We compare student academic performance in traditional twice-a-week and compressed once-aweek lecture formats in introductory microeconomics between one semester in which students were randomly assigned into the formats and another semester when students were allowed to choose their format. In each semester we offered the same course with the sections taught at the same times in the same classr...

The evaluation of several agents over a given task in a finite period of time is a very common problem in experimental design, statistics, computer science, economics and, in general, any experimental science. It is also crucial for intelligence evaluation. In reinforcement learning, the task is formalised as an interactive environment with observations, actions and rewards. Typically, the deci...

  Background: The breeding performance is an important parameter to evaluate the breeding success in captive condition. The optimum hormone dose in combination with latency period is desirable for getting best breeding performance in fish. Objectives: <span style="color: win...

in this study two intelligent systems, based on adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems (anfis) and artificial neural networks (anns) of forecasting municipal solid wastes (msw) generation has been proposed. anfis and anns as an intelligent tool compared with together was used to monthly prediction of msw generated in tehran. monthly amount of solid wastes (sw), total monthly precipitation, mont...

There are many interesting applications of partial order theory in distributed and parallel systems. These include testing and monitoring the concurrent behaviour of the system. Dilworth’s chain partition and width of the partial order plays a key role when the trace is modelled as such. In this paper, we discuss the desicion problem of testing the width of a partially ordered set, and finding ...

In this paperwe consider the problemof reconstructing a binarymatrix fromabsorbedprojections, as introduced in [Kuba and Nivat, LinearAlgebraAppl. 339 (2001) 171–194]. In particular we prove that two left and right horizontal absorbed projections along a single direction uniquely determine a row of a binary matrix for a specific absorption coefficient. Moreover, we give a linear time algorithm ...

Soft real-time systems are often analysed using hard realtime techniques, which are not suitable to take into account the deadline misses rate allowed in such systems. Therefore, the resulting system is over-dimensioned, thus expensive. To appropriately dimension soft real-time systems, adequate models, capturing their varying runtime behaviour, are needed. By using the concepts of a mathematic...