Given the immense shifts the social networking sites and applications have brought about, a considerable number of researchers in the field of communication studies have turned to study different aspects of social media usage and factors influencing it. This study gathered data from 33318 US non-institutionalized citizens over 18 including 17079 females and 16239 males; they were members of web...

v1(°'(t), we obtain a system of linear equations whose solution is clearly xi = x,(°'. It follows that a set of forcing functions which minimize G subject to the linear equations of (2.1), together with the original constraints, yields a value of G which is at most G(x1(P)(T), . . . , xv(z)(T)). The general result follows inductively. This monotonicity is not surprising, since we are using the ...

This paper is concerned with the integro-diierential equations y 0 (t) = ay(t) + Z 1 0 y(qt) d(q) + Z 1 0 y 0 (qt) d(q); t 0 and y(t) + Z 1 0 y(qt) d(q) + Z 1 0 y 0 (qt) d(q) = 0; t 0; where a is a complex constant, while and are complex-valued functions of bounded variation on 0; 1]. The main motivation for the study of these two equations is that for every integers B + 1 A 0 and real constant...

We propose a simplified version of the Qt framework, called as Qt Operational Model, which is integrated into the Efficient SMT-based Context-Bounded Model Checking tool, for verifying actual Qt-based applications. Experimental results show that our proposed approach can be effectively and efficiently applied to verify Qt-based real-world applications from consumer electronics.

Multivariate volatility models are widely used in finance to capture both volatility clustering and contemporaneous correlation of asset return vectors. Here, we focus onmultivariate GARCHmodels. In this commonmodel class, it is assumed that the covariance of the error distribution follows a time dependent process conditional on information which is generated by the history of the process. To p...