This paper reviews and compares recently proposed factor analytic and item response theory (IRT) approaches to the study of invariance across groups. Two methods are described and contrasted. The alignment method considers the groups as a fixed mode of variation, while the random-intercept, random-loading two-level method considers the groups as a random mode of variation. Both maximum-likeliho...

This papers considers new factor analytic and item response theory (IRT) approaches to the study of invariance across groups. Two methods are described and contrasted. The alignment method considers the groups as a fixed mode of variation, while the random-intercept, random-loading two-level method considers the groups as a random mode of variation. Both maximum-likelihood and Bayesian analysis...

A interacting theory that violates CPT invariance necessarily violates Lorentz invariance. On the other hand, CPT invariance is not sufficient for out-of-cone Lorentz invariance. Theories that violate CPT by having different particle and antiparticle masses must be nonlocal.

The status of proton decay is described, including general motivations for baryon number violation, and the present and future experimental situation. Grand unification with and without supersymmetry is considered, including possible evidence from coupling constant unification and implications for proton decay and neutrino mass. 1 Motivations Baryon number is almost certainly not absolutely con...

In order to develop transformation invariant representations of objects, the visual system must make use of constraints placed upon object transformation by the environment. For example, objects transform continuously from one point to another in both space and time. These two constraints have been exploited separately in order to develop translation and view invariance in a hierarchical multil...

The curvaton scenario predicts an almost scale-invariant spectrum of perturbations in most inflation models. We consider the possibility that renormalisable φ4 or Planck scale-suppressed non-renormalisable curvaton potential terms may result in an observable deviation from scale-invariance. We show that if the curvaton initially has a large amplitude and if the total number of e-foldings of inf...

Cross correlations of the fluctuating wall-shear stress and the streamwise velocity in the logarithmic region of turbulent boundary layers are reported over 3 orders of magnitude change in Reynolds number. These results are obtained using hot-film and hot-wire anemometry in a wind tunnel facility, and sonic anemometers and a purpose-built wall-shear stress sensor in the near-neutral atmospheric...

The cross-couplings among several Weyl gravitons (described in the free limit by a sum of linearized Weyl actions) in the presence of a scalar field are studied with the help of the deformation theory based on local BRST cohomology. Under the hypotheses of locality, smoothness of the interactions in the coupling constant, Poincaré invariance, (background) Lorentz invariance, and the preservatio...

Given a smooth projective varietyX , we denote byD(X) the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves D(Coh(X)). All varieties we consider below are over the complex numbers. A result of Rouquier, [Ro] Théoréme 4.18, asserts that if X and Y are smooth projective varieties with D(X) ' D(Y ) (as linear triangulated categories), then there is an isomorphism of algebraic groups Aut(X)× Pic(X) ' Au...

Most formal approaches to the veriication of temporal properties of reactive programs infer temporal conclusions from veriication conditions that are state formulas, i.e., contain no temporal operators. These proofs can often be eeectively presented by the use of veriica-tion diagrams. In this paper, we present a self-contained presentation of veriication diagrams for proving various temporal p...