in the field of health losses resulting from failure to establish the facilities in a suitable location and the required number, beyond the cost and quality of service will result in an increase in mortality and the spread of diseases. so the facility location models have special importance in this area. in this paper, a successively inclusive hierarchical model for location of health centers i...

Numerical phenetic methods organize taxa (operational taxonomic units, or OTUs) into groups based on overall similarity. OTUs are grouped in such a way that there is a higher degree of similarity within groups than between groups. That is, two OTUs within a group share more character states than do two OTUs in different groups. The least inclusive (smallest) groups represent the highest level o...

Successive encoding strategies are developed for some prototype sensor network problems based on generalized Wyner-Ziv encoding. Their performance is analyzed for quadratic-Gaussian versions of both a new serially structured CEO problem as well as the classical CEO problem.

We propose successively refinable trellis-coded quantizers for progressive transmission. (Progressive transmission is an essential component of image and multimedia browsing systems.) A new trellis structure which is scalable is used in the design of our trellis-coded quantizers. A hierarchical set partitioning is developed to preserve successive refinability. Two algorithms for designing trell...

We demonstrate the stability under subsequent-to-leading logarithm corrections of the quartic scalar-field coupling constant λ and the running Higgs boson mass obtained from the (initially massless) effective potential for radiatively broken electroweak symmetry in the single-Higgs-Doublet Standard Model. Such subsequent-toleading logarithm contributions are systematically extracted from the re...

The arbitrariness in how the logarithm is defined within the QCD series for the inclusive electroproduction cross-section is shown to affect the summation to all orders in α s of leading and successively-subleading logarithms within that perturbative series, even though such summations largely eliminate the residual dependence of the original series on the arbitrary renormalization scale µ. How...