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How many zeros of a random polynomial are real?
, 1993 We provide an elementary geometric derivation of the Kac integral formula for the expected number of real zeros of a random polynomial with independent standard normally distributed coefficients.
Edelman, Alan, Kostlan, Eric
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El diluvio Universal y la extinción de las especies biológicas
Proyección, 2003 La convicción de que el Diluvio Universal bíblico fue un hecho histórico está fuertemente arraigada desde hace milenios. Incluso persiste en nuestros días.
Leandro Sequeiros San Román
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Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2012 The chromosomes of specimens of Oryctes nasicornis from three locations in France and two locations in Greece were studied. All karyotypes have an X-Y-autosome translocation: 18, neoXY.
B. Dutrillaux, A. M. Dutrillaux
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Adding \pm 1 to the argument of an Hall-Littlewood polynomial [PDF]
, 2007 Shifting by \pm 1 powers sums: p_i \to p_i \pm 1 induces a transformation on symmetric functions that we detail in the case of Hall-Littlewood polynomials.
Lascoux, Alain
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Fire and Life: The Chemical Thought of Buffon
Textes & Contextes, 2009 In this paper I try to show, in the first place, that Buffon’s chemical thinking was not anachronistic but in agreement with the chemistry predominant in France before the chemical revolution of Lavoisier took place.
Violeta Aréchiga
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Race in Early Modern Philosophy [PDF]
, 2016 The ethos of Justin Smith’s Nature, Human Nature, & Human Difference is expressed in the narrative of Anton Wilhelm Amo (~1703-53), an African-born slave who earned his doctoral degree in Philosophy at a European university and went on to teach at the ...
Lewis, Dwight
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Optimal Discrete Uniform Generation from Coin Flips, and Applications [PDF]
, 2013 This article introduces an algorithm to draw random discrete uniform variables within a given range of size n from a source of random bits. The algorithm aims to be simple to implement and optimal both with regards to the amount of random bits consumed ...
Lumbroso, Jérémie
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Félix de Azara y Georges Lucien Leclerc: dos formas de iluminar la naturaleza Americana
Asclepio: Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 1996 Estudiar la naturaleza americana fue un reto aceptado por los naturalistas españoles durante la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, hallando en las expediciones científicas el vehículo adecuado a sus intereses.
Andrés Galera, Marcelo Frías
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Facts, Norms and Expected Utility Functions [PDF]
In this paper we want to explore an argumentative pattern that provides a normative justification for expected utility functions grounded on empirical evidence, showing how it worked in three different episodes of their development.
David Teira +2 more
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, 2009 This Article examines environmental rhetoric and argues that a nationalist conception of nature has long distorted environmental policies. Environmental discourse frequently seeks to explain the natural world by reference to the world of nations, a ...
Goldstein, Jared A.
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