation of rounding up to an integer and  ${\mathbb{E}}\lbrace\cdot  \rbrace$ is the expectation operator. Finally, $\mathrm{blkdiag}\left \{ \mathbf{A}_1,\cdots ,\mathbf{A}_N \right \}$ denotes  a block diagonal matrix whose diagonal entries are given by $\mathbf{A}_1,\cdots ,\mathbf{A}_N$.

\section{System Model}
Consider a wideband DPA-MIMO system where a TX with $M_t$ subarrays, each of which has one RF chain, transmits $N_s$ data streams to a fully-digital RX with $N_r$ antennas, as shown in Fig.{~\ref{Fig_DPA_BS}}. The total number of antennas at the TX  is denoted by $N_t^{\rm tot}$.  Note that $N_t^{\rm tot} = M_t \times N_t^{\rm sub}$, where $N_t^{\rm sub}$ is the number of antennas at each subarray. In our setup, each subarray is a uniform linear array (ULA) and all the subarrays are arranged in the same axis (straight line) at the TX.  The edge-to-edge distance of the neighboring linear subarrays is much larger than the antenna element distance within a subarray.
\begin{figure}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=2.7in]{Fig_DPA_BS.eps}
\caption{Wideband DPA-MIMO system at the transmitter end.}
\label{Fig_DPA_BS}
\vspace{-5pt}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Channel Model}
Considering the limited scattering characteristics of the mmWave propagation environment, e.g.,  \cite{alkhateeb2016frequency,park2017dynamic,yu2016alternating}, we adopt a geometric channel with $N_{cl}$ scattering clusters and $N_{ray}$ rays within each cluster. Furthermore, we assume that the channels of different subarrays at the TX are independent due to large spacing (e.g., more than 2 free-space wavelengths) between neighbouring subarrays \cite{lin2015adaptive}. The channel matrix of the $k$th subcarrier between the $m$th TX subarray and the RX is represented as
\begin{equation}
\label{equ_channel_subarray}
\mathbf{H}_{m}\left [ k \right ]=\gamma  \sum_{i=1}^{N_{cl}}\sum_{\ell=1}^{N_{ray}}\alpha _{i \ell}^{\left [ m \right ]}\mathbf{a}_r\left ( \varphi _{i,\ell}^{\left [ m \right ]} \right )\mathbf{a}_t^H\left (\theta^{\left [ m \right ]} _{i\ell} \right )e^{-j\frac{2\pi i k}{K}},
\end{equation}
where $K$ is the number of subcarriers and $\gamma = \sqrt{\frac{N_t^{\mathrm{sub}}N_r^{\mathrm{sub}}}{N_{cl}N_{ray}}}$ denotes the normalized factor. $\alpha _{i \ell}^{\left [ m \right ]} \sim \mathcal{CN}\left ( 0,1 \right )$ is the normalized complex gain of the $\ell$th ray in the $i$th cluster. $\varphi_{i\ell}^{\left [ m \right ]}$ and $\theta _{i\ell}^{\left [ m \right ]}$ represent angles of departure (AoDs) and angles of arrival (AoAs) of the $m$th subarray, respectively. The antenna array response vector in a ULA configuration with $N$ antennas is
\begin{equation}
\label{equ_array_response}
\mathbf{a}\left ( \phi  \right ) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{N}}\left [ 1, e^{j\frac{2\pi }{\lambda }d_e \sin\phi } ,\cdots ,e^{j\frac{2\pi }{\lambda }\left ( N-1 \right )d_e \sin\phi } \right ]^T ,
\end{equation}
where $\lambda$ is the carrier wavelength and $d_e$ denotes antenna element spacing within each subarray. Thus, we can define the entire channel matrix of the $k$th subcarrier between all TX subarrays and the RX using
\begin{equation}
\label{equ_entire_channel}
\mathbf{H}\left [ k \right ] = \left [ \mathbf{H}_1 \left [ k \right ],\cdots ,\mathbf{H}_{M_t}\left [ k \right ] \right ].
\end{equation}

\subsection{Transmission}
As shown in Fig.{~\ref{Fig_DPA_BS}}, the TX precodes the $N_s$ data symbols $\mathbf{s}\left[ k\right]$ at each subcarrier $k = 1,\cdots ,K$ with  a digital precoding matrix  $\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}} \left [ k \right ]\in \mathbb{C}^{M_t\times N_s}$, and then transforms the symbol vector prepared for each TX subarray to the time domain with parallel $K$-point inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) operations. After adding cyclic prefixes (CPs), an RF precoding matrix $\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}} \in \mathbb{C}^{N_t^{\mathrm{tot}}\times M_t}$ is employed to obtain the final transmitted signal at the $k$th subcarrier given by
\begin{equation}
\label{equ_x_k}
\mathbf{x}\left [ k \right ] =\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}}\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}\left [ k \right ] \mathbf{s}\left [ k \right ],
\end{equation}
where $\mathbf{s}\left [ k \right ] \in \mathbb{C}^{N_s \times 1}$ is the transmitted vector of the $k$th subcarrier which satisfies $\mathbb{E}\left \{ \mathbf{s}\left [ k \right ]\mathbf{s}\left [ k \right ]^H \right \}=\frac{P}{N_s}\mathbf{I}_{N_s}$ with a total transmit power budget per subcarrier $P$.

