Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) form an integral part of every economy as they are the leading providers of revenue and employment. However, as the global economy becomes more reliant on Information Communication and Technology (ICT), some SMEs are yet to reap the benefits that ICT has to offer. The low rate of adoption and innovative use of ICT amongst SMEs has become significant research ...

This paper describes a method and a system for content-based querying of texts based on the availability of an ontology for the concepts in the text domain. A key principle in the system is the extraction of conceptual content of noun phrases into descriptors forming an integral part of the ontology. The retrieval of text passages rests on matching descriptors from the text against descriptors ...

The main purpose of this paper is using the elementary method and analytic method to study the asymptotic properties of the integer part of the k-th root positive integer, and give two interesting asymptotic formulae.

We determine all pairs of real numbers (α, β) such that the dilated floor functions bαxc and bβxc commute under composition, i.e., such that bαbβxcc = bβbαxcc holds for all real x.

and Applied Analysis 3 Definition 2.2. The Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative of order α > 0 of a function f : 0,∞ → R is given by D 0 f t 1 Γ n − α ( d dt )n ∫ t 0 f s t − s α−n 1 ds, 2.2 where n α 1 and α denotes the integer part of α. The following two lemmas can be found in 17, 22 . Lemma 2.3. Let α > 0 and u ∈ C 0, 1 ∩ L1 0, 1 . Then fractional differential equation D 0 u t 0 2.3

For positive integers m and r, one can easily show there exist integers N such that for every map ∆ : {1, 2, · · · , N} → {1, 2, · · · , r} there exist 2m integers x1 < · · · < xm < y1 < · · · < ym which satisfy: 1. ∆(x1) = · · · = ∆(xm), 2. ∆(y1) = · · · = ∆(ym), 3. 2(xm − x1) ≤ ym − x1. In this paper we investigate the minimal such integer, which we call g(m,r). We prove that g(m, 2) = 5(m − ...

The purpose of this report is to provide a perspective on future accelerator projects, and to identify the R&D activities necessary to prepare for these projects. The report summarizes the conclusions of accelerator studies made during the 2001 Snowmass Summer Study on the Future of Particle Physics. In doing so, it serves as a summary of the opinions on accelerator R&D expressed by the scienti...