In this paper, we are interested in obtaining the generalized Ray-Knight theorems (previously proved by Yor 10]) using branching processes. It was already observed in O'Connell's thesis 6] that the construction of the natural tree associated to Brownian excursion (Le Gall 4], Neveu-Pitman 5]) enables to obtain one of the "classical" Ray-Knight theorems. Our aim is to use the same ideas to get t...

In recent years, the Knight News Challenge has emerged as one of the most important forums for stimulating innovation in journalism and as a salient marker of the Knight Foundation’s influence in the field. However, scholarly literature has yet to discuss this contest’s design and execution, its applicants and winners, and the implications for the future of journalism that may be revealed in th...

We introduce the impartial game of Maharaja Nim, an extension of the classical game of Wytho↵ Nim. In the latter game, two players take turns in moving a single Queen of Chess on a large board, attempting to be the first to put her in the lower left corner, position (0, 0). Here, in addition to the classical rules, a player may also move the Queen as the Knight of Chess moves, still taking into...

This paper presents three heuristic functions that aim to reduce the search cost for the knight tour problem. The first heuristic, h1a, is an interesting case of study that illustrates heuristic analysis, although it fails to obtain solutions. Heuristic h2 is an enhancement of the Warnsdorff method, discussed as heuristic h1b. All heuristics are used in conjunction with a greedy algorithm to de...

Black Knight, the University of Central Florida’s vehicle in the 11th Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) competed in 2003. Completing in 5th place in the navigational challenge and 10th in the autonomous challenge in its first competition has proven our vehicle to be a strong competitor in this competition. The vehicle has many interesting features that allow it to achieve its succes...

Recent Tweak-based planners replace the White Knight technique of a modal truth criterion by a simple heuristic for choosing the estab-lisher of a term in situation, empirically trading between the rigorous precision of a criterion and the computational complexity. In this paper , I argue that this WK technique does not rely on the opposition between mathematical rigour and eeciency of an imple...

We report ' Hg NMR measurements of narrow-gap Hg& Cd„Te alloys in the range x =0.20—0.28. By studying temperature dependences, we have identified intrinsic Knight shifts in these alloys. This provides a measure of Hg orbital contributions to conduction-electron states, and we find a consistently strong average contribution from Hg s orbitals. Furthermore, we identify local variations in the Kni...

3 Matthew R. Stump, Qiuming Gong and Zhengfeng Zhou* 4 5 Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239 6 7 Running Title: Truncation of hERG PAS domain associated with LQT2 mutations 8 9 *Corresponding Author: Dr. Zhengfeng Zhou 10 Knight Cardiovascular Institute 11 Oregon Health & Science University 12 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road 13 Portland, OR ...