Aurora of July 7

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2015 7 July − −

Manchester Meeting 7 - 9 July 2010

Nira Symposium July 7-8, 1982

Although Near Infrared Analysis (NIRA) as a technique can be traced back to the late 19th century, the first commercial instrumentation (Cary 14) was made available in the mid 1950's. Significant growth in the number of NIRA instruments used did not occur until the 1978-1982 period. During this time, the number of units utilized has grown at an annual compounded growth rate of well over sixty p...

Asymmetric Rényi Problem ∗ July 7 , 2015

In 1960 Rényi in his Michigan State University lectures asked for the number of random queries necessary to recover a hidden bijective labeling of n distinct objects. In each query one selects a random subset of labels and asks, which objects have these labels? We consider here an asymmetric version of the problem in which in every query an object is chosen with probability p > 1/2 and we ignor...