We provide minimality criteria by construction of calibrations for functionals arising in the theory thermal insulation.

Given a density f we pose the problem of estimating the density functional ψr = ∫ f (r)f making use of kernel methods. This is a well-known problem but some of its features remained unexplored. We focus on the problem of bandwidth selection. Whereas all the previous studies concentrate on an asymptotically optimal bandwidth here we study the properties of exact, nonasymptotic ones, and relate t...

In this paper, the advances of finite element methods and analyses for FRP reinforced and strengthened concrete beams in last two decades are reviewed to present a state of the art of the research of numerical analysis and modelling of FRP composite concrete beams. Future research on finite element analysis of FRP composite beams is also presented.

The brain uses iron for many essential processes (1-4). The extent of iron utilization is heavily dependent on local functional requirements, leading to significant variations in tissue iron concentrations throughout the brain (5-7). This was graphically illustrated nearly a century ago in the first colour illustrations of the differential distribution of iron throughout the brain architecture,...

A Ac ck kn no ow wl le ed dg ge em me en nt ts s This COSMIC Guideline is derived from a paper originally presented at the SMEF Conference in May 2006 in Rome, Italy by Harold van Heeringen of Sogeti Netherlands [1]. The paper was entitled 'Measuring the functional size of a data warehouse application using the COSMIC-FFP method. That paper was written in response to a paper by Luca Santillo [2...

Several applications of slicing require a program to be sliced with respect to more than one slicing criterion. Program specialization, parallelization and cohesion measurement are examples of such applications. Œese applications can bene€t from an incremental static slicing method in which a signi€cant extent of the computations for slicing with respect to one criterion could be reused for ano...