when any extraordinary sacrifice or expenditure is intentionally and reasonably made or incurred for the common safety for the purpose of preserving from peril, the property (ship and cargoes) involved in a common maritime adventure, the interests saved , are required to make contributions in general average to the owner of lost or damaged property . general average rules originates from ancien...

We use the techniques of Karchmer and Widgerson KW90] to derive strong lower bounds on the expected parallel time to compute boolean functions by circuits. By average time, we mean the time needed on a self-timed circuit, a model introduced recently by Jakoby, Reischuk, and Schindelhauer, JRS94] in which gates compute their output as soon as it is determined (possibly by a subset of the inputs ...

Geometric or mechanical accuracy of kV and MV imaging systems of two Varian TrueBeam linacs have been monitored by two geomertirc calibration systems, Varian IsoCal geometric calibration system and home-developed gQA system. Results of both systems are cross-checked and the long-term geometric stabilities of linacs are evaluated. Two geometric calibration methodologies have been used to assess ...

A comparison on some facts concerning the geometric quantization of symplectic manifolds is presented here. Criticism and improvements sophisticated theory are touching briefly, all “salient points theory”. The unfamiliar reader can consider this as a “soft” introduction to topic.

where i, j, and t are firm-, industry-, and time-specific subscripts. Yit is the output of firm i in year t in the form of total sales, and Y j is the corresponding geometric mean in industry j. xit denotes the use of factor z. We consider three factors of production, labor, capital, and material input costs. Labor input is measured by the total wage bill, capital by gross fixed assets, and mat...

Intuitionistic fuzzy linguistic numbers (IFLNs) are an extension of the linguistic variables and the intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which are proposed by Wang and Li (Wang J.Q., Li J.J. (2009) The multi-criteria group decision making method based on multi-granularity intuitionistic two semantics. Science & Technology Information (33), 8-9.). In this paper, we introduced some operational laws of IFL...