‎Let $tau$ be a subgroup functor and $H$ a $p$-subgroup of a finite group $G$‎. ‎Let $bar{G}=G/H_{G}$ and $bar{H}=H/H_{G}$‎. ‎We say that $H$ is $Phi$-$tau$-quasinormal in $G$ if for some $S$-quasinormal subgroup $bar{T}$ of $bar{G}$ and some $tau$-subgroup $bar{S}$ of $bar{G}$ contained in $bar{H}$‎, ‎$bar{H}bar{T}$ is $S$-quasinormal in $bar{G}$ and $bar{H}capbar{T}leq bar{S}Phi(bar{H})$‎. ‎I...

Ranking enables coaches, sporting authorities, and pundits to determine the relative performance of individual athletes and teams in comparison to their peers. While ranking is relatively straightforward in sports that employ traditional leagues, it is more difficult in sports where competition is fragmented (e.g. athletics, boxing, etc.), with not all competitors competing against each other. ...

we describe under various conditions abelian subgroups of the automorphism‎ ‎group $mathrm{aut}(t_{n})$ of the regular $n$-ary tree $t_{n}$‎, ‎which are‎ ‎normalized by the $n$-ary adding machine $tau =(e‎, ‎dots‎, ‎e,tau )sigma _{tau‎ ‎}$ where $sigma _{tau }$ is the $n$-cycle $left( 0,1‎, ‎dots‎, ‎n-1right) $‎. ‎as‎ ‎an application‎, ‎for $n=p$ a prime number‎, ‎and for $n=4$‎, ‎we prove that...

Pulsed wave 2 MHz Doppler with acoustical focusing was used to obtain blood flow velocity recordings through the intact cranium in 11 patients with occlusive disease of major intracranial arteries. Increased blood flow velocities were recorded from stenoses of the carotid siphon and of the middle cerebral, anterior cerebral and basilar arteries. A clear, inverse relationship existed between ang...

The computation of Kemeny rankings is central to many applications in the context of rank aggregation. Unfortunately, the problem is NP-hard. Extending our previous work [AAIM 2008], we show that the Kemeny score of an election can be computed efficiently whenever the average pairwise distance between two input votes is not too large. In other words, Kemeny Score is fixed-parameter tractable wi...

Batch processes increasingly feature products with short market windows that make the development of a detailed kinetic model unattractive in terms of both time and economy. Tendency modeling is already established as a systematic methodology for timely optimization of batch processes using a gray-box model approach. In this work, the problem of effective discrimination among alternative tenden...

The differential systems satisfied by orthogonal polynomials with arbitrary semiclassical measures supported on contours in the complex plane are derived, as well as the compatible systems of deformation equations obtained from varying such measures. These are shown to preserve the generalized monodromy of the associated rank-2 rational covariant derivative operators. The corresponding matrix m...

Collaborative filtering (CF) shares information between users to provide each with recommendations. Previous work suggests using sketching techniques to handle massive data sets in CF systems, but only allows testing whether users have a high proportion of items they have both ranked. We show how to determine the correlation between the rankings of two users, using concise “sketches” of the ran...

Asymptotics of the normalizing constant are computed for a class of one parameter exponential families on permutations which include Mallows models with Spearmans’s Footrule and Spearman’s Rank Correlation Statistic. The MLE and a computable approximation of the MLE are shown to be consistent. The pseudo-likelihood estimator of Besag is shown to be √ n-consistent. An iterative algorithm (IPFP) ...