This paper analyzes the likely impacts of the major policy reforms unveiled by the Government of India for revamping the country’s power sector. The provisions of the new enactment have recently come into force and seek a paradigm policy shift in the form of the Electricity Act 2003. The paper details out the key features of the Act and the likely power industry changes being brought about in t...

Here R+ denotes the upper half-plane and BMO(R 2 +×R 2 +) is defined to be the dual of the realvariable Hardy space H on the product domain R+×R 2 +. There are several equivalent ways to define this latter space and the reader is referred to [5] for the various characterizations. We will be more interested in the biholomorphic analogue of H, which can be defined in terms of the boundary values ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a biomedical imaging modality that provides high resolution images and excellent soft tissue contrast [1]. This makes MRI a preferable imaging modality for many applications. One limitation of MRI is slow data acquisition. MRI acquires data in the Fourier domain one point at a time, usually until enough data has been collected to approximately satisfy Nyquist...

We prove several Tauberian theorems for regularizing transforms of vector-valued distributions. The regularizing transform of f is given by the integral transform M φ(x, y) = (f ∗ φy)(x), (x, y) ∈ R n × R+, with kernel φy(t) = yφ(t/y). We apply our results to the analysis of asymptotic stability for a class of Cauchy problems, Tauberian theorems for the Laplace transform, the comparison of quas...

We consider scalar equation ut(t, x) = uxx(t, x)− u(t, x) + Z R K(x− y)g(u(t − h, y))dy, (∗) where g : R+ → R+ has exactly two fixed points: x1 = 0, x2 = κ > 0, and K is non-negative and such that R

Two families A and B of sets are said to be cross-intersecting if each set in A intersects each set in B. For any two integers n and k with 1 6 k 6 n, let ([n] 6k ) denote the family of subsets of {1, . . . , n} of size at most k, and let Sn,k denote the family of sets in ([n] 6k ) that contain 1. The author recently showed that if A ⊆ ( [m] 6r ) , B ⊆ ( [n] 6s ) , and A and B are cross-interse...

In the paper, necessary and sufficient conditions are presented for a function involving a ratio of gamma functions to be logarithmically completely monotonic. This extends and generalizes the main result of Guo and Qi [Taiwanese J. Math. 7 (2003), no. 2, 239–247] and others. As applications, several inequalities involving the volume of the unit ball in R are derived, which refine, generalize a...

(1) where n ≥ 2, f is a continuous function defined on R+ × R , R+ = [0,∞), R = (−∞,∞), τi ∈ C (R+) and τi(t) ≤ t for t ∈ R+ and i = 0, 1, . . . , n− 1 . We will suppose for the simplicity that inf t∈R+ τi(t) > −∞ for i = 0, 1, . . . , n − 1. Note, that C(I), s ∈ {0, 1, . . .}, I ⊂ R+ is the set of continuous functions on I that have continuous derivatives up to the order s. A special case of e...