The present invention discloses a connector used to join two or more panels having a foam core and having a cavity defined in a edge thereof. ISI compensation is partitioned into two stages; a first stage compensates ISI components induced by characteristics of a transmitter’s partial response pulse shaping filter in a demodulator, a second stage compensates ISI components induced by characteristics of a multi-pair transmission channel in a Viterbi decoder. The cooling water passage supplies the cooling water from the upstream water passage to each of the first and second parallel water passages to cool the catalyst housing passage by the first parallel water passage disposed along the catalyst housing passage and cool the exhaust collecting passage by the second parallel water passage disposed along the exhaust collecting passage. The timeout generator may be used in combination with an address transition detector in a refresh controller for a memory device. The model is adjusted if the predicted result is not satisfactory. Each of the third pair of leg elastics is a distinct member containing at least one strand of elastic that is partially enclosed by a carrier sheet.