Assuming perfect symbol time and frequency offset synchronization at the RX, the CP is first removed to form the received sequence. Then, the symbols are transformed to the frequency domain through an FFT operation. Furthermore, with a fully-digital combining matrix $\mathbf{W}\left [ k \right ] \in \mathbb{C}^{N_r\times N_s}$ for each subcarrier, the final received signal of the $k$th subcarrier is given by
\begin{equation}
\label{equ_y}
\mathbf{y} \left [ k \right ] = \mathbf{W}\left [ k \right ] ^H\mathbf{H}\left [ k \right ] \mathbf{x}\left [ k \right ] +  \mathbf{W}\left [ k \right ] ^H \mathbf{z}\left [ k \right ],
\end{equation}
where $\mathbf{z}\left [ k \right ] \sim \mathcal{CN}\left ( 0, \sigma _{\mathrm{z}}^2 \mathbf{I}_{N_r^\mathrm{tot}} \right )$ is an additive white Gaussian noise vector for the $k$th subcarrier with a variance $\sigma _{\mathrm{z}}^2$. Note that the RF precoding matrix has a block diagonal structure, i.e., $\mathbf{F}_\mathrm{RF}= \mathrm{blkdiag}\left \{ \mathbf{f}_{\mathrm{RF}}^{\left [ 1 \right ]},\cdots ,\mathbf{f}_{\mathrm{RF}}^{\left [ M_t \right ]} \right \}$ where $\mathbf{f}_{\mathrm{RF}}^{\left [ m \right ]} \in \mathbb{C}^{N_t^\mathrm{sub}\times 1}$ represents the RF precoder for the $m$th TX subarray.

\subsection{Problem Formulation}
Following the matrix approximation approach, e.g., \cite{el2014spatially,lee2014af,yu2016alternating}, we aim to  minimize the sum of the Frobenius norms of the differences between the optimal digital precoder and the multiplication of the RF precoder and the per-subcarrier baseband precoder. The corresponding mathematical formulation is written as
\begin{subequations}
\label{alternate_optimization_TX_design}
\begin{alignat}{3}
& \underset{
\begin{scriptsize}
\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}},  \left \{ \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}\left [ k \right ]\right \}_{k=1}^K
 \end{scriptsize}
}{\text{min}}
\label{alternate_optimization_TX_design_objective}
&\quad & \sum_{k=1}^{K}\left \| \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{opt}}\left [ k \right ] - \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}}\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}\left [ k \right ] \right \|_F^2 \\
& \qquad \;\;\,\text{s.t.}
\label{alternate_optimization_TX_design_constraint_power}
& & \left \| \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}} \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}\left[k\right] \right \|_{F}^{2} = N_s \\
\label{alternate_optimization_TX_design_constraint_RF}
&&& \left | \left [ \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}}  \right ]_{i,j} \right |  = \frac{1}{\sqrt{N_{t}^{\mathrm{sub}}}}, \, \forall \left ( i,j \right ) \in \mathcal{F}_{t},
\end{alignat}
\end{subequations}
where  $\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}\left [ k \right ]$ stands for the baseband precoder of the $k$th subcarrier and $\mathcal{F}_{t}$ denotes the index set of nonzero elements of the RF precoder. The optimal precoder of the $k$th subcarrier is given by $\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{opt}}\left [ k \right ]  = \mathbf{V}\left [ k \right ] \boldsymbol{\Sigma }\left [ k \right ]^{1/2}$ in which $\mathbf{V}\left [ k \right ] $ is composed of the $N_s$ singular vectors corresponding to the $N_s$ largest singular values of $\mathbf{H}\left [ k \right ]$ and $\boldsymbol{\Sigma }\left [ k \right ]$ is the water-filling power allocation matrix of the $k$th subcarrier. This problem is non-convex due to the constant amplitude constraint of the phase shifters \eqref{alternate_optimization_TX_design_constraint_RF} and the coupling of the RF and baseband precoders \eqref{alternate_optimization_TX_design_objective} \cite{ni2017near}. Note that we only focus on the hybrid precoding design in the following parts, while the hybird combing design can be performed by the same procedure if given the DPA-MIMO architecture at the RX, e.g., \cite{lee2014af,alkhateeb2016frequency}.
\section{ADMM Enabled Hybrid Precoding}
  In this section, we give a brief introduction to ADMM and then present an ADMM enabled hybrid precoding algorithm based on the well-known alternating optimization framework.
\subsection{ADMM for Non-convex Problems}
ADMM is an algorithm that is intended to combine the decomposability of dual ascent with the superior convergence of the method of multipliers \cite{boyd2011distributed}. Consider a constrained optimization problem
\begin{subequations}
\begin{alignat}{2}
& \underset{
\begin{scriptsize}
 \mathbf{x} \in \mathbb{R}^{N\times 1}
 \end{scriptsize}
}{\text{min}}
&\quad &  f(\mathbf{x}) \\
& \;\;\;\;  \text{s.t.}
&&  \mathbf{x} \in \mathcal{C},
\end{alignat}
\end{subequations}
where $f(\mathbf{x})$ is convex, but $\mathcal{C}$ is non-convex. Then, a new variable $\mathbf{y}$ is introduced to split the objective function in the above problem which is converted to
\begin{subequations}
\begin{alignat}{2}
& \underset{
\begin{scriptsize}
 \mathbf{x} \in \mathbb{R}^{N\times 1}
 \end{scriptsize}
}{\text{min}}
&\quad &  f(\mathbf{x}) + I_{\mathcal{C}}\left ( \mathbf y \right ) \\
& \;\;\;\;  \text{s.t.}
&&  \mathbf{x} -\mathbf{y} = \mathbf{0},
\end{alignat}
\end{subequations}
where the indicator function $I _{\mathcal{C}}\left( \mathbf{x} \right )$ associated with set $\mathcal{C}$ is defined as
\begin{equation}
\label{equ_indicator_fun}
I_{\mathcal{C}}\left ( \mathbf{x} \right ) =\left\{
\begin{matrix}
0,\;\;\,\mathbf{x} \in \mathcal{C}\\
\infty ,\; \mathbf{x}\notin  \mathcal{C}
\end{matrix}.
\right.
\end{equation}

