A set of type-(m, n) S is a set of points of a design with the property that each block of the design meets either m points or n points of S. The notions of type and of parameters of a k-set (there called characters) were introduced for the first time by Tallini Scafati in [M. Tallini Scafati, {k, n}-archi di un piano grafico finito, con particolare riguardo a quelli con due caratteri. Note I a...

In this article, we seek to summarize current practice concerning situational judgment tests in personnel selection. We begin by describing the manner in which situational judgment tests are developed and examining the diverse ways in which situational items are presented and scored. We then offer speculation concerning constructs assessed by situational judgment tests as well as discuss the le...

When choosing parameters for a tactile action, it is useful to be able to choose parameters that will optimize the discriminating power of the tactile data acquired during the action. We propose a way to extract this information about informative grasp parameters from a deep network trained to perform a classification task on the tactile data. We do this by defining a new cost function on the n...

Globalization and the rules it generates confront legal scholarship with a number of intricate issues. 1 One of these lies at the core of a hypothesis which has been

Although protocols vary from institution to institution in South Africa, there seem to be some common threads that raise persistent ethico-Iegal problems. Most institutions require that the patient's blood should be taken and be submitted for immediate testing along with the HCW's blood. This policy might lead to an HCW or patient being told in the middle of the night that he/she is HIV-positiv...

We consider the case of age-specific ring-recovery data obtained only from recovered individual birds and modelled by conditioning a multinomial distribution on the recovery. These models may be appealing when the information about the numbers of marked individuals is missing but they are often analysed by ignoring a large set of nuisance parameters, the recovery rates. We investigate what are ...

In order to solve the language acquisition puzzle there are two basic problems one needs to address . The first is the so-called "logical problem of language acquisition" and the second is what I will refer to as the "developmental problem of language acquisition." The logical problem of language acquisition is the question, no doubt familiar to you all, of how we account for the richness, comp...

In the domain of vineyard precision spraying research, one of the most important objectives is to minimize the volume of phytosanitary products ejected by a sprayer in order to be more environmentally respectful with more effective vine leaf treatments. Unfortunaltely, even if lot of works have been carried out at a parcel scale, mainly on losses caused by drift, less works have been carried ou...

I want to begin this reply by thanking the three reviewers of my book (B), Haspelmath (H), Malchukov (M), and Stiebels (S), for paying careful attention to it, and for the kind things that they find to say about it, despite significant differences in our basic approaches and perspectives. I am glad that they each found some interest or inspiration in it—although I realize that that may be as mu...