■ Abstract Until recently, studies of plant reproductive systems have been at the population level, using microevolutionary approaches. The development of cladistic approaches, combined with the emergence of molecular systematics, has resulted in an explosion of phylogenetic studies and an increase in interdisciplinary approaches combining ecological and systematic methodology. These new approa...

We exhibit for each integer n ≥ 15 an ordinary irreducible character of the symmetric group Sn, which restricts irreducibly to An, with the property that its degree is divisible by every prime less than or equal to n, thereby proving a conjecture of D. L. Alvis.

We investigate the degree distribution P (k) and the clustering coefficient C of the line graphs constructed on the Erdös-Rényi networks, the exponential and the scale-free growing networks. We show that the character of the degree distribution in these graphs remains Poissonian, exponential and power law, respectively, i.e. the same as in the original networks. When the mean degree < k > incre...

Many networks are characterized by highly heterogeneous distributions of links, which are called scale-free networks and the degree distributions follow p(k) ∼ ck−α. We study the robustness of scale-free networks to random failures from the character of their heterogeneity. Entropy of the degree distribution can be an average measure of a network’s heterogeneity. Optimization of scale-free netw...

Using the trace formula technique, we establish Langlands functorial lifting from the unitary group U(3, E/F ) to RF ′/F U(3, E/F ), where F /F is an odd degree cyclic field extension. We also establish local twisted character identities with respect to this base change lifting.

Typically, Gertrude's character in productions of Hamlet has been limited by her guilt and sexuality. However, lacking the social and political conventions that confined Elizabethan England, it would seem that there is another possible interpretation of Hamlet's mother. Degree Type Open Access Senior Honors Thesis Department English Language and Literature First Advisor Craig Dionne

It is doubtless that intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) theory plays an increasingly important role in solving the problems under uncertain situation. As one of the most critical members in the theory, distance measure is widely used in many aspects. Nevertheless, it is a pity that part of the existing distance measures has some drawbacks in practical significance and accuracy. To make up for their...

The celebrated Weil bound for character sums says that for any low-degree polynomial P and any additive character χ, either χ(P ) is a constant function or it is distributed close to uniform. The goal of higher-order Fourier analysis is to understand the connection between the algebraic and analytic properties of polynomials (and functions, generally) at a more detailed level. For instance, wha...

Civics education as a means of character education based on local culture has the mission to develop values and attitudes. In the educational process, various strategies and methods of value education can be used. In Civics Education characters are developed as the impact of education and also as its nurturing effect. Meanwhile, other subjects, which formally have the major mission other than c...

One degree of freedom which is usually not exploited in developing high-performance textprocessing algorithms is the encoding of the underlying atomic character set. Typically, standard character encodings such as ASCII or Unicode are assumed to be a fixed fact of nature, and indeed for most classical string algorithms the assignment of exactly which symbol maps to which k-length bit pattern ap...