The Stability Index Method (SIM) combines stochastic and deterministic algorithms to find global minima of multidimensional functions. The functions may be nonsmooth and may have multiple local minima. The method examines the change of the diameters of the minimizing sets for its stopping criterion. At first, the algorithm uses the uniform random distribution in the admissible set. Then normal ...

This paper overviews the evaluation and the performance of the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) Global Vegetation Index (MGVI) algorithm which is implemented in the MERIS ground segment as the main land surface product, also called the Top Of Atmosphere Vegetation Index (TOAVI). MGVI values represent the Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) which act as...

Using data from July 1997 to July 2007, we examine if the FTSE index is affected by the past behavior of the DOW, DAX, NIKKEI, Hang Seng and Shanghai indices. We compare three different methods of estimating regression parameters. The results show that the FTSE lagged variable and the NIKKEI and DOW past performance are good indicators of the future performance of the FTSE. The models produce d...

The global city thesis and the migration thesis concern two important dimensions of the impacts of contemporary globalization on cities. The two theses are intrinsically linked. The central question is how we should approach migration in the new context of the global city, and how we should articulate their interrelationships. To address this question, we construct an integrative analytical fra...

The sum of the topological distances in the molecular graph (the Wiener number) is used for a topological characterization of the condensed polycyclic molecular systems. This topological index discriminates well the isomeric cyclic molecules. In addition, it also properly reflects their structural features. On this basis the principal points of molecular cyclicity are formulated in 15 rules. La...

The paper describes a computational system for exhaustive but compact description of repeated motivic patterns in symbolic representations of music. The approach follows a method based on closed heterogeneous pattern mining in multiparametrical space with control of pattern cyclicity. This paper presents a much simpler description and justification of this general strategy, as well as significa...

The objective of present study is to determine the effect of green coconut water on estrous cycle in metoclopramide-induce hyperprolactinemia in female Sprague-Dawley rats. Fifty adult cyclic female Sprague-Dawley rats were used for this study. The animals were treated with green coconut water (GCW) before, after and concurrently with metoclopramide to induce hyperprolactinemia. The posttreated...

This article presents a unified solution to two long-standing problems concerning successive cyclicity. First, under the minimalist program of Chomsky (1995), a trigger for successive-cyclic wh-movement to [–wh] SpecC positions must be identified. Second, as noted by den Besten & Webelhuth (1990), there is a strict prohibition against unbound intermediate traces that result from a combination o...

The authors examined whether variations in day-to-day estimates of personality characteristics, which are often treated as error, are instead predictable and meaningful. Using event-sampling and spectral analysis, they found that variations in interpersonal behavior over weekly periods were cyclic and normative. Dominant, submissive, agreeable, and quarrelsome behaviors rose during the week and...

The property of cyclicity of a linear operator, or equivalently the property of simplicity of its spectrum, is an important spectral characteristic that appears in many problems of functional analysis and applications to mathematical physics. In this paper we study cyclicity in the context of rank-one perturbation problems for self-adjoint and unitary operators. We show that for a fixed non-zer...