Karp and Lipton introduced advice-taking Turing machines to capture nonuniform complexity classes. We study this concept for automata-like models and compare it to other nonuniform models studied in connection with formal languages in the literature. Based on this we obtain complete separations of the classes of the Chomsky hierarchy relative to advices.

The purpose of this study was to assess how the change to pass/fail grading of the National Board Dental Examination (NBDE) Part I has impacted dental students' study habits and their perspectives on pursuit of postdoctoral specialty education. This cross-sectional survey-based study included over 75 percent of U.S. dental schools and a total of 1,843 responses. This sample was 18.5 percent of ...

The referendum on yesterday’s ballot w h ich recommended the adoption o f a bilateral freeze on nuclear weapons was passed overwhelm ingly by the student body. The final ta lly showed those favor­ ing the referendum w inn ing by a margin o f 2770, o r 76.9 percent, to 832, o r 231 percent. 53 percent o f the student body voted in the elec­ tion. people were not really aware o f the issue.” The ...

A fter four years of hardly keeping up with inflation, Indiana cropland values jumped around 10% in the year ending in June 1994 according to the Purdue land values survey. The USDA reported a 7.8% increase for the year ending January 1. Likely causes of strength in the land market include low interest rates (affecting both borrowers and equity investors), generally good yields in Indiana in 19...

This paper presents selected results from efforts to date organic matter taken deposits of three landslides in Poland’s Gorce Mts. i.e. the ones located below Jaworzyna Kamienicka, Kud?o? and Góra G?bowa peaks. The material for dating was two landslide peat bogs one closed depression filled with mineral deposits. ranges individual were analysed by reference a detailed terrain model as well geop...

BACKGROUND Health outcomes in developing countries continue to lag the developed world, and many countries are not on target to meet the Millennium Development Goals. The private health sector provides much of the care in many developing countries (e.g., approximately 50 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa), but private providers are often poorly integrated into the health system. Efforts to improve ...