Sobol’ sequence generators are used actively in financial applications. In this paper, we explore the effect of the uniformity Properties A and A’ on the generator performance in high-dimensional problems. It is shown that these properties provide an additional guarantee of uniformity for highdimensional problems even at a small number of sampled points. By imposing additional uniformity proper...

The present objectives of the Drive Uniformity Program at the University of Rochester are (a) to determine the radiation and drive uniformity requirementsfordirectly driven targets, and(b)toachieve the required degree of uniformity with multiple beam irradiation of spherical targets using overlapping beams. This integrated program, which began almost two years ago, has made steady progress in m...

This paper discusses the fundamental hypothesis of policy uniformity under centralized decision making underlying Oates’ famous decentralization theorem. The theorem has come under pressure by the prediction that local public goods are provided to minimum winning coalitions rather than uniformly. The focus of this paper is on the impact of uniformity rules on political accountability. Using the...

We investigate the problem of detecting a point set’s deviation from uniformity in the unit hypercube. High uniformity is for example desirable in Monte Carlo methods for numerical integration, but also for obtaining a good worst-case bound in global optimization. In high dimensions, many points are required to get reliable results, so the point sets are preferably generated by fast methods suc...

Diaconis, P. and R. Graham, Binomial coefficient codes over GF(2) Discrete Mathematics 106/107 (1992) 181-188. In this note we study codes over GF(2) which are generated for given d and r by binary vectors of the form ((y), (,‘), , ({), . , (*‘i ‘)) (mod 2), 0 <i =Z d. We describe the weight enumerators of these codes and the numbers of codewords of weights 1 and 2. These results can be used to...

Irrigation has become commonplace for residential homeowners desiring high quality landscapes in Florida. The goal of this project was to document irrigation system uniformity in Central Florida and to quantify distribution uniformity of residential sprinkler equipment under controlled conditions. The catch-can testing procedure used was a modified version of both the American Society of Agricu...

This paper concerns some notes about the inequality index based on the ratios between lower and upper arithmetic means recently proposed by Zenga [2006]. Beside some definitions and notation given in section 2, we show (section 3) that the inequality measure proposed fulfills the population replication principle. In the remainder of the paper our purpose is to consider a population partitioned ...

In pointfree topology, the notion of uniformity in the form of a system of covers was introduced by J. Isbell in [11], and later developed by A. Pultr in [14] and [15]. Another equivalent notion of locale uniformity was given by P. Fletcher and W. Hunsaker in [6], which they called “entourage uniformity”. The purpose of this paper is to formulate and investigate an alternative definition of ent...

Infrared focal plane arrays (IRFPA) sensors, due to their high sensitivity, high frame frequency and simple structure, have become the most prominently used detectors in military applications. However, they suffer from a common problem called the fixed pattern noise (FPN), which severely degrades image quality and limits the infrared imaging applications. Therefore, it is necessary to perform n...

Calves weaned on cow­calf operations throughout Arkansas even­ tually move on to stocker, feedlot and packer operations. Wide variations in carcass uniformity and consistency exist among these calves. Potential carcass problems can include inappro­ priate carcass size and weight, i nadequate tenderness, insufficient intramuscular fat (marbling) and excess external fat cover. Many of these quali...