In this article we will look at the PageRank algorithm used as part of the ranking process of different Internet pages in search engines by for example Google. This article has its main focus in the understanding of the behavior of PageRank as the system dynamically changes either by contracting or expanding such as when adding or subtracting nodes or links or groups of nodes or links. In parti...

Biological events such as gene expression, regulation, phosphorylation, localization and protein catabolism play important roles in the development of diseases. Understanding the association between diseases and genes can be enhanced with the identification of involved biological events in this association. Although biological knowledge has been accumulated in several databases and can be acces...

Friction is one of the key factors in manufacture ropes, and has an important influence on mechanical behavior many fiber assemblies. For this reason, understanding evaluation coefficients friction between fibers essential step development numerical rope models. This paper describes tests a modified, upscaled version ASTM (American Society for Testing Materials) standard yarn-on-yarn abrasion t...

We consider the problem of finding the localization of radioactive source by using data from a digital camera. In other words, the camera could help us to detect the direction of radioactive rays radiation. Therefore, the outcome could be used to command a robot to move toward the true direction to achieve the source. The process of camera data is performed by using image processing and computa...

the competitive state anxiety inventory (csai-2) is the most widely used instrument to measure competitive anxiety in the literature. the aim of this study was to examine the factorial validity and reliability of persian version of competitive state anxiety inventory-2 regarding intensity, direction, and frequency dimensions. the original form included 27 questions and 3 subscales including som...

The main aim of the present study is to propose a modified harmony search (MHS) algorithm for size and shape optimization of structures. The standard harmony search (HS) algorithm is conceptualized using the musical process of searching for a perfect state of the harmony. It uses a stochastic random search instead of a gradient search. The proposed MHS algorithm is designed based on elitism. In...

Antenna arrays are likely to be an important feature of future mobile communication systems. With an antenna array, mobile users can be separated by a spatial filtering procedure allowing several users on the same carrier frequency. The uplink part (mobile to base) not only can, but is better solved without using any spatial knowledge in terms of direction of arrival (DOA). However, DOA estimat...

LOW-RANK ITERATIVE METHODS FOR PROJECTED GENERALIZED LYAPUNOV EQUATIONS TATJANA STYKEL Abstract. We generalize an alternating direction implicit method and the Smith method for large-scale projected generalized Lyapunov equations. Such equations arise in model reduction of descriptor systems. Low-rank versions of these methods are also presented, which can be used to compute low-rank approximat...