It has been proved that process capability indices provide very efficient measures of the capability of processes from many different perspectives. These indices have been widely used in the manufacturing industry for measuring process reproduction capability according to manufacturing specifications. In the past few years, univariate capability indices have been introduced and used to characte...

An eleven-week feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the growth effect of partial replacement of fishmeal by the microalga Spirulina platensis in the diet of juvenile Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone). The results clearly indicate that Spirulina platensis constitutes an effective food ingredient for shrimp. Growth rates of a Spirulina-fed group differed highly significantly (p...

Chemical isolation in the Asian monsoon anticyclone observed in Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE-FTS) data M. Park, W. J. Randel, L. K. Emmons, P. F. Bernath, K. A. Walker, and C. D. Boone National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, ...

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Exosphaeromaamplicauda (Stimpson, 1857) from the west coast of North America is reviewed and redescribed and revealed to be a group of closely related species. A neotype is designated and the species redescribed based on the neotype and topotypic specimens. Exosphaeromaamplicauda is known only from the coast of California, at Marin, Sonoma and San Mateo Counties. Exosphaeromaaphrodita (Boone, 1...

We show that the finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem given by the Boone-Britton construction have cohomological dimension 2. More precisely we show these groups can be obtained from a free group by successively forming HNN-extensions where the associated subgroups are finitely generated free groups. Also the presentations obtained for these groups are aspherical. Using this w...

Effects of x-ray scattering on full-field digital mammography are analyzed with the scattering model of Seibert and Boone [Med. Phys. 15, 567-575 (1988)]. A new method is introduced for the estimation of model parameters from measurements. It is shown that with breasts thinner than a certain threshold, removing the anti-scatter grid leads to an improved contrast-to-noise ratio with a smaller pa...

We consider brane configurations in M-theory describing N = 1 supersymmetric gauge theories. Using the parametric representation of the brane configurations, we calculate the superpotentials for various cases including multiple gauge groups or fermions. For SU(n) N = 1 SQCD with Nf fermion case (Nf < Nc), we find that the superpotential from M-theory and the gauge theory agree precisly. This gi...

For a class of bounded random selfadjoint operators (Lu)(n) =