Thank you to all who conscientiously filled out this long survey. We also appreciate all the family members, friends, and professionals who share their love and expertise with those with ACC. And we thank each of the children and adults with ACC for being our teachers. We thank Warren Brown and Lynn Paul of the Travis Insititute for Biopsychosocial Research, Pasadena, CA and Paul Moes of Calvin...

We show the cost of trading on negative news relative to positive news increases prior to earnings announcements. Our evidence suggests this asymmetry is due to financial intermediaries’ preference to reduce their exposure to risks associated with the announcements. The asymmetry creates a predictable upward bias in prices that increases pre-announcement and subsequently reverses, which confoun...

In this paper, I shall argue for a form of partiality in semantics. In particular, I shall argue that semantics, narrowly construed as part of our linguistic competence, is only a partial determinant of content. Likewise, semantic theories in linguistics function as partial theories of content. I shall go on to offer an account of where and how this partiality arises, which focuses on how lexic...

The FindStat project provides an online platform for mathematicians, particularly for combinatorialists, to gather information about combinatorial statistics and their relations. As of January 2014, the FindStat database contains 173 statistics on 17 combinatorial collections. The project was initiated by Chris Berg and Christian Stump in 2011 at the Laboratoire de combinatoire et d’informatiqu...

Although software updates are extensively used to enhance software while already being used, their impact on users’ post-adoption beliefs and attitudes has received little attention. Drawing on expectation-confirmation-theory and the IS continuance model, we investigate if and how feature updates affect users’ continuance intentions (CI) and what role initial feature endowment and update size p...

We investigate regular realizability (RR) problems, which are the problems of verifying whether the intersection of a regular language – the input of the problem – and a fixed language, called a filter, is non-empty. In this paper we focus on the case of context-free filters. The algorithmic complexity of the RR problem is a very coarse measure of the complexity of context-free languages. This ...

Although chloramphenicol is known to inhibit microbial protein synthesis both in intact cells (1-3) and in cell-free systems (4--8), similar inhibition of protein synthesis does not occur in analogous mammalian systems unless large amounts of chloramphenicol are employed (9-12). The difference in sensitivity to chloramphenicol is most striking in cell-free systems, where cellular permeability i...

A robust recursive least-squares (RLS) adaptive filter against impulsive noise is proposed for the situation of an unknown desired signal. By minimizing a saturable nonlinear constrained unsupervised cost function instead of the conventional least-squares function, a possible impulse-corrupted signal is prevented from entering the filter’s weight updating scheme. Moreover, a multi-step adaptive...

In this study by using noise-free signal estimation the reduction of noise in the image is being proposed. The dyadic stationary wavelet transform is used for both the wiener filter and in estimating the noise free signal. Finding a suitable filter bank and choosing other parameters of the wiener filter with respect to obtained signalto-noise ratio (SNR) is our goal. Testing was being performed...

Certain types of recursive filters have been considered as nonrealizable because they contain delayless recursive loops. Usually the problem is rather technical than theoretical. In this paper a method of implementing such filters is introduced. The general procedure is to split a delay free recursive filter to a non-delay free and a pure delay free structure. As a combination of these, the fil...