Using the scaled ADMM algorithm \cite{boyd2011distributed},  the problem can be iteratively solved by the following equations
\begin{subequations}
\label{admm_iterate}
\begin{align}
{\mathbf{x}}_{i+1} &=   \underset{ {\mathbf{x} \in \mathbb{R}^{N\times 1}
}}{\arg  \min} \; f\left ( {\mathbf{x}} \right )+\left ( \rho / 2 \right ) \left \| {\mathbf{x}}-\mathbf{y}_i+\boldsymbol{\nu}_i \right \|_2^2, \\
\mathbf{y}_{i+1} &= \Pi _{\mathcal{C}}\left ({\mathbf{x}}_{i+1} + \boldsymbol{\nu}_i  \right ), \\
\label{equ_iterate_nu}
\boldsymbol{\nu}_{i+1} &= \boldsymbol{\nu}_i  + {\mathbf{x}}_{i+1} - \mathbf{y}_{i+1},
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
where $\rho $ is a parameter that places a penalty on violations of primal feasibility, $\boldsymbol{\nu}_i $ is the dual variable, and $\Pi _{\mathcal{C}}\left ( \cdot  \right )$ is projection onto set ${\mathcal{C}}$.
\subsection{Hybrid Precoder Design}
\subsubsection{Baseband Precoder Design}
Based on the alternating optimization framework, we first design the baseband precoder with the fixed RF precoder. Therefore, the problem of \eqref{alternate_optimization_TX_design} is decoupled into per-subcarrier baseband precoder design, which is written as
\begin{subequations}
\label{problem_baseband_precoder}
\begin{alignat}{2}
& \underset{
\begin{scriptsize}
\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}\left [ k \right ]
 \end{scriptsize}
}{\text{min}}
\label{problem_baseband_precoder_objective}
&\quad & \left \| \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{opt}}\left [ k \right ] - \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}}\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}\left [ k \right ] \right \|_F^2 \\
\label{problem_baseband_precoder_constraint}
& \;\; \text{s.t.}
& & \left \| \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}} \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}\left[k\right] \right \|_{F}^{2} = P.
\end{alignat}
\end{subequations}
The power constraint \eqref{problem_baseband_precoder_constraint} can be further simplified to
\begin{equation}
\label{equ_power_constraint}
\left \| \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}} \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}\left[k\right] \right \|_{F}^{2} = \left \| \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}\left[k\right] \right \|_{F}^{2} = P.
\end{equation}
Applying a vectorization operation to the objective function \eqref{problem_baseband_precoder_objective}, we can obtain
\begin{equation}
\label{equ_vec_Fopt}
\begin{aligned}
\eqref{problem_baseband_precoder_objective} &=  \left \| \mathrm{vec} \left \{ \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}} \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}\left [ k \right ]  \right \}  - \mathrm{vec}\left \{ \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{opt}}\left [ k \right ]  \right \}\right \|_F^2 \\
&= \left \| \left ( \mathbf{I}_{N_s}\otimes \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}}  \right )\mathrm{vec} \left \{  \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}\left [ k \right ] \right \}  - \mathrm{vec} \left \{  \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{opt}}\left [ k \right ] \right \} \right \|_2^2
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
For notational simplicity, we denote $c = P$, $\mathbf{A} = \mathbf{I}_{N_s}\otimes \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}}$, $\mathbf{x} = \mathrm{vec} \left \{  \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}\left [ k \right ] \right \}  $ and $\mathbf{b} = \mathrm{vec} \left \{  \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{opt}}\left [ k \right ] \right \}$.  Thus, the problem of \eqref{problem_baseband_precoder} is converted into the following form
\begin{subequations}
\label{problem_hQCQP_complex}
\begin{alignat}{2}
& \underset{
\begin{scriptsize}
\mathbf{x} \in \mathbb{C}^{M_tN_s\times 1}
 \end{scriptsize}
}{\text{min}}
& \quad & \left \| \mathbf{A}\mathbf{x} -\mathbf{b} \right \|_2^2  \\
& \;\;\;\;\;\; \text{s.t.}
& &  \left \| \mathbf{x}  \right \|_2^2 =c.
\end{alignat}
\end{subequations}
Although the objective function of \eqref{problem_hQCQP_complex} is convex, the feasible region however is not. Furthermore, in order to avoid undefined derivative of the real function on complex variables, we formulate the problem of \eqref{problem_hQCQP_complex} into real domain as
\begin{subequations}
\label{problem_hQCQP_real}
\begin{alignat}{2}
& \underset{
\begin{scriptsize}
\bar{\mathbf{x}} \in \mathbb{R}^{2M_tN_s\times 1}
 \end{scriptsize}
}{\text{min}}
&\quad & g \left( \bar{\mathbf{x}} \right)\\
& \;\;\;\;\;\;\, \text{s.t.}
& &  \left \| \bar{\mathbf{x}}  \right \|_2^2 =c,
\end{alignat}
\end{subequations}
in which $\bar{\mathbf{x}} = \left [ \Re\left \{ \mathbf{x} \right \}^T, \Im\left \{ \mathbf{x} \right \}^T\right ]^T$, and
\begin{equation}
\label{equ_g}
g \left( \bar{\mathbf{x}} \right)=  \left \| \mathbf{A}_1\bar{\mathbf{x}}-\Re \left \{  \mathbf{b}\right \}   \right \|_2^2 + \left \| \mathbf{A}_2\bar{\mathbf{x}}-\Im  \left \{  \mathbf{b}\right \}   \right \|_2^2,
\end{equation}
where  $\mathbf{A}_1 = \left [ \Re \left \{ \mathbf{A} \right \}, -\Im \left \{ \mathbf{A} \right \}\right ]$ and $\mathbf{A}_2 = \left [ \Im \left \{ \mathbf{A} \right \}, \Re \left \{ \mathbf{A} \right \} \right ]$.

