This paper presents the R package gRapHD for efficient selection of highdimensional undirected graphical models. The package provides tools for selecting trees, forests and decomposable models minimizing information criteria such as AIC or BIC, and for displaying the independence graphs of the models. It has also some useful tools for analysing graphical structures. It supports the use of discr...

Today, companies selecting an ERP must decide between SaaSand On-Premise-ERP. This special topic of deciding between ERP operation modes has not been addressed since the first SaaS-ERP system was introduced. To provide guidance in the selection of ERP operation modes, systemic differences between SaaS and On-Premise have been researched and considered together with the company’s characteristics...

Competition parameters for a graph are those associated with two players alternately selecting elements to be included in a set S, where S is required to have a certain property. One player attempts to maximize a value, typically the order of the resulting set, while the other player attempts to minimize the value. Several independence/ domination/ enclaveless competitive parameters are discuss...

We show that laser mode stability can be improved with an intracavity mode selecting phase element. Without the phase element, a sub-wavelength change of the distance between the mirrors of a CO2 laser leads to a substantial change of the transverse mode distribution, whereas with it the distribution remains essentially the same. 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 42.60.Lh; 42.60.Jf;...

A new voltage-mode triple-input single-output multifunction filter using only two current conveyors is presented. The proposed filter which possesses three inputs and single-output can generate all biquadratic filtering functions at the output terminal by selecting different input signal combinations. The validity of the proposed filter is verified through PSPICE simulations. Keywords—Active Fi...

This study examined whether culture related factors influence university students’ critical thinking use. The participants were 363 students from Kyoto and Okinawa in Japan, and Auckland in New Zealand. They completed a questionnaire assessing critical thinking use, study self-efficacy, adherence to authority, regulatory mode (assessment/locomotion), and self-construal (independence/ interdepen...

The new paradigm in monetary policymaking gives accent to central banks‘ Independence. It is widely accepted that in modern monetary policymaking, central banks have three key goals: price stability, output stability and financial stability. Recent studies on central bank independence mainly investigate the effects of central bank independence on economic stability. But the effectiveness of cen...

A new method for testing a hypothesis of the independence multidimensional random variables is proposed. The technique under consideration based on use nonparametric pattern recognition algorithm that meets maximum likelihood criterion. In contrast to traditional formulation problem, there no priori training sample. initial information represented by statistical data, which are made up values m...