The difference in speaking rates among American English regional dialects have been assumed and become popular belief in U.S. culture without supporting evidence to prove or disprove it. This study compares the speaking rates of those in south-central Wisconsin and western North Carolina in order to see if southerners do, in fact, speak more slowly than northerners. Age and gender are also comp...

We consider the communication complexity of the binary inner product function in a variation of the two-party scenario where the parties have an a priori supply of particles in an entangled quantum state. We prove linear lower bounds for both exact protocols, as well as for protocols that determine the answer with bounded-error probability. Our proofs employ a novel kind of “quantum” reduction ...

BACKGROUND The Zoological Museum of the University of Athens (ZMUA) was established in 1858. It is the oldest natural history museum of Greece. The museum began its operation with the acquisition of a core collection and has been expanding ever since. One of the most substantial parts of the museum's collection consists of the avian exhibits, originating from around the world. NEW INFORMATION...

The turkey industry's view of the relative economic importance of growth and egg production has changed rapidly, and genetic changes by selection within lines may not be rapid enough to meet the changing needs. The objective of the present study was to determine the feasibility of rapidly increasing the BW of dam lines by repeated backcrossing of a dam line (E) to a commercial sire line (B). Th...

in this paper, we show that the conditional transform with respect to the gaussian process involving the first variation can be expressed in terms of the conditional transform without the first variation. we then use this result to obtain various integration formulas involving the conditional $diamond$-product and the first variation.

Abstract We improve the best known sum-product estimates over reals. prove that \[\max(|A+A|,|A+A|)\geq |A|^{\frac{4}{3} + \frac{2}{1167} - o(1)}\,,\] for a finite $A\subset \mathbb {R}$ , following streamlining of arguments Solymosi, Konyagin and Shkredov. include several new observations to our techniques. Furthermore, \[|AA+AA|\geq |A|^{\frac{127}{80} o(1)}\,.\] Besides, convex set A we show...