Adjustment decision making is shown to be based on having a balance between pairs of alternatives, leading to two, four and eight kinds of activities, the latter which corresponds to McKinsey’s Seven Ss. Development decision making is shown to have three extroverted levels embedded within three introverted levels, and to underpin Maslow’s hierarchy, Jung’s thinking types and the Systems Develop...

where 0 ≤ λ ≤ 1 is the host-rejection parameter, ν is a parameter for fixing the embedding distortion, and Mi ∈ {0, 1} is the binary message (equiprobable) embedded in Xi. The vector Xi denotes the host signal, whereas s0 is the secret spreading vector, both of dimension n. The classical additive spread spectrum modulation (add-SS) is a particular case of (1) for λ = 0. In our statistical model...

AIM To evaluate the pitting and crevice corrosion characteristics of stainless steel (SS) and NiTi endodontic files in R-EDTA and NaOCl irrigating solutions. METHODOLOGY The corrosion behaviour of two H-files produced from different SS alloys (Mani, AISI 303 SS, Dentsply Maillefer, AISI 304 SS) and one file produced from NiTi alloy (Maillefer) was determined in R-EDTA and NaOCl irrigating sol...

 ‎Let $tilde{F}=(Q,S,tilde{R},Z,omega,tilde{delta},‎ F_1,F_2)$‎ ‎be a general fuzzy automaton and the set of its states be a group.‎ ‎The aim of this paper is the study of applications of a group in a‎ ‎general fuzzy automaton‎. ‎For this purpose‎, ‎we define the concepts‎ ‎of fuzzy normal kernel of a general fuzzy automaton‎, ‎fuzzy kernel‎ ‎of a general fuzzy automaton‎, ‎adjustable‎, ‎multip...

The aim of this paper is to propose an adaptive method for suppressing wideband interferences in spread spectrum (SS) communications. The proposed method is based on the time–frequency representation of the received signal from which the parameters of an adaptive time-varying interference excision filter are estimated. The approach is based on the generalized Wigner–Hough transform as an effect...

[1] Earthquake nucleation requires reduction of frictional strength = ( p) with slip or slip rate, where , n, and p are the friction coefficient, normal stress, and fluid pressure, respectively. For rate state at fixed ( p), instabilities can occur when d ss/dv < 0, where ss is the steady state friction and v is slip rate. Shear heating increases p and, if dilatancy and pore pressure diffusion ...

A subgroup $H$ is said to be $nc$-supplemented in a group $G$ if there exists a subgroup $Kleq G$ such that $HKlhd G$ and $Hcap K$ is contained in $H_{G}$, the core of $H$ in $G$. We characterize the supersolubility of finite groups $G$ with that every maximal subgroup of the Sylow subgroups is $nc$-supplemented in $G$.