By focusing on the simple $w\neq-1$ extension to $\Lambda$CDM, we assess which epoch(s) possibly source $H_0$-tension. We consider Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data in three possible ways: $i)$ complete CMB data; $ii)$ excluding $l<30$ temperature and polarization likelihoods; $iii)$ imposing early universe priors, that disentangle late time physics. Through a joint analysis with low-redsh...

This quasi-experimental study examines the extent to which research findings from teacher Corrective Feedbacks (CFs) and SLA concerning the efficiency of Focus-on-Form (FoF) pedagogy is transferable to the context of foreign language learning in Iranian schools. To investigate how "grammar instruction with FoF-oriented error treatment" functions as a matrix in which English  learning takes plac...

The present study aimed at investigating the effects of explicit and implicit recasts on Iranian EFL learners' acquisition of English relative clauses. For this purpose, 64 participants were selected out of 94 intermediate level EFL learners at Falagh language Institute, Rasht, Iran. To have homogenized groups, the researcher administered a language proficiency test (TOEFL). Then, the researche...

“Reboot,” especially NoFap, promotes abstinence from masturbation and/or pornography to treat “pornography addiction,” an unrecognized diagnosis. While the intention of Reboot/NoFap is decrease distress, qualitative studies have consistently suggested that “Reboots” paradoxically cause more distress. The distress appears occur in response (1) goal, which recasts common sexual behaviors as perso...

Artificial neural networks are a popular and effective machine learning technique. Great progress has been made on speeding up the expensive training phase of a neural networks, leading to highly specialized pieces of hardware, many based on GPU-type architectures, and more concurrent algorithms such as synthetic gradients. However, the training phase continues to be a bottleneck, where the tra...

Deletion diagnostics are introduced for the regression analysis of clustered binary outcomes estimated with alternating logistic regressions, an implementation of generalized estimating equations (GEE) that estimates regression coefficients in a marginal mean model and in a model for the intracluster association given by the log odds ratio. The diagnostics are developed within an estimating equ...

We set out a logic for reasoning about multilevel security of probabilistic systems. This logic includes modalities for time, knowledge, and probability. In earlier work we gave syntactic deenitions of multilevel security and showed that their semantic interpretations are equivalent to independently motivated information-theoretic deenitions. This paper builds on that earlier work in two ways. ...

Using a combination of X-ray scattering, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, coarse-grained molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and potential of mean force calculations, we have explored the membrane remodeling effects of monomeric α-synuclein (αS). Our initial findings from multiple approaches are that αS (1) causes a significant thinning of the bilayer and (2) stabilizes positive mean curv...

Microprocessor performance can be improved by increasing either the clock frequency (GHz) or the instruction level parallelism (IPC) or both. There is a complex and adversarial relationship between increasing GHz and increasing IPC. This talk revisits the old “speed-demons vs. brainiacs” debate (in some sense the reincarnation of the “RISC vs. CISC” debate) and recasts it as the tension between...

Article history: Received 31 July 2006 Received in revised form 25 September 2006 Accepted 26 September 2006 Available online 21 November 2006 Adaptive co-management brings together collaborative and adaptive approaches in pursuit of sustainable resource use and social–ecological resilience. Enthusiasm for this management approach, however, is countered by recent critiques regarding outcomes. A...