Via doing such transformation, we are able to apply scaled ADMM to the problem of \eqref{problem_hQCQP_real} by the following iterations
\begin{equation}
\label{admm_iterate_x_bar}
\begin{aligned}
\bar{\mathbf{x}}_{i+1} &= \underset {\bar{\mathbf{x}} \in \mathbb{R}^{2M_tN_s\times 1}}{\arg \min} g \left( \bar{\mathbf{x}} \right)+\left ( \rho / 2 \right ) \left \| \bar{\mathbf{x}}-\mathbf{y}_i+\boldsymbol{\nu}_i \right \|_2^2 \\
& = \frac{2 \mathbf{A}_1^T \Re \left \{ \mathbf{b}  \right \}  + 2\mathbf{A}_2^T \Im \left \{ \mathbf{b}  \right \}  +\rho \left ( \mathbf{y}_i - \bar{\mathbf{x}}_i  \right )}{2+\rho },
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\label{admm_iterate_y}
\mathbf{y}_{i+1}  = \Pi _{\mathcal{C}}\left (\bar{\mathbf{x}}_{i+1} + \boldsymbol{\nu}_i  \right )
\overset{\left ( a \right )}{=} \sqrt{c}\frac{\bar{\mathbf{x}}_{i+1} + \boldsymbol{\nu}_i }{\left \| \bar{\mathbf{x}}_{i+1} + \boldsymbol{\nu}_i  \right \|_2},
\end{equation}
where ${\mathcal{C}} = \left \{ \bar{\mathbf{x}} \, | \left \| \bar{\mathbf{x}}  \right \|_2^2 =c \right \}$ and $\left ( a \right )$ follows from a geometric interpretation, i.e., projection of a point $\left ( \bar{\mathbf{x}}_{i+1} + \boldsymbol{\nu}_i  \right )$ onto a multi-dimentional sphere $\mathcal{C}$ \cite{lu2018distributed}. Then, these iterations keep running until the following termination criteria are met
\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
\left \| \bar{\mathbf{x}}_{i+1} - {\mathbf{y}}_{i+1}  \right \|_2 & < \epsilon _{\mathrm{p}}, \\
\left \| \rho \left (\mathbf{y}_{i+1} - \mathbf{y}_{i}  \right )\right \|_2 & < \epsilon _{\mathrm{d}}.
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
where $\epsilon _{\mathrm{p}}$ and $\epsilon _{\mathrm{d}}$ denote predefined tolerances for the primal residual and the dual residual, respectively.

