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To study the impact of media coverage on spread and control of infectious diseases, we use a susceptible-exposed-infective (SEI) model, including individuals' behavior changes in their contacts due to the influences of media coverage, and fully investigate the model dynamics. We define the basic reproductive number ?0 for the model, and show that the modeled disease dies out regardless of initi...

This paper discusses a plan that addresses how the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) may assist the Department of Defense (DoD) in reengineering its large software-intensive systems. This plan is based on a view of reengineering as an engineering problem to improve the cost-effective evolution of large software-intensive systems. This view of reengineering, which takes the whole software eng...

The Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) gets a lot of publicity. Given that the institute is funded by the US Department of Defense to the tune of tens of millions of dollars each year [1], this should come as no surprise=97 the folks at the SEI are the official process mavens of the military, and have the resources to spread the word about what they do. But, ...

1 Einleitung In diesem Vortrag geht es um den Satz von Stanley, einen kombinatorischen Satz über Polytope, für den nur Beweise bekannt sind, die Aussagen über torische Varietäten und ihre Homologie benutzen. Sei X/C wie eine torische Varietät zum vollständigen Fächer ∆. In der Regel wird X nicht-singulär oder mindestens simplizial sein. Wenn ∆ Dimension n hat, operiert ein n-dimensionaler Torus...

Two polyanions [SeI V2 PdII4 WVI14 O56 H]11- and [SeI V4 PdII4 WVI28 O108 H12 ]12- are the first hybrid polyoxometalates in which classical (Group 5/6 metal based) and non-classical (late transition-metal based) polyoxometalate units are joined. Requiring no supporting groups, this co-condensation of polyoxotungstate and isopolyoxopalladate constituents also provides a logical link between POM-...

RESULTS: The mean SEI, fibroblast counts, and capillary counts differed significantly among the five groups (P < 0.05). The median SEI was significantly lower in the SGS+2.5 mg verapamil/g group (Figure 1) than in the SGS group (Figure 2) (1.2 vs. 2.2). The median number of fibroblasts was significantly lower in the SGS+0.25 mg verapamil/g group than in the SGS group (172.5 vs. 243). The median...

The Software Engineering Institute is chartered with advancing the state-of-the-practice of software engineering to improve the quality of the systems that depend on software. Digital has based its software process improvement program on the Capability Maturity Model and Software Process Assessment developed by the SEI. As software organizations gain process maturity, they produce higher-qualit...

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Investors in alternative asset classes such as private equity and hedge funds have long had difficulty applying traditional models for making asset allocation decisions. The optimization techniques of modern portfolio theory rely heavily on a trio of descriptive statistics: mean, variance, and covariance. For most traditional asset classes, the abundance of historical data provides a guide for ...