A market scoring rule (MSR) – a popular tool for designing algorithmic prediction markets – is an incentive-compatible mechanism for the aggregation of probabilistic beliefs from myopic risk-neutral agents. In this paper, we add to a growing body of research aimed at understanding the precise manner in which the price process induced by a MSR incorporates private information from agents who dev...

Alspach [Bull. Inst. Combin. Appl., 52 (2008), pp. 7–20] defined the maximal matching sequencibility of a graph G, denoted ms(G), to be the largest integer s for which there is an ordering of the edges of G such that every s consecutive edges form a matching. Alspach also proved that ms(Kn) = ⌊ n−1 2 ⌋ . Brualdi et al. [Australas. J. Combin., 53 (2012), pp. 245–256] extended the definition to c...

The influence of magnesium content on the mechanosynthesis of ZrB2–SiC–ZrC composite in Mg/ZrSiO4/B2O3/C mixture was investigated. Thermodynamic evaluations revealed that the amount of Mg played a main role, thereby; the overall reaction enthalpy and adiabatic temperature (Tad) changed by variation of magnesium content. According to differential thermal analysis (DTA) results, after 45min milli...

A major difficulty of heterogeneous process migration is how to collect advanced dynamic data-structures, transform them into machine independent form, and restor them appropriately in a different hardware and software environment. In this study we introduce a data model, the Memory Space Representation (MSR) model, to recognize complex data structures in program address spaces. Supporting mech...

Staphylococcus aureus possesses three MsrA enzymes (MsrA1, MsrA2, MsrA3) that reduce the S-epimer of methionine sulfoxide (MetO) and an MsrB enzyme that reduces R-MetO. The four msr genes are expressed from three different promoters. The msrA1/msrB genes are coexpressed. To determine the expression pattern of msr genes, three independent reporter strains were constructed where msr promoter was ...

Surfactant-enhanced remediation technology has shown promising potential for removing residual organics from contaminated soils and groundwater. Using a homologous series of cationic surfactants, alkylpyridinium bromide, it was found that the molar solubilization ratio (MSR) for naphthalene decreases with decreasing carbon number in the hydrophobic tail. In contrast, with nonylphenyl ethoxylate...

This paper proposes a new discriminative training method, called minimum sample risk (MSR), of estimating parameters of language models for text input. While most existing discriminative training methods use a loss function that can be optimized easily but approaches only approximately to the objective of minimum error rate, MSR minimizes the training error directly using a heuristic training p...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Hypoxic effects on neuronal functions vary significantly with experimental conditions, but the mechanism for this is unclear. Adenosine has been reported to play a key role in depression of neuronal activities in the CNS during acute hypoxia. Hence, we examined the effect of acute hypoxia on different spinal reflex potentials and the contribution of adenosine to them. E...

We consider the problem of efficiently navigating a modular self-reconfigurable robot (MSR) on an initially unknown terrain such as the Lunar or Martian surface. An MSR is composed of multiple modules which can be reorganized to achieve different formations such as a chain formation or a circular formation, depending on the mobility requirements of the terrain. Existing techniques for maneuveri...