This paper is a contribution to the aid effectiveness literature in two important fronts. Firstly, it develops a new database for project aid and programme aid disbursements for 104 developing countries, for the period of 1973-2001. Secondly, using this new dataset and, food aid and technical assistance data from the OECD-DAC database the paper re-examines the savings displacement hypothesis. T...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the blood flow and temperature distribution in human extremities. Design/methodology/approach – The simulation is carried out from three aspects. Firstly, the hemodynamics in the human upper limb is analyzed by one-dimensional model for pulsalite flow in an elastic tube. Secondly, the blood flow and heat transfer through living tissues are d...

Maji[32], firstly proposed neutrosophic soft sets can handle the indeterminate information and inconsistent information which exists commonly in belief systems. In this paper, we have firstly redefined complement, union and compared our definitions of neutrosophic soft with the definitions given by Maji. Then, we have introduced the concept of neutrosophic soft matrix and their operators which ...

Pelvic congestion syndrome was firstly described by Taylor in 1949. It results from vascular engorgement of the uterus and the vessels of the broad ligament and lateral pelvic wall, which may lead to chronic pelvic pain[1]. Percutaneous transcatheter embolotherapy, firstly introduced by Edwards et al.[2] in 1993, is claimed to be a safe and effective treatment for the syndrome. In published stu...

We explore the use of the singular value decomposition (SVD) in image compression. We link the SVD and the multiresolution algorithms. In [22] it is derived a multiresolution representation of the SVD decomposition, and in [15] the SVD algorithm and Wavelets are linked, proposing a mixed algorithm which roughly consist on applying firstly a discrete Wavelet transform and secondly the SVD algori...

In this paper, we propose a delay constrained spatio-temporal video rate control method for lossy channels where the effective channel rate available to the video encoder is time-varying. Target bit-rate constraint for encoding is derived, which guarantees in-time delivery of video frames. By using empirically obtained rate-quantization and distortionquantization relations of video, the distort...

State of the research about the technology of solar energy with LHTS (Latent Heat Thermal Storage ) at home and abroad was firstly introduced, and a fresh air system with solar energy and LHTS was then introduced. After that the fuzzy control system of fresh air temperature was studied. Firstly, a mathematical model of the fan coil was built as the controlled plant. Then, a fuzzy controller was...

Managers of open source projects need to understand time to resolve bugs, which are reported into a bug tracking system on a daily basis, to make a release plan. Hewett et al. proposed an empirical approach to predicting time required to repair bugs. However, the predictive model did not distinguish between time to modify a firstly-reported bug and time to re-modify a bug. In this paper, toward...

Applying machine learning in the health care domain has shown promising results in recent years. Interpretable outputs from learning algorithms are desirable for decision making by health care personnel. In this work, we explore the possibility of utilizing causal relationships to refine diagnostic prediction. We focus on the task of diagnostic prediction using discomfort drawings, and explore ...

A new method is investigated to reconfigure smart structures by the technique of polynomial series, used to approximate a true heteroclinic connection between unstable equilibria in a smart structure model. We explore the use of polynomials of varying order to firstly approximate the heteroclinic connection between two equalenergy unstable equilibrium points, and then develop an inverse method ...