\subsubsection{RF Precoder Design}
With the obtained baseband precoder, we can submit it into the original problem of \eqref{alternate_optimization_TX_design}, which leads to the following form
\begin{equation}
\label{problem_opt_phase}
\underset{\vartheta _{il}}{\min} \sum_{k=1}^{K} \left \| \left [ \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{opt}}\left [ k \right ] \right ]_{i,:} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{N_t^{\mathrm{sub}}}}e^{j\vartheta _{il}}\left [ \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}\left [ k \right ] \right ]_{l,:} \right \|_2^2,
\end{equation}
where $\vartheta _{il}$ is the phase of the $\left ( i,l \right )$th element of $\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}}$, $1\leq i \leq N_t^{\mathrm{tot}}$ and $l=\left \lceil \frac{i}{N_t^{\mathrm{sub}}} \right \rceil$. In fact, this problem has a closed-form solution \cite{yu2016alternating} as
\begin{equation}
\label{equ_opt_phase}
\vartheta _{il}^\star =  \measuredangle \left ( \sum_{k=1}^{K} \left [ \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{opt}}\left [ k \right ] \right ]_{i,:} \left [ \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}\left [ k \right ] \right ]_{l,:}^H  \right ),
\end{equation}
where $\measuredangle \left( \cdot \right)$ extracts the corresponding phases of the elements.

In the previous analysis, the phase of each entry of $\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}}$  is assumed to be a continuous value. However, this assumption contradicts the practical designs and applications with finite resolution phase shifters where the phase shifting is quantized to limited bits \cite{liang2014low}. Therefore, we can easily obtain every element of the optimal quantized RF precoder through
\begin{equation}
\label{equ_opt_RF}
\left (\left [ \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}} \right ]_{i,l}  \right )^\star  =\frac{1}{\sqrt{N_t^{\mathrm{sub}}}}e^{j\mathcal{Q} \left \{ \vartheta _{il}^\star\right \}},
\end{equation}
where $\mathcal{Q} \left \{ \cdot  \right \} $ is a function that quantizes the continuous phase to its nearest neighbouring distrete phase values based on closest Euclidean distance \cite{li2018mmwave}. The proposed hybrid precoding algorithm is summarized in Algorithm{~\ref{alg_analog_precoder_SIC}} which facilitates a distributed realization.
\begin{algorithm}[!h]
\caption{ADMM Based Hybrid Precoder Design}
\label{alg_analog_precoder_SIC}
\SetKwInOut{Input}{Input}
\SetKwInOut{Output}{Output}
\SetKwFor{While}{while}{}{}%
\Input{$ \left \{ \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{opt}} \left [ k \right ]  \right \}_{k=1}^K $.}
Initialize $\left [ \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}} \right ]_{i,j} = 1/\sqrt{N_t^{\mathrm{sub}}} ,\, \forall \left ( i,j \right ) \in \mathcal{F}_{t}$ and $n = 0$.\\
\Repeat{some termination criterion is satisfied}{
1. Fix $\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}}^{\left ( n \right )}$ and solve $\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}^{\left ( n\right )}$ using \eqref{admm_iterate_x_bar}, \eqref{admm_iterate_y} and \eqref{equ_iterate_nu}.\\
2. Fix $\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}^{\left ( n \right )}$ and update $\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}}^{\left ( n+1\right )}$ by \eqref{equ_opt_RF}.\\
3. $n = n+1$.}
\Output{$\left \{ \mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{BB}}^\star \left [ k \right ]  \right \}_{k=1}^K$, $\mathbf{F}_{\mathrm{RF}}^\star $.}
\end{algorithm}
\section{Simulation Results}
\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=2.2in]{Fig_SE_SNR_Cmp.eps}
\label{Fig_SE_SNR_Cmp}}
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=2.2in]{Fig_SE_SNR_BitNum.eps}
\label{Fig_SE_SNR_BitNum}}
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=2.2in]{Fig_SE_SNR_CSI.eps}
\label{Fig_SE_SNR_CSI}}
\caption{(a) Average spectral efficiency vs SNR of different hybrid precoding methods with infinite resolution of phase shifters given $N_t^{\mathrm{sub}} = 8$, $M_t = 4$, $N_r = 8$, $K = 32$ and $N_s = 2$. (b) Average spectral efficiency vs SNR under different resolution of  phase shifters given $N_t^{\mathrm{sub}} = 16$, $M_t = 6$, $N_r = 16$,  $K = 64$ and $N_s = 3$. (c) Impact of imperfect CSI on ADMM based hybrid precoding with different number of antennas at both TX and RX ends given $M_t = 8$, $K = 64$ and $N_s =4$.}
\vspace{-5pt}
\end{figure*}
In this section, we evaluate the performance of the proposed hybrid precoding algorithm. In the simulations, we consider the ULA configuration with half-wavelength (free space) antenna element spacing within each subarray at the TX{\footnote{Note that there is large distance separation among subarrays and the channel parameters for each subarray are generated independently in this paper.}}. Furthermore, the parameters of mmWave channels are set as, $N_{cl} = 5$ clusters and $N_{ray}$ = 10 rays \cite{akdeniz2014millimeter}. The AoDs and AoAs are generated by the Laplacian distribution with uniformly distributed mean angles over $\left [ 0,2\pi  \right )$ and each cluster's angular spread of 10 degrees \cite{alkhateeb2016frequency}. The total transmit power budget per subcarrier is set as $P = N_s$ and the average spectral efficiency is plotted versus the signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) per-subcarrier that is defined as $\mathrm{SNR} = \frac{P}{\sigma_{\mathrm{z}} ^2} $. Within the iterations of ADMM, we set $\rho = 1$ and $\epsilon _{\mathrm{p}} = \epsilon _{\mathrm{d}} = 10^{-6}$.

