Social conventions can foster cooperation in relationships even if each partner can break the relationship at any time and get a fresh start. We consider settings where the underlying problem is hidden information (rather than moral hazard). Agents’ instantaneous payoffs are private information and change from period to period. We identify optimal strongly-symmetric social conventions. One of j...

One of the crucial problems in developing high quality Thai text-to-speech synthesis is to detect phrase break from Thai texts. Unlike English, Thai has no word boundary delimiter and no punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. It makes the problem more serious. Because when we detect phrase break incorrectly, it is not only producing unnatural speech but also creating the wrong meaning. In t...

A multi-break rearrangement generalizes most of genome rearrangements, such as block-interchanges, transpositions and reversals. A k-break cuts k adjacencies over a permutation, and forms k new adjacencies by joining the extremities according to an arbitrary matching. Block-interchange distance is a polynomial problem, but the transposition and the reversal distances are both NP-hard problems. ...

Societies constrain the behavior of agents by imposing multiple, often contradictory, obligations and interdic-tions amongst them. To work in harmony, agents must nd ways to satisfy these constraints, or to break less important ones when necessary. In this paper 1 , we present a solution to this problem based on a representation of obligations and interdictions in an organizational framework, t...

The detailed study of folding and unfolding events in proteins is becoming central to develop rational therapeutic strategies against maladies such as Alzheimer and Parkinson disease. A promising approach to study the unfolding processes of proteins is through computer simulations. However, these computer simulations generate huge amounts of data that require computational methods for their ana...

Problem statement: In warm-winter regions, the need for intervention of chemical means to break bud rest becomes a dominant factor for maintaining economic production of table grapes. However, the problem is more acute when farmers want to grow organic table grapes in the absence of environmentally-friendly budbreak promoters. Approach: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of a mix of natura...

Geographical routing protocols have been received serious attention due to their advantages as compared to conventional routing protocols. They require information about the physical position of nodes to be available. Commonly, each node determines its own position through the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) or some other type of positioning service. Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing (G...

The present study addresses the question whether accentuation and prosodic phrasing can have a similar function, namely, to group words in a sentence together. Participants listened to locally ambiguous sentences containing object- and subject-control verbs while ERPs were measured. In Experiment 1, these sentences contained a prosodic break, which can create a certain syntactic grouping of wor...

an experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of some technological processes on the residual levels of imidacloprid in strawberry fruits and products. according to their half-life (t1/2) values, strawberry fruits can be safely harvested for human consumption 7.4 days after spraying. the removal ratio of imidacloprid residue in strawberries was in the range of 9.9–30.55% by washing with t...