Within the framework of optimisation structural elements, in last years, significant activity has been demonstrated towards developing new sectional designs beyond standardised forms aiming to combine aesthetic innovation, material efficiency, and weight over stiffness, together with reliability manufacture cost savings. Moreover, terms sustainability performance, as material-weight reduction l...

Stakeholders in the science system need to decide where to place their bets. Example questions include: Which areas of research should get more funding? Who should we hire? Which projects should we abandon and which new projects should we start? Making informed choices requires knowledge about these research options. Unfortunately, to date research portfolio options have not been defined in a c...

literature as an art or science is of different kinds; and these kinds can constitute new systems. novel is one of these different kinds of literature that is also divided to many different kinds. autobiography is also a branch of literature that has its own features and characteristics. there are also many capabilities in these variations and in their combination with the other kinds. “autobio...

Let X ∈ R denote a random stock market return vector, where Xj is the value of a one unit investment in stock j at the end of the trading day. We require that Xj ≥ 0 for j = 1, 2, . . . , m, that is, an investor cannot lose more than the invested capital. Let b, bj ≥ 0, ∑m j=1 bj = 1, denote a portfolio, that is, an allocation of investor’s capital across the investment alternatives. Let B deno...