This letter is in response to the discussion of our recent paper entitled " The effect of parameter uncertainty on achieved safety integrity of safety system " [1]. We are grateful to the discussants for their constructive comments and suggestions, and in particular their insight into our proposed methods to measure safety-related (SR) uncertainty. The detailed response is given below. We agree...

Predictions from science and engineering models depend on several input parameters. Global sensitivity analysis quantifies the importance of each input parameter, which can lead to insight into the model and reduced computational cost; commonly used sensitivity metrics include Sobol’ total sensitivity indices and derivative-based global sensitivity measures. Active subspaces are an emerging set...

This paper investigates the effect of conflict on firms' output value and input misallocation in the context of Palestine during the Second Intifada. Using a unique establishment-level dataset, we compare firms' outcomes and input usage over time across districts experiencing differential changes in conflict intensity. We show how conflict diminishes the total and per-worker value of firms' out...

Phase correlation techniques have been used in image registration to estimate image displacements. These techniques have been also used to estimate optical ow by applying it locally. In this work a di erent phase correlation-based method is proposed to deal with a deformation/translation motion model, instead of the pure translations that the basic phase correlation technique can estimate. Some...

The fractal dimension has been employed as a useful parameter in the diagnosis of retinal disease. Avakian et al. (Curr Eye Res 2002; 24: 274-280), comparing the vascular pattern of normal patients with mild to moderate non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR), found a significant difference between them only in the macular region. This significant difference in the box-counting fractal di...

colleagues [1] reported a multicenter cohort study that showed pulmonary vascular permeability index (PVPI) to be a practical diagnostic parameter to recognize acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ ARDS) in pulmonary edema. Th eir study deserves to be appreciated. Th e transpulmonary thermodilution technique allows an accurate bedside estimation of increased pulmonary vasc...

the classification and imaging appearances of vascular masses of the head and neck are reviewed. the radiological appearances of congenital vascular masses (infantile haemangiomas and other congenital vascular tumours, high-flow and low-flow vascular malformations), acquired vascular masses (benign and malignant tumours, non-neoplastic lesions) and other hypervascular masses are described and i...

This paper provides an abstract definition of some kinds of logics, called diagrammatic logics, together with a definition of morphisms and of 2-morphisms between diagrammatic logics. The definition of the 2-category of diagrammatic logics rely on category theory, mainly on adjunction, categories of fractions and limit sketches. This framework is applied to the formalization of a parameterizati...

We consider the fully constrained version of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model (cNMSSM) in which a singlet Higgs superfield is added to the two doublets that are present in the minimal extension (MSSM). Assuming universal boundary conditions at a high scale for the soft supersymmetrybreaking gaugino, sfermion and Higgs mass parameters as well as for the trilinea...

We consider the problem of constructing Concurrent Zero Knowledge Proofs [6], in which the fascinating and useful “zero knowledge” property is guaranteed even in situations where multiple concurrent proof sessions are executed with many colluding dishonest verifiers. Canetti et al. [3] show that blackbox concurrent zero knowledge proofs for non-trivial languages require Ω̃(log k) rounds where k ...