Reasoning on the Web is receiving an increasing attention because of emerging fields such as Web adaption and Semantic Web. Indeed, the advanced functionalities striven for in these fields call for reasoning capabilities. Reasoning on the Web, however, is usually done using existing techniques rarely fitting the Web. As a consequence, additional data processing like data conversion from Web for...

Transient separation of the individual components in a multicomponent liquid mixture in a thermogravitational column can be used to determine the thermal and molecular diffusion coefficients. Two models of the transient behavior are developed. First, a classical model where density only depends on temperature. Second, a general model where the compositional effect on density is also taken into ...

This supplement consists of several parts that refer directly to specific topics in the paper: A Proof of Equation (2) B Proof of Lemma 3.1 (Symmetric biproportional fit) C Technical details on why ”local affinity” is sufficient in Section 4.1 D Proof of Theorem 4.2 (Convergence of PSIPF) E Proof of Lemma 4.4 (L1-monotony) F Proof of Lemma 4.5 (Volume bounds) G Proof of Lemma 4.6 (Limit points)...

In the 1980s, a version of a marginal problem considered in this paper was connected, with the necessity to cope with a task of knowledge integration in probabilistic expert systems. In practical situations, marginal distributions representing pieces of local knowledge are often inconsistent. The present paper introduces an interval-valued solution, which always exists, of a marginal problem ev...

Classical finite mixture regression is useful for modeling the relationship between scalar predictors and scalar responses arising from subpopulations defined by the di ering associations between those predictors and responses. The classical finite mixture regression model is extended to incorporate functional predictors by taking a wavelet-based approach in which both the functional predictors...

The dynamic properties of the title reaction calculated by classical and quantum methods show large deviations from each other, whereas for the barrierless and exothermal reaction two methods should show good agreement. In order to further investigate the reaction mechanism of the title reaction, a global PES for the electronic ground state was constructed. The energy points are calculated by t...

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The new techniques in seismic design of structures are usually attributed to high damping ratios. In such systems, the assumption of classical (i.e. proportional) damping is not valid and in most cases they should be considered as Non-classical systems. Since the analytical tools for studying the behavior of such structures are not easily available, the present work attempts to find the limits,...

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to investigate the controllable operating parameters influence, including pH, solid content, collector, co-collector, and depressant dose, and conditioning time, on apatite flotation kinetics. Four first order flotation kinetic models are tested on batch flotation time-recovery profiles. The results of batch flotation tests and the fitting of first-order ki...

In the literature, methods for fitting superellipses to data tend to be computationally expensive due to the non-linear nature of the problem. This paper describes and tests several fitting techniques which provide different trade-offs between efficiency and accuracy. In addition, we describe various alternative error of fits (EOF) that can be applied by most superellipse fitting methods. keywo...