I NDUSTRIAL experiments often involve two types of factors: those that are hard to change and those that are easy to change. The experiments are performed by fixing the levels of the hard-to-change factors and then running all or some of the combinations of the easy-to-change factor levels. Then, a new setting in the hard-to-change factors is selected and the process is repeated. With replicati...

Recent results by Van Buskirk et al. have broken the record set by Yavne in 1968 for the lowest arithmetic complexity (exact count of real additions and multiplications) to compute a power-of-two discrete Fourier transform. Here, we present a simple recursive modification of the split-radix algorithm that computes the DFT with asymptotically about 6% fewer operations than Yavne, matching the co...

The equilibrium of the market for offenses using agentbased simulation is studied. One of the potential applications of it is to seek optimal policy in governing an open multi-agent system, especially when heterogeneous agents may behave maliciously. A theoretical work by Fender (1999) is chosen as the basic framework for the simulation. The simulation results show more detailed properties of t...

objectives: to check and compare the effectiveness of modified agility and perturbation training over conventional physical therapy in patients with knee osteoarthritis. methods: subjects were screened on the basis of inclusion and exclusion criteria and a total of 50 subjects were recruited for the study. they were randomly divided into group a and group b with n=25 each. results: group receiv...

Split-C is a single program, multiple data (SPMD) programming language. Split-C provides the ability to use a shared address space abstraction on a distributed shared memory (DSM) system, such as a network of workstations (NOW). The existing Split-C compiler translates all references to shared variables owned by another processor into network transactions. We implement SWCC-Split-C, a modified ...

Soper’s pain-brain theory, based on evolutionary biology, represents a provocative breakthrough for both suicidology and positive psychology. The main thesis of the book is that evolved way choosing to live rather than die in face unbearable suffering develop zest happiness meaning. His new theory can be summed up by two-by-two matrix “pain-type” versus “brain-type” reducing pain, “keeper” “fen...

The goal of this paper is to describe the oscillatory microstructure that can emerge from minimizing sequences for nonconvex energies. We consider integral functionals are defined on real valued (scalar) functions $u(x)$ which in gradient $\nabla u$ and possibly also $u$. To characterize microstructures these energies, we minimize associated relaxed energy using two novel approaches: i) a semi-...