This paper studies information transmission in a two-sender, multidimensional cheap talk setting where there are exogenous restrictions on the feasible set of policies for the receiver. Such restrictions, which are present in most applications, can, by limiting the punishments available to the receiver, prevent the existence of fully revealing equilibria (FRE). We focus on FRE that are i) robus...

Fuzzy relation equations (FRE) are associated with the composition of binary fuzzy relations. In the present work FRE are used as a tool for studying the process of learning a new subject matter by a student class. A classroom application and other suitable examples connected to the student learning of the derivative are also presented illustrating our results and useful conclusions are obtained.

We construct a new adaptive basis that provide precise fre quency localization and good spatial localization We de velop a compression algorithm that exploits this basis to obtain the most economical representation of the image in terms of textured patterns with di erent orientations fre quencies sizes and positions The technique directly works in the Fourier domain and has potential applicatio...

We investigate the effectiveness of using an accepted readability index, the Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) scale, to design prompts for an automatic oral proficiency assessment system. The prompts in question are uttered by the system, and must be repeated from memory by the test subjects, in the form of an elicited imitation exercise. The FRE scores for our prompts are shown to correlate well with...

Title of Dissertation: AN APPROACH TO ESTIMATE GLOBAL BIOMASS BURNING EMISSIONS OF ORGANIC AND BLACK CARBON FROM MODIS FIRE RADIATIVE POWER Evan A. Ellicott, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor Chris O. Justice Department of Geography Biomass burning is an important global phenomenon affecting atmospheric composition with significant implications for climatic forcing. Wildland fir...

Many image-guidance surgical systems rely on rigid-body, point-based registration of fiducial markers attached to the patient. Marker locations in image space and physical space are used to provide the transformation that maps a point from one space to the other. Target registration error (TRE) is known to depend on the fiducial localization error (FLE), and the fiducial registration error (FRE...

Rooibos extract, due to its glucose and lipid lowering effects, has potential as a nutraceutical for improvement of metabolic dysfunction. Potential herb-drug interactions as a result of the use of natural products are of increasing concern. Cytochrome P450 enzymes, CYP2C8, CYP2C9, and CYP3A4, are important in the metabolism of hypoglycemic drugs, such as thiazolidinediones (TZDs) and sulfonylu...

We construct a new adaptive basis that provide precise fre quency localization and good spatial localization We de velop a compression algorithm that exploits this basis to obtain the most economical representation of an image in terms of textured patterns with di erent orientations fre quencies sizes and positions The technique directly works in the Fourier domain and has potential application...