Simulated landscapes have been used for decades to evaluate search strategies whose goal is to find the landscape location with maximum fitness. Applications include modeling the capacity of enzymes to catalyze reactions and the clinical effectiveness of medical treatments. Understanding properties of landscapes is important for understanding search difficulty. This paper presents a novel and t...

We study the structure and point out weaknesses of recently-proposed random number generators based on special types of linear recurrences with small coefficients, which allow fast implementations. Our theoretical analysis is complemented by the results of simple empirical statistical tests that the generators fail decisively. Directions for improvement and alternative generators are also point...

This paper is concerned with developing a nonparametric time–varying coefficient model with fixed effects to characterize nonstationarity and trending phenomenon in nonlinear panel data analysis. We develop two methods to estimate the trend function and the coefficient function without taking the first difference to eliminate the fixed effects. The first one eliminates the fixed effects by taki...

A (k, n) threshold secret image sharing scheme, abbreviated as (k, n)-TSISS, splits a secret image into n shadow images in such a way that any k shadow images can be used to reconstruct the secret image exactly. In 2002, for (k, n)-TSISS, Thien and Lin reduced the size of each shadow image to 1 k of the original secret image. Their main technique is by adopting all coefficients of a (k − 1)-deg...

In order to preserve the integrity of edge and detail information in the underwater image, a NSCT de-noising method based on Non-local means with modified parameter is proposed. Since NSCT has the feature of translation invariance, it is used to decompose the underwater image in multi-scale and multi-direction. For the noise and detail information are normally distributed in the high frequency ...

Let A, B be separable simple unital tracially AF C*-algebras. Assuming that A is exact and satisfies the Universal Coefficient Theorem (UCT) in KK-theory, we prove the existence, and uniqueness modulo approximately inner automorphisms, of nuclear ∗-homomorphisms from A to B with prescribed K-theory data. This implies the AF-embeddability of separable exact residually finite dimensional C*-algeb...

In the paper an analytical method for constructing solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations based on the method of special series is considered. The essence of this approach is in representation of solutions of an original equation in the form of series with recurrently coefficients computed in powers of specially selected functions. Such functions may depend on several independent...

The congruence between two configurations of points quantifies their similarity. The configurations to be compared are, in general, produced by factor analytic methods which decompose an “observations by variables” data matrix and produce one set of factor scores for the observations and one set of factor scores (i.e., the “loadings”) for the variables. The congruence between two sets of factor...

this article deals with the study of the two-dimensional mixed convection magnetohydrodynamic (mhd) boundary layer of stagnation-point flow over a stretching vertical plate in porous medium filled with a nanofluid. the model used for the nanofluid incorporates the effects of brownian motion and thermophoresis in the presence of thermal radiation. the skin-friction coefficient, nusselt number an...