Vol. XLII (February 2005), 83–95 83 *J. Miguel Villas-Boas is Professor of Business Administration, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley (e-mail: [email protected]). Ying Zhao is Assistant Professor of Marketing and Wei-Lun Fellow, Department of Marketing, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (e-mail: [email protected]). The authors gratefully acknowledge co...

The sequential estimation (SE) proposed by Ward for rapid acquisition of pseudo-noise (PN) sequences performs well only at moderate chip signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). In this paper, a seed accumulating sequential estimation (SASE) method based on accumulated seeds of the received PN sequence is proposed, which performs well at low chip SNR also. The mean acquisition time performance of the SAS...

This paper reports that in parallel Monte-Carlo simulations of the 2D Ising-Model, commonly used pseudo-random number generators (PRNG) lead to manifestly erroneous results. When parallel random number sequences for a parallel simulation are generated by a same PRNG with diffrent initial seeds, the sequences can be strongly correlated with each other if the seeds are selected

to evaluate the effects of some phosphorus solubilizing bacteria strains on yield and agronomic traits in local bean (phaseolus vulgaris l.) of guilan, different phosphate fertilizer rates were tested during 2014 growing season. this research was carried out in experimental field of agricultural and natural resource research center of guilan province as split plot arrangement based on randomize...

to study the effect of plant density on seed yield and yield components of two lentil cultivars a field experiment using factorial design based on a complete block design was conducted with three replications at research farm of college of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehran (karaj) in 2008. treatments were lentil varieties (ziba, mardom), and plant densities (80, 160, 240, ...

Binary Golay sequence pairs exist for lengths 2, 10 and 26 and, by Turyn’s product construction, for all lengths of the form 21026 where a, b, c are non-negative integers. Computer search has shown that all inequivalent binary Golay sequence pairs of length less than 100 can be constructed from five “seed” pairs, of length 2, 10, 10, 20 and 26. We give the first complete explanation of the orig...

Fruit peels have been a valuable source for maintaining human health. The use of fruit peel extracts for antimicrobial properties can be of great significance in therapeutic treatments. Fruits by-products such as seeds, peels, stems, barks and leaves usually been discarded and currently the cause of a serious disposal problem in food and agricultural industries (Ghasemi et al., 2009). Therefore...

In this paper we show that reporting a single performance score is insufficient to compare non-deterministic approaches. We demonstrate for common sequence tagging tasks that the seed value for the random number generator can result in statistically significant (p < 10−4) differences for state-of-the-art systems. For two recent systems for NER, we observe an absolute difference of one percentag...