Although the Ethernet promises high probability packet delivery between all pairs of hosts, defects in the installation can sometimes prevent some pairs of hosts from communicating very well. This paper describes a method that was developed and used at Carnegie Mellon University during 1984–1985 to monitor the connectivity between all pairs of hosts on the Ethernet. The method is based on sendi...

this article studies sir walter scott’s use of the family-as-nation trope in ivanhoe and anne of geierstein. the importance of this trope in his figuration of nationhood is discerned by carrying out a close reading of the texts and placing them in their historical context, which primarily consists of a comparison with edmund burke and maria edgeworth. consequently, his position is revealed as b...

The Associative Probability Theory asserts that the greater the number of associates elicited by a stimulus, the greater the probability that one of these will be an appropriate mediator for new learning. The present study tested the adequacy of this theory in describing the effect of natural-language-sequential habits on PA learning. The transitional probability between pairs of words and the ...

We give two results for multicommodity flows in the d-dimensional hypercube Qd with independent random edge-capacities distributed like a random variable C where P[C > 0] > 1/2. Firstly, with high probability as d → ∞, the network can support simultaneous multicommodity flows of volume close to E[C] between all antipodal vertex pairs. Secondly, with high probability, the network can support sim...

We give two results for multicommodity flows in the d-dimensional hypercube Qd with independent random edge capacities distributed like C where P[C > 0] > 1/2. Firstly, with high probability as d → ∞, the network can support simultaneous multicommodity flows of volume close to E[C] between all antipodal vertex pairs. Secondly, with high probability, the network can support simultaneous multicom...

We study the number of linear extensions of a partial order with a given proportion of comparable pairs of elements, and estimate the maximum and minimum possible numbers. We also show that a random interval partial order on n elements has close to a third of the pairs comparable with high probability, and the number of linear extensions is n! 2−Θ(n) with high probability.

This work aims to extract causal relations that exist between two events expressed by noun phrases or sentences. The previous works for the causality made use of causal patterns such as causal verbs. We concentrate on the information obtained from other causal event pairs. If two event pairs share some lexical pairs and one of them is revealed to be causally related, the causal probability of a...

This study aims at analyzing the differences in the factors that influence the probability of knowledge transfer within industry and from industry to science in the biotechnology sector. In order to model these knowledge flows a citation analysis on the basis of patent data was conducted and a weighted bivariate probit model was estimated on the citation probability of industry and science on t...

In this paper we propose a simple fast-search VQ of the LSF’s to be used on top of the split VQ, that is, in each of the sub-vector domains. The main trait of the proposed method is that no suboptimal codebooks are used and there is no further reduction in performance. In each sub-vector domain, a full-size optimally trained codebook, typically of size 1024, is searched using a fastsearch algor...