29 research outputs found
Property Testing with Online Adversaries
The online manipulation-resilient testing model, proposed by Kalemaj,
Raskhodnikova and Varma (ITCS 2022 and Theory of Computing 2023), studies
property testing in situations where access to the input degrades continuously
and adversarially. Specifically, after each query made by the tester is
answered, the adversary can intervene and either erase or corrupt data
points. In this work, we investigate a more nuanced version of the online model
in order to overcome old and new impossibility results for the original model.
We start by presenting an optimal tester for linearity and a lower bound for
low-degree testing of Boolean functions in the original model. We overcome the
lower bound by allowing batch queries, where the tester gets a group of queries
answered between manipulations of the data. Our batch size is small enough so
that function values for a single batch on their own give no information about
whether the function is of low degree. Finally, to overcome the impossibility
results of Kalemaj et al. for sortedness and the Lipschitz property of
sequences, we extend the model to include , i.e., adversaries that make
less than one erasure per query. For sortedness, we characterize the rate of
erasures for which online testing can be performed, exhibiting a sharp
transition from optimal query complexity to impossibility of testability (with
any number of queries). Our online tester works for a general class of local
properties of sequences. One feature of our results is that we get new (and in
some cases, simpler) optimal algorithms for several properties in the standard
property testing model.Comment: To be published in 15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science
(ITCS 2024
The Nutritional Value of Normal and High Lysine Corns for Weanling and Growing-Finishing Swine When Fed at Four Lysine Levels
One-hundred-ninety-two weanling pigs from two separate trials, (initial weight 6.0 and 5.6 kg) and 400 growing-finishing pigs (initial weight 17 kg) were fed normal and high lysine corn diets containing four levels of lysine in a 2 âą 4 factorial arrangement. Crossbred (Large White âą Landrace x Duroc) pigs were used in all experiments. The objectives of the experiments were to (1) compare normal and high lysine corn when fed at different lysine levels, (2) determine the lysine requirements for the three stages of growth and (3) evaluate the effect of protein level on the lysine requirement. All diets were balanced on a lysine basis. The results indicated that both weanling and growing-finishing pig performance and final carcass composition were similar for pigs fed normal or high lysine corn diets balanced on a lysine basis
Cultural Militarism, Militaristic Politics and Potential Praetorianism During the First Fifty Years of Israel
The article endeavours to account for the intriguing socio-political phenomenon, illustrated by the case of Israel, that military coups (or praetorianism) are thwarted not because of the resilience of democratic institutions and the absence of war, but because the society is culturally militaristic and is in a protracted state of war. This argument, which hypothesizes an inverse relationship between militarism and praetorianism, is based on an examination of the Israeli state from its foundation up until the present day. During that period, the depiction of the Israeli nation-in-arms has been embodied by non-praetorian militarism.The article endeavours to account for the intriguing socio-political phenomenon, illustrated by the case of Israel, that military coups (or praetorianism) are thwarted not because of the resilience of democratic institutions and the absence of war, but because the society is culturally militaristic and is in a protracted state of war. This argument, which hypothesizes an inverse relationship between militarism and praetorianism, is based on an examination of the Israeli state from its foundation up until the present day. During that period, the depiction of the Israeli nation-in-arms has been embodied by non-praetorian militarism
Guardians or Oppressors: the Israeli and Turkish Armies in neoliberal contexts
In this essay, Uri Ben-Eliezer recalls the centrality of the army in the Israeli state and offers two divergent interpretations of such a place in a neoliberal context. He draws a comparison with the role and place of the army in Turkey.Dans cet essai, Uri Ben-Eliezer rappelle le caractĂšre central de lâinstitution militaire au sein de lâĂtat dâIsraĂ«l et apporte deux interprĂ©tations possibles dâune telle importance dans un contexte nĂ©olibĂ©ral. Il esquisse au passage une comparaison avec le rĂŽle et la place de lâarmĂ©e en Turquie
The âsymbolic homelandâ in the Jewish Italian Diaspora: the celebration of civil religion in Italy
In this article, the attitudes of the Italian Jewish diaspora towards Israel, seen as a symbolic homeland, are analyzed. This analysis is based on the theoretical discourse on diaspora.
Attitudes are explored through the participation of Italian Jews in the celebration of Yom ha atzmaâut. Given the significance of Israelâs Independence Day in the sequence of the three-day civil religious commemoration in Israel â which constitutes a sort of national narrative â the entire sequence is also considered in the analysis of the Italian diaspor