Previous studies on coordination in OSS projects have studied explicit communication. Research has theorized on the existence of coordination without direct communication or implicit coordination in OSS projects, suggesting that it contributes to their success. However, due to the intangible nature of implicit coordination, no studies have confirmed these theories. We describe how implicit coor...

Discrete methods for practical coupled three-dimensional fluid-structure interaction problems are developed. A Co explicitly integrated two-dimensional degenerate shell element and a three-dimensional fluid element are coupled to study shell dynamics, fluid transient and coupled shell-fluid interaction problems. The method of partitioning is used to integrate the fluid and shell meshes in a sta...

Functional Generative Description (FGD) is a dependency based descriptive system, which has been in development since the 1960s, see esp. Sgall et al. (1969). FGD was originally implemented as a generative procedure, but lately we have been interested in a declarative representation. e object of the present paper concerns the foundations of a reduction system which is more complex than a reduc...

In this note we propose and analyze an implicit-explicit scheme based on second order strong stability preserving time discretisations. We also present some theoretical and numerical stability results for second order Runge Kutta IMEX schemes.

Since m1 and m2 are not explicitly defined to be different from each other, they will be inferred to be same due to the cardinality restriction. However, in many cases, the reason to use functional properties is not to draw this inference, but to detect an inconsistency. When the information about instances are coming from multiple sources we cannot always assume explicit inequalities will be p...

This work presents a baseline system used to evaluate feature sets for word recognition. The main goal is to determine an optimum feature set to represent the handwritten names for the months of the year in Brazilian Portuguese language. Three kinds of features are evaluated: perceptual, directional and topological. The evaluation shows that taken in isolation, the perceptual feature set produc...

In this paper, some fundamental strict and non-strict differential inequalities for the implicit perturbations of nonlinear first order ordinary causal differential equations have been established.

Pursuant to the authors’ previous chaotic-dynamical model for random digits of fundamental constants [5], we investigate a complementary, statistical picture in which pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) are central. Some rigorous results are achieved: We establish b-normality for constants of the form ∑ i 1/(b ici) for certain sequences (mi), (ni) of integers. This work unifies and extends p...

The occurrence of a probabilistic common-cause failure (PCCF) in a system results in failures of multiple system components with different probabilities. A PCCF can be caused by external shocks or propagated failures originating from some components within the system. This paper proposes an explicit method and an implicit method to analyze the reliability of systems subject to internal or exter...

Previous research has shown that linking approach or avoidance actions to novel stimuli through mere instructions causes changes in the implicit evaluation of these stimuli even when the actions are never performed. In two high-powered experiments (total N = 1147), we examined whether effects of approach-avoidance instructions on implicit evaluations are mediated by changes in explicit evaluati...