By employing invariant relation between the mean value of the first (n − 1) pixels and the last one pixel (also called the remaining pixel) for every image block containing n pixels, a new reversible watermark scheme capable of mostly carrying 2n−3 bits into one n-sized image block in a single embedding process is presented in this paper. First, the mean value of the first (n − 1) pixel is calc...

The present paper deals with the problem of calculating mean delays in polling systems with either exhaustive or gated service. We develop a mean value analysis (MVA) to compute these delay figures. The merits of MVA are in its intrinsic simplicity and its intuitively appealing derivation. As a consequence, MVA may be applied, both in an exact and approximate manner, to a large variety of models.

Mean value interpolation is a simple, fast, linearly precise method of smoothly interpolating a function given on the boundary of a domain. For planar domains, several properties of the interpolant were established in a recent paper by Dyken and the second author, including: sufficient conditions on the boundary to guarantee interpolation for continuous data; a formula for the normal derivative...

The methods of defining and evaluating evolution of information in economic systems are often based on abstract measuretheoretic mean-preserving transformations (MPTs), also known as second-order stochastic dominance. This study first points out that such abstract MPTs have distributional equivalents and then shows that the distributional MPTs often provide analytical settings that are more acc...

We develop a parallel theory to that concerning the concept of integral mean value of a function, by replacing the additive framework with a multiplicative one. Particularly, we prove results which are multiplicative analogues of the Jensen and Hermite-Hadamard inequalities. 1. Introduction Many results in Real Analysis exploits the property of convexity of the subintervals I of R; (A) x; y 2 I...

s for MAIA 2007 The limits of bivariate Lagrange projectors Carl de Boor∗ and Boris Shekhtman Eastsound, Washington In a talk in Norway in 2003, the first author conjectured that any finite-rank ideal projector (i.e., finite-rank linear projector on the space of polynomials in d variables whose kernel is a polynomial ideal, i.e., a linear space also closed under pointwise multiplication by poly...

In this note we give a subdifferential mean value inequality for every continuous Gâteaux subdifferentiable function f in a Banach space which only requires a bound for one but not necessarily all of the subgradients of f at every point of its domain. We also give a subdifferential approximate Rolle’s theorem stating that if a subdifferentiable function oscillates between −ε and ε on the bounda...