abstract the aim of this paper is to investigate annual and seasonal precipitation trends of some selective meteorological stations of central region in iran using non-parametric methods. two non-parametric methods including mann-kendall and sen's estimator slope methods were used here to analyze the seasonal and annual trends of precipitation data. some 48 meteorological stations in centr...

Slope selection, i.e. selecting the slope with rank k among all ( n 2 ) lines induced by a collection P of points, results in a widely used robust estimator for linefitting. In this paper, we demonstrate that it is possible to perform slope selection in expected O(n·log2 n) time using only constant extra space in addition to the space needed for representing the input.

Given n points in the plane and an integer k, the slope selection problem is to nd the pair of points whose connecting line has the k-th smallest slope. (In dual setting, given n lines in the plane, we want to nd the vertex of their arrangement with the k-th smallest x-coordinate.) Cole et al. 6] have given an O(n log n) solution (which is optimal), using the parametric searching technique of M...

M. Daghofer,1,* Q.-L. Luo,2,3 R. Yu,4 D. X. Yao,2,3,5 A. Moreo,2,3 and E. Dagotto2,3 1IFW Dresden, P.O. Box 27 01 16, D-01171 Dresden, Germany 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200, USA 3Materials Science and Technology Division, ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6032, USA 4Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas...

This paper presents a framework to explore the relationship between health equity and community empowerment. It traces the progression of the concept of participation to the present term of empowerment and the links among empowerment, equity, and health outcomes. It argues that the relationship can best be described by using the acronym CHOICE (Capacity-building, Human rights, Organizational su...

THE EFFECT OF THE INNOVATIVE ENVIRONMENT ON EXIT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRMS M. B. SARKAR, RAJ ECHAMBADI, RAJSHREE AGARWAL* and BISAKHA SEN 1 College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. 2 College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. 3 School of Public Health, University of Al...

the Suppes-Sen dominance relation is a weak and widely accepted criterion of distributive justice. We propose its application to Nash bargaining theory. The Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS) is characterised by replacing the controversial Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives axiom with an axiom embodying the SuppesSen principle. More precisely, maximality in the Suppes-Sen relation is shown to ...

We consider nonequilibrium probabilistic dynamics in logisticlike maps x(t+1)=1-a|x(t)|(z), (z>1) at their chaos threshold: We first introduce many initial conditions within one among W>>1 intervals partitioning the phase space and focus on the unique value q(sen)<1 for which the entropic form S(q) identical with (1- summation operator Wp(q)(i))/(q-1) linearly increases with time. We then verif...

How to effectively collect diverse data of spontaneous speech and to upgrade various speech processing techniques is a serious issue. In this paper, we introduce our proposed method “SEN method”, which aims to collect psychologically and acoustically diverse acted speech effectively with naturalness. We created detailed directions, on the basis of various real-life scenarios, consulting with a ...

Suppes-Sen Dominance is a commonly accepted criterion of impartiality in distributive justice. Mariotti (1999) characterized the Nash bargaining solution using Nash (1950)’s Scale Invariance (SI) axiom and an axiom named Suppes-Sen Proofness (SSP) that embodies the Suppes-Sen principle. By adding a relative equity component to SSP, we …rst consider a stronger version of of it, the Strong Suppes...