As a physiochemical property, asphaltenes are known to be one the most surface active compounds in crude oil. Due to such property, their behavior is most probably influenced by fluid-fluid interactions at the contact surface (interface). Potentially and naturally, in most cases, water is in contact with crude oil and is co-produced with it as well. Considering that asphaltene molecules are pol...

In recent years, supporting intellectual property right has gained more significance. Intellectual property rights could be considered as legal rights resulting from intellectual activities in industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields. Today, many countries are seeking practical information about using intellectual property to improve economic growth. Intellectual property rights hav...

We consider the problem of variable screening in ultra-high-dimensional generalized linear models (GLMs) nonpolynomial orders. Since popular SIS approach is extremely unstable presence contamination and noise, we discuss a new robust procedure based on minimum density power divergence estimator (MDPDE) marginal regression coefficients. Our proposed performs well under pure contaminated data sce...

We describe in detail two numerical simulation methods valid to study systems whose thermostatistics is described by generalized entropies, such as Tsallis. The methods are useful for applications to non-trivial interacting systems with a large number of degrees of freedom, and both short–range and long–range interactions. The first method is quite general and it is based on the numerical evalu...

Building on the previous extensive study of Yang, Gould and present author, we provide a more precise insight into group-theoretical ramifications word problem for free idempotent generated semigroups over finite biordered sets. We prove that such problems are in fact equivalent to computing intersections cosets certain subgroups direct products maximal semigroup question, thus providing decida...

A theory of volumetric growth on differentiable manifolds is presented. A balance law for an extensive property, that includes a source term, induces material structure and bodies. Transformation rules for the basic variables that represent growth, under a change of frame in the physical event space, are examined and the material frame, where the volumetric growth has a simple canonical form, i...

The technology of gene knockout is based on gene targeting, a useful technique that utilizes homologous recombination to modify the genome of a living organism primordially developed in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. During this process an in vitro engineered exogenous DNA fragment is transformed into a cell in order to permanently modify targeted genomic counterpart creating a selectable and ...

We study fragments of Allen’s algebra that contain a basic relation distinct from the equality relation. We prove that such a fragment is either NPcomplete or else contained in some already known tractable subalgebra. We obtain this result by giving a new uniform description of known maximal tractable subalgebras and then systematically using an algebraic technique for description of maximal su...

In repeated normal-form games, simple penal codes (Abreu 1986, 1988) permit an elegant characterization of the set of subgame-perfect outcomes. We show that the logic of simple penal codes fails in repeated extensive-form games. We provide two examples illustrating that a subgame-perfect outcome may be supported only by a profile with the property that the continuation play after a deviation is...

In this paper, we propose a new semi-parametric maximum likelihood (ML) estimate of a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve that satisfies the property of invariance of the ROC curve and is easy to compute. We show that our new estimator is sqrt[n]-consistent and has an asymptotically normal distribution. Our extensive simulation studies show that the proposed method is efficient and ro...