enterprise architecture (ea) is a discipline for understanding, engineering, and managing different components of an enterprise and their interrelationships. moreover, because the risk and impact of ea are pervasive across the enterprise, it is critical to perform an architecture assessment before making any decision about choosing a scenario. this paper provides an approach based on fuzzy anal...

The matrix element of the kinetic energy operator between B meson states is computed by means of a QCD relativistic potential model, with the result: μπ = 0.66 GeV . A comparison with the outcome of other theoretical approaches and a discussion of the phenomenological implications of this result are carried out. e-mail address: [email protected]

We show in this paper that the roots x1 and x2 of a scalar quadratic polynomial ax2+bx+c = 0 with real or complex coefficients a, b c can be computed in a elementwise mixed stable manner, measured in a relative sense. We also show that this is a stronger property than norm-wise backward stability, but weaker than element-wise backward stability. We finally show that there does not exist any met...

The paper presents a fully self-implementable algorithm that has demonstrated to be an effective tool for power education at the University of Padova-Department Industrial Engineering. It deals with small signal analysis electromechanical transients multimachine system. allows analytically building both state matrix and input matrix. Moreover, by exploiting exponential, angular frequency deviat...

This work proposes innovative permutation-based procedures controlling the Familywise Error rate (FWE). It is proofed that weighted procedures control the FWE if weights are a function of the sufficient statistic. Particularly, we focus on the use of the additional information given by the total variance of each variables. The first proposal considers the use of weights applied to the combining...

Several recent studies have examined the effects of replacing the pair-wise recombination operators often used by genetic algorithms with pool-wise recombination operators. In their simplest form, poolwise operators create probabilistic models that represent each parameter independently. Instead of using traditional crossover operators, these models are sampled to generate a new population. Alt...

In this work, a block-wise extension of Tikhonov regularization is proposed for denoising smooth signals contaminated by wide-band noise. The proposed method is derived from a constrained least squares problem in two forms: 1) a block-wise fixed-lag smoother with smooth inter-block transitions applied in matrix form, and 2) a fixed-interval smoother applied as a forward-backward zero-phase filt...

Eigenvector centrality mapping (ECM) has recently emerged as a measure to spatially characterize connectivity in functional brain imaging by attributing network properties to voxels. The main obstacle for widespread use of ECM in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is the cost of computing and storing the connectivity matrix. This article presents fast ECM (fECM), an efficient algorith...

BACKGROUND The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system (8th edition) for prostate cancer has been published. The current study seeks to validate the prognostic performance of the changes in the new system among clinically staged prostate cancer patients registered within the surveillance, epidemiology and end results (SEER) database. METHODS SEER database (2004-2014) has been...