A biased coin is tossed n times independently and sequentially. A “head” switch is a tail followed by a head and a “tail” switch is a head followed by a tail. Joint Laplace transform for the number of “head” switches and “tail” switches are given. For the total number of switches, the central limit theorem and the large deviation principle are established.

Given that the controversy over success and failure of Bt technology still exists, this paper discusses the available field studies that have addressed agro-economic questions of Bt cotton cultivation in India. Since a meta-analysis of studies can give only partial conclusions, owing to differences across study methodologies and coverage, this paper takes a different strategy, i e, looking not ...

In this paper, we present ongoing work on an application-level platform that assists in broadcasting multimedia streams in heterogeneous mobile systems. Our work revolves around the notion of a technology domain, which is a set of resources that serve mobile clients connecting to the mobile system through a specific wireless technology. We consider the policies that technology domains use to (a...

Speakers of certain bilingual communities systematically produce utterances in whichthey switch from one language to another, suggesting that the two language systems syst~matically interact with each other in the production (and reoognitlon) of these sentences. We have investigated this phenomenon in a formal or computational framework which consists of two gramnatical systems and a mechanism ...

The present study compared American and Japanese user practices on social networking sites (SNSs). Analysis focused on self-presentation such as posting party and drinking pictures on SNSs. A total of 1,079 college students (583 American and 496 Japanese) participated in the survey, which provided the basis for analysis. The results of the study demonstrate cultural and SNS platform differences...

This paper attempts to measure the capacity of consumers to efficiently choose between alternative suppliers. Across two independent datasets from the UK electricity market we find that the subsets of consumers who claimed to be switching exclusively for price reasons appropriated only between 2639% of the maximum gains available through their choice of new supplier. While such behaviour can be...

The expressions for y2(t) and Y2(t) shown in Equations (11) and (12) are valid only if G2 is the latest generation available. Now suppose a generation 3 (G3) is introduced at τ3 (τ3 ≥ τ2). Similar to the shifting from G1 to G2 after τ2, some of the existing and potential adopters of G2 will consider adopting G3 after τ3. In order to derive the number of leapfrogging and switching adoptions betw...