Generalized Pareto distribution play an important role in reliability, extreme value theory, and other branches of applied probability and statistics. This family of distributions includes exponential distribution, Pareto distribution, and Power distribution. In this paper, we established exact expressions and recurrence relations satisfied by the quotient moments of generalized order statistic...

the purpose of this paper is to investigate the egm method and the behavior of a solid particle suspended in a twodimensional rectangular cavity due to conjugate natural convection. a thermal lattice boltzmann bgk model is implemented to simulate the two dimensional natural convection and the particle phase was modeled using the lagrangian–lagrangian approach where the solid particles are treat...

this paper is concerned with the problem of finding the minimax estimators of the scale parameter ? in a family of transformed chi-square distributions, under asymmetric squared log error (sle) and modified linear exponential (mlinex) loss functions, using the lehmann theorem [2]. also we show that the results of podder et al. [4] for pareto distribution are a special case of our results for th...

This paper develops the notion of implicit Lagrangian systems and presents some of their basic properties in the context of Dirac structures. This setting includes degenerate Lagrangian systems and systems with both holonomic and nonholonomic constraints, as well as networks of Lagrangian mechanical systems. The definition of implicit Lagrangian systems with a configuration space Q makes use of...

The objective of this study was to identify the relationship between social support and the functional capacity of elderly persons with cognitive alterations. It is a descriptive, cross-sectional and quantitative study. The subjects were 101 elderly persons registered in Family Health Centers whose performance in the Mini-Exam for Mental Status was below a certain specified level in a previous ...

Claim 1 ZPP = RP ∩ coRP and hence ZPP ⊆ BPP. Claim 2 ZPP consists of languages L for which there exists a machine M running in expected polynomial time and for which: Pr[M(x) = χL(x)] = 1. (A machine runs in expected polynomial time if there exists a polynomial p such that for all x, the expected running time of M(x) is at most p(|x|).) Summarizing what we have so far: P ⊆ ZPP ⊆ RP ⊆ BPP. Howev...

Lawrence C. Katz died of melanoma on November 26, 2005, at the age of 48. He was amongst the most creative and influential neuroscientists of his time. His contributions were both scientific and personal, providing as much to the development of people as to scientific discovery. These affections were always inextricably intertwined, his love of scientific beauty and discovery, and his caring fo...

The standard in rod finite element formulations is the Bubnov–Galerkin projection method, where test functions arise from a consistent variation of ansatz functions. This approach becomes increasingly complex when highly nonlinear are chosen to approximate rod's centerline and cross-section orientations. Using Petrov–Galerkin we propose whole family nodal generalized virtual displacements veloc...

A method is presented for the stress analysis of flight vehicles under different flight conditions including gust and control surface deflection (or maneuver) using the governing equations of rigid-body motions and elastic deformations. The Lagrangian approach is used to derive the governing equations of motions. For this purpose, the basic equations of motions are derived in terms of potential...