Scientific substantiation and practical confirmation of possibility, expediency and efficiency of application of the ultrasonic superficial plastic deformation in zones of welded connections after performance of welding works is given. For this purpose a mathematical model of process of superficial plastic deformation is represent, as the hypercycle of loading consisting of elementary cycles – ...

in the present era, the cultural heritage of the nations is taken into consideration, and has found great significance in several aspects. this importance has enforced the nations to enact their particular laws in cultural heritage domain; among the rest, the ownership of historic-cultural monuments. these laws lead to the restriction of private ownerships in many cases. in the first glance, it...

Usually, discrete optimization problems (DOPs) from applications have a special structure, and the matrices of constraints for largescale problems have a lot of zero elements (sparse matrices). One of the promising ways to exploit sparsity in the interaction graph of the DOP is nonserial dynamic programming (NSDP), which allows to compute a solution in stages such that each of them uses results...

Nigeria is the most populous African nation with an estimated population of 182 million citizens in 2016.1 The population distribution is mostly rural (and agrarian), although there are large cities like Lagos, Ibadan, Kano, Port Harcourt and Abuja. The country has over 374 ethnic groups with Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo, Nupe and Tiv being the leading five languages. The official unemployment rate is 14...

BACKGROUND For over 60 years, the Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) has proven itself a valuable tool with which to perform measurement of and comparison between the functional statuses of individual patients. In recent decades conditions for patients have changed, and so too has the KPS undergone several adjustments since its initial development. DISCUSSION The most important works regardin...

This paper presents a new algorithm for distributed garbage collection and outlines its implementation within the Network Objects system. The algorithm is based on a reference listing scheme augmented by partial tracing in order to collect distributed garbage cycles. Our collector is designed to be flexible thereby allowing efficiency, expediency and fault-tolerance to be traded against complet...

This paper presents an algorithm for distributed garbage collection and outlines its implementation within the Network Objects system The algorithm is based on a reference listing scheme which is augmented by partial tracing in order to collect distributed garbage cy cles Processes may be dynamically organised into groups according to appropriate heuristics to reclaim distributed garbage cycles...

Traditional thermal evolution models of giant planets employ arbitrary initial conditions selected more for computational expediency than physical accuracy. Since the initial conditions are eventually forgotten by the evolving planet, this approach is valid for mature planets, if not young ones. To explore the evolution at young ages of jovian mass planets we have employed model planets created...

We discuss hidden Markov-type models for fitting a variety of multistate random walks to wildlife movement data. Discrete-time hidden Markov models (HMMs) achieve considerable computational gains by focusing on observations that are regularly spaced in time, and for which the measurement error is negligible. These conditions are often met, in particular for data related to terrestrial animals, ...