BACKGROUND Given the difficulties of using indirect calorimetry in many intensive care units, clinicians routinely employ predictive equations (the Harris-Benedict equation [HBE] and Schofield equation are commonly used) to estimate energy expenditure in critically ill patients. Some extrapolate CO(2) production (V CO(2)) and O(2) consumption (V O(2)) by the Weir derivation to estimate energy e...

A nonlinear multiobjective programming problem is considered. Weak, strong and strict converse duality theorems are established under generalized second order (F, α, ρ, d)-convexity for second order Mangasarian type and general Mond-Weir type vector duals.

The Objective of this study is to estimate the form drag due to vegetated weirlike obstacles. Head loss due to submerged vegetated dikes and groins has been modeled by expansion loss form drag model (Energy and momentum balance principles) and it has been compared with experimental data. An experimental study has been carried out on a scaled physical model in the Laboratory of Environmental Flu...

The packing of submicrometer sized silica beads inside a microchannel was enabled by a novel method which avoids the complication and limitations of generating a frit using conventional approaches and the restriction of flow using a submicrometer sized weir. A micrometer sized weir and two short columns of 5 μm and 800 nm silica beads packed in succession behind the weir together functioned as ...

A moment estimator of, the coancestry coefficient for alleles within a population, was described by Weir & Cockerham in 1984 (100) and is still widely cited. The estimate is used by population geneticists to characterize population structure, by ecologists to estimate migration rates, by animal breeders to describe genetic variation, and by forensic scientists to quantify the strength of matchi...

A novel microflow cytometer is proposed in which the sample stream is focused initially in the horizontal (X–Y) plane by two sheath flows and is then focused in the vertical (Y–Z) plane by a sequential micro-weir structure before entering the detection region of the device. The proposed device is fabricated using a modified glass fabrication process, and is then characterized both numerically a...

The fulfillment of irrigation water needs must take into consideration the available resources. This is undertaken to avert conflicts that may arise among users. allocation can be accomplished through an analysis balance, juxtaposing discharge with required discharge. outcomes balance serve as a reference for allocation. Within Kedunglarangan Watershed (DAS), there exist six weirs, current mana...

A pair of Mond–Weir type nondifferentiable multiobjective second order symmetric dual programs is formulated and symmetric duality theorems are established under the assumptions of second order F-pseudoconvexity/ F-pseudoconcavity. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

In this paper, Mond-Weir type duality results for a uncertain multiobjective robust optimization problem are given under generalized invexity assumptions. Also, weak vector saddle-point theorems are obtained under convexity assumptions.

Relative to a general class of nondifferentiable mathematical programming problems we consider a converse duality result with respect to a higher order Mond-Weir dual. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification: 90C29, 90C30, 90C32.