This paper describes characteristic behaviors of my father, B. F. Skinner, using family documents and my own recollections. Early contingencies in his upbringing strengthened his love of building things and his independence in discovering how the world works. Those skills, combined with a lack of supervision in graduate school, set the stage for his discovery of the operant. He did not stop wit...

Investigation of a microwave oscillator, synchronized by an invariant external signal has been completed A graphical method has been developed which accurately describes the operation of the locked oscillator The analysis is applied to the Rieke diagram of the tube A report on this work is now in progress It is hoped that this type of analysis may be extended to include more generalized synchro...

Auctions have been developed for economic transactions with asymmetric information and they are the simplest means of price determination for multilateral trading without ‘market makers.’ During the last years, new technologies gave a boost to the development and usage of innovative auction formats in several fields. We explore some of the new possibilities of applications and explain the diffe...

In this paper we present a machine learning based approach for detection of malicious PDF documents. We identify various features in PDF documents which are used by malware authors to construct a malicious file. Based on these feature set we arrive on models which is used to detect malicious PDF documents. Based on these feature sets, detection rate is high as compared to approaches which depen...

We construct a SU(N) membrane B ∧ F theory with dual pairs of scalar and tensor fields. The moduli space of the theory is precisely that of N M2-branes on the noncompact flat space. The theory possesses explicit SO(8) invariance and is an extension of the maximal SU(N) super-Yang-Mills theory.

We introduce the concept of exponentially $s$-convexity in second sense on a time scale interval. prove among other things that if $f: [a, b]\to \mathbb{R}$ is an $s$-convex function, then \begin{align*} &\frac{1}{b-a}\int_a^b f(t)\Delta t\\ &\leq \frac{f(a)}{e_{\beta}(a, x_0) (b-a)^{2s}}(h_2(a, b))^s+\frac{f(b)}{e_{\beta}(b, (b-a)^{2s}}(h_2(b, a))^s, \end{align*} where $\beta$ ...