William George Schneider OC FRSC. 1 June 1915 — 18 February 2013

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Lecture 1 — February 6 , 2013

The two papers are very interelated but they have different prespectives on what is an error and how to correct it. In the Shannon model, the errors are drawn from a probability distribution whereas they are chosen adversarially in the Hamming model. In the rest of this lecture, we will introduce the Haming model. First, we give an example with a concrete setting of parameters before giving the...

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HM 802 February 8 , 2013 1 Preamble

The notes below will serve as the basis for the module lectures to be given on the topics of Jordan form, nonnegative matrices, and Markov chains. As you'll see, most of the proofs have been omitted in the notes. The intention is to sketch the proofs during the lectures, but also to have the students work through some of the details (using references such as those listed at the end of this docu...

Neotropical Primates 18(1), June 2011

Adult male-immature interactions in non-human primates range from aggressive displays – their extreme expression being infanticide (Bartlett et al., 1993) – agonistic buffering (Taub, 1980), tolerance or indifference (Baldwin & Baldwin, 1973) to affiliative and caretaking (Riedman, 1982; Buchan et al., 2003). In some monogamous species such as tamarins and marmosets (reviewed in Riedman, 1982),...