Suppose I want to find the k-th largest number in an array of size n. I could sort the array and look at the k-th value from the end. This could be an O(nlg n) runtime algorithm. We would like to improve it. Write an algorithm in English or in pseudo-code to find the k-th largest value in O(klg n) runtime for large k. As an example, the 3rd largest value in, A

Some of your friends have gotten into the burgeoning field of time-series data mining, in which one looks for patterns in sequences of events that occur over time. purchases at stock exchanges"what's being bought" are one source of data with a natural ordering in time. given a long sequence s of such events, your friends want an efficient way to detect certain "patterns" in them"for example, they may want to know if the four events buy yahoo, buy ebay, buy yahoo, buy oracle occur in this sequence s, in order but not necessarily consecutively. they begin with a collection of possible events (e. g., the possible transactions) and a sequence s of n of these events. a given event may occur multiple times in s (e. g., yahoo stock may be bought many times in a single sequence s). we will say that a sequence s is a subsequence of s if there is a way to delete certain of the events from s so that the remaining events, in order, are equal to the sequence s . so, for example, the sequence of four events above is a subsequence of the sequence buy amazon, buy yahoo, buy ebay, buy yahoo, buy yahoo, buy oracle their goal is to be able to dream up short sequences and quickly detect whether they are subsequences of s. so this is the problem they pose to you: give an algorithm that takes two sequences of events"s of length m and s of length n, each possibly containing an event more than once"and decides in time o(m + n) whether s is a subsequence of s.

Two technicians are discussing the common u-joint. technician a says its input and output speeds should be equal. technician b says that it normally has two yokes. which technician is correct?

Consider the following statements, then select one of the answers below: the signal() function shown below registers "sig_handler()" as the signal handler function for the sigkill signal, without the complexity of using when the sigkill signal is sent to a process running this code, by a user typing "kill -kill ", where the correct process id is used for to target the process, sig_handler() will be executed.