Defining “intelligence” exemplifies a mistake that has historical precedent: confusing the role of pre-theory and post-theory definitions. In every area, pre-theory concepts give broad directions for investigation: are the movements of heavenly bodies affected by the existence of other heavenly bodies? Post-theory concepts add precision and predictability. The mistake occurs when a successful t...

This paper discusses inference about the pre and post break value of a scalar parameter in GMM time series models with a single break at an unknown point in time. We show that treating the break date estimated by least squares as the true break date leads to substantially oversized tests and confidence intervals unless the break is large. We develop an alternative test that controls size unifor...

Public-key cryptography has been at the center of online communication and information transfer for decades. With computing power growing at an exponential rate, some of the most widely used encryption schemes are starting to show their limits. The RSA algorithm, which is still widely used around the world, now requires very large keys to ensure security. Since these systems may appear on low c...

This paper provides an overview of the details of the data assimilation system implementation, at both pre and post-processing levels, which are, more often than not, mentioned in passing in data assimilation talks or articles. Data assimilation is the art of combining model and observations. It relies on a set of equations grounded on sound statistics. Some theoretical studies investigate ways...

Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) are widely used for personal identification due to uniqueness of fingerprints. Minutiaebased fingerprint matching techniques are normally used for fingerprint matching. Fingerprint matching results and their accuracy depends on presence of valid minutiae. In this paper, we present a new technique for fingerprint image post-processing. This pos...

A new edition is most welcome. When the book appeared in 1937 it was well in advance of anything then in print. There is again a great deal of recent work assimilated into the body of the various chapters. Among the names of contributors are many new ones,some of which have been prominent in the journals during the last 8 years. We miss the name of Homans and his beautiful article on thrombosis...

the impact of land use intensity on the abundance and diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (amf) was investigated at six land use types viz., natural forest, grassland, acacia plantations, cardamom plantations, coffee plantations and paddy fields in the niligiri biosphere of the western ghats in south india. there was no significant difference in amf root colonization in different land use...

abstract introduction: mindfulness plays an important role in improving psychological functions of chronic patients. therefore the aim of this study was investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (mbsr) on symptoms of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress in patients with hiv/ aids. method: this was an experimental design with pre-test, post-test along with foll...

introduction: mucous retention cysts are a subtype of intracordal vocal cysts that may occur spontaneously or may be associated with poor vocal hygiene, and which require optimal treatment. the objective of this study was to present a new laser-assisted microsurgery technique for treating intracordal mucous retention cysts and to describe the final outcomes.   materials and methods: in this pro...