Kebir (1994) (see also Shaked and Shanthikumar, 1994) has characterized likelihood ratio (LR) ordering, failure rate (FR) ordering, reversed hazard rate ordering and stochastic (ST) ordering with the help of Laplace transform. Using Laplace transform, Nanda (1995) has characterized, by means of necessary and sufficient conditions, the property that two life distributions are ordered in the s-FR...

Terpolymer of 2-amino-6-nitro-benzothiazole-ethylenediamine-formaldehyde (BEF) has been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis and various spectral techniques like FTIR, UV-Visible, and (1)H and (13)C-NMR. The terpolymer metal complexes were prepared with Cu(2+), Ni(2+), and Zn(2+) metal ions using BEF terpolymer as a ligand. The complexes have been characterized by elemental analy...

We propose a novel algorithm for sequential matrix completion in a recommender system setting, where the (i, j)th entry of the matrix corresponds to a user i’s rating of product j. The objective of the algorithm is to provide a sequential policy for user-product pair recommendation which will yield the highest possible ratings after a finite time horizon. The algorithm uses a Gamma process fact...

Recent years have witnessed several gram-negative bacteria (GNB) species and a few grampositive bacteria (especially the Staphylococcus aureus) posing overwhelming threats to the healthcare-associated infections as a series of frightening superbugs (Engel, 2010; Peleg & Hooper, 2010). It is primarily due to the fact that incidence of multidrug resistance (MDR) or pan-drug resistance (PDR) bacte...

We explore the role of complex multipolar magnetic fields in determining physical processes near the surface of rotation powered pulsars. We model the actual magnetic field as the sum of global dipolar and star-centered multipolar fields. In configurations involving axially symmetric and uniform multipolar fields, ’neutral points’ and ’neutral lines’ exist close to the stellar surface. Also, th...

Morgan AA, Dudley JT, Deshpande T, Butte AJ. Dynamism in gene expression across multiple studies. Physiol Genomics 40: 128 –140, 2010. First published November 17, 2009; doi:10.1152/physiolgenomics.90403.2008.—In this study we develop methods of examining gene expression dynamics, how and when genes change expression, and demonstrate their application in a metaanalysis involving over 29,000 mic...

We give a lower bound of Ω̃( √ n) for the degree-4 Sum-of-Squares SDP relaxation for the planted clique problem. Specifically, we show that on an Erdös-Rényi graph G(n, 1 2 ), with high probability there is a feasible point for the degree-4 SOS relaxation of the clique problem with an objective value of Ω̃( √ n), so that the program cannot distinguish between a random graph and a random graph wit...

Agile software development relies heavily on tight and continuous collaboration, which becomes a challenge when team members work at a distance. Despite significant focus on distributed Agile working, remote working, when only one or two individuals are not co-located with the rest of the team, remains largely unexplored. We focus on one organisation with several such teams and investigate one ...

Survival of a plate against an intense, short duration impulsive loading requires the circumvention of failure modes, including those associated with excessive overall deflection and shear-off at supports and webs. All-metal sandwich plates have distinct advantages over comparable weight monolithic plates, especially for intense water loadings. A recently developed mechanics of dynamically load...

Background Social marketing has been used in Asia to combat various social issues (Deshpande & Lee (2013). However, our understanding of awareness, adaptation, and achievement Asian countries is limited. The focus the Article An historical overview developments Asia. Importance Marketing Field This paper one first attempts integrate theory practice understand its strengths weaknesses provid...