... 90 command positions and commands are two years long, then 45 officers will enter a command assignment each year; if commands are three years long, then only 30 officers will enter a command assignment ... Hassan, Colonel Wayne Hudson, and Major Tim Murtha of the Air Force; and Lieutenant Colonels Michael Kuhn, John Langford, and Marc Magram, and Majors Craig Kilhenny and Greg Rouillard of the Marine ... Thomas of RAND Acronyms and Abbreviations Bde brigade Bn battalion BTZ below the zone BZ below-zone (promotions) CC commander CGSC Command and General Staff College CO commander CONUS continental...
... managing and disposing of transuranic andmixed wastes DOE’s inventory of transuranic andmixed wastes (TM wastes) includes about 155,000 cubic meters of waste stored on some 30 DOE sites and another ... frames DOE’s broad challenges in managing and disposing of its transuranic andmixed wastes—the large and diverse inventory, multiple and changing regulations, and public concerns Chapter sets out ... A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between DOE and EPA to help resolve these problems was signed in February 2000 (Eaton and Carlson, 2002) Under the auspices of this memorandum, DOE and EPA...
... solid particles The sand and ash mixture from the secondary flue gas cyclone and precipitator are land filled but prior to this the solids are cooled and water is added to the sand/ash stream for ... are listed in Appendix E and consist of makeup MgO and olivine, and sand/ash removal 16 3.4 Gas Cleanup and Conditioning – Area 300 This section of the process cleans up and conditions the syngas ... turbine and is expanded to a pressure of 65 psia Here a slipstream of steam is removed and sent to the gasifier and other exchangers Finally, the steam enters a condensing turbine and is expanded...
... Switzerland) and Pefabloc SC was obtained from Roche (Basel, Switzerland) All other chemicals and reagents used were of analytical grade and were purchased from SigmaAldrich (Buchs, Switzerland) ... enzymes 3-2W4 BapA and Y2 BapA According to the gel, the molecular masses of the a-subunits and b-subunits were 26.6 kDa and 13.4 kDa, respectively, for 3-2W4 BapA, and 26.8 kDa and 13.9 kDa, respectively, ... purification After purification and lyophilization, the specific activities were 0.62 and 0.20 UÆmg)1 for 3-2W4 BapA and Y2 BapA, respectively, as measured under standard assay conditions with the...
... (e.g., Outer Approximation and its variants with Equality Relaxation and Augmented Penalty, and Generalized Outer Approximation), and (iii) comparison between decomposition- and linearization-based ... elementary notions of mixed- integer linear optimization first and to the theory and methods of mixed- integer nonlinear optimization next, which are not discussed in other textbooks, and (iii) to consider ... used as a textbook and as a reference It can be used as a textbook on the fundamentals of nonlinear and mixed- integer optimization and as a reference for special topics in the mixed- integer nonlinear...
... not understand WHERE the solution best fits into the overall system 2.3 The First and Only Real Attempt at Game Architecture Andrew Rollings’s and Dave Morris’s Game Architecture and Design is ... proposed architecture is suitable and useful 15 Figure Rollings’ and Morris’ Game Architecture 2.4 Software Architecture In order to properly design a flexibleand expandable architecture for games, ... architecture and a fully fleshed out system design 1.2 High Level Objectives and Goals The main objective of this thesis is to design and prove there exists a software architecture that is both expandable...
... and the quantitative and qualitative effects of single andmixed viral infections on cowpeas [15,16], very limited information is available on the interactive effects of mixed viral infections ... concentration and ascertain if there are any interactions between the viruses [17] 2.0 Materials and methods 2.1 Sources of viruses and cowpea cultivars/lines (CVS/L) One isolate each of CABMV, CMeV and ... resulting in apical necrosis and reduction in leaf size On the basis of the cultivars' response to the viruses in single andmixed infections, "Olo 11", "White" and TVU 76 appeared to be more...
... device for the assessment and training of motor coordination, and Jack et al [18] and Merians, et al [19] have developed a force feedback glove to improve hand strength and a joint position glove ... assessment and treatment intervention [7] The list of applications is long and diverse, and only several examples are provided here VR has been used as a medium for the assessment and rehabilitation ... presents the virtual environment and the nature and demands of the task to be performed within the virtual environment It is during the interaction process that sensations and perceptions related to...
... and the quantitative and qualitative effects of single andmixed viral infections on cowpeas [15,16], very limited information is available on the interactive effects of mixed viral infections ... concentration and ascertain if there are any interactions between the viruses [17] 2.0 Materials and methods 2.1 Sources of viruses and cowpea cultivars/lines (CVS/L) One isolate each of CABMV, CMeV and ... resulting in apical necrosis and reduction in leaf size On the basis of the cultivars' response to the viruses in single andmixed infections, "Olo 11", "White" and TVU 76 appeared to be more...
... 0, τ(t) ≥ and s(t) ≥ denote the leakage delay, the discrete time-varying delay and the distributed time-varying delay, respectively, and satisfy ≤ τ(t) ≤ τ, ≤ s(t) ≤ s, where δ, τ and s are constants ... neural networks with discrete and distributed time-varying delays as well as leakage delay By constructing a proper sliding surface and Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, and employing a combination ... law is also synthesized to guarantee the reachability of the specified sliding surface The provided conditions are expressed in terms of LMI, and are dependent on the discrete and distributed time...
