ABSTRACT: Let G=( V,E ) be a graph. The first Zagreb index of a graph G is defined as ∑ u∈V d G 2 ( u ) , where d G ( u ) is the degree of vertex u in G . In this paper, we obtain two lower bounds ...

The purpose of this study was to compare the prevalence of math anxiety in Russian and Chinese schoolchildren across genders and ages. The Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS) was used as a ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 2016), pp. 146-173 (28 pages) This paper investigates the problem of maximizing expected terminal utility in a (generically incomplete) ...

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“There are five fundamental operations in mathematics,” the German mathematician Martin Eichler supposedly said. “Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and modular forms.” Part of the joke, ...

Generating subsets is the process of finding all the subsets of a given set. A subset is a collection of elements from the original set, where the order of the elements does not matter and duplicates ...

1 Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Education, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar 2 School of Psychology, Faculty of Society and Design, Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia ...