A holistic quality approach is founded on a certain view on enterprises and their ICT. Characterising enterprises and their ICT is a complex task and many disciplines and people have done excellent work on it. It is not our goal here to provide another theory of Business Administration, Computer Science, ICTManagement or the like. But we do aim to present a holistic approach for quality issues ...

We show that a necessary condition, for the partition function of four-dimensional Yang-Mills theory to satisfy a S-duality property, is that certain functional determinants, generated by the dual change of variables, cancel each other. This result holds up to non-topological boundary terms in the dual action and modulo the problem of gauge copies for the Bianchi identity constraint.

To achieve unlimited concurrency and hence throughput in an area-efficient manner, a sliding block Viterbi decoder (SBVD) is implemented that combines the filtering characteristics of a sliding block decoder with the computational efficiency of the Viterbi algorithm. The SBVD approach reduces decode of a continuous input stream to decode of independent overlapping blocks, without constraining t...

Merger, a popular word in today’s business press, has been one of the main targets of antitrust for nearly one century. The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) and DOJ (Department of Justice) have been trying their best to prohibit mergers that may lead to less competition or the creation of a monopoly power. FTC’s latest successful action is the win against the mergers of US’s four largest drug who...

The recently observed new member of the charm-strange family D s (2632) which has a surprisingly narrow width is challenging our theory. D s (2317) and D s (2457) which were observed earlier have similar behaviors and receive various theoretical explanations. Some authors use the heavy hadron chiral effective theory to evaluate heavy-light quark systems and obtain a reasonable evaluation on the...