Engaging and motivating students is always a challenge particularly when teaching subjects that do not have a high practical content. In this situation it was also necessary to present an overview of the subject to be studied while at the same time introduce new members to the existing class. The XP Game is a simple and interactive set of activities that simulates the eXtreme Programming (XP) d...

In this paper, weak defining hyperplanes and the anchor points in DEA, as an important subset of the set of extreme efficient points of the Production Possibility Set (PPS), are used to construct unobserved DMUs and in the long run to improve the envelopment of all observed DMUs. There has been a surge of articles on improving envelopment in recent years. What has been done first is in Constant...

Efficient computation of extreme eigenvalues of large-scale linear Hermitian eigenproblems can be achieved by preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) methods. In this paper, we study PCG methods for computing extreme eigenvalues of nonlinear Hermitian eigenproblems of the form T (λ)v = 0 that admit a nonlinear variational principle. We investigate some theoretical properties of a basic CG metho...

Speculative markets are often described as "informationally efficient" such that predictable price changes are eliminated by traders exploiting them, leaving only residual unpredictable fluctuations. This classical view of markets operating close to an equilibrium is challenged by extreme price fluctuations which occur far more frequently than can be accounted for by external news. Here we show...

The acid tolerance response of an AMD bioremediation system based on sulfate reduction was investigated. Efficient sulfate reduction was observed with a maximum sulfate reduction rate of 12.3±0.8 mg L(-1) d(-1) and easily available organic carbon was released during high acid treatment with an initial pH of 2.0. The rapid increase in sulfate reduction was observed when the extreme acid treatmen...

In this paper, a power-efficient scheme for embedded systems with wireless communication applications is proposed to reduce the power consumption of the overall system. Any transmission related module is required to be on only when the transmission is active and reliable to reduce power dissipation. The proposed method is based on the use of the extreme channel condition detector that is design...

We propose a polynomial-time-delay polynomial-space algorithm to enumerate all efficient extreme solutions of a multi-criteria minimum-cost spanning tree problem, while only the bicriteria case was studied in the literature. The algorithm is based on the reverse search framework due to Avis & Fukuda. We also show that the same technique can be applied to the multi-criteria version of the minimu...

In a two-sample location-scalemodelwith censored data, the logrank test is asymptotically efficient when the error distribution is extreme minimum value. On the other hand, the Wilcoxon test is asymptotically efficient when the error distribution is logistic. We propose a pretest for choosing between logrank and Wilcoxon by determining if the error distribution is closer to extrememinimum value...