The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has endeavored to develop a consistent method of assuring the credibility of simulation results. Requirements like "accurate enough for a particular use" present problems. How do you measure accuracy? What has to be accurate? What factors are measured? How do you quantify “enough for the particular use?” Which functions are measured? When...

We have identified a potential quality control strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to monitor isoniazid susceptibility testing. This strain (strain A) has a stable phenotypic low-level resistance to isoniazid, has a mutation of C (-15) --> T in the inhA promoter region, and gave consistent susceptibility test results in 141 laboratories.

We use time-consistent coherent and Markov risk measure to study a risk-averse firm’s inventory and price control activities. Our dynamic programming model leads to optimal policy structures that are reminiscent of their risk-neutral counterparts. However, with risk aversion there emerge new patterns. First, monotone properties are derivable for the pricing policy when the convex risk set assoc...

An improved consistent soot nucleation model was proposed and tested on ethylene counterflow flames at different strain rates. The main objective of the is to capture correct rate sensitivity broaden applicability aerosol part with gas-phase kinetic mechanisms. Due uncertainties associated experimental measurements quantitative volume fraction (SVF), approach’s effectiveness mainly investigated...

We use the concept of time-consistent coherent risk measure to study a risk-averse firm’s inventory and price control activities. The model calls for worst-case analysis over a convex set of demand-distribution scenarios in every period. Structural characterization for an optimal inventory policy reminiscent of the risk-neutral counterpart is easy to achieve. More interestingly, mild monotone p...

The study adopted the method of Herrera-Viedma et al.,(2004): consistent fuzzy preference relations (Fuzzy PreRa) to apply the questionnaire which Zhilin Yang et al.(2005) developed. The result shows that the most important of the five-dimension is “Usability” and the most important of the nineteen items is “Relevant information to the customer”. Compared to the traditional AHP method, Fuzzy Pr...

The aim of this paper is to transfer the concept of market-consistent embedded value (MCEV) from life to non-life insurance. This is an important task since the differences between management techniques used in life and non-life insurance make management at group level very difficult. Our methodology might be a way out of this unfavorable situation. After explaining the idea of MCEV, we derive ...

background recently, assessment of the atrial motion and deformation indices obtained via doppler myocardial imaging (dmi) has been proposed as a new method of exploring the atrial function. objective our aim was to assess the right atrial (ra) regional function using myocardial velocities, strain, and strain rate imaging (sri) and compare it with the function of the inter-atrial septum (ias) a...

New results are presented for the stress conjugate to arbitrary Eulerian strain measures. The conjugate stress depends on two arbitrary quantities: the strain measure f(V) and the corotational rate defined by the spin Ω. It is shown that for every choice of f there is a unique spin, called the f-spin, which makes the conjugate stress as close as possible to the Cauchy stress. The f-spin reduces...