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...

All hypocrealean species of the genus Geosmithia are anamorphic fungi with connections to bark beetles. G. fassatiae, G. langdonii and G. obscura are described as new sympatric species associated with Scolytus carpini, S. intricatus and S. rugulosus in Central Europe. The species represent a complex of three sister taxa with affinities to G. flava that may be distinguished by differences in mor...

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 ...