This article investigates the use of a multilayer feedforward artificial neural network into a GPS integrated low cost inertial navigation system based on MEMS sensors. The neural network is applied as an alternative of integration technique, with the purpose of providing better navigation solutions, during the lack of information in GPS outages portions of time. An input-output neural network ...

In this article, a systematic procedure has been explored to studying general Zq-equivariant planar polynomial Hamiltonian vector fields for the maximal number of closed orbits and the maximal number of limit cycles after perturbation. Following the procedure by taking special consideration of Z12-equivariant vector fields of degree 11, the maximal of 99 closed orbits are obtained under a well-...

We study D = 4, N = 1, type IIA orientifold with orbifold group ZN and ZN × ZM . We calculate one-loop vacuum amplitudes for Klein bottle, cylinder and Möbius strip and extract the tadpole divergences. We find that the tadpole cancellation conditions thus obtained are satisfied by the Z4, Z8, Z ′ 8, Z ′ 12 orientifolds while there is no solution for Z3, Z7, Z6, Z ′ 6, Z12. The Z4 × Z4 type IIA ...

“Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School”: Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even...

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and Christianity, where we are able to differentiate between individuals who vary in religiosity between secular...

We propose a new public-key cryptosystem named conjugacy search problem-based Diffie–Hellman integrated encryption scheme (CSP-DHIES), by using conjugation-related assumptions for a special monoid of matrices of truncated multi-variable polynomials over the ring Z12 where the CSP is assumed to be intractable. Our construction can be viewed as the first noncommunicative variant of the well-known...

In this paper, we examine how the decisions of churches are impacted by the decisions of rival churches. Using a novel data set of Christian churches in two suburban Nashville, TN counties, we estimate a model of strategic interaction, based on empirical models of discrete games, which accounts for the location and denomination of churches. We focus on a church’s decision of whether to provide ...

This paper studies early childhood health in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, focusing on inequalities in anthropometric outcomes by religious adherence. India and Nepal have Hindu majorities, while Bangladesh is predominantly Muslim. Results confirm a relative Muslim advantage for children less than 12 months of age in height-for-age and weight-for-age z scores primarily in India, possibly reflect...

Immigrants and Religion Religious considerations affect the decision to immigrate as well as the choice of destination country, and religious behaviors change as immigrants adjust to the economic context of their new country. This paper considers the interaction between the Economics of Religion and the Economics of Immigration, and distinguishes between religiosity per se and an immigrant’s re...