An efficiency of the nonsingular meshless method (MLM) was analyzed in an acoustic indoor problem. The solution assumed form series radial bases functions (RBFs). Three representative kinds RBF were chosen: Hardy’s multiquadratic, inverse Duchon’s functions. room field with uniform, impedance walls considered. To achieve goal, relationships among physical parameters problem and approximate firs...

Estimation of Maximum Flood Discharge (MFD) for a given return period is important for planning, design and management of hydraulic structures for the project. This can be achieved through Flood Frequency Analysis (FFA) by fitting of probability distributions to the recorded Annual Maximum Discharge (AMD) data. In this paper, Gamma and Extreme Value family of probability distributions are adopt...

Morphological characterization is the most accessible and used method to quantify the genetic diversity of the available germplasm. The multivariate statistical method is highly important for this purpose. This study aimed to characterize parents and hybrids of Passiflora according to morphoagronomic descriptors and estimate the genetic divergence between them based on the joint analysis of qua...

This paper deals with the development of a model to predict the products’ terminal call rate (TCR) during the warranty period. TCR represents a key information for a quality management department to reserve the necessary funds for product repair during the warranty period. TCR prediction is often carried out by parametric models such as Poisson processes, ARIMA models and maximum likelihood est...

Several methods for testing mediation hypotheses with 2-level nested data have been proposed by researchers using a multilevel modeling (MLM) paradigm. However, these MLM approaches do not accommodate mediation pathways with Level-2 outcomes and may produce conflated estimates of between- and within-level components of indirect effects. Moreover, these methods have each appeared in isolation, s...

After injection of 10(8) live Mycobacterium lepraemurium (MLM) into the left hind footpad of mice, there is development of local swelling attributable to a granuloma of the cell-mediated immunity type. Concomitant intravenous inoculation of live MLM delays and may even suppress footpad swelling, the effects being proportional to the intravenous dose of organisms. Concomitant footpad infection a...

Multilevel modeling (MLM) is frequently used to detect group differences, such as an intervention effect in a pre-test–post-test cluster-randomized design. Group differences on the post-test scores are detected by controlling for pre-test scores as a proxy variable for unobserved factors that predict future attributes. The pre-test and post-test scores that are most often used in MLM are summed...

In order to continue our studies in coordination chemistry with pteridine derivatives, four new complexes with general formula MX2(pteridine)2 /nH2O /mCH3CN (M /Cu, Pd, Pt) have been synthesized by reaction of 1-methyllumazine (MLM) and 1,6,7trimethyllumazine (MLMD) and different halide salts in acetonitrile solutions. These compounds have been characterized by means of analytical techniques (e...

In this paper, we propose to use a multi-longitudinal-mode (MLM) laser as the source of an infinite-impulse response (IIR) microwave photonic filter (MPF) to obtain GHz level free spectral range (FSR). The response function of such an IIR-MPF and the degree of coherence of the laser are discussed theoretically. The degree of coherence of the MLM laser shows a periodic structure which is signifi...

BACKGROUND Multilevel models (MLM) offer complex survey data analysts a unique approach to understanding individual and contextual determinants of public health. However, little summarized guidance exists with regard to fitting MLM in complex survey data with design weights. Simulation work suggests that analysts should scale design weights using two methods and fit the MLM using unweighted and...