by using the trigonometric uniform splines of order 3 with a real tension factor, a numericalmethod is developed for solving a linear second order boundary value problems (2vbp) withdirichlet, neumann and cauchy types boundary conditions. the moment at the knots isapproximated by central finite-difference method. the order of convergence of the methodand the theory is illustrated by solving tes...

AAne moment invariants (AMIs) have been derived recently by Flusser and Suk (1992). In this paper, the AMIs are used as the features for recognition of handwritten characters independent on their size, slant and other variations. A comparison with classical moment invariants is also given.

In this article, a stochastic algorithm is briefly presented based on the one of second moment applied to a stochastic process model of second order. The design initially consisted in formulating the state equation model and the stochastic outputs, in order to apply the second moment using the internal product of Martingale and the stochastic operators of the expectation, variance and covarianc...

The second moment of the heavy quark vector correlator at O(α3 s) is presented. The implications of this result on recent determinations of the charm and bottom quark mass are discussed.