This paper investigates core stability of cooperative (TU) games via a fuzzy extension of the totally balanced cover of a cooperative game. The stability of the core of the fuzzy extension of a game, the concave extension, is shown to reflect the core stability of the original game and vice versa. Stability of the core is then shown to be equivalent to the existence of an equilibrium of a certa...

The number of constructed dams has been largely increased due to high demands of water supplies, and earth dams are the most common types since they are more compatible to the environment. Nevertheless, the stability of these important structures during earthquakes has to be carefully evaluated and guaranteed. In the past, earth dams usually designed with pure clay core, but in recent decades t...

ABSTRACT Introduction: Long-distance runners cannot achieve training effects by relying only on speed endurance training. Core exercises significantly improve stability, allowing learning of techniques with superior movement efficiency. Several factors that affect the development athletes’ special skills are considered, highlighting their main strengths and working intermediate characteristics....

A dynamic two-sided matching market is considered. We examine two existing notions of stability—the core and recursive core—for this multi-period market and argue that they both have limitations. We define two new notions of stability and label them, self-sustaining stability and strict self-sustaining stability. Both concepts can be viewed as the recursive core with more stringent conditions f...

The effects of microstructural variations with depth on Barkhausen effect (BE) signals in surface-modified ferrous materials have been studied through measurements and simulations based on a hysteretic-stochastic model. The BE signals measured from an unhardened sample show a peak near zero field. In contrast, the BE signals in surface-hardened samples with different case depths exhibit low-amp...

core-shell nanostructures are emerging as more important materials than alloy nanostructures and have much more interesting potential applications in various fields. in this work, we demonstrated the fast and facile synthesis of core-shell nanoparticles consisting of pt thin layer as the shell and ni nanoparticles as the cores. the described method herein is suitable for large-scale and low-cos...