classes of‎ ‎abaffy-broyden-spedicato (abs) methods have been introduced for‎ ‎solving linear systems of equations‎. ‎the algorithms are powerful methods for developing matrix‎ ‎factorizations and many fundamental numerical linear algebra processes‎. ‎here‎, ‎we show how to apply the abs algorithms to devise algorithms to compute the wz and zw‎ ‎factorizations of a nonsingular matrix as well as...

classes of‎ ‎abaffy-broyden-spedicato (abs) methods have been introduced for‎ ‎solving linear systems of equations‎. ‎the algorithms are powerful methods for developing matrix‎ ‎factorizations and many fundamental numerical linear algebra processes‎. ‎here‎, ‎we show how to apply the abs algorithms to devise algorithms to compute the wz and zw‎ ‎factorizations of a nonsingular matrix as well as...

The World Trade Web (WTW), the network defined by the international import/export trade relationships, has been recently shown to display some important topological properties which are tightly related to the Gross Domestic Product of world countries. While our previous analysis focused on the static, undirected version of the WTW, here we address its full evolving, directed description. This i...

BACKGROUND Lone parents and their children experience higher than average levels of adverse health and social outcomes, much of which are explained by high rates of poverty. Many high income countries have attempted to address high poverty rates by introducing employment requirements for lone parents in receipt of welfare benefits. However, there is evidence that employment may not reduce pover...

Classes of‎ ‎Abaffy-Broyden-Spedicato (ABS) methods have been introduced for‎ ‎solving linear systems of equations‎. ‎The algorithms are powerful methods for developing matrix‎ ‎factorizations and many fundamental numerical linear algebra processes‎. ‎Here‎, ‎we show how to apply the ABS algorithms to devise algorithms to compute the WZ and ZW‎ ‎factorizations of a nonsingular matrix as well as...

Purpose: To determine if the mean horizontal white-towhite (WTW) corneal diameter, measured intraoperatively with calipers, of a population of cataract surgery patients differs from the currently accepted normal WTW range of greater than 11.0 and less than 13.0 mm. In addition, we compared manual caliper measurements with those with IOLMaster. Setting: Cincinnati Eye Institute, Cincinnati OH. D...

Well to wheel (WTW) analyses mainly focus on alternative road fuel/vehicle systems that are very different from the current crude oil based individual transport system. A large share of WTW chains evaluated require changes in the energy source, new fuel production facilities, different fuel distribution systems and also modifications of the vehicles. An immediate transition to such a new system...

Temporary help services (THS) firms are increasing their hiring of disadvantaged individuals and claiming more subsidies for doing so. Do these subsidies—the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) and Welfare-to-Work Tax Credit (WtW)—create incentives that improve employment outcomes for THS workers? We examine the distinct effects of THS employment and WOTC/WtW subsidies using administrative and s...

In all empirical-network studies, the observed properties of economic networks are informative only if compared with a well-defined null model that can quantitatively predict the behavior of such properties in constrained graphs. However, predictions of the available null-model methods can be derived analytically only under assumptions (e.g., sparseness of the network) that are unrealistic for ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to compare corneal power and horizontal corneal diameter (white-to-white [WTW] distance) readings obtained by the Orbscan II topographer and the iTrace aberrometer. METHODS Keratometry readings in the flat (Kf) and steep (Ks) meridians and WTW distance were measured with the Orbscan II and iTrace systems in 100 myopic patients. Statistical evaluation w...