introduction: due to the large number of pet systems available in the market, it is not very easy to decide about the scanner of choice. conducting a research in order to compare all different pet scanners is very time consuming and expensive and practically impossible. however, such comparison may be conducted using pet simulators. in this study, the performance of 6 different pet scanners in ...

This paper extends Weitzman’s (1974) “Prices vs. Quantities” to allow for incomplete enforcement. Whether the regulator uses prices (e.g., taxes) or quantities (e.g., tradeable quotas), a first-best design is always inefficient in the presence of incomplete enforcement. A second-best design that incorporates incomplete enforcement, and where cost and benefit curves are known with certainty, can...

In this paper&#10, a fast method for automatic generation and scientific design of Persian letters is proposed. Scientific typeface design is an approach in which fonts are described by mathematical curves with well-defined parameters, where these parameters can be automatically tuned. METAFONT is a language suitable for the type of design used in this work. This language is particularly useful...

In the hot compression test friction has a detrimental influence on the flow stress through the process and therefore, correcting the deformation curve for real behavior is very important for both researchers and engineers. In this study, a series of compression tests were simulated using Abaqus software. In this study, it has been employed the Taguchi method to design experiments by the factor...

In earlier work, the second named author described how one may extract Darmonstyle L -invariants from modular forms on Shimura curves that are special at p. In this paper, we show that these L -invariants are preserved by the Jacquet–Langlands correspondence. As a consequence, we prove the second named author’s period conjecture in the case where the base field is Q. As a further application of...

We construct three-dimensional families of hyperelliptic curves of genus 6, 12, and 14, two-dimensional families of hyperelliptic curves of genus 3, 6, 7, 10, 20, and 30, and one-dimensional families of hyperelliptic curves of genus 5, 10 and 15, all of which are equipped with an an explicit isogeny from their Jacobian to another hyperelliptic Jacobian. We show that the Jacobians are genericall...

As a new method of representing curves, Q-Bézier curves not only exhibit the beneficial properties of Bézier curves but also allow effective shape adjustment by changing multiple shape parameters. In order to resolve the problem of not being able to construct complex curves using a single curve, we study the geometric continuity conditions for Q-Bézier curves of degree n. Following the analysis...

In this paper , a fast method for automatic generation and scientific design of Persian letters is proposed. Scientific typeface design is an approach in which fonts are described by mathematical curves with well-defined parameters, where these parameters can be automatically tuned. METAFONT is a language suitable for the type of design used in this work. This language is particularly useful i...

Linear-time convex hull algorithms are known to exist for polygons and planar objects bounded by piecewise algebraic curves. Most of the existing algorithms laboriously trace out the so-called “pockets” formed by the concave portions of an object’s boundary. Objects bounded by general parametric curves have been excluded from the previous study partly because the nature of computation is seemin...