In the paper we establish some new results depending on the comparative growth properties of composition of entire functions using relative $L^{ast }$-order (relative $L^{ast }$-lower order) as compared to their corresponding left and right factors where $Lequiv Lleft( rright) $ is a slowly changing function.

IT outsourcing has three broad forms: (i) Single-Sourcing, where the client outsources to one primary vendor, (ii) Single-Sourcing with subcontracting , where the primary vendor involves other/secondary vendors in the project, and (iii) Multi-Sourcing, where the client outsources to multiple primary vendors. Using a dataset of large IT outsourcing contracts from the SCD database with 22,031 lar...

In this article we apply the minmax principle we developed in [6] to obtain sign-changing solutions for superlinear and asymptotically linear Dirichlet problems. We prove that, when isolated, the local degree of any solution given by this minmax principle is +1. By combining the results of [6] with the degree-theoretic results of Castro and Cossio in [5], in the case where the nonlinearity is a...

We prove that the non-radial sign-changing solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation ∆u− u + |u|p−1u = 0 in R , u ∈ H(R ) constructed by Musso, Pacard, and Wei [19] are non-degenerate. This provides the first example of a non-degenerate sign-changing solution to the above nonlinear Schrödinger equation with finite energy.

In the 2001 volume entitled The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages, edited by Ceil Lucas (Cambridge University Press), it is stated that, since the early 1980s, “the field of sign language sociolinguistics has virtually exploded. There is work to report on from all of the major areas of sociolinguistics: multilingualism, bilingualism and language contact, variation, discourse analysis, language...

Multimedia data security is important for multimedia commerce. Previous cryptography studies have focused on text data. The encryption algorithms developed to secure text data may not be suitable to multimedia applications because of large data sizes and real time constraint. For multimedia applications, light weight encryption algorithms are attractive. In this paper, we present four fast MPEG...