Biodiversity offsetting, which means compensation for ecological and environmental damage caused by development activity, has recently been gaining strong political support around the world. One common criticism levelled at offsets is that they exchange certain and almost immediate losses for uncertain future gains. In the case of restoration offsets, gains may be realized after a time delay of...

For block structured monotone or incrementally positive n-dimensional nonlinearities, the largest class of convolution operators (stability multipliers) that preserve positivity is derived. These multipliers can be used in conjunction with positivity and IQC stability criteria to evaluate stability and robustness of MIMO feedback systems. keywords: nonlinear stability multipliers positivity inp...

The one-sided multipliers of an operator space X are a key to "latent operator algebraic structure" in X. We begin with a survey of these multipliers, together with several of the applications that they have had to operator algebras. We then describe several new results on one-sided multipliers, and new applications, mostly to one-sided M-ideals.

Gabor multipliers are well-suited for the approximation of certain time-variant systems. However, this class of systems is rather restricted. To overcome this restriction, multiple Gabor multipliers allowing for more than one synthesis windows are introduced. The influence of the choice of the various parameters involved on approximation quality is studied for both classical and multiple Gabor ...

The statistical properties of the multipliers of the absolute returns are investigated using one-minute high-frequency data of financial time series. The multiplier distribution is found to be independent of the box size s when s is larger than some crossover scale, providing direct evidence of the existence of scale invariance in financial data. The multipliers with base a = 2 are well approxi...

Multipliers are one of the most important components in microprocessors and DSP processors [9]. Baugh Wooley is one among them and it is an array multiplier. Array multipliers have a more regular layout and it presents high speed performance. The paper deals with the design of a Baugh Wooley multiplier using Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNTFET). A Verilog-A formulation of the Stanfo...

In this paper we introduce a penalty function and a corresponding multipliers method for the solution of a class of nonlinear programming problems where the equality constraints have a particular structure. The class models optimal control and engineering design problems with bounds on the state and control variables and has wide applicability. The multipliers method updates multipliers corresp...

Twelve kinds of special semipositive matrices and their basic characters are presented. Employing these matrices and the previous results in Zeng (2008), we research the conditions for the balances between final output values and values-added, and between input multipliers and output multipliers in an economy. A necessary and sufficient condition that (i) there exists a unique vector of output ...

The Standardized Plant Analysis Risk-Human Reliability Analysis (SPAR-H) method has proved to be a reliable, easy-to-use method for human reliability analysis. Calculation of human error probability (HEP) rates is especially straightforward, starting with pre-defined nominal error rates for cognitive vs. action oriented tasks, and incorporating performance shaping factor (PSF) multipliers upon ...