... Stringer, and Daniel Bowker Chapter SpatialandTemporalDynamicsofExoticTree Invasions: Lessonsfroma Shade- Tolerant Invader, Acerplatanoides 71 Christopher R Webster and Steven R Wangen Chapter ... Michigan to explore the spatialandtemporaldynamicsof alien treeinvasions They used the example ofAcer platanoides, a shade- tolerant invasive tree, and showed that because of the long generation ... Studies at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India He is also an adjunct professor of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and holds the SAARC (South Asian Association...
... showed that single lambs have a higher ADG anda higher standard deviation than twins The difference in variance was not due to a mean and variance relationship In fact, the data were normally distributed ... experimental data has the disadvantage of including relatively few records and special attention must be paid to make sure that the data can disentangle direct and maternal effects In this particular ... correlation; σm and ρm1 m2 are the maternal genetic variance and correlation; σp2 and ρp1 p2 are the maternal i i permanent variance and correlation; σl2 is the litter variance i date because it ensured...
... million from development of the hotel base and asset management transactions €12.3 million from the acquisitions of Mirvac and Posadas, consolidated respectively since May and October 2012 and ... under management and franchise agreements and 72% in emerging markets The sustained roll out of its asset management program This transformation will be sharply accelerated between 2013 and 2016, ... (1) at comparable scope of consolidation and exchange rates RevPAR excluding tax by country (December-end) Nb of Occupancy Rate Average room rate rooms UPSCALE AND MIDSCALE HOTELS Subsidiaries...
... collection of program and cost data available on DoD acquisition programs and accurately report the growth in program costs over time The SAR data have been an invaluable tool for cost research and have ... policymakers, cost estimators, and other researchers; and original research and analysis of historical cost data Policy Considerations Cost uncertainty analysis is an important aspect of cost estimating ... activity emphasized cross-disciplinary approaches to all areas of military activity, using empirical data analysis, statistics, probability modeling, anda wide variety of other mathematical tools...
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... Technology Associates), and Dr Stephen Grey (Broadleaf Capital International) Thanks to RAND reference librarian Amy Atchison for handling the technical aspects of the literature search, and to Richard ... chiropractic treatment Classical psychoanalysis (Freudian psychoanalysis and its derivatives) aims to treat mental and emotional problems by having a patient talk to a therapist, verbalizing ideas and thoughts ... possibility of untoward events, froma matter of fate (essentially preordained and impossible to anticipate or mitigate) to an area of study, which can be anticipated, quantified, and dealt with, or at...
... (H .A. SIMONS, NLK CONSULTANTS, SANDWELL, PULP and PAPER RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CANADA): Water use reduction in the pulp and paper industry 1994 – a monograph Vancouver: Canadian Pulp and Paper Association ... provides a detailed global view of the use of fresh water andof the water circuit arrangement A flow diagram of the in-mill stock and water systems must be made to have an overview of the organisation ... SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO WATER MANAGEMENT The enhanced recycling of process water in paper and board machines causes an increase in the concentration of colloidal and dissolved organic and inorganic...
... S, et al: “Dominance of EMRSA-15 and -16 among MRSA causing nosocomial bacteraemia in the UK: analysis of isolates from the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS)” J Antimicrob ... creation of figures and tables and addressing the corrections CE participated in study design and drafting of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript 19 Subbe CP, Rao ... residential patients is comparable to that of hospitalised populations and patients transferred from longterm care facilities to hospital often act as nosocomial reservoirs of MRSA [5,6] Additionally,...
... relevant financial relationships Maria Rosario G Araneta, PhD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships Jorge Ruiz-Calderon, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships Patricia ... of migrating pregnant women, Tijuana General Hospital 2003 indicates Baja California; 2, Sinaloa; 3, Jalisco; 4, Michoacan; and 5, Chiapas received a blood transfusion for woman, spouse used other ... CFAR Supplement P30 AI362140 9A1 , State of California's University-wide AIDS Research Program IS02 SD 701 and ID03 SD 029, and AI3614 (Virology Core of the UCSD Center for AIDS Research) Also partially...
... than that reported in Syria [10], Bangladesh [7], Israel [21] and Sri Lanka [25], and it was significantly lower than that reported in Egypt [21], Saudi Arabia [13], Iraq [24] and Zambia [14] ... 2002, 55, 47-56 Al-Majali AM Seroepidemiology of caprine brucellosis in Jordan Small Rumin Res 2005, 58, 13-18 Al-Majali AM, Majok A, Amarin N, Al-Rawashdeh O Prevalence of, and risk factors for, ... located in the Mafraq, Zarqa and Ma‵an governorates was significantly higher than that reported for the other governorates (Fig 1) The seroprevalence was 41.5%, 31.4% and 30.7% in Mafraq, Zarqa...
