Let n binary numbers of length n be given. The Boolean function ``Multiple Product'' MPn asks for (some binary representation of ) the value of their product. It has been shown (K.-Y. Siu and V. Roychowdhury, On optimal depth threshold circuits for multiplication and related problems, SIAM J. Discrete Math. 7, 285 292 (1994)) that this function can be computed in polynomial-size threshold circu...

We examine the effect of a general HZZ coupling through a study of the Higgs decay to leptons via Z bosons at the LHC. We discuss various methods for placing limits on additional couplings, including measurement of the partial width, threshold scans, and asymmetries constructed from angular observables. We find that only the asymmetries provide a definitive test of additional couplings. We furt...

This paper discusses an optimal portfolio selection problem in a continuous-time economy, where the price dynamics of a risky asset are governed by a continuous-time self-exciting threshold model. This model provides a way to describe the effect of regime switching on price dynamics via the selfexciting threshold principle. Its main advantage is to incorporate the regime switching effect withou...

Much research has been done on studying the diffusion of ideas or technologies on social networks including the Influence Maximization problem and many of its variations. Here, we investigate a type of inverse problem. Given a snapshot of the diffusion process, we seek to understand if the snapshot is feasible for a given dynamic, i.e., whether there is a limited number of nodes whose initial a...

The aim in this study was to estimate variance components and heritability of different longevity measures related to productive life and survival at a specified age, using linear and threshold models, to specify the more appropriate measure to express longevity in Brazilian Holstein cows. Production and reproduction records of Holstein cows were collected from 1991 to 2010, for cows born betwe...

This paper addresses theoretical problems arising from the vagueness of language terms, and intuitions of the vagueness of the concepts to which they refer. It is argued that the central intuitions of prototype theory are sufficient to account for both typicality phenomena and psychological intuitions about degrees of membership in vaguely defined classes. The first section explains the importa...

Data publishing generate much attention over the protection of individual privacy. In this paper, we show that it is necessary to reduce the steps of generalization in order to minimize information loss in privacy preserving data publishing, but sometimes the anonymous table on basis of the method could still be attacked when an attacker can possibly determine the privacy requirement and anonym...

We investigate effects of threshold resummation of logarithmic corrections lnN in Mellin space quantitatively. Threshold resummation leads to enhancement of next-to-leading-order QCD predictions for jet production at large jet transverse energy, which is in the trend indicated by experimental data. We show that this enhancement is completely determined by the behavior of threshold resummation a...

For the FK representation of the Ising model, we prove that the slab percolation threshold coincides with the critical temperature in any dimension d > 3.

This research presents the exploratory application of behavioural threshold theory on group behaviour related to information security. Behavioural threshold analysis is presented as a possible tool for aiding the development of security awareness programs. Generic behavioural threshold analysis is presented and then applied in the domain of information security by collecting data on the behavio...