I summarize the present status of global analyses of neutrino oscillations, including the most recent KamLAND and K2K data, as well as the latest solar and atmospheric neutrino fluxes. I give the allowed ranges of the three– flavour oscillation parameters from the current worlds’ global neutrino data sample, their best fit values and discuss the small parameters α ≡ ∆m2sol/∆m 2 atm and sin 2 θ1...

The main motivation of this research is how the issue of volitional control might affect the application of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to research decisions related to information ethics. Specifically, a TPBbased model provides the best fit to the sample collected for the present study. In this model, the contribution of both the attitude and perceived behavioral control to the intent...

Precision monitoring of plant health via remote sensing benefits from accurate quantification of attributes such as foliar pigments related to stress. For example, pigment content (the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids) can be indirectly related to photosynthetic efficiency in plants and hence productivity. Optical remote sensing can potentially provide this data with high spatial accuracy vi...

Automated negotiation is an important applying field of agent theory and technology. For the current agent theoretical models have some troubles in explaining the agent's negotiation behaviors, this paper defines utility as costs and incomes coming from the transformation of the possible negotiation states. This lead to a semantic model fitting the agent's automated negotiation. Then, on the ba...

In this paper, a novel approach is introduced for classifying curves into proper families, according to their similarity. First, a mathematical quantity we call plane curvature is introduced and a number of propositions are stated and proved. Proper similarity measures of two curves are introduced and a subsequent statistical analysis is applied. First, the efficiency of the curve fitting proce...

The concept of fractional order derivative can be found in extensive range of many different subject areas. For this reason, the concept of fractional order derivative should be examined. After giving different methods mostly used in engineering and scientific applications, the omissions or errors of these methods will be discussed in this study. The mostly used methods are Euler, Riemann-Liouv...

The generalized Fitting height of a finite group G is the least number h = h∗(G) such that F ∗ h (G) = G, where the F ∗ i (G) is the generalized Fitting series: F ∗ 1 (G) = F ∗(G) and F ∗ i+1(G) is the inverse image of F ∗(G/F ∗ i (G)). It is proved that if G admits a soluble group of automorphisms A of coprime order, then h∗(G) is bounded in terms of h∗(CG(A)), where CG(A) is the fixed-point s...

Accurate assessment of skeletal maturity is important clinically. Skeletal age assessment is usually based on features encoded in ossification centers. Therefore, it is critical to design a mechanism to capture as much as possible characteristics of features. We have observed that given a feature, there exist stages of the skeletal age such that the variation pattern of the feature differs in t...

Given a birational parameterization φ of an algebraic surface S in the projective space P3, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the sets of points on S whose preimage consists in k or more points, counting multiplicities. They are described explicitly in terms of Fitting ideals of some graded parts of the symmetric algebra associated to the parameterization φ.

Models of the zodiacal light are necessary to convert measured data taken from low Earth orbit into the radiation field outside the solar system. The uncertainty in these models dominates the overall uncertainty in determining the extragalactic background light for wavelengths λ < 100 μm.