... neonates, aged 1-28 days, with a median age of days, and 398 infants and children between 29 days and 18 years of age, with a median age of 3.7 years Neonates were analyzed separately from infants ... analysis and interpretation of data, drafting of manuscript SK: Acquisition of data RGG: Conception and study design, acquisition of data BJM: Conception and study design, acquisition of data ... administration of dexamethasone for cerebral edema prophylaxis and inflammation control as well as heparin was employed After aortic and either right atrial or bicaval cannulation CPB was instituted with a...
... understanding of clinician, staff, and patient perception of their goals and performance [35] Separately, the facilitator will gather data using a standardized medical record review form to obtain ... examine the relationship between implementation of the CCM and communication among staff and clinicians; and 3) to advance the science of translational research in primary care settings by examining ... below), as well as practice characteristics will also be incorporated into the assessment All qualitative data will be recorded, transcribed, and entered into a text management software program, and...
... Source of Failure Failure of Branch only Failure of Branch only Failure of Branch only Failure of Branch and only Failure of Branch and only Failure of Branch and only Failure of Branch 1, and Type ... (A and B) express knowledge and ignorance in evolutionary terms as they are socially or factually constructed and negotiated Ignorance can be viewed as having a hierarchical classification based ... Systems Ignorance and Uncertainty in Abstracted Aspects ofa System Ignorance and Uncertainty in Nonabstracted Aspects ofa System Ignorance due to Unknown Aspects ofa System CHAPTER INTRODUCTION...
... risk and comparative evaluation of options and/ or alternatives through monitoring and decision analysis Risk control also includes failure prevention and consequence mitigation CHAPTER RISK ANALYSIS ... for various aspects of the warehouse automation project – Risk assessment methods include checklist, what-if-then analysis, FMEA, FTA, and ETA, and qualitative and quantitative risk assessments ... scenarios to evaluate the performance ofa system or component through system modeling – The combination of event -tree analysis (ETA), success -tree analysis (STA), and fault -tree analysis (FTA)...
... total expected utility value and the standard deviation of the utility value for each alternative • The standard deviation can be critical for decisionmaking as it provides a measure of uncertainty ... logic and dependency among variables representing a system – A Bayesian network consists of the following: a set of variables, a graphical structure connecting the variables, anda set of conditional ... Diagrams – The contributing factor diagrams are used to identify variables and their dependencies that can be used to analytically evaluate quantities, called answer variables, selected by a risk...
... to illustrate the use of Bayesian methods to update probabilities for a case of two variables Aand B with a directed arrow from B to A indicating that B affect AA priori probability of B is 0.0001 ... Example 5: Bayesian Tables for Two Dependent Variables Aand B – In this example, variable B affects A The computations of the probability of B for two cases of given A occurrence, and given A ... variable; and (2) what other variables (if any) are directly influenced by this variable? In a standard Bayesian network, each variable is represented by an ellipse or squares or any other shape,...
... Z mean of Z Z variance of Z Cov ( X i , X j ) covariance of X and X Z Xi partial derivative evaluated at the mean of random variable Slide No 11 CHAPTER 4a RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT Analytical Performance-Based ... RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT Analytical Performance-Based Reliability Assessment ̈ Monte Carlo Simulation Methods – Correlated Random Variables • A correlated (and normal) pair of random variables X1 and X2 ... 30d Generate a random (standard) error using a zero mean anda standard deviation as given by Eq 30d CHAPTER 4a RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT Slide No 65 Analytical Performance-Based Reliability Assessment...
... Table 15 Hazard (Failure) Rate and Cumulative Hazard Rate Functions for Weibull Reliability Function for Example 14 Data and Example 16 Computations Year Time to Failure (Years) Hazard Rate Function ... function based on Eq 58 are given in Table 7a Slide No 43 CHAPTER 4b RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT Empirical Reliability Analysis Using Life Data Table 7a Example Small Sample Data and Respective Empirical ... Hazard Rate Functions for Reliability Function with a Polynomial CHRF for Example 4-12 Data and Example 15 Computations Year Time to Failure (Years) Hazard Rate Function Cumulative Hazard Rate...
... RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT Bayesian Methods Table 22 Relating the Coefficient of Variation to Prior Shape and Scale Parameters for the Gamma Distribution Shape Parameter ( ) as Scale Parameter (p) as ... RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT Reliability Analysis of Systems Table 23 Hazard (Failure) Rate and Cumulative Hazard Rate Functions for a Series System of Three Identical Components of Example 21 Year ... Table 31 Hazard (Failure) Rate and Cumulative Hazard Rate Functions for of Two-out -of- Three System of Example 26 Year Time to Failure (Years) Hazard Rate Function Cumulative Hazard Rate Function...