Extreme Programming (XP) shows several interesting approaches which are very attractive for education. It is centered around early and incremental creation of working software. In the following, the chances XP offers for class are shown – especially for use in a class project, but also for practical phases in all lessons where programming is useful. Finally several common problems which can occ...

The classical approach to extreme value modelling for multivariate data is to assume that the joint distribution belongs to a multivariate domain of attraction. In particular, this requires that each marginal distribution be individually attracted to a univariate extreme value distribution. The domain of attraction condition may be phrased conveniently in terms of regular variation of the joint...

OBJECTIVE To report the weight loss and associated symptoms experienced by a large cohort of women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). METHODS Data were obtained from an HG website registry, where women with HG were recruited on-line. Respondents were included if they experienced at least 1 live birth>27 weeks' gestation. Extreme weight loss was defined as a loss of >15% of prepregnancy weight....

Let S be a semigroup. In certain cases we give some characterizations of extreme amenability of S and we show that in these cases extreme left amenability and extreme right amenability of S are equivalent. Also when S is a compact topological semigroup, we characterize extremely left amenable subalgebras of C(S), where C(S) is the space of all continuous bounded real valued functions on S

Hall and Welsh (1984) established the best attainable rate of convergence for estimates of a positive extreme value index under a certain second order condition implying that the distribution function of the maximum of n random variables converges at an algebraic rate to the pertaining extreme value distribution. As a rst generalization we obtain a surprisingly sharp bound on the estimation err...

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Engaging and motivating students is always a challenge particularly when teaching subjects that do not have a high practical content. In this situation it was also necessary to present an overview of the subject to be studied while at the same time introduce new members to the existing class. The XP Game is a simple and interactive set of activities that simulates the eXtreme Programming (XP) d...

The gravitini zero modes riding on top of the extreme Reissner-Nordstrom black-hole solution of N = 2 supergravity are shown to be normalizable. The gravitini and dilatini zero modes of axiondilaton extreme black-hole solutions of N = 4 supergravity are also given and found to have finite norms. These norms are duality invariant. The finiteness and positivity of the norms in both cases are foun...

We propose a new method for estimating the extreme quantiles for a function of several dependent random variables. In contrast to the conventional approach based on extreme value theory, we do not impose the condition that the tail of the underlying distribution admits an approximate parametric form, and, furthermore, our estimation makes use of the full observed data. The proposed method is se...

In this article, an extreme environment-capable temperature sensing system based on state-of-art silicon carbide (SiC) wireless electronics is presented. In conjunction with a Pt-Pb thermocouple, the SiC wireless sensor suite is operable at 450 °C while under centrifugal load greater than 1,000 g. This SiC wireless temperature sensing system is designed to be non-intrusively embedded inside the...