Received: December 27, 2002; Revised: January 27, 2003; Accepted: January 29, 2003. Corresponding author: Chien-Sung Tsai, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, 325, Cheng-Kung Road Section 2, Taipei 114, Taiwan, Republic of China. Tel: +886-2-87927212; Fax: +886-2-87927376; e-mail: [email protected] Extra-Anatomic Reconstruction for Infected...

In article number 2003576, Kung-Hwa Wei and co-workers demonstrate that semi-transparent organic photovoltaics with a sequential deposited (SD) active layer—individually polymer donor layer small-molecule acceptor layer—forming pseudo p–i–n structures have larger power conversion efficiency transmittance values than those for the devices bulk heterojunction (BHJ) structures, enhancements SD ver...

In martial arts and contact sports strikes are performed at near maximum speeds. For that reason, electromyography (EMG) analysis of such movements is non-trivial. This paper has three main goals: firstly, to investigate the differences in the EMG activity of muscles during strikes performed with and without impacts; secondly, to assess the advantages of using Sum of Significant Power (SSP) val...

In this article we define a minor relation, which is stronger than the classical one, but too strong to become a well-quasi-order on the class of finite graphs. Nevertheless, with this terminology we are able to introduce a conjecture, which would imply the Lovasz conjecture and give an interesting insight on the symmetry of vertex-transitive graphs, if true. Though it could become an approach ...

let $g$ be a finite group and let $text{cd}(g)$ be the set of all‎ ‎complex irreducible character degrees of $g$‎. ‎b‎. ‎huppert conjectured‎ ‎that if $h$ is a finite nonabelian simple group such that‎ ‎$text{cd}(g) =text{cd}(h)$‎, ‎then $gcong h times a$‎, ‎where $a$ is‎ ‎an abelian group‎. ‎in this paper‎, ‎we verify the conjecture for‎ ‎${f_4(2)}.$‎

In this work we develop a new optimal without memory class for approximating a simple root of a nonlinear equation. This class includes three parameters. Therefore, we try to derive some with memory methods so that the convergence order increases as high as possible. Some numerical examples are also ‎presented.‎‎

We consider the problem of multiplying sparse matrices (over a semiring) where the number of non-zero entries is larger than main memory. In the classical paper of Hong and Kung (STOC ’81) it was shown that to compute a product of dense U×U matrices, Θ (

Distributed Activation Energy Modelling for Thermal Decomposition of Microalgae Residues Khanh-Quang Tran , Hau-Huu Bui , Wei-Hsin Chen a Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway b The Petroleum and Petrochemical College, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand c Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics –...

Department of Automation Engineering, National Formosa University Huwei, Yunlin, Taiwan, (Email: [email protected]) *Department of Electrical Engineering, National Winlin University of Science and Technology Douliou, Yunlin, Taiwan **Institute of Electro-Optical and Material Science, National Formosa University Huwei,Yunlin, Taiwan ***Institute of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung Uni...

Technology Laboratory, U.S.A N-BEST BASED SUPERVISED AND UNSUPERVISED ADAPTATION FOR NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS IN CARS P. Nguyen1,2, Ph. Gelin1, J-C. Junqua1 and J-T. Chien3,* 1Panasonic Technologies Inc., Speech Technology Laboratory, Santa Barbara, California 2Institut Eurécom, Sophia-Antipolis, Cedex, France 3Depart. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung U...