We show that, for almost all N -variable Boolean functions f , N/4 − O( √ N log N) queries are required to compute f in quantum black-box model with bounded error.

Using social media for political discourse is becoming common practice, especially around election time. One interesting aspect of this trend is the possibility of pulsing the public’s opinion about the elections, and that has attracted the interest of many researchers and the press. Allegedly, predicting electoral outcomes from social media data can be feasible and even simple. Positive result...

We obtain a representation of the derivative of the spectral shift function ξ(λ, h) in the framework of semi-classical ”black box” perturbations. Our representation implies a meromorphic continuation of ξ(λ, h) involving the semi-classical resonances. Moreover, we obtain a Weyl type asymptotics of the spectral shift function as well as a Breit-Wigner approximation in an interval (λ− δ, λ+ δ), 0...

The Big Australian Speech Corpus project incorporates the strategic goals of 30 Chief Investigators from various speech science areas. Speech from 1000 geographically and socially diverse speakers is being recorded using a uniform and automated protocol plus standardized hardware and software to produce a widely applicable and extensible database – AusTalk. Here we describe the project’s major ...

Informative Bayesian priors are often difficult to elicit, and when this is the case, modelers usually turn to noninformative or objective priors. However, objective priors such as the Jeffreys and reference priors are not tractable to derive for many models of interest. We address this issue by proposing techniques for learning reference prior approximations: we select a parametric family and ...

Improvements in technology and manufacturing reduce prices for sensing technology and allow the internet-connection of more and more base stations; therefore growing both the scale and application areas for wireless sensor networks. Reconfigurable, general purpose networks are replacing classic black-box sensor technology in the fields of environmental observations, for example conservation and...

The present study seeks to explore the association between managers' human values and shareholder value by examining the potential mediation effect of the marketing 'Black Box' – the until now uninvestigated interrelationships among strategic orientation, market orientation and marketing performance. The authors argue that managers' human values, which have been ignored in recent marketing lite...

Last updated: December 10, 2013. Topics: Motivation for the study of spherical representations; Satake isomorphism stated for the general case of a connected reductive group (taking Bruhat-Tits theory as a black box); interpretation (spherical principal series, Satake parameter, representations of dual reductive group); Satake made more explicit for the split case (key calculation); idea of pro...

This paper is devoted to a detailed study of the behavior of the resonances and resonant states near the real axis. We work mainly in the semi-classical setting but most results can be easily translated into the classical one. By resonances near the real axis we mean resonances in a “box” Ω(h) = [a0, b0] + i[−S(h), 0], where 0 < S(h) = O(h), K ≫ 1. Such resonances may exist only for trapping ge...