There are two fundamentally different exact tests for comparing the equality of two binomial probabilities – Fisher’s exact test (Fisher, 1925), and Barnard’s exact test (Barnard, 1945). Fisher’s exact test (Fisher, 1925) is the more popular of the two. In fact, Fisher was bitterly critical of Barnard’s proposal for esoteric reasons that we will not go into here. Notwithstanding Fisher’s reserv...

UCL-GLORP is a Common Lisp implementation and extension of GLORP (Generic Lightweight Object-Relational Persistence), an Object-Relational Mapper for the Smalltalk language. UCL-GLORP is now a mature framework that largely extends GLORP and that takes advantage of some of Common Lisp unique features. This paper illustrates UCL-GLORP and discusses some of the challenges that we faced in order to...

nuṣayrī-‘alawī is a shiite sect that the extremist-esoteric approach among them is highly visible. due to the mysterious nature of such these esoteric movements, a little work of nuṣayrī heritage is available to the public. a collection entitled silsilat al-turāth al-‘alawī has published in recent years which includes an abundant works of  nuṣayrī heritage. ḥaqāiq asrār al-dīn is one of them th...

A syndrome is a set of signs and symptoms that tend to occur together and reflect the presence of a particular disease or an increased chance of developing to a particular disease. There are numerous orofacial syndromes and a thorough knowledge of their manifestations and implications is pertinent in good oral health care delivery. The aim of this review is to describe collective esoteric knowl...

Fast Ethernet (100Base-TX) can provide a low-cost alternative to more esoteric network technologies for high-performance cluster computing. We use a network architecture based on the U-Net approach to implement low-latency and high-bandwidth communication over Fast Ethernet, with performance rivaling (and in some cases exceeding) that of 155 Mbps ATM. U-Net provides protected, user-level access...

The straight razor is hardcore. It is cut-throat sharp, dangerous, and yet has always maintained its notoriety of providing the benchmark kind of shave to which every other razor is compared. Some joke that straight razor shaving is an esoteric art practiced only by mentally unstable people with a death wish, and a new brand on the market expands on this idea. This article takes a look at an in...

We introduce a new class of 2-cocycles defined explicitly on the generators of certain multiparameter standard quantum groups. These allow us, through the process of twisting the familiar standard quantum groups, to generate new as well as previously known examples of non-standard quantum groups. In particular we are able to construct generalisations of both the Cremmer-Gervais deformation of S...

The nature of computing has changed over the last four decades in almost all aspects. The progress in processing power and storage capacity is well known. Moore's law is now in the dictionary of a common man and internet years have replaced dog-years to represent compression of time. Computer was an esoteric device in even sixties and seventies; now it is an indispensable component of many hous...

This book has emerged from my lecture notes for an introductory course in compiler design at ETH Zürich. Several times I have been asked to justify this course, since compiler design is considered a somewhat esoteric subject, practised only in a few highly specialized software houses. Because nowadays everything which does not yield immediate profits has to be justified, I shall try to explain ...