This paper examines the questions of why and how foreign assistance was utilized successfully in South Korea but less so in Ghana, with a focus on the role of aid in the process of state building and state transition in these two countries. Before the 1960s, South Korea and Ghana shared approximately similar levels of GDP per capita. However, while South Korea achieved rapid economic developmen...

The effect of deformation on the two-neutrino double decay (2νββ-decay) for ground state transition 76Ge → 76Se is studied in the framework of the deformed QRPA with separable Gamow-Teller residual interaction. A new suppression mechanism of the 2νββ-decay matrix element based on the difference in deformations of the initial and final nuclei is included. An advantage of this suppression mechani...

the sorption isotherm and state diagram of sundried, golden and sultana raisins were constructed for investigation and comparison of the product stability. the isotherms were measured at 15, 25 and 35 °c using an isopiestic method and the data were modeled with gab model. glass transition temperatures of the products were measured by differential scanning calorimetery (dsc) and fitted to gordon...

multi agent markov decision processes (mmdps), as the generalization of markov decision processes to the multi agent case, have long been used for modeling multi agent system and are used as a suitable framework for multi agent reinforcement learning. in this paper, a generalized learning automata based algorithm for finding optimal policies in mmdp is proposed. in the proposed algorithm, mmdp ...

the hydrogen abstraction reaction by oh radical from ch2brch2br (r1) and ch₃chbr2 (r2) is investigated theoretically by semi-classical transition state theory. the stationary points for both reactions are located by using ωb97x-d and kmlyp density functional methods along with cc-pvtz basis. single-point energy calculations are performed at the qcisd(t) and ccsd(t) levels of theory with differe...

As an alternative to the batch means (BM) method in the stopping rule for symbolic dynamic filtering, this short paper presents an analytical procedure to estimate the variance parameter and to obtain a lower bound on the length of symbol blocks for constructing probabilistic finite state automata (PFSA). If the modulus of the second largest eigenvalue of the PFSA’s state transition matrix is r...

In this paper, a supervised energy disaggregation method is proposed. The appliances to be monitored, are modelled by multi-state finite state machines. Each state of an appliance is described by exactly one vector of power consumptions from a carefully designed set of such vectors (called atoms), that comprise a dictionary. The latter is constructed during a training phase, where it is assumed...

Using a non-Abelian density matrix renormalization group method we determine the phase diagram of the Kondo lattice model in one dimension, by directly measuring the magnetization of the ground state. This allowed us to discover a second ferromagnetic phase missed in previous approaches. The phase transitions are found to be continuous. The spin-spin correlation function is studied in detail, a...

In this paper, the electrical characteristics and sensitivity analysis of staggered type p-channel heterojunction electron-hole bilayer tunnel field effect transistor (HJ-EHBTFET) are thoroughly investigated via simulation study. The minimum lattice mismatch between InAs/GaAs0.1Sb0.9 layers besides low carrier effective mass of materials provides high probability ...

By means of a new "quick-sampling" method, micropellets of mouse liver mitochondria were rapidly prepared for electron microscopy during the recording of steady state metabolism. Reversible ultrastructural changes were found to accompany change in metabolic steady states. The most dramatic reversible ultrastructural change occurs when ADP is added to systems in which only phosphate acceptor is ...