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Axisymmetric stability criterion for two gravitationally coupled singular isothermal discs
Using the two-fluid formalism with the polytropic approximation, we examine
the axisymmetric stability criterion for a composite system of gravitationally
coupled stellar and gaseous singular isothermal discs (SIDs).Comment: 12 pages, 11 figures, accepted by MNRA
Integrate the GM(1,1) and Verhulst models to predict software stage effort
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2009 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works.Software effort prediction clearly plays a crucial role in software project management. In keeping with more dynamic approaches to software development, it is not sufficient to only predict the whole-project effort at an early stage. Rather, the project manager must also dynamically predict the effort of different stages or activities during the software development process. This can assist the project manager to reestimate effort and adjust the project plan, thus avoiding effort or schedule overruns. This paper presents a method for software physical time stage-effort prediction based on grey models GM(1,1) and Verhulst. This method establishes models dynamically according to particular types of stage-effort sequences, and can adapt to particular development methodologies automatically by using a novel grey feedback mechanism. We evaluate the proposed method with a large-scale real-world software engineering dataset, and compare it with the linear regression method and the Kalman filter method, revealing that accuracy has been improved by at least 28% and 50%, respectively. The results indicate that the method can be effective and has considerable potential. We believe that stage predictions could be a useful complement to whole-project effort prediction methods.National Natural Science Foundation of
China and the Hi-Tech Research
and Development Program of Chin
Excitation Energy as a Basic Variable to Control Nuclear Disassembly
Thermodynamical features of Xe system is investigated as functions of
temperature and freeze-out density in the frame of lattice gas model. The
calculation shows different temperature dependence of physical observables at
different freeze-out density. In this case, the critical temperature when the
phase transition takes place depends on the freeze-out density. However, a
unique critical excitation energy reveals regardless of freeze-out density when
the excitation energy is used as a variable insteading of temperature.
Moreover, the different behavior of other physical observables with temperature
due to different vanishes when excitation energy replaces temperature.
It indicates that the excitation energy can be seen as a more basic quantity to
control nuclear disassembly.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, Revte
Advantage of low quality in short life cycle products
This study explores the factors influencing customers’ purchase intention for low quality products. The traditional thinking is that products with high quality and low price will win more customers. However, we can notice that high quality products usually have high cost. Therefore, it is necessary to do more research on how customers can accept low quality products, in order to and help companies to win more customers and market share. We take fast fashion products and smart phones as empirical studies, collecting data from customer’s online survey. Based on the methodology of fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), we analyses the relationship between the factors of short lifecycle, low quality, design and price and influence customer purchase intention. It shows that the product price and design are major driving factors for customers to accept low quality products. The result has implications for other industries that sell products with low cost
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