It is routine in probabilistic engineering design to conduct modeling studies to determine the influence of an input variable (or a combination) on the output variable(s). The output or the response can then be fine-tuned by changing the design parameters based on this information. However, simply fine-tuning the output to the desired or target value is not adequate. Robust design principles su...

background: the present study was designed to ascertain serial changes on distal radius radiographic parameters attributable to aging.       methods: in this prospective study, the sample consisted of 120 healthy individuals who were divided into four age groups each containing 15 males and 15 females. in the two below-20-year-old groups, only ulnar variance could be investigated. wrist radiogr...

Using detailed mock galaxy redshift surveys (MGRSs) we investigate the abundance and radial distribution of satellite galaxies. The mock surveys are constructed using large numerical simulations and the conditional luminosity function (CLF), and are compared against data from the Two Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS). We use Monte Carlo Markov Chains to explore the full posterior dis...

To minimize power losses, it is important to determine the location and size of local generators to be placed in unbalanced power distribution systems. On account of some inherent features of unbalanced distribution systems, such as radial structure, large number of nodes, a wide range of X/R ratios, the conventional techniques developed for the transmission systems generally fail on the determ...

A double-walled carbon nanotube is used to study the radial charge distribution on the positive inner electrode of a cylindrical molecular capacitor. The outer electrode is a shell of bromine anions. Resonant Raman scattering from phonons on each carbon shell reveals the radial charge distribution. A self-consistent tight-binding model confirms the observed molecular Faraday cage effect, i.e., ...

We develop a technique, based on the galaxy distribution function, to synthesize the observed distribution of galaxies. It populates space with a Poisson distribution of cluster centers and places particles around each center according to a speciic prescription. We specify each cluster, assumed to be spherical, by three quantities: the number of particles in the cluster, its radius, and its rad...

Optimal placement of distributed generation (DG) is an essential task for distribution companies in order to operate the network good operating conditions. DG units optimization problem where minimization active power losses considered as objective function. In this paper, hybrid genetic dragonfly algorithm used technique find optimal location and size units. The proposed implemented on IEEE 15...

The stability index is a function of real & reactive power injected at that node as well as of node voltage. The report presents stability analysis of radial distribution networks. Two voltage stability indexes are used for identifying the node, which is most sensitive to voltage collapse. Therefore to calculate node voltages for varying operating conditions a simple load flow technique for sol...

The average track model describes the response of physical and biological systems using radial dose distribution as the key physical descriptor. We report on an extension of this model to describe the average distribution of electron spectra as a function of radial distance from an ion. We present calculations of these spectra for ions of identical linear energy transfer (LET), but dissimilar c...