Past research has found an association between inspection time (IT) and fluid intelligence using measures confounded with visual processing (e.g., Wechsler PIQ or Ravens Progressive Matrices). The present study related IT to intelligence using a measure (Woodcock–Johnson—Revised, WJ-R) that has nonconfounded factors of mental ability in order to determine whether the association is based upon f...

E-government adoption is the focus of many research studies. However, few studies have compared the adoption factors to identify the most salient predictors of e-government use. This study compares popular adoption constructs to identify the most influential. A survey was administered to elicit citizen perceptions of e-government services. The results of stepwise regression indicate perceived u...

This chapter gives a brief overview of our framework for stepwise synthesis of logic programs from examples and properties. Directives are extracted for the development of a particular synthesis mechanism whose steps are guided by a divide-and-conquer schema. It features deductive and inductive reasoning. Examples and properties are presented to it in a non-incremental fashion. The objectives a...

Steganalysis consists in classifying documents as steganographied or genuine. This paper presents a methodology for steganalysis based on a set of 193 features with two main goals: determine a sufficient number of images for effective training of a classifier in the obtained high-dimensional space, and use feature selection to select most relevant features for the desired classification. Dimens...

The paper explores the notion of “To Program is To Model” in the realm of an introductory programming course. We present a number of intended learning outcomes and didactical design principles for the course, and we then describe the course content in terms of the system to be developed as well as the project to be undertaken. Based on this, we illustrate the many different ways software develo...

This paper contributes to an ongoing debate in International Political Economy about the appropriateness of globalization, regionalization and macroeconomic imbalance theory by identifying quantitative estimates for all three tendencies from world trade data. This is achieved with a series of gravity models enhanced stepwise by the mapping of the estimation errors of a given model on representa...

We offer a new perspective on games of irreversible investment under uncertainty in continuous time. The basis is a particular approach to solve the involved stochastic optimal control problems which allows to establish existence and uniqueness of an oligopolistic open loop equilibrium in a very general framework without reliance on any Markovian property. It simultaneously induces quite natura...

Assuming that higher dimensions existed in the early stages of the universe where the evolution was inflationary, we construct an open, singularity-free, spatially homogeneous and isotropic cosmological model to study the effects of dimensional reduction that may have taken place during the early stages of the universe. We consider dimensional reduction to take place in a stepwise manner and in...

The decomposition of methanol on Rh has been investigated by means of pulsed field desorption mass spectrometry (PFDMS). Intermediates of the decomposition. CH,O (X = 1 3). are identified. By varying the temperature and reaction time it is possible to elucidate the elementary steps in methanol decomposition. A model based on a stepwise H-abstraction of the methoxy is postulated. The reaction be...

The study attempted to analyse the effects of age, pruning, and fertilizer application on tea yield and to derive a relation between yield and tea leaf area index (LAI). The study was motivated by the fact that tea yield has stagnated in Northeast India. To study the effects of age, pruning, and fertilizer application on tea yield, statistical analysis was applied to the data set collected at t...