This paper reports the calculation of a green banking performance index that considers importance banks give to environmental issues. Research was conducted considering all authorized operate in Portugal and similar relevant institutions. The calculated reveals large difference between 5 most representative others. show that, on average, they are very concerned with issues, others reveal, mediu...

This paper proposes the use of level-index (LI) and symmetric level-index (SLI) computer arithmetic for practical computation with error bounds. Comparisons are made with oating-point and several advantages are identiied.

This study developed a methodology to temporally classify large scale, upper level atmospheric conditions over North America, utilizing the newly-developed Upper Level Synoptic Index (ULSI). Four meteorological variables: geopotential height, specific humidity, and uand vwind components, at the 500 mb level over North America were obtained from the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Project data set for the ...

the literature show evidence that small manufacturing enterprises (smes) are understood as main source of technology development and employment creation. at the same time they are vulnerable to a number of restrictions such as access to finances, skilled labor and public support, while are exposed to high competition and suffer from low survival rate. this research aims to shed lights on the ro...

In this paper, it is proposed that coastal flood ensemble forecasts be partitioned into sub-ensemble forecasts using cluster analysis in order to produce representative statistics and to measure forecast uncertainty arising from the presence of clusters. After clustering the ensemble members, the ability to predict the cluster into which the observation will fall can be measured using a cluster...

Texture mapping is a common technique used to increase the visual quality of 3D scenes. As texture mapping requires large memory to deal with large textures generally r e quired in the current visual systems, we propose an algorithm for compressing a pyramid texture used for mipmapping. Vector quantization is used to compress all levels of the pyramid texture to one representative value databoo...

Abstract. This paper is concerned with the summarization of a set of categorical sequences. More specifically, the problem studied is the determination of the smallest possible number of representative sequences that ensure a given coverage of the whole set, i.e. that have together a given percentage of sequences in their neighbourhood. The proposed heuristic for extracting the representative s...

We present a fast and flexible program for clustering large protein databases at different sequence identity levels. It takes less than 2 h for the all-against-all sequence comparison and clustering of the non-redundant protein database of over 560,000 sequences on a high-end PC. The output database, including only the representative sequences, can be used for more efficient and sensitive datab...

in this paper the fuzzy structural reliability index was determined through modeling epistemic uncertainty arising from ambiguity in statistical parameters of random variables. the first order reliability method (form) has been used and a robust genetic algorithm in the alpha level optimization method has been proposed for the determination of the fuzzy reliability index. the sensitivity level ...