This paper studies information transmission in a two-sender, multidimensional cheap talk setting where there are exogenous restrictions on the feasible set of policies for the receiver. Such restrictions, which are present in most applications, can, by limiting the punishments available to the receiver, prevent the existence of fully revealing equilibria (FRE). We focus on FRE that are i) robus...

reversible or irreversible lesions of the upper gastrointestinal tract [1]. In cases of alkali ingestion, esophageal strictures concomitant to dysphagia constitute a major problem of the long−term course. Regular follow−up by endoscopy is re− commended owing to the significantly increased risk of developing esophageal carcinoma [2]. In August 2005, a 71−year−old patient with serious dysphagia a...

Fuzzy relation equations (FRE) are associated with the composition of binary fuzzy relations. In the present work FRE are used as a tool for studying the process of learning a new subject matter by a student class. A classroom application and other suitable examples connected to the student learning of the derivative are also presented illustrating our results and useful conclusions are obtained.

Trisomy of chromosome 11 (Tsll) is the second most frequent nonran dom chromosomal change in murine plasmacytomas (PCTs). The fre quency of Tsll is significantly higher in PCTs induced in pristane conditioned mice infected by Abelson-murine leukemia virus (52%) compared to those induced by pristane alone (8J%). Although the signif icance of Tsll in mouse plasmacytomagenesis is not clearly under...

We investigate the effectiveness of using an accepted readability index, the Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) scale, to design prompts for an automatic oral proficiency assessment system. The prompts in question are uttered by the system, and must be repeated from memory by the test subjects, in the form of an elicited imitation exercise. The FRE scores for our prompts are shown to correlate well with...

The spatio-tem po ral na ture of fo cused ul tra sound-in duced blood-brain bar rier (BBB) open ing as a brain drug de liv ery method was in ves ti gated in Alz hei mer’s dis ease model mice. The left hip po cam pus of trans gen ic (APP/PS1, n = 3) and nontransgenic (n = 3) mice was sonicated (fre quency: 1.525 MHz, peak-neg a tive pres sure: 600 kPa, pulse length: 20 ms, duty cy cle: 20%, du r...

Recent reports by Bielschowsky (1), Harris (6), Engel and Copeland (5), Strombeck and Ekman (10), and Morris et al. (7), indicate that the genetic constitution of the rat plays a more dominant role than diet in the initiation of 2-acetylaminofluorene-induced neoplasms. While liver tumors occur in a majority of the rats and the frequency is altered somewhat by the protein content of the diet, th...

We evaluate the transport of three-dimensional chemical transport models in the upper tropo-sphere and lower stratosphere applying observed distributions of CO 2 and SF 6. The data consist of high-resolution in-situ observations, obtained during all seasons at subtropical, middle and high latitudes over Western Europe within the SPURT (Spurenstofftransport in der Tropopausen-5 region) project (...

Title of Dissertation: AN APPROACH TO ESTIMATE GLOBAL BIOMASS BURNING EMISSIONS OF ORGANIC AND BLACK CARBON FROM MODIS FIRE RADIATIVE POWER Evan A. Ellicott, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor Chris O. Justice Department of Geography Biomass burning is an important global phenomenon affecting atmospheric composition with significant implications for climatic forcing. Wildland fir...

Many image-guidance surgical systems rely on rigid-body, point-based registration of fiducial markers attached to the patient. Marker locations in image space and physical space are used to provide the transformation that maps a point from one space to the other. Target registration error (TRE) is known to depend on the fiducial localization error (FLE), and the fiducial registration error (FRE...