Problem Definition: Queensland’s Compulsory Third-Party (CTP) Insurance Scheme provides a mechanism for persons injured as result of motor vehicle accident to receive compensation. Managing CTP claims involves multiple stakeholders with potentially conflicting interests. It is therefore pertinent investigate whether ‘best practice’ processing can be identified and measured so all claimants fair...

This document discusses some of the security problems and practical problems with the current Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) authentication for Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) messages. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Fo...

This paper mainly illustrates how to use PROC MIXED to fit linear mixed models in clinical trials. We first introduce the statistical background of linear mixed models. We explore the situations under which the mixed effects are identified. A randomized complete block design is used to explain the difference between PROC GLM and PROC MIXED in dealing with the linear mixed models. Examples inclu...

Bivariate linear mixed models are useful when analyzing longitudinal data of two associated markers. In this paper, we present a bivariate linear mixed model including random effects or first-order auto-regressive process and independent measurement error for both markers. Codes and tricks to fit these models using SAS Proc MIXED are provided. Limitations of this program are discussed and an ex...

In natural gas treatment, the removal of CO2 and H2S in acid gases is a critical concern. There are various purification technologies that can be used for the removal of acid gas impurities. Absorption of acid gas into amines is one preferred method in gas industries. In the past, single amines was used, but recently in order to improve absorption performance, mixed amines with different solubi...

We use all available fields with deep NICMOS imaging to search for J 110-dropouts (H 160,AB 28) at z ≈ 10. Our primary data set for this search were the two J 110 + H 160 NICMOS parallel fields taken in conjunction with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). The 5σ limiting magnitudes were 28.6 in J 110 and 28.5 in H 160 (0.6 ′′ apertures). Several shallower field...

Aggregations of tuna can be found in association with seamounts throughout all the tropical oceans and these aggregations are often exploited by tuna fishing fleets (Fonteneau, 1991). In Hawaii, a fishery has developed over the last decade that targets the mixed species aggregations of predominantly subadult tuna found in association with the Cross Seamount located approximately 160 nmi south o...