Consider the following model: we have N parallel sticks of integer length, and at integer moments exactly one stick grows by 1, with the probability of k-th stick growing proportional to a fixed power 1'1of its length, properly normalized. Equivalently, we consider sequences of points of the first quadrant of Rn such that on each step exactly one of the coordinates of the point gets incremented...

we introduce a two generated weakly branch contracting automaton group $g$ which is generated by a two state automaton on a three letter alphabet. using its branch structure and the finiteness nature of a sequence of its factor groups we compute the order of some of these factors. furthermore some algebraic properties of $g$ are detected .

dear colleagues, welcome to the fourth issue of the journal of cardio-thoracic medicine. we are grateful that with support and cooperation of our dear colleagues, the first year of jctm publication passed successfully. we are expecting to promote the indexing of journal of cardio-thoracic medicine in the following year. in this issue, a valuable review article has been written by dr.corlateanu ...

Recent international summits of the International Federation of Societies of Toxicologic Pathologists (IFSTP) have debated the desirability and potential means by which the proficiency of an individual toxicologic pathologist might be recognized and communicated throughout the world. The present document describes the advantages and disadvantages of implementing such a global recognition system...

This paper delimits and analyzes the effects of the harassment perpetrated by ETA's terrorist network in the Basque Country. The aim was to provide a taxonomy of the consequences of psychological violence and to validate this taxonomy, by means of a content analysis of 37 testimonies of victims of terrorist violence. The taxonomy of consequences of psychological violence is made up by four comp...

Ying Wu, Zhaohui Yuan, Yanpeng Wu *1, Corresponding Author Department of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, PR China, E-mail:[email protected] Department of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, PR China, E-mail: [email protected] Department of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, PR China, E-mail:wu.yanpe...

Chinese Lexicon Project (Sze et al., 2014) summarized lexical decision response data of 2,500 Chinese characters. The original analysis has showed that the newest character frequency norm accounts the most variance of reaction times. The variance of these response data are analyzed in terms of the character frequency, strokes, and structures in use of the norms from Taiwan. First of all, simpli...

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