Analysis 1: Promotions to Brigadier General Is there a relationship between promotion to Brigadier General and resilience? Analysis 2: Below Zone (BZ) Promotions Is BLOCKINthere BLOCKINa BLOCKINrelationship BLOCKINbetween BLOCKINearly BLOCKINField BLOCKINGrade BLOCKINofficer BLOCKINpromotion BLOCKINand BLOCKINresilience? Analysis 3: Selection for a Centralized Selection List (CSL) Key Billet Is...

Continuous Time Markov Chains (CTMCs) are widely used as the underlying stochastic process in performance and dependability analysis. Model checking of CTMCs against Continuous Stochastic Logic (CSL) has been investigated previously by a number of authors [2,4,13]. CSL contains a time-bounded until operator that allows one to express properties such as “the probability of 3 servers becoming fau...

We have used Affymetrix gene chips to measure the expression of 10 CESA and 29 CSL genes of Arabidopsis in different developmental stages or organs. These measurements reveal that many of the genes exhibit different levels of expression in the various organs. While several CESA genes are highly expressed in all the tissues examined, very few CSL genes approach such high levels of expression. Th...

The present study investigated the influence of radical position regularity in Chinese character orthographic tasks among Chinese-as-a-second-language (CSL) learners. The role that radical position regularity plays in the learning of Chinese characters was also verified by showing the aforementioned regularity. To address this issue, two experiments were conducted using the Chinese Radical Asse...

Microbiological processes were used for chitin and chitosan production with Cunninghamella elegans UCP/WFCC 0542 grown in different concentrations of two agro-industrial wastes, corn steep liquor (CSL) and cassava wastewater (CW) established using a 2² full factorial design. The polysaccharides were extracted by alkali-acid treatment and characterized by infrared spectroscopy, viscosity, therma...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to evaluate the effects of extra corporeal shock-wave therapy (ESWT) on the calcaneal spur length and pain severity in overweight and obese patients with symptomatic calcaneal spur. METHODS In eighty patients with symptomatic calcaneal spur, ESWT was administered on days 0 and 7, and visual analog scale (VAS) scores and calcaneal spur lengths (CSLs) before and 3 months late...

The tiller inhibition gene (tin) that reduces tillering in wheat (Triticum aestivum) is also associated with large spikes, increased grain weight, and thick leaves and stems. In this study, comparison of near-isogenic lines (NILs) revealed changes in stem morphology, cell wall composition, and stem strength. Microscopic analysis of stem cross-sections and chemical analysis of stem tissue indica...

The method of dynamic imaging of diffusion (DID)-ESR (electron spin resonance) has been utilized to study the anisotropy of translational diffusion of spin probes in the smectic A phase of a eutectic liquid crystal, S2. In particular, the nearly spherical perdeuterated-TEMPONE (PDT) and the rigid and elongated cholestane spin label (CSL) molecules were studied. Whereas D1 (the coefficient of di...

We study lower and upper bounds on the parameters for stochastic state vector reduction, focusing on the mass-proportional continuous spontaneous localization (CSL) model. We show that the assumption that the state vector is reduced when a latent image is formed, in photography or etched track detection, requires a CSL reduction rate parameter λ that is larger than conventionally assumed by a f...