This article deals with basic concepts of leadership based on the research of the French sinologist François Jullien. It addresses particularly the concept of efficacy in Greek thought in comparison with Daoist thought (Zhuangzi). This comparison is particularly relevant because classical Chinese philosophy developed over thousands of years with hardly any influence from the West. The spirit of...

There are many clustering techniques presented in the literature. The particularity of single-link clustering is that it rather discovers the clusters as chains. We aim to identify a method to apply the single link clustering technique so that: it discovers the first level clusters and the user doesn’t have to provide any sort of a parameter. We focuses on clusters that are well separated, and ...

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is highly accurate in diagnosing mediastinal lymphadenopathies of lung cancer and benign disorders, with the advantage that it is a minimally invasive technique, unlike open surgery and mediastinoscopy. However, the diagnostic accuracy of EBUS-TBNA for the diagnosis of lymphoma in patients with mediastinal lymphadenopa...

An approach to the control of a VTOL vehicle equipped with complementary thrusttilting capabilities that nominally yield full actuation of the vehicle’s position and attitude is developed. The particularity and difficulty of the control problem are epitomized by the existence of a maximum tilting angle which forbids complete and decoupled control of the vehicle’s position and attitude in all si...

Stochastic scheduling of parallel systems is a recent research area in computer science as well as in operations research. The problem under consideration in this chapter is the scheduling of parallel computations which are modeled by task graphs in multiprocessor systems. The particularity of this study is that task running times are assumed to be random variables, instead of known constants a...

Introduced by Dal Lago and Hofmann, quantitative realizability is a technique used to define models for logics based on Multiplicative Linear Logic. A particularity is that functions are interpreted as bounded time computable functions. It has been used to give new and uniform proofs of soundness of several type systems with respect to certain time complexity classes. We propose a reformulation...

In [1], a new class of blind equalization cost functions was proposed. They have the particularity of being unimodal, and some of them, sectionally convex in the Combined System Domain (CDS), both properties seeming very attractive for a cost function, though no proof (or specific definition) was given of the sectional convexity. In this paper we show, using a particular case of this class, tha...

A new presentation of growth hormone insensitivity (GHI) caused by homozygous mutations in STAT5B (signal transducer and activator of transcription 5B) gene has been characterized in the last years. Its particularity is the association with severe immune dysfunction, especially with lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis. This may mislead physicians into considering short stature as secondary to ...

As highways are extended to deep mountains, high altitudes, and special geological conditions, tunnel construction becomes more challenging, especially the of tunnels in karst areas. Due particularity regional structure, is well developed southwest our country, at areas where problem water inrush prominent. To further ensure safe operation tunnels, characteristics analyzed this article.

We investigate the off-forward matrix element of the light cone vector operator for a dressed quark state in light-front Hamiltonian perturbation theory. We obtain the corresponding splitting functions in a straightforward way. We show that the end point singularity is canceled by the contribution from the normalization of state. Considering mixing with the gluon operator, we verify the helicit...