The inverse Weibull distribution can be readily applied to a wide range of situations including applications in medicine, reliability and ecology. In this article we introduce a new model of generalized inverse Weibull distribution referred to as the Exponentiated generalized inverse distribution. We provide a comprehensive mathematical treatment of this distribution. We derive the moment gener...

For a real-valued, measurable function f defined on [0,∞), its nth moment is defined as sn( f ) = ∫∞ 0 x n f (x)dx, n ∈N = {0,1, . . .}. Let (sn)n≥0 be a sequence of real numbers. If f is a real-valued, measurable function defined on [0,∞) with moment sequence (sn)n≥0, we say that f is a solution to the Stieltjes moment problem (related to (sn)n≥0). If the solution is unique, the moment problem...

In a variety of supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model, the scalar partners of the quarks and leptons are predicted to be very heavy and beyond the reach of next-generation colliders. For instance, the realization of electroweak baryogenesis in supersymmetry requires new sources of CP-violation, which can only be naturally accommodated with electric dipole moment constraints if the fir...

We investigate a new class of metrics to find good variable orders for decision diagrams in symbolic state-space generation. Most of the previous work on static ordering is centered around the concept of minimum variable span, which can also be found in the literature under several other names. We use a similar concept, but applied to event span, and generalize it to a family of metrics paramet...

This paper introduces a novel design concept for the development of efficient, sustainable Rocking-Wall Moment Frames (RWMFs) under seismic conditions. The proposed concepts lead to a novel structural configuration with provisions for Collapse Prevention (CP), Self-Centering (SC), reparability, performance control (PC), damage reduction, and energy based seismic analysis. It introduces the meri...

A saddle point variational (SPV ) method was applied to the Dirac equation as an example of a fully relativistic equation with both negative and positive energy solutions. The effect of the negative energy states was mitigated by maximizing the energy with respect to a relevant parameter while at the same time minimizing it with respect to another parameter in the wave function. The Cornell pot...

The technibaryon constitutes a possible dark matter candidate. Such a particle with electroweak quantum numbers is already nearly ruled out as the dominant component of the galactic dark matter by nuclear recoil experiments. Here, the scattering of singlet technibaryons, without electroweak quantum numbers, is considered. For scalar technibaryons the most important interaction is the charge rad...

We study modular, automatic code generation from hierarchical block diagrams with synchronous semantics. Such diagrams are the fundamental model behind widespread tools such as Simulink and SCADE. Modularity means code is generated for a given composite block independently from context, that is, without knowing in which diagrams this block is going to be used. This can be achieved by abstractin...

We consider a single inventory location where multiple types of repairable spare parts are kept to service several different fleets of assets. Demand for each part is modeled by a Markov modulated Poisson process (MMPP). Each fleet has a target for the maximum expected mean number of assets down for lack of a spare part. The inventory manager can meet this target by stocking repairables and by ...