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Jini is an infrastructure built on top of the mobile code facilities of the Java programming language enabling clients and services to spontaneously engage in arbitrary usage scenarios. For a small home or office environment the currently available infrastructure might be adequate, but for mission-critical applications it lacks essential security properties. In the sequel we identify weak point...

We give a new derivation, based on the complementary energy formulation, of a simplified model for a multi-structure made up of two anisotropic hyper-elastic bodies connected by a thin strong material layer. The model is obtained by identifying the Mosco-limit of the stored complementary energy functional when the thickness is of order ε and the stiffness of order 1/ε where ε is a positive real...

In this paper the existence and approximation of a unique common fixed point of two families of weakly compatible self-maps on a complete metric space are investigated. An example is presented to show that our results for the mappings considered satisfying non-linear contractive type conditions are genuine generalizations of the recent result for metric spaces [B. Singh, S. Jain, A fixed point ...

Transient acoustic waves are generated by the oscillations of an object or are scattered by the object. This leads to initial-boundary value problems (IBVPs) for the wave equation. Basic properties of this equation are reviewed, with emphasis on characteristics, wavefronts and compatibility conditions. IBVPs are formulated and their properties reviewed, with emphasis on weak solutions and the c...

In contrast to flexible capacity theories of information-processing behavior, discrete stage models generally assume that the functioning of one stage (e.g., stimulus discrimination) proceeds independently of the demands on some other stage (e.g., response selection). These alternatives were tested by factorially varying stimulus similarity and stimulus-response compatibility in a speeded brigh...

INTRODUCTION With the wider applications of GPS, higher technical requirements for navigation performance have been brought up. A new method based on FPGA is presented and tested to determine its acquisition performance in environments such as in the urban canyons, tunnels and inside buildings. The motivation for this work is to demonstrate that software GPS receiver, which has become the focus...

The purpose of this paper is to study common fixed point theorems for six (four single-valued and two set-valued) mappings in fuzzy metric space using general contractive condition of integral type, without assuming compatibility and continuity of any mapping on non complete metric spaces. To prove the theorems, we use a non compatible condition, that is, weak commutativity of type (Kh)in fuzzy...