... for fitting the Weibull distribution and comparing their performances with the MLE and MOM The objective of this research is to assess and compare the accuracy ofthe above three estimators of ... improves the fitting ofthe distribution because more information is used than in the MOM CONCLUSION In this study, the good results ofthe MOM in terms ofthe number of times forthe lowest values of ... time than the LSM or the MLE (Al-Fawzan 2000) Although the results from the LSM andthe MLS estimated methods were inferior to the MOM based on the MSE criterion in this study, the LSM andthe MLE...
... range These are ofthe form Δσ m N = constant, where Δσ is the stress range, N is the fatigue lifeand m is the inverse slope ofthe log Δσ vs log N curve The benefits from the use ofthe improvement ... combination of dressing parametersandthe manual skills ofthe operator The optimum dressing conditions are related to the individual characteristics ofthe welding equipment The optimum shape ofthe ... suitable A cast ofthe weld madeusing a silicone rubber ofthe type used by dentists is useful for documentation andfor measuring the local geometry at the weld toe Data pertaining to the procedure...
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... analysis and review and participated in the drafting ofthe manuscript DY co-led the Ab-01 team and was responsible for studies related to the characterization ofthe biological properties ofthe ... ofthe manuscript MFS was responsible for interface with the clinical team andfor securing and scheduling the resources that will be required upon hand-off for assay validation SJ, AW, SWA and ... pre-incubated for hours at the indicated concentration of Ab-01 or the control IgG1TM prior to addition of 10 ng/mL rhIL21 and hr incubation, andthe effect on the biomarkers was then assessed (Figures and...
... contribution ofthe light scattered by the foliage From aboveand below-canopy measurements, the LAI-2000 PCA computes the transmittance for each sky vector, and then inverts them into PAI or averages them ... attached velcro closures to the bottom ofthe dishes, and to the tops of plastic clothespins, allowing for easy darkroom assembly The clothespins can be used to attach the metres to metal stakes ... measure of PAR (µmol m–2 s–1) received by any ofthe five quantum sensors in the shadehouse during the period the light metre was exposed, andthe mean among the five quantum sensors forthe total...
... swirl and filtration system, a type of BMP forthe treatment of stormwater runoff water runoff and was responsible forthe removal of sediments, free-floating oil and debris by the mechanism of ... 20 mm and greater than 20 mm of rainfall The EMC for each pollutant was calculated for each event and then categorized for each ofthe rainfall ranges Finally, the overall EMC was computed and ... 0.967 (P=0.002) The SOL method was next, and also significantly correlated with the other three methods, with a minimum r value of 0.926 (P=0.0027) On the other hand, the ER and ROL methods were...
... the underside ofthe slab is exposed to fire, the bottom ofthe slab will expand more than the top, resulting in a deflection ofthe slab The tensile strength ofthe concrete and steel near the ... fires Together with information on the temperature distribution, the mechanical properties of steel and concrete provide the basis forthe assessment ofthe structural performance of building ... function ofthe duration ofthe test which, if the test is carried on up to the point of failure, is equal to the fire endurance ofthe building element The relationship between the fire endurance and...
... In the implementation ofthe BPP to the CVRP, vehicles are bins, customers are items andthe demands of customers are the weights ofthe items Although the BPP is a NP-hard problem (Martello and ... in TS forthe TSP and showed that the best tabu list size is about n/4 for 2-opt based TS and in the range of n/16 to n/8 forthe 3-opt based TS where n is the total number of nodes in the TSP ... been the most effective method forthe VRP in the last few decades (Toth and Vigo, 2002a) Up to the end ofthe last decade, most ofthe branch and bound methods used basic relaxations such as the...
... to the particular configuration ofparameters chosen, and then to compute the CFs andthe CB (if any) of each utterance on the basis ofthe anaphoric information and according to the notion of ... The principle we used to evaluate the different configurations ofthe theory was that the best definition oftheparameters was the one that would lead to the fewest violations of Constraint and ... produced them; the texts in the pharmaceutical domain are leaflets providing the patients with the legally mandatory information about their medicine The total size ofthe corpus is of about 6,000...
... full access to all ofthe data in the study and takes responsibility forthe integrity ofthe data andthe accuracy ofthe data analysis Author details Center for Management of Complex Chronic ... accuracy and agreement measures forthe four methods All methods had high sensitivity and NPV Sensitivity ranged between 92.3% forthe Ramsey method to 97.4% forthe Mayfield method NPVs for all methods ... important for determining, for example, the first date of diagnosis or whether a disease existed before or after the onset of another disease In a supplemental analysis, we assessed the accuracy at the...
