The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) is a ten-year-long Implementation Plan, which commenced in 2005 as a group effort by numerous participating countries and organizations to build a large-scale network to effectively monitor and respond to the increasingly complex web of global environmental and socio-economic issues. This paper proposes the Target Evaluation and Correlation...

In recent years, the research on chaotic synchronization has received considerable attention [Pecora & Carroll, 1991; Curran & Chua, 1997; Curran et al., 1997; Suykens & Vandewalle, 1997; Chen & Dong, 1998; Suykens et al., 1999; Chen & Liu, 2000; Yalcin et al., 2001; Cao et al., 2005]. An overview of synchronization methods has been presented in [Chen & Dong, 1998]. A number of master-slave syn...

The unsolvability of the conjugacy problem for finitely presented groups was first shown by Novikov [26]. Shortly thereafter the corresponding result for the word problem was proved by Novikov [27] and Boone [6] (see also Boone [7], Higman [20] and Britton [9]). Friedberg [19] and Mucnik [25] revitalised the theory of recursively enumerable (r.e.) Turing degrees by showing that there are degree...

The mean-variance principle of Markowitz (1952) for portfolio selection gives disappointing results once the mean and variance are replaced by their sample counterparts. The problem is ampli…ed when the number of assets is large and the sample covariance is singular or nearly singular. In this paper, we investigate four regularization techniques to stabilize the inverse of the covariance matrix...

This paper is prepared within a collaboration between the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, which Mexican research institute that manages on sliding-mode control theory, and ARIA team of Intégration du Matériau au Système Lab., French group engages model-based fault diagnosis fault-tolerant theories. The reviews application sliding mode techniques to tolerant provides perspectives leading posing ...

The requirement of a uniformly bounded convergence time for all initial conditions is important for modern control theory. In particular the requirement appears in design of hybrid or switched systems. It can happen in such systems that a dynamic system repeatedly changes its configuration, and the configuration only lasts for some bounded time with its lower estimation known in advance. The na...

The current status of the application of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) for the auditory evoked response was summarised under for items of importance to the auditory brain stem response (ABR) as follows. (1) Digital filter: The most common way to use FFT, which facilitates quick isolation of fast and slow components from data of the same ABR wave. In addition, the proper setting of digital fi...

Documents that contain both text and graphics are difficult to characterize for the purposes of retrieval and navigation. Digital Libraries of the future will be little advanced over current libraries if we cannot meet the challenge of dealing with the conceptual content of documents. There have been substantial advances over the last few decades in the parsing of text and graphics, but the met...

Since the discovery of p53 in 1979 (Lane et al., 1979; DeLeo et al., 1979; Linzer et al., 1979); it has surfaced as a most important tumor suppressor protein central to regulation of cell cycle, apoptosis, DNA repair, senescence, and angiogenesis (Vousden et al., 2002; Fridman et al., 2003; Teodor et al., 2007). The prominent role of p53 is reflected in nearly 50% cases of malignancies wherein ...