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This paper describes the use of conditioned slicing to assist partition testing, illustrating this with a case study. The paper shows how a conditioned slicing tool can be used to provide confidence in the uniformity hypothesis for correct programs, to aid fault detection in incorrect programs and to highlight special cases.

Most observer-based methods applied in fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) schemes use the classical twodegrees of freedom observer structure in which a constant matrix is used to stabilize the error dynamics while a post filter helps to achieve some desired properties for the residual signal. In this paper, we consider the use of a more general framework which is the dynamic observer structure...

Ecological interactions and the natural selection they cause play a prominent causal role in biological diversification and speciation. As a discipline, ecological genetics integrates the two components of adaptive evolution (natural selection and genetic variability) to study the mechanisms of evolution. Ecological genetics is a fruitful approach to the study of how reproductive isolation can ...

Behavioral isolation in animals can be mediated by inherent mating preferences and assortative traits, such as divergence in the diel timing of mating activity. Although divergence in the diel mating time could, in principle, promote the reproductive isolation of sympatric, conspecific populations, there is currently no unequivocal evidence of this. We conducted different mate-choice experiment...

This paper deals with fault detection and more particularly with the Fundamental Problem of Residual Generation (FPRG). In former works, conditions, based on the properties of invariant distributions involving the disturbance vector field, were given to solve this problem. The aim of the present paper is to provide, when those conditions are not fulfilled, an alternative solution to the FPRG, b...