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Self-information
Known as:
Selfinformation
, Self informing
, Information content
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In information theory, self-information or surprisal is a measure of the information content associated with an event in a probability space or with…
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Studying Primate Color: Towards Visual System-dependent Methods
M. Stevens
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M. Stoddard
,
J. Higham
International journal of primatology
2009
Corpus ID: 21733966
Primates exhibit a striking diversity of colors and patterns in their pelage and skin markings, used in functions as diverse as…
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Video-aware opportunistic network coding over wireless networks
H. Seferoglu
,
A. Markopoulou
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
2009
Corpus ID: 543206
In this paper, we study video streaming over wireless networks with network coding capabilities. We build upon recent work, which…
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Assessing Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Genetic Diversity Using Morphological Characters and Microsatallite Markers
K. Salem
,
A. M. El-Zanaty
,
R. Esmail
2008
Corpus ID: 5973348
3 Abstract: Genetic diversity of the seven wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) varieties was evaluated at the DNA level using 48 simple…
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
The Informativeness of Domestic and Foreign Investors' Stock Trades: Evidence from the Perfectly Segmented Chinese Market
Kalok Chan
,
A. Menkveld
,
Zhishu Yang
2007
Corpus ID: 28423838
This paper uses the perfect market segmentation setting in China's stock market to compare the information content of the stock…
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Internet GIS for Public Participation
Z. Peng
2001
Corpus ID: 15012889
Internet GIS, serving spatial data and GIS functionality on the web, offers a special and potentially important means to…
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
The Continuum of Classification Fuzziness in Thematic Mapping
G. M. Foody
1999
Corpus ID: 17565283
Thematic mapping from remotely sensed data is generally achieved through the application of a supervised image classification…
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Reading the Smile: The Message Conveyed by Methods Which Infer Risk Neutral Densities
E. Jondeau
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M. Rockinger
1997
Corpus ID: 53649191
In this study we compare the quality and information content of risk neutral densities obtained by various methods. We consider a…
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Review
1989
Review
1989
Book Reviews: Machine Translation: Linguistic Characteristics of MT Systems and General Methodology of Evaluation
R. Mccardell
International Conference on Computational Logic
1989
Corpus ID: 10496230
This book (which has been long in the making!) is a compilation of a large number of papers written over the years (1971-1981…
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Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
H+D2 reaction dynamics. Determination of the product state distributions at a collision energy of 1.3 eV
E. Marinero
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C. Rettner
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R. Zare
1984
Corpus ID: 85503148
Two‐photon resonance, three‐photon ionization has been used to determine the HD product internal state distribution formed by the…
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Review
1979
Review
1979
Acoustic microscopy with mechanical scanning—A review
C. Quate
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A. Atalar
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H. K. Wickramasinghe
Proceedings of the IEEE
1979
Corpus ID: 23952379
Acoustic waves in liquids are known to have wavelengths comparable to that of visible light if the frequency is in the gigahertz…
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