Pragmatic abilities are not only a component of efficient communication; they can also be an important learning mechanism for young children. We discuss four experiments and a corpus analysis to investigate whether children and adults can infer information about a speaker’s knowledge based on the choice of an adjective. In Experiments 1 – 3, we found that adults are sensitive to adjective use a...

In this paper we complete the characterization of Ext(G, Z) for any torsion-free abelian group G assuming Gödel’s axiom of constructibility plus there is no weakly compact cardinal. In particular, we prove in (V = L) that, for a singular cardinal ν of uncountable cofinality which is less than the first weakly compact cardinal and for every sequence of cardinals (νp : p ∈ Π) satisfying νp ≤ 2 , ...

We show a reduction from explicit two-source extractors with small error and arbitrarily small constant entropy rate to the existence of explicit t-non-malleable extractors with a small seed length. Previously, such a reduction was known either when one source had entropy rate above half [Raz05] or for general entropy rates but only for large error [CZ16]. As in previous reductions we start wit...

In this paper we resolve an open problem regarding resettable zero knowledge in the bare public-key (BPK for short) model: Does there exist constant round resettable zero knowledge argument with concurrent soundness for NP in BPK model without assuming sub-exponential hardness? We give a positive answer to this question by presenting such a protocol for any language in NP in the bare public-key...

A wind turbine transformer (WTT) is designed using a 3D wound core while the transformer’s total owning cost (TOC) and its inrush current performance realized as the two objective functions in a multi-objective optimization process. Multi-objective genetic algorithm is utilized to derive Pareto optimal solutions. The effects of inrush current improvement on other operating and design parameters...