Novel arrangements for strip-block designs that reduce the experimental effort are presented. Theoretical properties of strip-block designs using post-fractionation are provided, and appropriate data analysis is explained. An experiment on an industrial process is used as an illustration. As a tool to aid the selection of appropriate plans, catalogs of post-fractionated strip-block designs with...

This research examines a chronic problem in academic settings – inappropriate copying or misuse of source materials–i.e., plagiarism. We conduct a computer-based writing experiment to examine the effects of psychological and situational characteristics on subjects’ propensity to misappropriate text. Specifically, we examine to what extent such misappropriations may be explained by available tec...

Using 3.3 pb of data collected with the CMD-2 detector in the 720 – 840 MeV c.m. energy range, the branching fraction of the conversion decay ω → πee has been measured: B(ω → πee) = (8.19 ± 0.71± 0.62) · 10. The upper limits for the branching fractions of the following conversion decays have been obtained at the 90% confidence level: B(ρ → πee) < 1.6 · 10, B(ρ → ηee) < 0.7 · 10 and B(ω → ηee) <...

Scaffolding is crucial as transfer of learning does not occur naturally and teaching-learning strategies found to be effective for experts may not be suitably adopted as is for novice learners. Furthermore, opportunities are often “found” or “made.” The quality of solutions, however, is mediated by different conceptualizations of contexts. We aim to investigate whether design thinking and metac...

This application note presents isolation amplifier circuit designs useful in industrial, instrumentation, medical, and communication systems. It covers the IL300’s coupling specifications, and circuit topologies for photovoltaic and photoconductive amplifier design. Specific designs include unipolar and bipolar responding amplifiers. Both single ended and differential amplifier configurations a...

There always have been patterns where there have been designs. Figure 1 shows both very famous, aesthetically beautiful, but perfectly different two statues that are known as treasures of the world. The statue of David, for example, gives us sharp, or even likely, European impression while the statue of Basara gives us centripetal, oriental impression. Figure 2. Celica (Toyota, Japan) and F355 ...

A study for selecting effective PRPGs for large industrial designs is undertaken. For the PRPG selection process, guidance from a set of ISCAS benchmark circuits is initially sought. The set of benchmark circuits used is shown to be ineffective in providing material guidance. The alternative of PRPG selection through actual design experimentation is examined and its weaknesses identified and ou...