As the complexity of chemical and energy technologies has increased, the need has grown for new computer-aided design tools for process synthesis. For technologies in the early stages of development and demonstration, the need to incorporate uncertainties in the process synthesis stage is especially great. This paper presents a new and efficient method, based on stochastic annealing, to identif...

AIM This study employed public use National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) data to investigate the association between urinary cadmium (UDPSI) and all cause, all cancer and prostate cancer mortalities in men. PATIENTS AND METHODS NHANES III household adult, laboratory and mortality data were merged. The sampling weight used was WTPFEX6, with SDPPSU6 applied for the proba...

Estimating primary productivity over time is challenging for plant ecologists. The most accurate biomass measurements require destructive sampling and weighing. This is often not possible for manipulative studies that involve repeatedmeasures over time, or for studies in protected areas. Estimates of aboveground plant biomass using allometric equations or linear regression on single plant trait...