We prove that an Alexander quandle of prime order is generated by any pair of distinct elements. Furthermore, we prove for such a quandle that any ordered pair of distinct elements can be sent to any other such pair by an automorphism of the quandle.

Let G be a nite group and let i (G) denote the proportion of ordered pairs of G that generate a subgroup of nilpotency class i. Various properties of the i 's are established. In particular it is shown that i = k i jGj=jGj 2 for some non-negative integers k i and that P 1 i=1 i is either 1 or at most 1/2 for solvable groups.

A Mendelsohn design M(k,v) is a pair (V,B) t where IV\=v and B is a set of cyclically ordered k-tuples of distinct elements of V, called blocks, such that every ordered pair of distinct elements of V belongs to exactly one block of B. A M( k, v) is called cyclic if it has an automorphism consisting of a single cycle of length v. The spectrum of existence of cyclic M(3,v)'s and M(4,v)'s is known...

Given three n-tuples {λi}i=1, {μi}i=1, {νi}i=1 of complex numbers, we introduce the problem of when there exists a pair of normal matrices A and B such that σ(A) = {λi}i=1, σ(B) = {μi}i=1, and σ(A+B) = {νi}i=1, where σ(·) denote the spectrum. In the case when λk = 0, k = 2, . . . , n, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of A and B. In addition, we show that the solu...

This paper presents a method for assessing skill of performance from video, for a variety of tasks, ranging from drawing to surgery and rolling dough. We formulate the problem as pairwise and overall ranking of video collections, and propose a supervised deep ranking model to learn discriminative features between pairs of videos exhibiting different amounts of skill. We utilise a two-stream Tem...

Highly self-ordered alumina nanopore arrays were fabricated using hard anodization technique in different mixtures of oxalic/phosphoric acid. The phosphoric acid concentration was varied from 0.05 to 0.3 M while the oxalic acid concentration was changed between 0.3 and 0.4 M. The self ordered nanoporous arrays were obtained in anodization voltage changing from 130 to 200 V. The interpore distan...

‎a common approach to determine efficient solutions of a multiple objective optimization problem‎ ‎is reformulating it to a parameter dependent scalar optimization problem‎. ‎this reformulation is called scalarization approach‎. here, a well-known scalarization approach named pascoletti-serafini scalarization is considered‎. first, some difficulties of this scalarization are discussed and then ...

in this paper, we introduce a concept of a generalized $c$-distance in ordered cone $b$-metric spaces and, by using the concept, we prove some fixed point theorems in ordered cone $b$-metric spaces. our results generalize the corresponding results obtained by y. j. cho, r. saadati, shenghua wang (y. j. cho, r. saadati, shenghua wang, common fixed point  heorems on generalized distance in ordere...

based on a complete heyting algebra, we modify the definition oflattice-valued fuzzifying convergence space using fuzzy inclusionorder and construct in this way a cartesian-closed category, calledthe category of $l-$ordered fuzzifying convergence spaces, in whichthe category of $l-$fuzzifying topological spaces can be embedded.in addition, two new categories are introduced, which are called the...

a flood warning system is a non-structural measure for flood mitigation. several parameters are responsible for flood related disasters. this work  illustrates an ordered intuitionistic fuzzy analysis that has the capability to simulate the unknown relations between a set of meteorological and hydrological parameters. in this paper, we first define ordered intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets and est...