The proliferation of MPEG coded audio material on the Internet has shown an exponential growth since 1995, making ”.mp3” the most searched for term in early 1999 (according to http://www.searchterms.com). ”MP3” has been featured in numerous articles in newspapers and periodicals and on TV, mostly on the business pages because of the potential impact on the recording industry. While everybody is...

Plesiosaurs may be divided into two general morphotypes, based on body shape. ‘Pliosauromorphs’ have a large head and a short neck—traditionally thought to be pliosaurs, while ‘plesiosauromorphs’ have a small head and long neck, and have been seen as plesiosauroids. This is in fact an oversimplification, and today, detailed analysis and investigations of plesiosaur anatomy suggest that these mo...

Cognitive functioning influences activities of daily living (ADL). However, studies reporting the association between ADL and neuropsychological performance show inconsistent results regarding what specific cognitive domains are related to each specific functional domains. Additionally, whether depressive symptoms are associated with a worse functional performance in older adults is still under...

We use high-resolution N-body simulations, combined with a halo occupation model of galaxy bias, to investigate voids in the galaxy distribution. Our goal is to address the “void phenomenon” of Peebles (2001), which presents the observed dearth of faint galaxies in voids as a challenge to the current cosmology. In our model, galaxy luminosity is determined only as a function of dark matter halo...

In an earlier paper we introduced Lévy base correlation. In this paper we compare the Gaussian copula and Lévy base correlation models. The results of a historical study of both models on the iTraxx Europe Main dataset are presented. We focus on the base correlation surface and on the deltas of the tranches with respect to the index.

This study focuses on the differences between stubborn sets and other partial order methods. First a major problem with step graphs is pointed out with an example. Then the deadlock-preserving stubborn set method is compared to the deadlock-preserving ample set and persistent set methods. Next, conditions are discussed whose purpose is to ensure that the reduced state space preserves the orderi...

We have studied the fission-neutron emission competition in highly excited (274)Hs (Z=108) (where the fission barrier is due to shell effects) formed by a hot fusion reaction. Matching cross bombardments ((26)Mg+(248)Cm and (25)Mg+(248)Cm) were used to identify the properties of first chance fission of (274)Hs. A Harding-Farley analysis of the fission neutrons emitted in the (25)Mg,26+(248)Cm w...

Over the years, a lot of course material has been developed to explain to undergraduate students the fundamentals of XML, and schema languages such as DTD and XMLSchema. Typically, the syntax of these languages is discussed and examples are given. How to find a schema for some XML content is often not covered by the material. As a result, students have problems to start with modeling a complex ...

The current inability to prove