Quinn Galbraith is Human Resources/Training & Development Manager, Elizabeth Smart is Scholarly Communications Librarian, Sara D. Smith is Graduate Research Assistant, and Megan Reed is Research Assistant in Lee Library at Brigham Young University; e-mails: [email protected], elizabeth_smart@ byu.edu, [email protected], and [email protected]. ©2014 Quinn Galbraith, Elizabeth Smart, Sa...

Choosing good predictive models is an important ingredient in a great deal of statistical research. When the true model is relatively simple and can be parameterized by a prescribed finite set of parameters whose values are unknown, it is natural to ask whether a model selection criterion can exclude all redundant parameters, thereby achieving prediction efficiency through the most parsimonious...

We examine consequences of the stabilization of the dilaton through the axion. An estimate of the resulting dilaton potential yields a relation between the axion parameter mafPQ and the average instanton radius, and predicts the ratio between the dilaton mass mφ and the axion mass ma. If we identify the string axion with a Peccei–Quinn axion, thenmφmP l ∼ mafPQ, and the dilaton should be strong...

Vidic and Haaf (2004) questioned the idea that infants use head information to categorize cats as distinct from dogs (Quinn & Eimas, 1996) and argued instead that the torso region is important. However, only null results were observed in the critical test comparisons between modified and unmodified stimuli. In addition, a priori preferences for the paired test stimuli were not assessed, thus le...

We introduce Ouroboros, a new Key Exchange protocol based on coding theory. The protocol gathers the best properties of the recent MDPC-McEliece and HQC protocols for the Hamming metric: simplicity of decoding and security reduction, based on a double cyclic structure. This yields a simple, secure and efficient approach for key exchange. We obtain the same type of parameters (and almost the sam...