In this work, the issue of computing a real logarithm of a real matrix is addressed. After a brief review of some known methods, more attention is paid to three methods: (i) Padé approximation techniques, (ii) Newton’s method, and (iii) a series expansion method. Newton’s method has not been previously treated in the literature; we address commutativity issues, and simplify the algorithmic form...

Normal state-space models are prevalent, but to increase the applicability of the Kalman filter, we propose mixtures of skewed, and extended skewed, Kalman filters. To do so, the closed skew-normal distribution is extended to a scalemixture class of closed skew-normal distributions. Some basic properties are derived and a class of closed skew-t distributions is obtained. Our suggested family of...

We present a simulation study of several prefetching policies to improve the I/O performance of external merging using parallel I/O. In particular we consider traditional sequential prefetch, forecast-based greedy prefetching, and oblivious prefetching. In conjunction with the prefetching policies we evaluate the bene t of two di erent data placement strategies: run-level striping and block-ran...

The aim of this work is to study some noncommutative differential operators. We take an algorithmic approach as well as further developing the mathematics, and design and analyse algorithms to solve fundamental problems. We also give applications to differential equations. First we consider how to factor skew polynomials. These are polynomials in a differential or difference operator. Using the...

In this paper, we discuss a generalization of Balakrishnan skew-normal distribution with two parameters that contains the skew-normal, the Balakrishnan skew-normal and the two-parameter generalized skew-normal distributions as special cases. Furthermore, we establish some useful properties and two extensions of this distribution. 

BACKGROUND Body Mass Index (BMI), like most human phenotypes, is substantially heritable. However, BMI is not normally distributed; the skew appears to be structural, and increases as a function of age. Moreover, twin correlations for BMI commonly violate the assumptions of the most common variety of the classical twin model, with the MZ twin correlation greater than twice the DZ correlation. T...

Given an undamped gyroscopic system GðλÞ 1⁄4 Mλ þ CλþK with M , K symmetric and C skew-symmetric, this paper presents a real-valued spectral decomposition of GðλÞ by a real standard pair ðX;TÞ and a skew-symmetric parameter matrix S . When T is assumed to be a block diagonal matrix, the parameter matrix S has a special structure. This spectral decomposition is applied to solve the quadratic inv...

for a simple digraph $g$ of order $n$ with vertex set${v_1,v_2,ldots, v_n}$, let $d_i^+$ and $d_i^-$ denote theout-degree and in-degree of a vertex $v_i$ in $g$, respectively. let$d^+(g)=diag(d_1^+,d_2^+,ldots,d_n^+)$ and$d^-(g)=diag(d_1^-,d_2^-,ldots,d_n^-)$. in this paper we introduce$widetilde{sl}(g)=widetilde{d}(g)-s(g)$ to be a new kind of skewlaplacian matrix of $g$, where $widetilde{d}(g...

let $d$ be a digraph with skew-adjacency matrix $s(d)$‎. ‎the skew‎ ‎energy of $d$ is defined as the sum of the norms of all‎ ‎eigenvalues of $s(d)$‎. ‎two digraphs are said to be skew‎ ‎equienergetic if their skew energies are equal‎. ‎we establish an‎ ‎expression for the characteristic polynomial of the skew‎ ‎adjacency matrix of the join of two digraphs‎, ‎and for the‎ ‎respective skew energ...

for a finite field $mathbb{f}_q$, the bivariate skew polynomial ring $mathbb{f}_q[x,y;rho,theta]$ has been used to study codes cite{xh}. in this paper, we give some characterizations of the ring $r[x,y;rho,theta]$, where $r$ is a commutative ring. we investigate 2-d skew $(lambda_1,lambda_2)$-constacyclic codes in the ring $r[x,y;rho,theta]/langle x^l-lambda_1,y^s-lambda_2rangle_{mathit{l}}.$ a...