We present a new model for reliability analysis that is able to distinguish the latent internal vulnerability state of the equipment from the vulnerability caused by temporary external sources. Consider a wind farm where each turbine is running under the external effects of temperature, wind speed, and direction, etc. The turbine might fail because of the external effects of a spike in temperat...

For N ≥ 3 there are SN and DN actions on the space of solutions of the first nontrivial equation in the SL(N) MKdV hierarchy, generalizing the two Z2 actions on the space of solutions of the standard MKdV equation. These actions survive scaling reduction, and give rise to transformation groups for certain (systems of) ODEs, including the second, fourth and fifth Painlevé equations. Given a solu...

In this paper, we present equivalent characterizations of L-closure systems on lower bounded complete L-ordered sets and complete L-lattices, respectively. These results demonstrate the feasibility of notion of fuzzy closure system developed in our previous work (L.-K. Guo, G.-Q. Zhang, Q.-G. Li: Fuzzy closure systems on L-ordered sets. Math. Log. Quart. 57 (3) (2011), 281-291.). Also we develo...

Given the immense shifts the social networking sites and applications have brought about, a considerable number of researchers in the field of communication studies have turned to study different aspects of social media usage and factors influencing it. This study gathered data from 33318 US non-institutionalized citizens over 18 including 17079 females and 16239 males; they were members of web...

GANDHI is a world-historical figure. Though he refused to formulate a religious or philosophical system, he did stand, throughout his life, for certain ideas, which are nothing if not of universal significance. In order to see this clearly, let us review, very briefly, the nature and context of the challenge to which his life and thought were a dedicated response. Within the limited scope of th...

Given the discriminant dk of a quadratic field k, the number of cyclic relative extensions N\k of fixed odd prime degree p with dihedral absolute Galois group of order 2p , which share a common conductor /, is called the multiplicity of the dihedral discriminant d^ = f2^p~^d^ . In this paper, general formulas for multiplicities of dihedral discriminants are derived by analyzing the p-rank of th...

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