We consider the problem of testing functions for the property of being a k-junta (i.e., of depending on at most k variables). Fischer, Kindler, Ron, Safra, and Samorodnitsky (J. Comput. Sys. Sci., 2004 ) showed that Õ(k)/ queries are sufficient to test k-juntas, and conjectured that this bound is optimal for non-adaptive testing algorithms. Our main result is a non-adaptive algorithm for testin...

Front Cover: The disperse polymer blend morphology evolution is described using a macroscopic model, which clusters individual droplets in droplet populations. model used to perform particle tracking simulation of the inside twin-screw extruder. figure shows size distribution 1300 populations along cross-section This reported by Patrick D. Anderson and co-workers article number 2100087.

E ugene Patrick Kennedy died peacefully at his Cambridge home, age 92 years, on September 22, 2011. He was a giant of 20th century biochemistry, and his pioneering studies of lipid biosynthesis and function were a foundation of modern cell biology. He was also a man of immense intellect and genuine modesty, a devoted teacher who inspired his many students and colleagues, and a loving father, gr...

Combining logics has become a rapidly expanding enterprise that is inspired mainly by concerns about modularity and the wish to join together tailor made logical tools into more powerful but still manageable ones. A natural question is whether it o ers anything new over and above existing standard languages. By analysing a number of applications where combined logics arise, we argue that combin...

1 2 3 4 Dopamine exerts activation dependent modulation of spinal locomotor circuits in the 5 neonatal mouse 6 7 8 Jennifer M Humphreys and Patrick J Whelan 9 10 Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Departments of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, 11 Physiology and Pharmacology and Clinical Neurosciences. University of Calgary, Calgary, 12 Alberta, Canada. 13 14 15 16 Running Head: Dopaminer...

Vol. XLV (June 2008), 379–389 379 © 2008, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Henrik Hagtvedt is a doctoral student in Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), and Vanessa M. Patrick is Assistant Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Terry College of Business, University of Georgia. Both authors contributed equally to this research. They ...