We review a few of the relavitely recent developments in cone programming that seem to have important applications in financial planning. In particular, we go over the semidefinite programming representation of a polynomial inequality as given by Nesterov. We mention some relevant references which show the power of cone programming in portfolio optimization. Then we turn to the recent work of L...

The purpose of the study was to test the hypothesis that the retinae of patients with enhanced S cone syndrome (ESCS) have more S cones than the normal retina and these cones have replaced some of the L and M cones. Standard and spectral full-field electroretinograms, measurements of L, M, and S cone system sensitivities and S cone acuity were obtained from three patients with ESCS. The results...

In this work, we define the notion of an algebraic distance in algebraic cone metric spaces defined by Niknam et al. [A. Niknam, S. Shamsi Gamchi and M. Janfada, Some results on TVS-cone normed spaces and algebraic cone metric spaces, Iranian J. Math. Sci. Infor. 9 (1) (2014), 71--80] and introduce some its elementary properties. Then we prove the existence and uniqueness of fixed point for a B...

The study of bilinear operators associated to a class of non-smooth symbols can be reduced to the study of certain special bilinear cone operators to which a time frequency analysis using smooth wave-packets is performed. In this paper we prove that when smooth wave-packets are replaced by Walsh wave-packets the corresponding discrete Walsh model for the cone operators is not only Lp-bounded, a...

The present study is concerned with measuring and simulating soot formation and combustion in turbulent liquid fuel spray flames. Soot concentrations inside the combustor are measured by filter paper technique. The simulation is based on the solution of the fully-coupled conservation equations for turbulent flow, chemical species kinetic modeling, fuel droplet evaporation and combustion and...

The Schwinger model, defined in the space interval −L ≤ x ≤ L, with (anti)periodic boundary conditions, is canonically quantized in the lightcone gauge A− = 0 by means of equal-time (anti)commutation relations. The transformation diagonalizing the complete Hamiltonian is explicitly constructed, thereby giving spectrum, chiral anomaly and condensate. The structures of Hilbert spaces related both...

Chromatic sensitivity cannot exceed limits set by noise in the cone photoreceptors. To determine how close neurophysiological and psychophysical chromatic sensitivity come to these limits, we developed a parameter-free model of stimulus encoding in the cone outer segments, and we compared the sensitivity of the model to the psychophysical sensitivity of monkeys performing a detection task and t...

Patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) show delayed inner retinal responses as measured by the cone ERG response to a 30 Hz stimulus. To determine the extent to which this delay results from abnormalities of cone phototransduction, cone ERGs to single flashes were obtained from 21 patients with RP and a model of cone phototransduction was fitted to the leading edge of the a-waves of these ERGs...

Filopodial dynamics are thought to control growth cone guidance, but the types and roles of growth cone dynamics underlying neural circuit assembly in a living brain are largely unknown. To address this issue, we have developed long-term, continuous, fast and high-resolution imaging of growth cone dynamics from axon growth to synapse formation in cultured Drosophila brains. Using R7 photorecept...