Perceived descriptive norms are one of the strongest predictors of college drinking. Social Identity Theory posits that much of our identity is based on groups with which we affiliate. Prior research suggests that there is an association between perceived descriptive norms and drinking among those who identify more strongly with the normative referent group. However, no studies to date have exa...

Lunar impact craters are important for studying lunar surface morphology because they are the most typical morphological units of the Moon. Impact crater descriptive indices can be used to describe morphological features and thus provide direct evidence for both the current state and evolution history of the Moon. Current description methods for lunar impact craters are predominantly qualitativ...

(1) In eeect, Binford 2] calls stability with respect to change in viewpoint the \assump-tion of general position." In this sense, general position is a special case of our notion of stability. (2) An optimal descriptive language is one that minimizes the average number of bits of description per bit of input. This will be discussed in detail shortly. (3) The inequality occurs only because of b...

The paper proposes the approach to cope with the maintenance of dynamically changing resource ontologies of autonomously maintained, distributed, heterogeneous, wrapped information resources and their mappings to common mediator IS ontology. The approach intends to do the work in economical way reducing efforts to matching and aligning only modified ontology elements. Proposed is ontology model...

this note introduces a new general conjecture correlating the dimensionality dt of an infinitelattice with n nodes to the asymptotic value of its wiener index w(n). in the limit of large nthe general asymptotic behavior w(n)≈ns is proposed, where the exponent s and dt are relatedby the conjectured formula s=2+1/dt allowing a new definition of dimensionality dw=(s-2)-1.being related to the topol...

Mutual information is widely used, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of categorical random variables. In order to address questions such as the reliability of the descriptive value, one must consider sample-to-population inferential approaches. This paper deals with the posterior distribution of mutual information, as obtained in a Bayesian framework by a second-order D...

This paper is concerned with how a simple metalanguage might coevolve with a simple descriptive base language in the context of interacting Skyrms-Lewis signaling games [16, 19, 7]. We will first consider a metagame that evolves to track the successful and unsuccessful use of a coevolving base language, then we will consider a metagame that evolves to track the truth of expressions in a coevolv...

This document defines an abstract architecture for Direct Data Placement (DDP) and Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) protocols to run on Internet Protocol-suite transports. This architecture does not necessarily reflect the proper way to implement such protocols, but is, rather, a descriptive tool for defining and understanding the protocols. DDP allows the efficient placement of data into buf...