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 most commonly used deconvolution (Decon) method is based on minimum-phase assumption for the wavelet which is often not valid. Explosive energy source is close to minimum-phase which makes seismic data with explosive somewhat amenable to predictive Decon though the result is imperfect in phase. Decon of Vibroseis data is more problematic because the wavelet in a correlated Vibroseis trace i...

We discuss the occurrence of negative specific heat in a nonextensive system which has an equilibrium second-order phase transition. The specific heat is negative only in a transient regime before equilibration , in correspondence to long-lasting metastable states. For these states standard equilibrium Bolzmann-Gibbs thermodynamics does not apply and the system shows non-Gaussian velocity distr...

increased metabolic activity in muscle secondary to excessive muscle activity during the uptake phase and shortly before fdg injection is a known phenomenon. we present fdg pet/ct findings in a young male, known case of carcinoma maxilla his scan showed diffuse increased metabolic activity in multiple skeletal muscle groups. there was history of unaccustomed, strenuous sports activity of skiing...

The report offers an overview on relevant technologies and concepts that have the potential to support an eco-efficient transport system, and it provides an overview of important trends and challenges in the passenger and freight transport sector. As such the findings are used for the design of the scenarios conducted in phase 3.

We present an example of a complete and minimal Gabor system consisting of time-frequency shifts of a Gaussian, localized at the coordinate axes in the time-frequency plane (phase space). Asymptotically, the number of time-frequency shifts contained in a disk centered at the origin is only 2/π times the number of points from the von Neumann lattice found in the same disk. Requiring a certain re...