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Quasi-stationary distributions for structured birth and death processes with mutations
We study the probabilistic evolution of a birth and death continuous time
measure-valued process with mutations and ecological interactions. The
individuals are characterized by (phenotypic) traits that take values in a
compact metric space. Each individual can die or generate a new individual. The
birth and death rates may depend on the environment through the action of the
whole population. The offspring can have the same trait or can mutate to a
randomly distributed trait. We assume that the population will be extinct
almost surely. Our goal is the study, in this infinite dimensional framework,
of quasi-stationary distributions when the process is conditioned on
non-extinction. We firstly show in this general setting, the existence of
quasi-stationary distributions. This result is based on an abstract theorem
proving the existence of finite eigenmeasures for some positive operators. We
then consider a population with constant birth and death rates per individual
and prove that there exists a unique quasi-stationary distribution with maximal
exponential decay rate. The proof of uniqueness is based on an absolute
continuity property with respect to a reference measure.Comment: 39 page
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Computer Theorem Proving and HoTT
Theorem-proving is a one-player game. The history of computer programs being the players goes back to 1956 and the ‘LT’ LOGIC THEORY MACHINE of Newell, Shaw and Simon. In game-playing terms, the ‘initial position’ is the core set of axioms chosen for the particular logic and the ‘moves’ are the rules of inference. Now, the Univalent Foundations Program at IAS Princeton and the resulting ‘HoTT’ book on Homotopy Type Theory have demonstrated the success of a new kind of experimental mathematics using computer theorem proving
Formal Verification of Molecular Computational Models in ACL2: A Case Study
Theorem proving is a classical AI problem with a broad range
of applications. Since its complexity is exponential in the size of the
problem, many methods to parallelize the process has been proposed.
One of these approaches is based on the massive parallelism of molecular
reactions. ACL2 is an automated theorem prover especially adequate for
algorithm verification. In this paper we present an ACL2 formalization
of a molecular computational model: Adleman’s restricted model. As
an application of this model, an implementation of Lipton’s experiment
solving SAT is described. We use ACL2 to make a formal proof of the
completeness and soundness properties of this implementation.Ministerio de Ciencia y TecnologÃa TIC2000-1368-C03-0
Studies in the completeness and efficiency of theorem-proving by resolution
Inference systems Τ and search strategies E for T are distinguished from proof procedures β = (T,E)
The completeness of procedures is studied by studying
separately the completeness of inference systems and of
search strategies. Completeness proofs for resolution
systems are obtained by the construction of semantic
trees. These systems include minimal α-restricted
binary resolution, minimal α-restricted M-clash resolution
and maximal pseudo-clash resolution. Certain refinements
of hyper-resolution systems with equality axioms are
shown to be complete and equivalent to refinements of
the pararmodulation method for dealing with equality.
The completeness and efficiency of search strategies
for theorem-proving problems is studied in sufficient
generality to include the case of search strategies for
path-search problems in graphs. The notion of theorem-proving problem is defined abstractly so as to be dual to
that of and" or tree. Special attention is given to
resolution problems and to search strategies which generate
simpler before more complex proofs.
For efficiency, a proof procedure (T,E) requires
an efficient search strategy E as well as an inference
system T which admits both simple proofs and relatively
few redundant and irrelevant derivations. The theory
of efficient proof procedures outlined here is applied
to proving the increased efficiency of the usual method
for deleting tautologies and subsumed clauses. Counter-examples
are exhibited for both the completeness and
efficiency of alternative methods for deleting subsumed
clauses.
The efficiency of resolution procedures is improved
by replacing the single operation of resolving a clash
by the two operations of generating factors of clauses
and of resolving a clash of factors. Several factoring
methods are investigated for completeness. Of these the
m-factoring method is shown to be always more efficient
than the Wos-Robinson method
Cross-Cultural Study in LocalWisdom for Creative Food Package Development in Secondary School
The purposes of this research were ๑) to study the wisdom of Thai food package by wrapping and packing technique from the local Thai and Japanese food experts. ๒) to develop the WisdomTransferring Model of food packaging ๓) To experiment the specific program of Wisdom-Transferring Model of food packaging in Secondary school: Mathayomsuksa 4th year. The experimental program was examined in Thailand locally separated into 4 parts/4 schools. The result of this research can be explained the transferring technique of Thai wrapping were similar in attitudes and beliefs. The subject should described the content of materials and processes which directly matched with the subject of professional practice and technology together with the social science/cultural and history integrated with English understanding language The researcher founded that the program of Thai Wisdom Transferring has contained to be 24 hours or 4 = full day a continuing program. The control group of this research sample has increasing their creativity in wrapping and packaging up to 40.89% in attitude and belief and 55, 84% the same as the meaning between languages