As illustrated in Fig.{~\ref{Fig_SE_SNR_Cmp}}, we compare the performance of the proposed ADMM-AltMin scheme with the SDR-AltMin algorithm  in \cite{yu2016alternating} and the hybrid precoding method based on the conventional architecture of fixed subarrays in \cite{park2017dynamic} with infinite resolution phase shifters when $N_t^{\mathrm{sub}} = 8$, $M_t = 4$, $N_r = 8$, $K = 32$ and $N_s = 2$. It is shown that the proposed scheme achieves the same performance as the SDR-AltMin algorithm. For the baseband precoder design, the SDR-AltMin algorithm needs to solve an SDR problem with the per-iteration complexity of $\mathcal{O}\left( \max {{\left\{ {{M}_{t}}{{N}_{s}}+1,3 \right\}}^{4}}{{\left( {{M}_{t}}{{N}_{s}}+1 \right)}^{{1}/{2}\;}}\log \left( {1}/{\varepsilon }\; \right) \right)$ where $\varepsilon$ is a predefined accuracy parameter \cite{luo2010semidefinite}, while the proposed scheme performs simple real-value computation with that of $\mathcal{O}\left( {M_t^2N_s^4} \right)$. Moreover, the ADMM-AltMin method significantly outperforms the  algorithm in \cite{park2017dynamic}.

Fig.{~\ref{Fig_SE_SNR_BitNum}} shows the impact of finite resolution phase shifters on the proposed scheme when $N_t^{\mathrm{sub}} = 16$, $M_t = 6$, $N_r = 16$,  $K = 64$ and $N_s = 3$. As the number of quantization levels of phase shifters changes from 1-bit to 4-bit, the performance of average spectral efficiency approximates to the phase shifters with infinite resolution. This fact proves that the proposed method is suitable and ideal for practical communication applications where hardware resources are limited, particularly in a UE device \cite{huo20175g}.

On the other hand, Fig.{~\ref{Fig_SE_SNR_CSI}} evaluates the impact of imperfect channel state information (CSI) on the proposed algorithm when $M_t = 8$, $K = 64$ and $N_s =4$. The estimated channel matrix of the $k$th subcarrier can be modeled as \cite{rusek2013scaling}
\begin{equation}
\label{equ_H_xi}
\hat{\mathbf{H}}\left [ k \right ] = \xi \mathbf{H}\left [ k \right ] + \sqrt{1-\xi^2}  \mathbf{E}\left [ k \right ]
\end{equation}
where $\xi \in \left [ 0,1 \right ]$ presents the CSI accuracy, and $\mathbf{E} \left [ k \right ]$ is the error matrix for the $k$th subcarrier with entries following the i.i.d. $\mathcal{CN}\left ( 0,1 \right )$. We can observe that the average spectral efficiency becomes higher with larger number of antenna elements at both TX and RX ends, and the proposed scheme is able to handle the scenarios of imperfect CSI.

