it is known that a stochastic dierential equation (sde) induces two probabilisticobjects, namely a diusion process and a stochastic ow. while the diusion process isdetermined by the innitesimal mean and variance given by the coecients of the sde,this is not the case for the stochastic ow induced by the sde. in order to characterize thestochastic ow uniquely the innitesimal covariance give...

medical ethics has a long history worldwide, and the move towards a transcultural ethics must be based on an appreciation of the history that has produced the present relationships. it is often thought that medical ethics history has begun at the time of hippocrates, however it is much older. it is clear that various cultures such as babylonia, ancient egypt, greece, and the persians have attem...

1 Harold P.E. Stern, University of Alabama, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, PO Box 870286, Tuscaloosa, AL 35406 [email protected] 2 Russell L. Pimmel, University of Alabama, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, PO Box 870286, Tuscaloosa, AL 35406 [email protected] Abstract  This paper describes a short (3 class-hour) module developed to teach engineeri...

in this paper, a new and ecient approach based on operational matrices with respect to the gener-alized laguerre polynomials for numerical approximation of the linear ordinary dierential equations(odes) with variable coecients is introduced. explicit formulae which express the generalized la-guerre expansion coecients for the moments of the derivatives of any dierentiable function in terms...