In this paper, the nonlinear free vibrations of thin symmetric and non-symmetric cross-ply composite plates subjected to biaxial initial stresses are investigated. Because of their excellent properties such as specific strength and specific stiffness, composite plates have wide applications in aerospace and mechanical structures. Based on Von-Karman's strain-displacement relations and using Gal...

— Let X be a Riemannian symmetric space of the noncompact type. We prove that the solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation on X with square integrable initial condition f is identically zero at all times t whenever f and the solution at a time t0 > 0 are simultaneously very rapidly decreasing. The stated condition of rapid decrease is of Beurling type. Conditions respectively of Gelf...

With the abundance of exceptionally High Dimensional data, feature selection has become an essential element in the Data Mining process. In this paper, we investigate the problem of efficient feature selection for classification on High Dimensional datasets. We present a novel filter based approach for feature selection that sorts out the features based on a score and then we measure the perfor...

Homogeneous self-dual algorithms for stochastic semidefinite programs with finite event space has been proposed by Jin et al. in [12]. Alzalg [8], has adopted their work to derive homogeneous self-dual algorithms for stochastic second-order programs with finite event space. In this paper, we generalize these two results to derive homogeneous self-dual algorithms for stochastic programs with fin...

Many statistical characteristics y = f(x1, . . . , xn) are continuous, symmetric, and either concave or convex; examples include population variance

We consider the rendezvous problem of gathering two or more identical agents that are initially scattered among the nodes of an unknown graph. We discuss some of the recent results for this problem focusing only on deterministic algorithms for the general case when the graph topology is unknown, the nodes of the graph may not be uniquely labeled and the agents may not be synchronized with each ...

background: the dosimetric performance of eclipse 6.5 three dimensional treatment planning system (3dtps) is evaluated by comparing the calculated and measured dose in two dimensions following the guide lines of american association for physicists in medicine task group 53. materials and methods: the calculations were performed by the 3dtps for symmetric as well as asymmetric fields for standar...

Recently there has been much effort in the quantum information community to prove (or disprove) the existence of symmetric informationally complete (SIC) sets of quantum states in arbitrary finite dimension. This paper strengthens the urgency of this question by showing that if SIC-sets exist: (1) by a natural measure of orthonormality, they are as close to being an orthonormal basis for the sp...