Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Denmark University of Florence, Florence, Italy Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa (Received 2 July 2009; revised manuscript received 18 August ...

We investigate whether people predict the biases of others with an experiment that matches agents with informed or uninformed principals. While the agents’ beliefs are well-calibrated regarding the average task performance, they also correctly believe that informed principals monitoring their performance project their information and overestimate the likelihood of success for agents. The agents...

Powder injection molding (PIM) is an important netshape manufacturing process and has received much attention. One of the most critical steps in PIM process is debinding. It consumes a major part of the processing time. Failure of the powder compact often results if the process is accelerated. Thermal debinding is a common methodology for the final removal of residual polymer from a PIM compact...

In this paper, we present an experimental investigation on the pancake problem. Also called sorting by prefix reversals (SBPR), this problem is linked to the genome rearrangement problem also called sorting by reversals (SBR). The pancake problem is a NP-hard problem. Until now, the best theoretical R-approximation was 2 with an algorithm which gives a 1.22 experimental R-approximation on stack...

Adjacent Hall microsensors, comprising a silicon substrate and four contacts, providing simultaneously two supply inputs and two differential outputs, are characterized. The voltage related sensitivity is in the order of 0.11T, and a cancellation method for offset compensation is used, achieving residual offset in the micro scale which is also compared to a single Hall plate. Keywords—Adjacent ...