Introducing IES

2. IE & IEs

PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN is the traditional name given to the ancestor language of the Indo-European family that is spread from Iceland to Chinese Turkestan and from Scandinavia to the Near East. A PROTO-LANGUAGE (Gk. prõtos ‘first’) refers to the earliest form of a language family presupposed by all of its descendants. There will forever be major gaps in the reconstruction of proto-languages, but a...

Faster Gossiping on Butter ies?

Gossiping has been considered intensively for butterries and \regular" butterries (which have no wrap-around connections). In the telephone communication model, for a butterry of order k, the best previous gossiping algorithms require 2 1 = 2 k and 3 k communication rounds, respectively. By new asymptotic methods we break through these bounds, proving new bounds of 2 1 = 4 k + o(k) and 2 1 = 2 ...

E Volut Ion Strateg Ies

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are general stochastic search heuristics often used to solve complex optimization problems. Unfortunately, EA theory is still somewhat weak with respect to providing a deeper understanding of EAs and guidance for the practitioner. In this paper we improve this situation by extending existing theory on the wellknown (1+1) EA to cover the (1 + ) EA, an EA that mainta...

Learning Poli ies with External

Mason Awarded IES Silver Medal

Backgound: It has been reported that Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) deficiency reduces infarct size after myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (MI/R). However, measurement of MI/R injury was limited and did not include cardiac function. In a chronic closed-chest model we assessed whether cardiac function is preserved in TLR4-deficient mice (C3H/HeJ) following MI/R, and whether myocardial and systemic c...