Despite the growing recognition among researchers of the potentially important role that interpersonal affect plays in performance appraisals, it is not clear whether the effect of interpersonal affect is real or attributable to unobserved ratee characteristics. Using a fixed effects model, I find that the effect of interpersonal affect on ratings is significant and independent of unobserved ra...

We present new search algorithms to detect the occurrences of any pattern from a given pattern set in a text, allowing in the occurrences a limited number of spurious text characters among those of the pattern. This is a common requirement in intrusion detection applications. Our algorithms exploit the ability to represent the search state of one or more patterns in the bits of a single machine...

This paper discusses a model of quantum associative memory which generalizes the completing associative memory proposed by Ventura and Martinez. Similar to this model, our system is based on Grover’s well known algorithm for searching an unsorted quantum database. However, the model presented in this paper suggests the use of a distributed query of general form. It is demonstrated that spurious...

Dicke superradiance has been observed in many systems and is based on constructive interferences between many scattered waves. The counterpart of this enhanced dynamics, subradiance, is a destructive interference effect leading to the partial trapping of light in the system. In contrast to the robust superradiance, subradiant states are fragile, and spurious decoherence phenomena hitherto obstr...

Interpolation-based model-checking and acceleration techniques have been widely proved successful and efficient for reachability checking. Surprisingly, these two techniques have never been combined to strengthen each other. Intuitively, acceleration provides under-approximation of the reachability set by computing the exact effect of some control-flow cycles and combining them with other trans...