We investigate a global complexity bound of the Levenberg-Marquardt Method (LMM) for nonsmooth equations F (x) = 0. The global complexity bound is an upper bound to the number of iterations required to get an approximate solution such that ∥∇f(x)∥ ≤ ε, where f is a least square merit function and ε is a given positive constant. We show that the bound of the LMM is O(ε−2). We also show that it i...

Optimistic concurrency control highly takes advantage of parallelism because there is no delay by lock. Unfortunately, I/O operations by transactions and cache operations are delayed in the optimistic concurrency control. In order to reduce such delay, we combine cache coherency control and optimistic concurrency control rather than they operate in separate. In this paper, we propose optimistic...

We examine using the Stochastic Grid Bundling Method (SGBM) to price a Bermudan swaption driven by a one-factor LIBOR Market Model (LMM). Using a wellknown approximation formula from the finance literature, we implement SGBM with one basis function and show that it is around six times faster than the equivalent Longstaff–Schwartz method. The two methods agree in price to one basis point, and th...

To achieve sustainability in agricultural crop production, water-soluble fertilizers were produced around the world. With this view, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, has TNAU-Water Soluble Fertilizers (TNAU-WSF). The field experiment was carried out farmer’s at Devarayapuram, to assess effect of newly synthesized (TNAU-WSF) on nutrient uptake and use efficiencies small onions. co...

Efficient allocation of limited medical resources is crucial for controlling epidemic spreading on networks. Based on the susceptible-infected-susceptible model, we solve the optimization problem of how best to allocate the limited resources so as to minimize prevalence, providing that the curing rate of each node is positively correlated to its medical resource. By quenched mean-field theory a...

This prospective longitudinal survey compared the stress levels of students taught using an outdoor curriculum in a forest, with children in a normal school setting. We were especially interested in the effect outdoor teaching might have on the children's normal diurnal cortisol rhythm. 48 children (mean age = 11.23; standard deviation (SD) = 0.46) were enrolled, with 37 in the intervention gro...

The topographical relationship between stress fiber-like structures (SFLS) and nascent myofibrils was examined in cultured chick cardiac myocytes by immunofluorescence microscopy. Antibodies against muscle-specific light meromyosin (anti-LMM) and desmin were used to distinguish cardiac myocytes from fibroblastic cells. By various combinations of staining with rhodamine-labeled phalloidin, anti-...

Eye-movement control during reading depends on foveal and parafoveal information. If the parafoveal preview of the next word is suppressed, reading is less efficient. A linear mixed model (LMM) reanalysis of McDonald (2006) confirmed his observation that preview benefit may be limited to parafoveal words that have been selected as the saccade target. Going beyond the original analyses, in the s...

High-level eukaryotic genomes present a particular challenge to the computational identification of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) because of their long noncoding regions and large numbers of repeat elements. This is evidenced by the noisy results generated by most current methods. In this paper, we present a p-value-based scoring scheme using probability generating functions to eva...

Leptomeningeal metastasis (LMM), also referred to as leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, results from diffuse infiltration of the leptomeninges by malignant cells originating from extra-meningeal primary tumors. It occurs in approximately 5%-10% of patients with solid tumor. Among solid tumors, the most common types leading to infiltration of the leptomeninges are breast cancer, lung cancer, and mel...