Given a sequence of n elements, the All Nearest Smaller Values (ANSV) problem is to nd, for each element in the sequence, the nearest element to the left (right) that is smaller, or to report that no such element exists. Time and work optimal algorithms for this problem are known on all the PRAM models 4, 6], but the running time of the best previous hypercube algorithm 9] is optimal only when ...

The paper examined the value system in Philippine firms against the backdrop of Eastern-Western cultural dynamics in East Asia. The Asian milieu presents co-existence of cultural stasis and unease -balance and tension between Eastern values and Western ideas. Successful Asian countries demonstrated their ability to blend conflicting cultures and highlight certain values in order to promote nati...

Introduction ............................................................................................... 437 I. The Theory of How Legal Restrictions Affect Land Values ................ 439 A. Land Use Supply and Demand ........................................................ 439 B. Urban Land Models ......................................................................... 440 C. Hedonic Stu...

In this paper I examine the feminist claim that non-epistemic values ought to play a role in scientific inquiry. I examine four holist arguments that non-epistemic values ought to play a role not only in the external aspects of scientific inquiry such as problem selection and the ethics of experimentation but also in its internal aspects, those that have to do with epistemic justification. In s...

Threshold limit values (TLVs) are intended to protect workers from the severest effects of thermal stress and to establish the exposures to heat in working conditions. Earlier, acute heat strokes often occurred as a result of working in hot environments in Japan. However, acute heat strokes recently sometimes occurred in outdoor work environments such as industrial constructions and agriculture...

Extreme diffusion values for non-Gaussian diffusions Deren Han a; Liqun Qi b; X. Wu c a Institute of Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China b Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong c Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kon...

Data mining discouvers interesting information from a data set. Mining incorporates different methods and considers different kinds of in formation. Granulation is an important aspect o f mining. The data sets can be extremely large with multiple kinds of data in high dimensionality. Without granulation, large data sets often are computationally infeasible; and, the generated results may be ove...

Consider non-atomic vector measure games; i.e., games u of the form u = f o(pI.. . ,p.), where (pIr.. .,p.) is a vector of non-atomic non-negative measures and f is a real-valued function defined on the range of (pi,. . .,pi.). Games of this form arise, for example, from production models and from finite-type markets. We show that the value of such a game need not be a linear combination of the...