n response to calls for change from within and outside the scientific community, funding agencies, journals, and professional societies are developing new requirements to promote reproducibility and integrity in research. Amid this activity, the voices of academic institutions—both their leadership and rank-and-file faculty—have largely been quiet. Yet journals, societies, and funding agencies ...

Abstracf-This paper presents a method of characterizing n-port networks. It is shown that a large class of lossless n-ports can he characterized by sequences of step-up vectors, i.e., vectors that form successive incident voltages to the networks and are orthonorma1 at the same time. As a result, lossless networks can be classified into several classes. The most interesting one is, perhaps, the...

In this paper, we show a general way to interpret the infrastructure of a global field of arbitrary unit rank. This interpretation generalizes the prior concepts of the giant-step operation and f -representations, and makes it possible to relate the infrastructure to the (Arakelov) divisor class group of the global field. In the case of global function fields, we present results that establish ...