Empirical tests are used to help determine whether a given sequence of numbers has statistical properties similar to those of a sequence whose elements are drawn from a uniform probability distribution. The runs test and the maximum of t test are two traditional tests that have been applied to sequences of real numbers between 0 and 1. Motivated by the desire for a set of empirical tests that a...

What will yield the best results: doing one run n generations long or doing m runs n/m generations long each? This paper presents a techniqueindependent analysis which answers this question, and has direct applicability to scheduling and restart theory in evolutionary computation and other stochastic methods. The paper then applies this technique to three problem domains in genetic programming....

Store-and-generate techniques encode a given test set and regenerate the original test set during test with the help of a decoder. They are particularly suitable for IP cores coming with pre-computed test sets, and they also offer a natural option for test resource partitioning, because the encoded test data can be stored either on or off chip. Previous research has focused on run-length coding...

Introduction As functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is too expensive and time consuming, its frequent implementation is difficult. The aim of this study is to evaluate repeatability of detecting visual cortex activity in fMRI. Materials and Methods In this study, 15 normal volunteers (10 female, 5 male; Mean age±SD: 24.7±3.8 years) attended. Functional magnetic resonance images were ob...