* Correspondence: wangjun@bjtu. edu.cn Department of Mathematics, Key Laboratory of Communication and Information System, Beijing Jiaotong University, 100044 Beijing, P.R. China Abstract Price formation in financial markets based on the 2D stochastic Ising-like spin model is proposed, with a randomized inverse temperature of each trading day. The statistical behaviors of returns of this financi...

seismic performance and loss assessment studies for stock of buildings are generally based on representative models due to extremely large number of vulnerable buildings. the main problem is the proper reflection of the building stock characteristics well enough by limited number of representative models. this study aims to provide statistical information of structural parameters of turkish bui...

Probability-like parameters appearing in some statistical models, and their prior distributions, are reinterpreted through the notion of `circumstance', a term which stands for any piece of knowledge that is useful in assigning a probability and that satisfies some additional logical properties. The idea, which can be traced to Laplace and Jaynes, is that the usual inferential reasonings about ...

in this paper, a new method is proposed for the production of mwcnts/pvc (multi-walled carbon nanotubes/ polyvinyl chloride) nanocomposites. in this method, a spray is used to produce layers of carbon nanotubes within a pvc matrix. various parameters influence the production of the nanocomposite and its mechanical properties. these parameters are studied separately and the effect of each of par...

abstract aim and background: the zuckerman – kuhlman personality questionnaire is an instrument measuring personality traits. it is designed according to zuckerman’s alternative five factor personality model (ffm). the present research aimed at investigating the psychometric properties of a version of the zuckerman – kuhlman personality questionnaire which contains 50 items. method and material...

This paper presents five properties that are true of the resolution of (geographic) data, and discusses their implications for Geographic Information Science (GIScience). It argues that resolution is (i) always present in data, (ii) representation-dependent, (iii) positively correlated with accuracy, (iv) positively correlated with data volume, and (v) more specific than granularity. These stat...