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... place has charmed Iranians for generations Narrow roads and back alleys weave through the natural beauty of the village Regal palace complexes and villas built by shahs adorn the mountain range, ... the Shah (king) was overthrown Ayatollah Khomeini won the popular vote by a landslide, and Iran became an Islamic Republic The Ayatollah became Iran’s spiritual and supreme leader, single-handedly ... 1:00 a. m I assumed he was talking to Maman since there was a big time difference The next day, on my daily call with Maman, I asked what she and Baba had been talking about so late at night, and...
... to Canada, Australia, Britain and Mexico, with Canada receiving 81% of the total The Monitor Company (1999) estimates that the total dollar loss tothe US as a result of economic runaways was ... kinds AN ANALYTICAL TAXONOMY OF FIRMS At the outset, we need to clarify some of the conceptual language that has already made its entry in theprevious section, and touse this exercise as a platform ... subject tothe availability of adequate sound stage facilities and crews at alternative locations A dramatic parallel case can be found in the Los Angeles clothing industry where a steady increase...
... when the art of papermaking became known to Europeans The raw material of papyrus was a reed.,,34 The reeds were cut thin and laid side by side and gummed together to create a sheet Other material ... chips and then decide whether it can grow bamboo to maturity and make a profit at fair market price However, all information indicates that this endeavor is profitable because bamboo is cheaper to ... themselves may be moving as well as hardened targets, but the business must also stay at thenew destination long enough to reap rewards for having the journey And it has to all this in a way that allows...
... where the channels in the same frequency band are shown by the lines with the same type The capacity is given by the following theorem Theorem (see [5, Theorem]) The capacity of the relay channel ... while the other parts are decoded by the next relay In the next blocks, the sender and the relays cooperate with each other to remove the uncertainty of the sink about the individual parts of the ... channel where the channel from the transmitter tothe relay is orthogonal tothe channel from the sender and relay tothe sink In other words, transmission on direct channel from the sender to...
... generated by the oscillator via a directional coupler Then it is radiated by the antenna via a circulator The oscillator operates at 10.525 GHz, and the transmission power is 30 mW Hence GaAs Gunn ... than the synthetic oscillatory signal Assume that the reference respiration signal x(n) has a main spectral peak fx , and the original signal is y(n) with a spectral peak f y The main spectral ... estimator is that when applicable, it yields a more accurate spectral estimation without having to increase the data record length Because of nonstationarity of the respiration signal and more accurate...
... in a suitable way the jump from the last eigenvalue associated tothe signal subspace and the first eigenvalue associated tothe noise subspace As it was stated above, it is difficult to detect ... main idea behind thenew method is that estimating N is equivalent to finding how many eigenvalues are associated to each of the two subspaces, signal and noise This can be considered a classification ... devoted toa high-resolution radar application The goal is to find the most accurate estimate of the range profile of a radar target using its complex signature in the frequency domain An Estimation...
... chaos again leads to order."3 Transformational ideas are not newtothe social sciences, but can be traced all the way back tothe "dialectic theory found in the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, the ... large organization—change and are characterized as either linear or nonlinear Linear dynamics sees the world through a Newtonian lens as additive, like the linear equations that form the basis of ... a gentle sloping ramp that runs parallel tothe building leading tothe front door Between the ramp and the building there is a small, narrow space The mother led herfawn into the space and then...
... define a type-0 unit to be the graph obtained from a 10-cycle by adding a chord joining two vertices at maximum distance apart on the cycle and then adding a pendant edge toa resulting vertex that ... attaching a copy of H toa vertex v in a graph G we mean adding a copy of H tothe graph G and joining v with an edge tothe link vertex of H We call v an attached vertex in the resulting graph We ... difficult The result in Table when δ ≥ is due to Cockayne et al [5] and the graphs achieving this upper bound are characterized by Brigham, Carrington, and Vitray [3] The result in Table when δ ≥ can...
