Recently, simple conditions for well-behaved-ness of anisotropic Voronoi diagrams have been proposed. While these conditions ensure well-behaved-ness of two types of practical anisotropic Voronoi diagrams, as well as the geodesic-distance one, in any dimension, they are both prohibitively expensive to evaluate, and not well-suited for typical problems in approximation or optimization. We propos...

Multi point Routing algorithms capable of satisfying Quality of Service constraints such as Delay Bounded-ness and Delay Variation Bounded-ness are becoming crucial with the advent of high speed networks. This paper addresses the problem of determining minimum cost paths to nodes in a Multicast group satisfying delay bounds and delay variation bounds. A routing protocol is proposed and compared...

many performance measures, such as the classical sharpe ratio have difficulty in evaluating the performance of investment companies whose return distributions are skewed. common causes for skew ness are the use of options in the portfolio or superior market timing skills of the portfolio managers. in this article, we examine the ability of the downside risk and the upside potential ratio (upr) ...

In order to solve the problems of limited installation space and strict additional quality, effects internal distributed nonlinear energy sinks (NES) considering optimal locations on a composite truss core sandwich plate are investigated in this paper. Choose five NESs here inset them different places suppress vibration plate, which is excited by half-wave shock. The coupled dynamic equations s...

The identi"cation of the dynamic characteristics of linear systems is now widely used and interest in non-linear systems has increased. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the performance of the restoring force surface method as far as the identi"cation of non-linear systems is concerned. The vibrations of a clamped beam are investigated for two di!erent kinds of non-linearity. Firstl...

Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenbergerstrasse 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria, Zentrum für Oberflächenund Nanoanalytik, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenbergerstrasse 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria, L-NESS, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Polo di Como, via Anzani 42, I-22100 Como, Italy, Charles University, Department of Condensed...

In the proof, we used both finite-ness of H and the realizability assumptions in a crucial way. But we already saw one problem where the theorem does not apply, namely learning linear separators, where |H| =∞. Of course it is more common than not that realizability is not satisfied, so we’d also like some sort of guarantee in the absence of realizability. In the next few lectures we will build ...

The daily contingent and ambiguous praxis of teaching raises various issues that are related to the multidimensional question purpose: what do how act with a view is considered be educationally desirable? Despite revival interest for practical wisdom as quality teachers judge done, literature still scarce on practically wise coherent entity strategies way activate these in course teaching. This...

John Russell, M.D. On Friday, May 19, 2000, the Surgical Resident Fellow Research Presentation Day, sponsored in part by the New England Surgical Society (NESS), was held at Tufts/New England Medical Center, Sterns Auditorium. While this was the 7th annual presentation day held at Tufts, this was the first year in which major sponsorship was provided by NESS. Twenty-two papers were presented by...

The initial definition of finiteness says no more than a set is finite if we can “count” its elements. Counting means establishing a one-to-one correspondence with a set of consecutive integers beginning with one. Thus, if f is a function mapping {1,2,..., } n oneto-one onto a set A, we “count” A as (1), (2),..., ( ) f f f n . The fact that f is one-to-one and onto ensures that each element of ...