Forecasting warranty claims for recently launched products that have short histories of claim records is vitally important for manufacturers in preparing their fiscal plans. Since the amount of historical claim data for such products is not large enough, developing forecasting models with good performance has been a difficult problem. The objective of this paper is to develop an algorithm for f...

the central cholinergic system has been associated with cognitive function and memory and acetylcholine plays an important role during the early stages of memory consolidation. in this study, after training mice were tested with one way active avoidance procedure and retention were tested at 4, 8, 12, 16 and 24 hours of training and compared with non-shocked mice, in which it took 24 hours, a s...

the mechanism and the parameters affecting the matrix-fibril morphology in melt spun polyblend fibers are discussed. the properties of polymeric blends depend considerably on their final morphologies. blending of two miscible polymers, normally gives rise to formation of a single-phase morphology while blending of two immiscible polymers can create a two or three (in case of using compatibilize...

extension of inter-turn fault in windings of pmsm can damage all parts of electrical systems, and in some cases in sensitive applications may lead to irreparable events. identification of such small faults at incipient steps can be so helpful to protect entire part of electrical system. in this paper, intelligent protection system is designed which is made by two major parts. in the first part ...

This document is meant to help individuals use the Cerebral Signal Phase Analysis toolbox which implements different methods for estimating the instantaneous phase and frequency of a signal and calculating some related popular quantities. The toolbox – which is distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE as a set of MATLAB R © routines – can be downloaded at the address http:/...

We propose a model that describes phase transition including metastable phases present in the van der Waals Equation of State (EoS). We introduce a dynamical system that is able to depict the mass transfer between two phases, for which equilibrium states are both metastable and stable states, including mixtures. The dynamical system is then used as a relaxation source term in a isothermal two-p...

Use cases are widely used for functional requirements elicitation and specification of information systems. However, writing use case textual specifications for Software Product Lines is a laborious task and the resulting model can become overloaded for practical use. To overcome these issues, a two-phase method is proposed: in the first phase, a set of domain use case fragments is elaborated f...

The basic model for incompressible two-phase flows with phase transitions is derived from basic principles and shown to be thermodynamically consistent in the sense that the total energy is conserved and the total entropy is nondecreasing. The local well-posedness of such problems is proved by means of the technique of maximal Lp-regularity in the case of equal densities. This way we obtain a l...

The use of a phase plate in electron microscopy has shown renewed interest, triggered by a publication on this topic in 2001 by Danev and Nagayama [1]. This interest can be understood from the fact that many samples that are studied in TEM are weak phase objects. The use of a phase plate is the obvious method of choice to convert otherwise invisible phase modulations into visible amplitude modu...