A restless multi-armed bandit problem that arises in multichannel opportunistic communications is considered, where channels are modeled as independent and identical Gilbert-Elliot channels and channel state observations are subject to errors. A simple structure of the myopic policy is established under a certain condition on the false alarm probability of the channel state detector. It is show...

The paper proposed a new syntactic annotation scheme --functional chunk, which tried to represent information about grammatical relations between sentence-level predicates and their arguments. Under this scheme, we built a Chinese chunk bank with about two million Chinese characters, and developed some learned models for automatically annotating fresh text with functional chunks. We also propos...

Modelers often rely on robustness analysis, the search for predictions common to several independent models. Robustness analysis has been characterized and championed by Richard Levins and William Wimsatt, who see it as central to modern theoretical practice. The practice has also been severely criticized by Steven Orzack and Elliott Sober, who claim that it a non-empirical form of confirmation...

Certain problems of control theory under incomplete information may be formalized within the framework of differential games. This report will be devoted to one such formalization developed by the author and his students. The size of this report leaves no opportunity for the discussion of many valuable contributions due to other authors in this field. I would only like to mention that our inves...

Aindrila Mukhopadhyay,1,6* Edward Baidoo,1,6 Kelly Bender5,6 ([email protected]), Peter Benke,1,6 Swapnil Chhabra,1,6 Elliot Drury,3,6 Masood Hadi,2,6 Zhili He,4,6 Jay Keasling1,6 ([email protected]), Kimberly Keller,3,6 Eric Luning,1,6 Francesco Pingitore,1,6 Alyssa Redding,1,6 Jarrod Robertson,3,6 Rajat Sapra,2,6 Anup Singh2,6 ([email protected]), Judy Wall3,6 (wallj@ missouri.edu), ...

Three studies demonstrated that avoidance personal goals are positively related to physical symptom reports. These results were obtained (a) using both longitudinal and retrospective methodologies and (b) controlling for neuroticism and other alternative predictor variables. In 2 of the studies, a process model was validated in which perceived competence and perceived controlledness were shown ...

We formally introduce the concept of localizing the Elliott conjecture at a given strongly self-absorbing C∗-algebra D; we also explain how the known classification theorems for nuclear C∗-algebras fit into this concept. As a new result in this direction, we show that the class of separable, unital, simple C∗-algebras with locally finite decomposition rank and UCT, and for which projections sep...

The soil environment immediately around a root frequently has a larger number of microorganisms compared to soil just a few millimeters away from a root. This zone of influence is called the rhizosphere (Rovira, 1991), which is composed of many groups of organisms that are capable of affecting plant health beneficially and deleteriously (Schippers et al., 1987). Putting greens are artificially ...

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