Product based organizations have diverse product offerings that meet various business needs. The products are in turn integrated to create integrated product suites. Rigorous product engineering is a must for creation of high quality integrated software products. Adequate measures must be taken to improve quality of the integrated product before every release of its module or sub-product. It is...

Given two pointed Gromov hyperbolic metric spaces (Xi, di, zi), i = 1, 2, and ∆ ∈ R+0 , we present a construction method, which yields another Gromov hyperbolic metric space Y∆ = Y∆((X1, d1, z1), (X2, d2, z2)). Moreover, it is shown that once (Xi, di) is roughly geodesic, i = 1, 2, then there exists a ∆′ ≥ 0 such that Y∆ also is roughly geodesic for all ∆ ≥ ∆ ′.

We attempt a broad exploration of properties and connections between the symmetry function of a convex set S ⊂ IRn and other arenas of convexity including convex functions, convex geometry, probability theory on convex sets, and computational complexity. Given a point x ∈ S, let sym(x, S) denote the symmetry value of x in S: sym(x, S) := max{α ≥ 0 : x + α(x− y) ∈ S for every y ∈ S} , which esse...

We show that the character space of the vector-valued Lipschitz algebra $Lip^{alpha}(X, E)$ of order $alpha$ is homeomorphic to the cartesian product $Xtimes M_E$ in the product topology, where $X$ is a compact metric space and $E$ is a unital commutative Banach algebra. We also characterize the form of each character on $Lip^{alpha}(X, E)$. By appealing to the injective tensor product, we the...

we show that the character space of the vector-valued lipschitz algebra $lip^{alpha}(x, e)$ of order $alpha$ is homeomorphic to the cartesian product $xtimes m_e$ in the product topology, where $x$ is a compact metric space and $e$ is a unital commutative banach algebra. we also characterize the form of each character on $lip^{alpha}(x, e)$. by appealing to the injective tensor product, we then...

We describe a relation between the symmetry energy coefficients c(sym)(rho) of nuclear matter and a(sym)(A) of finite nuclei that accommodates other correlations of nuclear properties with the low-density behavior of c(sym)(rho). Here, we take advantage of this relation to explore the prospects for constraining c(sym)(rho) of systematic measurements of neutron skin sizes across the mass table, ...

Astragalus sinicus (Chinese Milk vetch), a green manure leguminous plant, harbors Mesorhizobium huakuii subsp. rengei strain B3 in the root nodules. The visualization of symbiotic plasmid of strain B3 showed the presence of one sym plasmid of about 425 kbp. Curing of sym plasmid by temperature and acrydine orange was studied. Growing rhizobial cells at high temperature (37 degrees C) or treatin...

Tardif, C., Prefibers and the Cartesian product of metric spaces, Discrete Mathematics 109 (1992) 283-288. The properties of certain sets called prefibers in a metric space are used to show that the algebraic properties of the Cartesian product of graphs generalize to metric spaces.

A set of vertices S resolves a graph G if every vertex is uniquely determined by its vector of distances to the vertices in S. The metric dimension of a graph G is the minimum cardinality of a resolving set. In this paper we study the metric dimension of infinite graphs such that all its vertices have finite degree. We give necessary conditions for those graphs to have finite metric dimension a...

If J is a set and Xj are topological spaces for each j ∈ J , let X = ∏ j∈J Xj and let πj : X → Xj be the projection maps. A basis for the product topology on X are those sets of the form ⋂ j∈J0 π −1 j (Uj), where J0 is a finite subset of J and Uj is an open subset of Xj , j ∈ J0. Equivalently, the product topology is the initial topology for the projection maps πj : X → Xj , j ∈ J , i.e. the co...