... 3-clusters to give away a total charge of 4/29 to nearby 1-clusters Giving away this additional charge may result in a needy 3-cluster C ′ with remaining charge only 35/29 (rather than the necessary ... our claims and our structural lemmas is that the claims are statements about our discharging rules, whereas the lemmas are statements about any 1-ID code in the infinite hexagonal grid So to simplify ... 3-clusters that are paired with each other Either C1 and C2 have at most nearby threatened 1-clusters and threatened 3-clusters, or they have exactly such nearby clusters, but they also have a nearby...
... graphs, and showed that the reciprocals of zeta functions of regular graphs are explicit polynomials A zeta function of a regular graph G associated with a unitary representation of the fundamental ... fundamental group of G was developed by Sunada [11,12] Hashimoto [4] treated multivariable zeta functions of bipartite graphs Bass [2] generalized Ihara’s result on the zeta function of a regular graph ... Enseign Math 45 (1999), 83-131 [2] H Bass, The Ihara-Selberg zeta function of a tree lattice, Internat J Math (1992) 717-797 [3] D Foata and D Zeilberger, A combinatorial proof of Bass’s evaluations...
... and a TSP is then iteratively built: the ranked customers are added one at a time tothe itinerary, until the total tour duration exceeds a pre-established maximum duration TM AX The tour is then ... supply at the central warehouse is limited, and the demand at the different customers is considered as a random variable The objective was therefore to minimize the total transportation, and expected ... describe another category of articles tackling the IRP The situations dealt with here are similar tothe ones in theprevious section: a central warehouse replenishes several customers, and seeks to...
... that the complacency extends to corporate approaches to risk management As the pain caused by the recession eases, there is a danger that so too will the pressure on companies to re-think their ... began, it now looks at credit swap data and other indicators that monitor the macroeconomic picture The data has also increased its knowledge of customers and ability to service their needs At the ... explores the lessons that companies are learning about managing the strategic and operational threats to their business The risk management arrangements in place before the recession left too many...
... circular The bar area and the width of a rectangular beam are not shown in the sketch EXAMPLE 1-3 The loads on a general beam of length ` m in the two-dimensional space shown in Fig 1-2 0a, are as ... resultant (F sdA), here s is the axial stress and A is the bar area A stress resultant is obtained by integrating stress over the cross-sectional area Both parameters (stress-s and area -A) are used ... cross-section (a1 a2 a3 a4 ) that is parallel tothe y±z plane, and it is symmetrical about both the y- and z-axes as shown in Fig 1-4b Symmetry about the y- and z-axes is marked as yÀ"y and zÀ"z,...
... events are used to train NN2, and the remaining 10% are used to test its performance The likelihood of the track of being a kaon [14] and the value of o1 are used as input variables to NN2 These variables ... Bs0 and Bs2 candidates, since the calibration parameters depend on the kinematics of the reconstructed B decay These calibrations also serve as a test of thenew algorithm in data, to evaluate the ... relative uncertainty, and the largest change of the calibration parameters due to these variations is taken as the systematic uncertainty Variations of the functions which describe the signal and...
... over the Paracel and Spratly archipelagos as well as the Pratas Islands Taiwan also claims major parts of the sea areas of the South China Sea as “historical waters” in a U-shaped area as outlined ... China Sea tothe north of the Anambas Islands and tothe north and east of the Natuna Islands • Malaysia claims sovereignty over the southern part of the Spratly archipelago Malaysia also claims ... islands As already noted, in Southeast Asia, these are the Paracels and the Spratlys In Northeast Asia, there are the disputes between China and Japan over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands (Pennacle...
... general useThe publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication Neither the ... refer tothe Baltic countries as a single economy called the Baltics,” calculating all data presented as a weighted average of the three economies (Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania) based on their ... growth To achieve this, the authors calculate the present value of the assets and the liabilities of a pay-as-you-go scheme, on a certain date They further assume assets to be lower than liabilities,...