Many ontology standards, such as STEP, ifcXML, aecXML and PSL, have been proposed for the A/E/C industries. Different ontologies exist and they have many advantages for information exchange within specific domain applications. However, the existence of different ontologies may cause many interoperability issues. For example, while PSL, ifcXML and aecXML all have provisions related to project ma...

Nowadays a large variety of applications are based on solid nanoparticles dispersed in liquids-so called nanofluids. The interaction between the fluid and the nanoparticles plays a decisive role in the physical properties of the nanofluid. A novel approach based on the nonradiative energy transfer between two small luminescent nanocrystals (GdVO4 :Nd3+ and GdVO4 :Yb3+ ) dispersed in water is us...

We develop a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for equilibria to be determinate in a class of forward-looking Markov-switching rational expectations models and we develop an algorithm to check these conditions in practice. We use three examples, based on the new-Keynesian model of monetary policy, to illustrate our technique. Our work connects applied econometric models of Markov-switc...

Property does many things-it incentivizes productive activity, facilitates exchange, forms an integral part of individual identity, and shapes communities. But property does something equally fundamental: it communicates. And perhaps the most ubiquitous and important messages that property communicates have to do with relative status, with the material world defining and reinforcing a variety o...

The activation of the dodecameric Ca(2+)/calmodulin dependent kinase II (CaMKII) holoenzyme is critical for memory formation. We now report that CaMKII has a remarkable property, which is that activation of the holoenzyme triggers the exchange of subunits between holoenzymes, including unactivated ones, enabling the calcium-independent phosphorylation of new subunits. We show, using a single-mo...

Master key forward security is an important property for identity-based key exchange protocols. Unfortunately, most of existing identity-based key exchange protocols do not satisfy this property. In this paper, we firstly analyze Xie’s modified protocol to show that signature is undesirable for an identity-based key agreement protocol with the master key forward secrecy. Then we present two imp...

To examine the asymmetry of financial data in detail, we have considered both the tail dependence with diverse copulas and Jung et al.’s [8] directional dependence by copula. From the empirical study in this paper, we have found that the tail dependence by Patton’s [11] modified symmetrized Joe-Clayton copula function did not show the asymmetry property sufficiently because there is no tail dep...

The selection problem is to determine the kth largest out of a given set of n keys, and its sequential complexity is well known to be linear. Thus, given a p processor parallel machine, it is natural to ask whether or not an O(n=p) selection algorithm can be devised for that machine. The main result of this paper is an ((n=p) log log p + log p) lower bound for selection on any network that sati...

The contributory property allows participants of group key exchange fairly to engage in the generation of the random session key rather than an entity or some part of members solely to determinate it or force it to lie in an undesired distribution. In this paper, we put forth a password-authenticated group key exchange (GPAKE) in which principals cooperate to agree a strong session key just in ...

In this paper, we use the plug-in and Whittle methods that are based on spectral regression analysis to test for the long memory property in 12 Asian/dollar daily exchange rates. The results according to the plug-in method show that with the exception of Chinese renminbi all series may have long memory properties. The results based on the Whittle method, on the other hand, show that only Japane...