All sets of lines providing a partition of the set of internal points to a conic C in PG(2, q), q odd, are determined. There exist only three such linesets up to projectivities, namely the set of all nontangent lines to C through an external point to C, the set of all nontangent lines to C through a point in C, and, for square q, the set of all nontangent lines to C belonging to a Baer subplane...

A comparison was made of three methods for measuring the leaf lamina hydraulic conductance (K(lamina)) for detached mature leaves of six woody temperate angiosperm species. The high-pressure method, the evaporative flux method and the vacuum pump method involve, respectively, pushing, evaporating and pulling water out of the lamina while determining the flow rate into the petiole and the water ...

This paper proposes a generic algorithm for k-bit Analog to Digital Conversion. The proposed algorithm is very fast method of conversion of an analog signal into k-bit digital output in a multi-bit parallel fashion. The algorithm employs m stages, each of which is capable of producing bits such that k/m bits are converted at the same time. Thus, this algorithm can be considered a k = n X m conv...

Let $G$ be a $p$-group of nilpotency class $k$ with finite exponent $exp(G)$ and let $m=lfloorlog_pk floor$. We show that $exp(M^{(c)}(G))$ divides $exp(G)p^{m(k-1)}$, for all $cgeq1$, where $M^{(c)}(G)$ denotes the c-nilpotent multiplier of $G$. This implies that $exp( M(G))$ divides $exp(G)$, for all finite $p$-groups of class at most $p-1$. Moreover, we show that our result is an improvement...

In this paper, we use analytic method to study the mean value properties of Smarandache-Type Multiplicative Functions Km(n), and give its asymptotic formula. Finally, the convolution method is used to improve the error term. Suppose m ≥ 2 is a fixed positive integer. If n = p α1 1 p α2 2 ...p α k k , we define K m (n) = p β1 1 p β2 which is a Smarandache-type multiplicative function. Yang Cundi...