Present information processing suffers from the lack of coordination among researches on new methods of solving information processing problems and non-interoperability of information processing systems. This thesis suggests a unified web-based bank of knowledge meant for coordinating researches on the new methods, supporting development of interoperable intelligent information-processing syste...

This is the third in a series of four papers which we consider system interacting Fisher-Wright diffusions with seed-bank. Individuals carry type ♡ or ♢, live colonies, and are subject to resampling migration as long they active. Each colony has structured seed-bank into individuals can retreat become dormant, suspending their until active again. As geographic space labelling colonies countable...

Multidimensional multirate systems have been used widely in signal processing, communications, and computer vision. Traditional multidimensional multirate systems are tensor products of one-dimensional systems. While these systems are easy to implement and design, they are inadequate to represent multidimensional signals since they cannot capture the geometric structure. Therefore, “true” multi...

This paper examines how public intervention (prudential policy) in the banking area should be pursued and aims at providing points for discussion in considering what kind of system should be established to promote both the efficiency and stability of banking functions. The basic thrust of the paper is that it is effective to utilize market mechanisms to improve the efficiency of banking functio...

In this paper, a dynamic network DEA model is developed to evaluate the potential gains in final output from a merger of two firms. The two firms are allowed to have different production technologies or share a common technology. In a beginning period each firm uses period specific inputs to produce a final output and an intermediate output that becomes an input in the production of final outpu...

Bagua, I Ching was applied to tell the fortune of people in ancient Chinese. In the modern era, we apply tests to infer the intelligence, future development direction and potential of people. However, it is not easy to design tests, and the security issue has also become a difficulty for test designers. This study has employed Item Response Theory (IRT) and Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) ...

If it is correct to generalize that, historically, Germany and Japan have had bank-oriented or bank-dominated financial systems, while Great Britain and the United States have had more marketoriented financial systems, then different network structures may have characterized these pairs’ financial systems. We explore that possibility, along with a few possible reasons that might account for suc...

Are market-based or bank-based financial systems better at financing the expansion of industries that depend heavily on external finance? Are marketor bank-based financial systems better at facilitating the formation of new firms? We find evidence for neither the market-based nor the bank-based hypothesis. We find overwhelming evidence that industries that are heavily dependent on external fina...