In this paper we consider the solutions of linear systems of saddle point problems‎. ‎By using the spectrum of a quadratic matrix polynomial‎, ‎we study the eigenvalues of the iterative matrix of the Hermitian and skew Hermitian splitting method‎.

INTRODUCTION Congenital trigger thumb is an uncommon anomaly of children. Its management is controversial, ranging from observation to extensive surgical release. We report a case of delayed presentation of bilateral trigger thumb along with a brief review of past literature. CASE REPORT A six year old girl presented with fixed flexion deformity of interphalangeal joints of both thumbs and No...

Water-splitting dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells (WS-DSPECs) use visible light to split water using molecular sensitizers and water oxidation catalysts codeposited onto mesoporous TiO2 electrodes. Despite a high quantum yield of charge injection and low requirement for the catalytic turnover rate, the quantum yield of water splitting in WS-DSPECs is typically low (<1%). Here we examine...

This paper extends a mereotopological theory of spatiotemporal reasoning to vague ”egg-yolk” regions. In this extension, the egg and its yolk are allowed to move and change over time. We present a classification of motion classes for vague regions as well as composition tables for reasoning about moving vague regions. We also discuss the formation of scrambled eggs when it becomes impossible to...

CR-Prolog is an extension of A-Prolog, the knowledge representation language at the core of the Answer Set Programming paradigm. CR-Prolog is based on the introduction in A-Prolog of consistency-restoring rules (cr-rules for short), and allows an elegant formalization of events or exceptions that are unlikely, unusual, or undesired. The flexibility of the language has been extensively demonstra...

In this work we investigate several issues in order to improve the performance of probabilistic estimation trees (PETs). First, we derive a new probability smoothing that takes into account the class distributions of all the nodes from the root to each leaf. Secondly, we introduce or adapt some new splitting criteria aimed at improving probability estimates rather than improving classification ...

In this work we investigate several issues in order to improve the performance of probabilistic estimation trees (PETs). First, we derive a new probability smoothing that takes into account the class distributions of all the nodes from the root to each leaf. This enhances probability estimations with respect to other previous approaches without smoothing or with Laplace correction. Secondly, we...

Iran is the biggest pistachio producer and exporter in the world. Surely, one of the most problems of pistachio industry is Aflatoxin contamination in recent years that treated exportation this valuable crop. This research was done in order to evaluate Aflatoxin contamination in indehiscence and mechanical splitting pistachios of Ouhadi cultivars in Rafsanjan region. Treatments of this research...

In this note we provide a generalization of a result of Goddard, Raines and Slater [4] on edge-connectivity of permutation graphs for hypergraphs. A permutation hypergraph Gπ is obtained from a hypergraph G by taking two disjoint copies of G and by adding a perfect matching between them. The main tool in the proof of the graph result was the theorem on partition constrained splitting off preser...

Here we extend the flux vector splitting approach recently proposed in (E F Toro and M E Vázquez-Cendón. Flux splitting schemes for the Euler equations. Computers and Fluids. Vol. 70, Pages 1-12, 2012). The scheme was originally presented for the 1D Euler equations for ideal gases and its extension presented in this paper is threefold: (i) we solve the three-dimensional Euler equations on gener...