... in the bottles allows the monocytes to roll along and stay in close contact with the surface and then eventually attach This is akin to the attachment of monocytes rolling along the walls of ... static flask system The numbers in the dot plots indicate the percentage of cells out ofthe total population of floating cells having the indicated phenotype The results of one out of similar experiments ... phenotype of DC compared between the roller bottles and static flask system The numbers in the dot plots indicate the percentage of cells out ofthe total population of floating cells having the indicated...
... such that the energy is independent ofthe orientation ofthe grains In the above equation φi are order parametersand α, β, and γ are the phenomenological parameters It can be shown that the above ... required for a more continuous description of frequency distribution of grains of different orientations Furthermore, another unfortunate consequence of limiting the number of order parameters is the ... these fields vary slowly in bulk regions and rapidly, on length scales ofthe order ofthe correlation length ξ, near interface ξ is also a measure forthe finite thickness ofthe interface The...
... contrary, the problem formulation andthe computational method forthe cavity flow andthe backward-facing step flow (chapter 3) are quite different from the other two The results and conclusions for these ... Moreover, there are other difficulties with the unsteady non-radial formulation: the domain is infinite in the radial direction, and also there is a singularity ofthe solution at the corner ofthe domain ... function, and Q can either be or ±1 CHAPTER THE NUMERICAL METHOD FOR FLOWS IN SECTORS 2.1.6 28 The Final Form ofthe Boundary-Value Problem Before we proceed with the analysis ofthe problem of fluid...
... cancer using MHC tetramer technology 20 This database also includes the official sequences forthe World Health Organisation (WHO) Nomenclature Committee for Factors ofthe HLA System As of Dec ... cell death and return the immune system to baseline homeostasis As for memory T cells, they survive long after the elimination of antigen stimulation and are responsible for better and stronger ... the start ofthe study we compared the absence and presence of HLA-DR0401 class IImonomer on tetramer staining activity usingthe PMBCS from the same DR0401 prostate cancer volunteer Day 13 and...
... the world and in Vietnam to determine the energy content of feedstuffs, and to estimate the energy requirements for poultry The ME value of feedstuffs is determined on chicken by the direct methods ... variety, andthe lowest one was of Bioseed 9723 (10.90%) The water content or the moisture of corn is one ofthe important factors, which not only affects the quality of corn, but also storage time The ... maximum coefficient of variation in the GE value was the samples of LCH9 variety (2.64%) The less the coefficient of variation was, the more stable the GE value of corn variety was, and vice versa...
... Elution was performed with the same buffer at a flow rate of ml/h and ml fractions were collected The void volume ofthe column was determined by the elution of Blue Dextran (Pharmacia) Other analyses ... compared to the other methodsThe SDS-extracted polymer included a small amount of material other than protein Furthermore, the steaming- and washing-extracted polymers contained large amounts of phosphorus ... Several bands demonstrated the same mobility in both stains, suggesting that these bands were complexes of protein and saccharide These included the band corresponding to a molecular weight of 103,000...
... the length ofthe capillary tube, Pc is the macroscopic capillary pressure, φ is the porosity, µ1 and µ are the viscosity of water and air, and ρ1 and ρ are the density of water and air, respectively ... (ii) The filling height of sand samples andthe immersion depth ofthe capillary tube at the initial state had a great impact on the test accuracy It is suggested that the filling height of sand ... relative error of 17.2 % and 8.1 %, respectively Therefore, the present method determiningthe hydraulic permeability of sand layer has a good measuring accuracy Figure Variations ofthe hydraulic...
... (Figures and 4), we nd: (i) Examination of 50% ofthe data in the SLs leads to identication of between 75% (AdjN) and 80% (PNV) ofthe TPs (ii) Forthe rst 40% ofthe SLs, and lead to the worst ... Looking at the rst 40% ofthe data, there is a big gap between the good measures (t-test, log-likelihood, and frequency) andthe weak measures ( and ) In the second halfofthe data in the SLs, ... that the preposition andthe noun are constituents ofthe same PP, andthe PP andthe verb co-occur within a sentence Only main verbs were considered and full forms were reduced to bases The PNV...