Applications and curricula of decision analysis currently do not include methods to compute Bayes’ rule and obtain posteriors for non-conjugate prior distributions. The current convention is to force the decision maker’s belief to take the form of a conjugate distribution, leading to a suboptimal decision. BUGS software, which uses MCMCmethods, is numerically capable of obtaining posteriors for...

In this review, we primarily address the present state of arts and latest progresses in a few frontier issues mostly relevant to free surface/interface ocean engineering. They include TC (tropical cyclone) induced extreme surface wave, sloshing LNG (liquefied natural gas), cavitation/bubble dynamics VIM (vortex-induced motion) VIV vibration). addition general description, mainly focus on recent...

Previous climatologies of blocking from this group using a one-dimensional index showed that in the Northern Hemisphere, onsets primarily occurred Pacific Ocean region, eastern Atlantic, and over continental Asia. In Southern western are two active regions for block onset. The development technologies such as Geographic Information System (GIS) visualization software mean ingesting data then re...

The zonal winds at several levels between 70 and 10 hPa (roughly 20-30 km) measured at near-equatorial stations during 1956-2000 were analyzed to produce a one-dimensional approximation. The neural network-based technique applied was the circular nonlinear principal component analysis (NLPCA.cir) designed to characterize quasi-periodic phenomena. The reconstructed height-time series of wind bas...

Species in the virilis group of Drosophila (fruit flies), which overlap or replace one another along climatic gradients, exhibit corresponding differences in basal thermotolerance, inducible thermotolerance and the heat-shock response. The low-latitude species D. virilis exceeds the high-latitude species D. lummei in these measures of thermotolerance, the temperature threshold for heat-shock fa...

Traditional compilers conduct optimizations on intermediate representations derived from high level source code. However, it is sometimes necessary and fruitful to optimize executables or compiled object files. This paper describes the Vizer system which automatically vectorizes object code for the Intel x86 architecture. Binary optimization offers the opportunity to improve performance in situ...

Syndromic surveillance systems, especially software systems, have emerged as the leading outbreak detection mechanisms. Early outbreak detection systems can assist with medical and logistic decision support. One important concern for effectively testing these systems in practice is the scarcity of authentic outbreak health data. Because of this shortage, creating suitable geotemporal test clust...

Many previous studies of the occurrence blocking anticyclones, their characteristics, and dynamics have defined onset longitude using one-dimensional zonal index type criterion proposed by Lejenas Okland. In addition to examining event itself, was determined start at nearest five degrees National Centers for Environmental Prediction/National Center Atmospheric Research Reanalyses that were used...