A series of 24 full-scale experiments was conducted during the summer of 2008 to examine the effects of alarm type (photoelectric, ionization, and dual sensor), alarm location, fabric type (100 % cotton and 100 % polyester), polyurethane foam density, ignition scenario, and room configuration, on smoke alarm performance. A two-level, fractional factorial design of eight experimental configurati...

Geographically dispersed sellers in electronic reverse-marketplaces such as those hosted by Freemarkets are uncertain both about the number of opponents participating and their coststructure in any given market session. Over the course of several market sessions, they learn about the competitive structure of their market. How sellers learn to reduce the level of uncertainty is dependent on the ...

Thanks to the work of scholars such as Ulrich Luz and Dale C. Allison, Jr., Wirkungsgeschichte (usually rendered into English as “reception history”) has come to be regarded as a necessary part of biblical scholarship.1 Recent years have seen the publication of a volume on Revelation in the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture series, as well as of a book, authored by Judith Kovacs and Chr...

The productivity of chemical plants and petroleum refineries depends on the performance of alarm systems. Alarm history collected from distributed control systems (DCS) provides useful information about past plant alarm system performance. However, the discovery of patterns and relationships from such data can be very difficult and costly. Due to various factors such as a high volume of alarm d...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of long-term primary nocturnal enuresis (PNE) treatment using desmopressin versus enuresis alarm. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 6-month randomized trial was performed with patients from 29 enuresis clinics: 251 patients ≥ 5 years in age with severe PNE (mean 5.5-5.6 wet nights/week) were randomized to desmopressin (0.2-0.4 mg daily) or alarm. Efficacy was assessed ...

A cross-layering alarm application is proposed for supporting fire fighting operations. It runs on scattered wireless sensor networks (WSN) composed by several isolated WSNs, where sensor nodes can be destroyed by fire. Mobile patrol nodes deploy the alarm monitoring application and collect the alarm records, containing the set of sensor measurements above the threshold values. The application ...

There is a large literature aimed at characterizing the social choice functions that can be implemented in Bayes Nash equilibria. This literature typically takes agents’information as exogenously given and …xed throughout the analysis. While for some problems this may be appropriate, the assumption is problematic for others. A typical analysis, relying on the revelation principle, maximizes som...