LIGO has completed a series of observations searching for evidence of a stochastic gravitational wave background. There has been no detection to date. However the sensitivity of the observations is approaching the Big Bang nucleosynthesis bound. Future observations will provide information that bounds a number of early Universe models of stochastic gravitational waves.

An upper limit on the masses of scalar superpartners in split supersymmetry is found by considering cosmological constraints on long-lived gluinos. Over most of parameter space, the most stringent constraint comes from big bang nucleosynthesis. A TeV mass gluino must have a lifetime of less than 100 seconds to avoid altering the abundances of D and Li. This sets an upper limit on the supersymme...

This study presents the design and real-time applications of an Interval Type-2 Fuzzy PID (IT2-FPID) control system on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a flexible cable-connected payload in comparison to Type-1 (T1-FPID) counterparts. The IT2-FPID has significant stability, disturbance rejection, response time advantages. To prove show these advantages, DJI Tello, commercial UAV, is used test...

I present several simple figures to illustrate cosmology and structure formation in a nutshell. Then I discuss the following argument: if we assume that ΩΛ = 0 then the CMB results favor high Ωm while the supernova results favor low Ωm. This large inconsistency is strong evidence for the incorrectness of the ΩΛ = 0 assumption. Finally I discuss recent CMB results on the slope and normalization ...

Since Porter’s work on competitive strategies in the 1980s, the concept of competitive intelligence has become part of the management mainstream. Currently, two big shifts are challenging the state of the art. On the one hand there is the rise of the ubiquitous servicification in all industries which makes the existing methods for productoriented industries outdated. On the other hand there is ...

This paper reports a study which provides a series of implications that may be particularly helpful to companies already leveraging ‘big data’ for their businesses or planning to do so. The Data Driven Business Model (DDBM) framework represents a basis for the analysis and clustering of business models. For practitioners the dimensions and various features may provide guidance on possibilities ...

We review the recent status of big bounce genesis as a new possibility of using dark matter particles’ mass and interaction cross-section to test the existence of a bounce universe at the early stage of evolution in our currently-observed universe. To study the dark matter production and evolution inside the bounce universe, called big bounce genesis for short, we propose a model independent ap...