\section{Conclusion}
In this paper, we present the design of ADMM based hybrid precoders for the wideband DPA-MIMO system on top of the alternating optimization framework. Through conducting numerical analysis and comparison, the proposed ADMM-AltMin method can achieve the same spectral efficiency as the higher-complexity SDR-AltMin method in \cite{yu2016alternating}. Furthermore, the proposed scheme only needs 4-bit phase shifters for cost-efficient system implementation in practical 5G and Beyond applications, while still providing good immunity to the imperfect CSI. For future work, it would be interesting to focus on broadband multiuser (MU) downlink transmission with both the BS and the UE on top of the DPA-MIMO architecture.

\section{Acknowledgements}
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This work was supported in part by the National Key Special Program under Grant 2018ZX03001008-002, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant 61871122, Grant 61801168, and Grant 61571120, and the Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province.
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Gender analysis is becoming more common in conflict analysis but in most cases it fails to look at how the different roles and behaviours of women, men and sexual and gender minorities affect conflict and impact people's lives.
Saferworld considers gender throughout all its work in Uganda. In 2016, we launched our gender analysis of conflict toolkit – piloted in Karamoja, Moroto, in north-eastern Uganda with the Uganda Land Alliance. Our work has explored how gender norms – the ways in which societies pressurise their male and female members to behave – are influencing conflict dynamics. For example, in Moroto we found that powerlessness in the face of mining companies and their government backers further exacerbated men's feelings of emasculation and injustice, potentially leading to more serious outbreaks of violence.


The balance of payments is very closely related to movements in the exchange rate and, as we shall see in Chapter 33, changes in one of these usually cause a change in the other. There is also an important connection between changes in the balance of payments and changes in the domestic output of goods and services. An increase in expenditure on imports and/or a reduction in expenditure on exports will cause a reduction in domestic output and an increase in unemployment. If there is inadequate supply capacity, an increase in demand for exports may lead to domestic inflation. If we accept the natural rate hypothesis these problems will be self-correcting short-term phenomena If we do not, government policies may be necessary to aid the process of adjustment. There is therefore also an important connection between changes in the balance of payments and the government's economic policies.


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Les Bureaux de Dieu est un film franco-belge réalisé par Claire Simon, sorti en 2008.

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Au Planning Familial, les femmes se racontent : Djamila aimerait prendre la pilule parce que maintenant avec son copain c'est devenu sérieux, la mère de Zoé lui donne des préservatifs mais elle la traite de pute, Nedjma cache ses pilules au-dehors car sa mère fouille dans son sac, Hélène se trouve trop féconde, Clémence a peur, Adeline aurait aimé le garder, Margot aussi.

Maria Angela aimerait savoir de qui elle est enceinte, Ana Maria a choisi l'amour et la liberté.

Anne, Denise, Marta, Yasmine, Milena sont les conseillères qui reçoivent, écoutent chacune se demander comment la liberté sexuelle est possible.

Dans les bureaux de Dieu on rit, on pleure, on est débordées. On y danse, on y fume sur le balcon, on y vient, incognito, dire son histoire ordinaire ou hallucinante.

Fiche technique
 Titre : Les Bureaux de Dieu
 Réalisation : Claire Simon
 Scénario : Natalia Rodriguez Forero et Nadège Trébal
 Production : Richard Copans, Philippe Carcassonne et Philippe Kaufmann
 Musique : Arthur Simon
 Photographie : Philippe Van Leeuw et Claire Simon
 Montage : Julien Lacheray
 Etalonnage: Paul Englebert
 Décors : Raymond Sarti
 Costumes : Nathalie Raoul
 Pays d'origine : ,
 Format : couleur - 2,35:1 - Dolby Surround - 35 mm
 Genre : comédie dramatique
 Durée : 122 minutes
 Dates de sortie :  (festival de Cannes),  (France)

Distribution

 Anne Alvaro : le docteur Marianne
 Nathalie Baye : Anne, une conseillère du planning familial
 Michel Boujenah : le docteur Lambert, un médecin du planning familial
 Rachida Brakni : Yasmine
 Isabelle Carré : Marta, une conseillère du planning familial
 Lolita Chammah : Emmanuelle, une aspirante conseillère du planning familial
 Béatrice Dalle : Milena
 Nicole Garcia : Denise
 Marie Laforêt : Martine
 Marceline Loridan-Ivens : Marceline
 Emmanuel Mouret : Pierre, un aspirant conseiller du planning familial
 Zara Prassinot : la jeune fille qui déteste sa mère
 Loredana Acquaviva : l'Italienne
 Carole Bennequin : la barmaid
 Isabel Coelho : la mère portugaise
 Mounia Dahou : la jeune fille d'origine algérienne
 Amel Deleu : la jeune fille qui cache ses pilules
 Manon Garcia : Valérie, une assistante sociale

