This article is concerned with locations of bound states and spectral singularities of an impulsive Dirac system. By using a transfer matrix, we obtain some spectral properties of this impulsive system. We also examine ...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are envi-sioned to be an important enabling technology for smart grid (SG) due to the low cost, ease of deployment, and versatility of WSNs. Limited battery energy is the tightest resource ...

In this study, we present the results obtained for the parallel CUDA implementation of the previously proposed desirability-based scalarization approach for the solution of the multi-objective optimization problems. Our ...

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate parental monitoring and ways of parental monitoring of adolescents (child disclosure, parental solicitation, and parental control) according to adolescents', mothers', and ...

The present study examined the relations between perceived maternal and paternal parenting processes and adolescent aggression, and to what extent these relations were mediated by self-esteem in a sample of 546 (43.8% males ...

The onset of Parkinson disease, which is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, depends on disruption of cells which provide dopamine to the striatum region of the brain. The main approach for the treatment of ...

The behavior of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), a population based optimization algorithm, depends on the movements of the particles and the attractions among them. This behavior was extracted from the observations of ...

In this study, effect of vortex generators used as passive flow control devices in a boundary layer ingesting semi submerged inlet is computationally investigated with the commercially available flow solver Fluent 14.0. ...

A measure for assessing the quality of a 3D mesh is necessary in order to determine whether an operation on the mesh, such as watermarking or compression, affects the perceived quality. The studies on this field are limited ...

Seepage is always expected in earthen dams because they are made of porous materials. However, it should be always under control and its amount and pore-water pressures should be kept below acceptable limits. This can be ...