... producers, and this was generally true for all different stages of porker and sow production Use of mixed raw feed only diets is no longer prevalent; instead more complete only and diets using mixed ... complete feed only: 53% for broiler and 64% for layer; and 43% for sow, 77% for piglet and 45% for porker production The remainder used both complete andmixed feed in the daily diet for livestock ... Agriculture, and relevant Departments of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and provincial Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Association of Small and Medium...
... surface and solar radiation The dryer design is intended to enhance all of the above factors during its operation Materials and methods Beans were taken from day and day of the fermentation and placed ... were mixedand placed on the dryer to note the rate of drying of a larger mass of cocoa The mass of this bulked sample was 220kg wet beans Temperature and relative humidity levels, both ambient and ... efficiencies of the 9sqM and 4sqM bed sized dryers Third Fermentation (F3) and Drying Trial at Can Tho University, August 2006: Introduction: In both of the previous fermentation and drying trials,...
... τ and δ(t) = t − δ In the next section, we present some new oscillation criteria under very mild conditions and more general assumptions to extend the above results for the neutral delay andmixed ... monotone and deviating arguments τ(t) and δ(t) are variable functions of t Moreover, in case r(t) > (t/2)γ for sufficiently large t, Theorems 3.1 and 3.4 are stronger than Theorems 2.2 and 2.3 Example ... terms τ(t) = t/2 and δ(t) = t are not in the form of t − τ and t − δ for any constants τ,δ > 0, respectively Therefore, Theorems 2.2 and 2.3 cannot be applied to (3.18) On the other hand, if √ limsup...
... forest stand stand DISCUSsION Mixed Beech Spruce forest forest forest Mixed stand Beech stand Spruce stand Mixed Beech Spruce forest forest forest forest forest forest stand stand stand stand stand ... Spruce forest forest forest stand stand stand MixedMixed forest forest stand stand layer H suma 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 (t/ha) 0.7 0.8 0.9 Mixed Beech Mixed Beech Beech Mixed forest forest forest ... forest forest forest forest forest stand stand stand stand stand stand layer F Spruce Spruce forest forest stand stand Beech Beech forest forest stand stand layer L layer L layer L layer F layer...
... association with a linear mixed model containing the following variables: stand, moisture treatment, the interaction between stand and moisture treatment, and the two random eects date and location The ... mixed stands than under the mixedand oak stands which showed similar annual FFRs (Tab V) FFR accounted respectively for 28, 30 and 46% of TSR in the oak, mixedand beech stands The annual heterotrophic ... linear mixed model with two random factors (date and location) and multiple comparison tests (Tukey) From the eld and laboratory data, we analysed the relationships between soil temperature and...
... variability and heterogeneity in a pure beech stand (Fagus sylvatica L.) and a mixed beech-hornbeam (Carpinus betulus L.) stand Macromorphological humus form descriptors (including pH and organic C and ... form variability and heterogeneity could be only due to stand characteristics (stand composition and organisation) and not to site differences (climate, soil and management) Thus, stands were chosen ... plan defined by axes and of the MCA; pure beech stand samples are shown by white squares andmixed stand ones by black points; for pure andmixed stands, the centres of gravity of ellipsoids are...
... B, C and E Moreover one can observe a negative correlation between castalin, vescalin and ellagic acid content and the percentage of vescalin, castalin, roburin A and C on the one hand and the ... zones: small valley, plateau, intermediate (and regular) slope On the northwestern part of the stand (plateau) the soil is well drained and composed of sand and slit The south-eastern part (small ... Ordovician red sandstone The mean elevation of the stand is 140 m The stand is included in a continuous forest of 700 ha, consisting mostly of naturally regenerated stands of sessile and pedunculate...
... to the splanchnic and renal circulations fall, while flow to the heart and brain is maintained due to redistribution of blood away from the mesenteric and renal vascular beds and additional right ... difference (%) Figure Bland Altman analysis of clinically important difference between mixed venous (SvO2) and central venous saturation (ScvO2) in patients with heart failure and additional sepsis/septic ... acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation, and drafting the manuscript MP contributed to conception, design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation, and drafting the manuscript...
... (b and the random ) l effect vector (u) may be obtained by computing the best linear unbiased estimates (BLUE) for the fixed effects and the best linear unbiased predictors (BLUP) for the random ... and the contrasts between them and to test the significances of the contrasts, a simplified approach may be applied The complete mixed model equations may be condensed ) l by absorbing the random ... single records, the radom error covariance is assumed to be and the random error variance is equal for all individuals, the following mixed model equations may be applied (Henderson, 1973, 1977):...
... relationship between the induced current and the material contrast, and the relationship between the induced current and the scattered field, serve as the state equation and field equation respectively ... which involves reconstruction of PEC and dielectric scatterers together In this mixed boundary inverse scattering problem, we will identify PEC scatterers and determine their boundaries while ... Microwave and RF research group in National University of Singapore, for teaching me the fundamentals of electromagnetic, for providing constructive suggestions, and for establishing a pleasant and...