Product development is a knowled ge intensive process. It is widel y recognized as a m echanism that produces fi rms to learn, to enter new technological areas, and to deal more effectively with market uncertainty. Since technology management has beco me ingrained within the field of knowledge management, product development has be en viewed and studied from a knowledge management perspective. ...

In [8] and [9] J. Jarník and J.Kurzweil introduced an integration process (called PU-integral) for real valued functions on an interval of n with the use of suitably regularC-partitions of unity, instead of the usual partitions. The PU-integral is nonabsolutely convergent and in dimension one falls properly in between the Lebesgue and the Kurzweil-Henstock integrals. In [4], without assuming an...

After the discovery that fixed points of loopy belief propagation coincide with stationary points of the Bethe free energy, several researchers proposed provably convergent algorithms to directly minimize the Bethe free energy. These algorithms were formulated only for non-zero temperature (thus finding fixed points of the sum-product algorithm) and their possible extension to zero temperature ...

Convergent extension is the cell-rearrangement process by which a developing embryo elongates to establish the head-to-tail body axis. In the early Drosophila embryo, this process occurs within a one-cell-thick epithelial layer. Using confocal microscopy, images were collected of the two-dimensional cell pattern at four stages during convergent extension in wild-type embryos and at one stage in...

A Banach space E has the Grothendieck property if every (linear bounded) operator from E into c0 is weakly compact. It is proved that, for an integer k > 1, every k-homogeneous polynomial from E into c0 is weakly compact if and only if the space P(kE) of scalar valued polynomials on E is reflexive. This is equivalent to the symmetric k-fold projective tensor product of E (i.e., the predual of P...

abstract many studies have been conducted on the characteristics of hydraulic jump over gradually expanding cross sections, but comparatively few have been carried out on basins with convergent wall. in the present research, the hydraulic jump characteristic of the stilling basin with convergent wall has been investigated. the main objective of this research is evaluation of conjugate depths ra...

in this paper we introduce some new double sequence spaces using the orlicz function andexamine some properties of the resulting sequence spaces.