TO THE EDITOR: Nguyen et al. (4) report “the first quantitative approach that can predict the equilibrium [H ] based on the partitioning of H buffering among the different buffer pairs in solution.” To claim no previous method could calculate final equilibrium concentrations from starting preequilibrium concentrations is incorrect, since the ability to perform such calculations was achieved ove...

Improvement of current biomechanical models through implementation of a dynamic factor may provide greater accuracy in acquiring more realistic calculations of back compressive force (BCF) in the spine during lifting. Most widely used biomechanical models for job evaluations in industry are simplified and considered " static " models. These models neglect additional forces generated by accelera...

The dimensioning of injection heads for the extrusion of rubber profiles is exclusively based on empiric knowledge of the non-linear flow behaviour of elastomers. Thus, the design of injection heads is carried out with subject to the used rubber blend, whereas the geometry of the appropriate profile is achieved by empiric adaptation of the extrusion die. This was one of the motivations for a re...

Numerical accuracy, numerical stability and calculation time are all important factors in the computational fluid dynamics. In this study, we compare two solution algorithms, the Simplified Marker and Cell (SMAC) method in the MAC-type methods and the Semi-Implicit Method for Pressure-Linked Equation (SIMPLE) algorithm in the SIMPLE-type algorithms, with respect to flow around a square cylinder...

Asphalt rubber (AR) is a sustainable paving material composed of bitumen and crumb modifier (CRM) recycled from waste tires. The interaction between CRM re-distributes the fractions creates multiphase internal structure AR. Although superior aging resistance AR has been acknowledged, mechanism remains unclear due to limited understanding on behaviors different phases during aging. This study ai...

According to our present understanding many J/c production processes proceed through a colored cc̄ state followed by the emission of soft particles in the quarkonium rest frame. The kinematic effect of soft particle emission is usually a higher-order effect in the non-relativistic expansion, but becomes important near the kinematic end point of quarkonium energy ~momentum! distributions. In an i...

One-sample and two-sample t-tests are commonly used in analyzing data from clinical trials in comparing mean responses from two drug products. During the planning stage of a clinical study, a crucial step is the sample size calculation, i.e., the determination of the number of subjects (patients) needed to achieve a desired power (e.g., 80%) for detecting a clinically meaningful difference in t...

We discuss new results in QCD obtained with string-based methods. These methods were originally derived from superstring theory and are significantly more efficient than conventional Feynman rules. This technology was a key ingredient in the first calculation of the one-loop five-gluon amplitude. We also present a conjecture for a particular one-loop helicity amplitude with an arbitrary number ...

Simulation of gate circuits is an efficient method of detecting hazards and oscillations that may occur in the presence of gate and wire delays. Ternary simulation, introduced by Eichelberger in 1965, consists of two algorithms, called A and B, and its results are well understood. Ternary simulation has been generalized by Brzozowski and Ésik in 2003 to an infinite algebra C and finite algebras...

Eric Postma Computer Science, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands In this paper, we question the necessity of levels of expert-guided abstraction in learning hard, statistically neutral classification tasks. We focus on two tasks, date calculation and parity-12, that are claimed to require intermediate levels of abstraction that must be defined by a human expert. We challenge this claim by...