Atwater believed that imagery was more important than ideas, and effective symbols trumped substance -- and he came close to proving it when he transformed a New England-bred WASP into a cowboy, and a son of Greek immigrants into an out-of-touch elitist.
Even when the issues are very real, as with the recent health care and financial reform debates, almost all the energy in the public arena is devoted to "framing" the real issues to that they can be reduced to effective symbols.
In this case, the effective transmission symbol in (1) is not exactly the same as the originally transmitted symbol, where with being the modulation constellation of size.
Referring to Figure 1, it is worth mentioning that to provide a relatively small throughput decrease, consecutive symbols overlapping with each other by β samples can yield an effective OFDM symbol duration of N + NCP + β samples.
Radha Chadha, a branding consultant in Hong Kong and co-author of "The Cult of the Luxury Brand: Inside Asia's Love Affair With Luxury," said that American furniture is instantly recognizable to many Asians, and therefore an effective status symbol.
