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Self-information

Known as: Selfinformation, Self informing, Information content 
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
Simultaneous three-component PIV/OH-PLIF measurements of a turbulent lifted, C3H8-Argon jet diffusion flame at 1.5 kHz repetition rate
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Genetic Analyses of Chinese Cynodon Accessions by Flow Cytometry and AFLP Markers
Bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.] is widely distributed in China, but little information exists on genetic diversity… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Microsatellite markers for the common bean Phaseolus vulgaris
Efforts to develop molecular tools for genetic analysis and breeding of common bean in the tropics are still limited. The number… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Developing Measures of Complexity for Engineering Design
Developing objective measures for evaluating the complexity of the design problems would facilitate empirical studies that… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Microsatellites and RFLP probes from maize are efficient sources of molecular markers for the biomass energy crop Miscanthus
Abstract A survey of Gramineae markers was carried out with the aim of developing cost-effective methods for the molecular… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Measuring Herding and Exaggeration by Equity Analysts and Other Opinion Sellers
Firms and individuals who sell opinions may bias their reports for either behavioral or strategic reasons. This paper proposes a… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Saliency Maps and Attention Selection in Scale and Spatial Coordinates: An Information Theoretic Approach
Information measures with respect to spatial locations and scales of objects in an image are important to image processing and… 
Review
1989
Review
1989
Book Reviews: Machine Translation: Linguistic Characteristics of MT Systems and General Methodology of Evaluation
This book (which has been long in the making!) is a compilation of a large number of papers written over the years (1971-1981… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
H+D2 reaction dynamics. Determination of the product state distributions at a collision energy of 1.3 eV
Two‐photon resonance, three‐photon ionization has been used to determine the HD product internal state distribution formed by the… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
The Automatic Recognition of Human Faces from Profile Silhouettes
A pattern recognition system is described which is capable of identifying human faces from their full profile silhouettes. Each… 
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