Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA NOVEL ROBUST AND EFFICIENT TOOL FOR DETECTING HETEROSCEDASTICITYWei Xiong, Maozai TianOne of the greatest values of Quantile Regression (QR) is that it provides a good procedure in the sense that QR could be much more efficient and sometimes arbitrarily more efficient in recovering the mean function than the Least Squares (LS) even when without moment conditions. However, heteroscedasticity definitely causes conditional variances of parametric or nonparametric estimates of mean functions … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 10, Issue 2 · 21 Mar 2014 · 6,662 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA MULTI ATTRIBUTE RANKING MECHANISM FOR PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKSSheila Anand, B. SwaminathanP2P systems are envisioned to play a greater role in collaborative applications. P2P environments remove the challenging task of using servers for information sharing. Emerging collaborative P2P systems require discovery and utilization of multi-attribute, distributed and dynamic group of resources to achieve greater tasks beyond conventional file and processor cycle sharing. The process of selection of a peer for collaborative … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 8 · 24 Feb 2014 · 6,882 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMISCONSTRUING AGENCY: ISSUES RELATED TO FREE WILL AND DETERMINISMShirley Matile OgletreeAgency (related to intentionality and the importance of choices) and free will ("could have done otherwise") have been confounded in previous psychological research, with assessments and manipulations of free will often including items related to agency. Therefore, correlates previously associated with free will may, to some extent, be based on agentic assumptions. In this study 152 college students from a … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 1 · 15 Feb 2014 · 7,549 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDisposal of Agro-Industrials Wastes as Soil AmendmentsAli Mekki, Fatma Arous, Fathi Aloui, Sami SayadiWe investigated the fertilizing potential of three agro-industrial wastes (Compost (C), Dehydrated Manures (DM) and Digestate (D)) on soil properties, on seeds germination and the plants growth. Results showed that the addition of wastes modified several soil properties as pH, Electrical Conductivity (EC), Water Retention Capacity (WRC) and Soil Organic Matter (SOM). Hence, SOM increase from 1.5% in unamended soil … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 6 · 11 Jan 2014 · 7,021 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTransformity: The Dependence of the Laws of Physics on Higher-Dimensional Coordinate TransformationsPaul S. WessonIn unified field theories with more than four dimensions, the form of the equations of physics in spacetime depends in general on the choice of coordinates in higher dimensions. The reason is that the group of coordinate transformations in (say) five dimensions is broader than in spacetime. This kind of gauge dependence is illustrated by two examples: a cosmological model … …Space Science International, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 10 Dec 2013 · 9,627 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSTRATEGY PATTERNS PREDICTION MODELAram Baruch Gonzalez Perez, Jorge Adolfo Ramirez UrestiMulti-agent systems are broadly known for being able to simulate real-life situations which require the interaction and cooperation of individuals. Opponent modeling can be used along with multi-agent systems to model complex situations such as competitions like soccer games. In this study, a model for predicting opponent moves based on their target is presented. The model is composed by an … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 1 · 12 Nov 2013 · 6,858 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAlzheimer’s Disease Prognosis is Captured by a Down-Upsized Incidence Poisson DistributionRamalingam ShanmugamAlzeimer disease is a daunting nightmare to both the medical and families of the patients. Tireless efforts are made by the medical researchers to treat Alzheimer’s patients. The Alzhiemer patients’ data provides clues about its prognosis and they can be identifies when the data are analyzed and understood correctly. The data analysis is a first step in the path to … …Current Research in Medicine, Vol. 4, Issue 2 · 4 Sep 2013 · 6,928 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractKey Factors in the Face Stability Analysis of Shallow TunnelsDaniel Dias, Pierpaolo OresteStability of the excavation face in shallow tunnels and in poor ground is at present a relevant problem in tunnelling. A new calculation procedure is illustrated in this study for the analysis of the effect on the face stability in shallow tunnels of the following key factors: pre-support structures, presence of groundwater, free length of the tunnel (length of the … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 9 · 24 Aug 2013 · 7,022 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractNEW APPROACH TO SOLVE HYBRID FUZZY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONSaveetha Natesan, Nirmala Venkatachalem, S. Chenthur PandianThis study presents solution for the first order hybrid fuzzy differential equation by Runge-Kutta method of order two with new parameters and Harmonic mean of ki’s which are used in the main formula in order to increase the order of accuracy of the solution. This method is discussed in detail followed by a complete error analysis. The accuracy and efficiency … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 9, Issue 3 · 1 Jul 2013 · 6,491 accessesView PDFCite