The eeect of noise in a dichotomous process is studied from the Bayesian viewpoint. Winkler's approximation to the posterior distribution in the presence of noise is shown to break down badly near the limits of its application. Information loss is measured using eeective sample size. An account of the relationship between eeective sample size/information loss and sampling data is given which di...

Israel has known a very high inflation rate and two currency changes in the past five years. Coin size estimation by 97 subjects reveals a general tendency to underestimate sizes. The specific pattern of results suggests that coin size estimation is influenced by the subject’s attitude towards the coin in question, that inflation and actual value of the coin are not the only determinants of tha...

The study deals with photophoresis of a spherical micro-particle suspended in absorbing gaseous media. Photophoretic motion of the particle stems from the asymmetric distribution of absorbed energy within the particle. By evaluating the so-called heat source function at various conditions, the study focuses on the effects of governing parameters on the energy distribution within the particle an...

This study investigates the digital presence of cultural centers in three regions of Germany taking into account the theoretical framework of the knowledge age. In order to find out if the adaption of online tools has a positive influence on visitor reach, i.e. on the success of the centers, the thesis attempts to gather information on online tool usage of individual institutions via questionna...

A review of the physical characteristics of sulfur-containing aerosols, with respect to size distribution of the physical distribution, sulfur distributions, distribution modal characteristics, nuclei formation rates, aerosol growth characteristics, and in situ measurement, has been made. Physical size distributions can be characterized well by a trimodal model consisting of three additive log-...

In two experiments we study how redundant size modifiers influence the perceived size of objects. We show that when objects are referred to with overspecified descriptions (for example, using a description like “the large red chair” in a situation where all chairs are equally large but different in color), participants subsequently estimate the object to be larger than when objects are referred...

This paper examines the siting of foreign-owned corporate technological development in European regions. The data used are patents granted in the US to the world's largest firms in the period 1987‘95, identifying the ultimate nationality of ownership and the location of the research facility responsible for each patent. According with the literature on knowledge creation in MNCs and the broader...

Several experimental studies have shown that the human auditory system has a mechanism for extracting speaker-size information, using sufficiently long sounds. This paper investigated influence of vowel duration on the processing for size extraction using short vowels. In a size estimation experiment, listeners subjectively estimated the size (height) of the speaker for isolated vowels. The res...

OBJECTIVE To establish if the 'myth' about whether the size of a man's penis can be estimated from his shoe size has any basis, in fact. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Two urologists measured the stretched penile length of 104 men in a prospective study and related this to their shoe size. RESULTS The median stretched penile length for the sampled population was 13 cm and the median UK shoe size was ...

In this paper, we present a shoe suggestion system for children. The system stores the database about children’s shoes from K1-K3 and P1-P3. The attributes considered are types of shoes, shoe sizes, brands. Given a type of children foot and age, the system suggested the type of shoes, brands, and sizes with the confidence level. The system uses the data mining technique for the classification a...