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Film sur la grossesse
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It went up against some pretty big guns, including vehicles I think were equally worthy of the crown -- Buick LaCrosse, Hyundai Genesis Coupe, Mazda3 -- and even some high-end stuff that's among the better cars I've driven, like the BMW Z4, Mercedes-Benz E-Class, and Porsche Panamera.
A lowly Ford Fusion defeating the mighty Panamera, or the zippy Z4? The enthusiasts are tearing out their hair, and tearing up their subscriptions even as we speak. But they miss the point. Motor Trend -- and other awarding bodies that get it right -- doesn't necessarily crown a car because it's the best one in the batch. Instead, it's the car that gets it right for its intended audience. In many cases, that's an audience that has no idea what's going on under the hood, but needs a car that'll handle the job.
Motor Trend noted that the Fusion comes in a wide assortment of models, gets good fuel economy, offers a hybrid, has lots of passenger and cargo space, and can be ordered with higher-end options if desired.
Sure, the fit-and-finish and material quality don't come close to BMW or Mercedes. It'll still be getting its front wheels over the start line when the Panamera's at the finish. But that means nothing to someone whose car budget taps out at $18,000 -- and there are a lot of people whose car budget taps out at $18,000.
Auto companies listen to journalists, but they sell cars to average buyers. This time around, the journalists listened to the average buyers, too.
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Jack McCarthy, né le  et mort le , est un footballeur international irlandais. Plusieurs fois champion d'Irlande avec le Bohemian Football Club il est international irlandais à six reprises et participe à la compétition de football lors des Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924 à Paris.

Biographie

En club
Lors de la saison 1923-1924, Jack McCarthy est titulaire dans l'équipe du Bohemian Football Club qui remporte pour la toute première fois le titre de champion d'Irlande. Les  remportent le titre après avoir remporté quinze matchs successivement. Parmi les autres membres de cette équipe victorieuse on compte Bertie Kerr, Johnny McIlroy, Billy Otto, Christy Robinson, Dave Roberts qui est le meilleur buteur de la compétition et Johnny Murray.

Jack McCarthy remporte deux autres fois le championnat en 1928 et 1930. L'équipe des Bohemians qui gagne en 1927-1928 est un des plus forte de l'histoire du club. Avec des joueurs comme Peter Kavanagh, Harry Cannon, Jimmy White, Jimmy Bermingham, Jeremiah Robinson et Christy Robinson, McCarthy remporte toutes les compétitions dans lesquelles le club est engagé : le championnat donc mais aussi la Coupe, le Shield et la Leinster Cup.

Son frère Stephan est un des duteurs de l'équipe dans la deuxième moitié des années 1920. Plus tard son fils, lui aussi prénommé Jack jouera dans la même équipe lors de la saison 1953-1954.

En équipe nationale
Quand Jack MacCarthy commence sa carrière internationale, deux équipes d'Irlande coexistent. Les deux fédérations nationales sélectionnent des joueurs sur la base de l'ensemble de l'île d'Irlande. D'une part, l'IFA basée à Belfast dirige l'équipe d'Irlande de football et d'autre part, la FAI, basée à Dublin organise l'équipe de l'État Libre d'Irlande. En conséquence de nombreux footballeurs, comme McCarthy, ont été amenés à jouer pour les deux équipes.

Jack MacCarthy dispute le  un match amical de prestige avec le  contre les écossais du Celtic Football Club.  amassés à Dalymount Park à Dublin voient le Celtic l'emporter largement 3-0. Cette rencontre est organisée afin de financer le voyage de l'équipe nationale irlandaise qui va participer aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924 à Paris

McCarthy joue au moins un match pour l'IFA : en 1921 il joue à Paris contre la France.

Entre 1924 et 1930 Jack McCarthy joue six fois pour l'équipe de l'État Libre d'Irlande. Les deux premiers de ces matchs ont lieu lors des Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924 à Paris. Il fait ses grands débuts internationaux le  à l'occasion de la victoire 1-0 sur la Bulgarie. Cette victoire qualifie les Irlandais pour les quarts de finale de la compétition. le  McCarthy joue aussi cette rencontre. Les Irlandais s'inclinent contre les Pays-Bas 2-1 après prolongations. Après l'élimination, l'équipe irlandaise joue un match amical contre l'Estonie au Stade olympique et remporte la partie 3-1. Son match suivant a lieu en 1926 à l'occasion d'une défaite 3-1 à l'extérieur contre l'Italie. Ses deux dernières sélection auront lieu en Belgique : le  pour une victoire en tant que capitaine 4-2 et le  pour une dernière victoire 3-1.

Palmarès
 Bohemian FC
 Championnat d'Irlande (3) :
 Champion : 1923-24, 1927-28 et 1929-30.

 Coupe d'Irlande (1) :
 Vainqueur : 1927-28.

 Ireland Shield (2) :
 Vainqueur : 1927-28 et 1928-29.

Notes et références

Bibliographie

Liens externes

Footballeur international irlandais
Double international irlandais
Footballeur aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924
Joueur du Bohemian FC
Naissance en mars 1898
Décès en mars 1958
Décès à Dublin


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