Several sparseness penalties have been suggested for delivery of good predictive performance in automatic variable selection within the framework of regularization. All assume that the true model is sparse. We propose a penalty, a convex combination of the L₁- and L_∞-norms, that adapts to a...

The impact of reforestation on water supplies is often considered in terms of impacts on water yields. In specific circumstances, reforestation will improve water quality, to the extent that previously unusable water can be utilised. Such is the case with salinisation, a process that threatens...

We study a variational inequality problem whose domain is defined by infinitely many linear inequalities. A discretization method and an analytic center based inexact cutting plane method are proposed. Under proper assumptions, the convergence results for both methods are given. We also provide...

This paper discusses a new approach in cooling the absorbent fluid in a vapour absorption refrigerator by directly passing the absorbent fluid through the ground loop. To cope with a possible fairly large flow rate due to using this method, a showerhead spread, an adiabatic vapour absorption...