A new method based on a deterministic geometrical construction of critical areas is presented to determine the sensitivity of layouts to spot defects. The models for fatal faults considered are bridges and cuts related to patterns in one layer. Our approach, based on the new concept of "susceptible sites". has a complexity O(N1ogN). where N is the number of line segments. Moreover, on& two scan...

Teachers in Canadian public school contexts are attempting to teach about Indigenous knowledges and epistemologies. Given the present state of asymmetrical Indigenous-settler relations, complexity this work requires a large breadth consideration. Our study provides insight into nuances teaching perspectives worldviews, barriers motivations for its inclusion elementary secondary classrooms. We c...

An approach to describe continuous partitioning of Cerrena unicolor laccase in a PEG 6000-phosphate aqueous two-phase system was proposed. The laccase was separated from crude supernatant of C. unicolor-submerged culture, and all the experiments were carried out in 25 °C and pH 7 conditions. Masses of both phases and their compositions at phase equilibrium, as well as laccase activity concentra...

Since the 1970s, migration to the Amazon has led to a growing human presence and resulting dramatic changes in the physical landscape of the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon frontier, including considerable deforestation. Over time, a second demographic phenomenon has emerged with the children of the original migrants leaving settler farms to set out on their own. The vast majority have remained in t...

We introduce a new notion flexible extractor. It is a generalization of the standard concept of a two-source-extractor which require each of a sources to have some entropy, flexible extractor requires the sum of sources entropy to exceed fixed value. We distinguish between a strong and a weak flexible extractors and (similarly to two-source-extractors case) prove that every weak flexible extrac...

A fuzzy extractor (Dodis et al., Eurocrypt 2004) is a pair of procedures that turns a noisy secret into a uniformly distributed key R. To eliminate noise, the generation procedure takes as input an enrollment value ω and outputsR and a helper string P that enables further reproduction ofR from some close reading ω′. Boyen highlighted the need for reusable fuzzy extractors (CCS 2004) that remain...

The standard notion of a randomness extractor is a procedure which converts any weak source of randomness into an almost uniform distribution. The conversion necessarily uses a small amount of pure randomness, which can be eliminated by complete enumeration in some, but not all, applications. Here, we consider the problem of deterministically converting a weak source of randomness into an almos...

In the previous lecture, we introduced the notion of a randomness extractor —a procedure which extracts " uniform " randomness from a weak random source and a small number of truly random bits. In this lecture, we give general impossibility results for randomness extraction. The results are taken from [NZ96, RT00]. We seek to characterize the class of random sources for which extraction is poss...

~ Recently, a minimum classification error training algorithm has been proposed for minimizing the misclassification probability based on a given set of training samples using a generalized probabilistic descent method. This algorithm is a type of discriminative learning algorithm, but it approaches the objective of minimum classification error in a more direct manner than the conventional disc...

Electronic Music Distribution (EMD) is in demand of robust, automatically extracted music descriptors. We introduce a timbral similarity measures for comparing music titles. This measure is based on a Gaussian model of cepstrum coefficients. We describe the timbre extractor and the corresponding timbral similarity relation. We describe experiments in assessing the quality of the similarity rela...