been and still is an important research area. In particular, it is important to ensure strict (deterministic) guarantees for highly time-sensitive data flows. In this paper, we discuss how to efficiently allocate service curves for deter-ministically guaranteed services. We focus on bandwidth/ delay-decoupled service disciplines and their respective service curves due to their distinct advantag...

Global convergence results are derived for well-known conjugate gradient methods in which the line search step is replaced by a step whose length is determined by a formula. The results include the following cases: 1. The Fletcher-Reeves method, the Hestenes-Stiefel method, and the Dai-Yuan method applied to a strongly convex LC objective function; 2. The Polak-Ribière method and the Conjugate ...

perfused organs to examine sugar catabolism and metabolism, Holmes underscores the relationship between the laboratory elucidation of a significant intermediate compound like acetone and the clinical knowledge of ketone body production in diabetes. But, he concludes, the early-twentieth-century integrative optimism evaporated, to be re-formulated in the 1930s with the announcement of the "Embde...

The object of this paper is the theta divisor of the compactified Jacobian of a nodal curve of genus g. We determine its irreducible components and give it a geometric interpretation. A characterization of hyperelliptic irreducible curves in M g is appended as an application.

In this paper (part three of the trilogy) we use low degree G 1 and G 2 continuous regular algebraic spline curves deened within parallelograms, to interpolate an ordered set of data points in the plane. We explicitly characterize curve families whose members have the required interpolating properties and possess a minimal number of innection points. The regular algebraic spline curves consider...

in this study, principal components analysis was used to investigate lithological characteristics of jahani salt dome, firouzabad. the spectral curves of rocks in the study area show that the evaporate rocks have the highest reflectance at specified wavelengths. the highest reflection has been seen in gypsum and white salt, while minimal reflection can be observed in the igneous rocks from the ...

1. The slope of curves relating the log increment threshold to log background luminance in cat retinal ganglion cells is affected by the area and duration of the test stimulus, as it is in human pyschophysical experiments. 2. Using large area, long duration stimuli the slopes average 0-82 and approach close to 1 (Weber's Law) in the steepest cases. Small stimuli gave an average of 0-53 for on-c...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the average resulting area from the Pressure x Time curves resulting from the manometric anorectal exam and compare it with the support capacity of voluntary squeeze. MATERIALS AND METHODS the data set was represented by data from 11 exams from continent patients and eight exams from patients with grade III fecal incontinence. The manometric curves were delineated, and t...

We tested the hypothesis that greater cavitation resistance correlates with less total inter-vessel pit area per vessel (the pit area hypothesis) and evaluated a trade-off between cavitation safety and transport efficiency. Fourteen species of diverse growth form (vine, ring- and diffuse-porous tree, shrub) and family affinity were added to published data predominately from the Rosaceae (29 spe...