As one of the best indicators periglacial environment, ice-wedge polygons (IWPs) are important for arctic landscapes, hydrology, engineering, and ecosystems. Thus, a better understanding spatiotemporal dynamics evolution IWPs is key to evaluating hydrothermal state carbon budgets permafrost environment. In this paper, ground surface deformation (GSD) in IWP zones (2018–2019) their influencing f...

An infeasible interior-point algorithm for mixed symmetric cone linear complementarity problems is proposed. Using the machinery of Euclidean Jordan algebras and Nesterov-Todd search direction, the convergence analysis of the algorithm is shown and proved. Moreover, we obtain a polynomial time complexity bound which matches the currently best known iteration bound for infeasible interior-point ...

An important and frequently used tool in archaeological spatial analysis is least-cost path (LCP) to compute routes connecting a set of targets. The outcome depends on the cost model chosen topographic data used. A slope-dependent requires digital elevation (DEM) that should reflect landscape past. It often impossible reconstruct past terrain, modern high-resolution results problematic storage ...

Numerical methods are developed for pricing European and American options under Kou’s jump-diffusion model which assumes the price of the underlying asset to behave like a geometrical Brownian motion with a drift and jumps whose size is log-double-exponentially distributed. The price of a European option is given by a partial integro-differential equation (PIDE) while American options lead to a...

INTRODUCTION Nonunion following surgical stabilization of humeral shaft fractures, although infrequent, remains a challenge as limited surgical options are available. The difficulties in re-fixation are due to osteolysis produced by the loose implant components and disuse osteopenia of the entire bone segment. We share our experience in the management of a long standing diaphyseal nonunion of h...

Herbal-loaded drug delivery nanotechnological systems have been extensively studied recently. The antimicrobial activity of medicinal plants has shown better pharmacological action when such plants are loaded into a drug delivery system than when they are not loaded. Syngonanthus nitens Bong. (Rhul.) belongs to the Eriocaulaceae family and presents antiulcerogenic, antioxidant, antibacterial, a...

The linear complementarity problem is a continuous optimization problem that generalizes convex quadratic programming, Nash equilibria of bimatrix games and several such problems. This paper presents a continuous optimization formulation for the weighted independence number of a graph by characterizing it as the maximum weighted l1 norm over the solution set of a linear complementarity problem ...

Two different mesogenic units, namely biphenyl and azobenzene, were installed centrally within the polymer backbone pendant alkylene segments; purpose was to examine if chain folding of occurs so as segregate azobenzene units in adjacent layers a smectic-type ordering. sets isomeric main-chain side-chain liquid crystalline polymers (MCSC-LCPs), SC-AzoCx-MC-BPCx SC-BPCx-MC-AzoCx (x=6 or 10), syn...

Luminescent conjugated polyelectrolytes (LCPs) can upon interaction with biological macromolecules change their luminescent properties, and thereby serve as conformation- and interaction-sensitive biomolecular probes. However, to exploit this in a more quantitative manner, there is a need to better understand the photophysical processes involved. We report studies of the conjugated pentameric o...