A novel combinatorial criterion, called minimum moment aberration, is proposed for assessing the goodness of nonregular designs and supersaturated designs. The new criterion, which is to sequentially minimize the power moments of the number of coincidences among runs, is a surrogate with tremendous computational advantages for many statistically justified criteria, such as minimum G2aberration,...

Numerous biliary proteins as well as non-protein factors influence kinetics of cholesterol crystallisation from supersaturated bile. Cholesterol crystallisation pathways, methods used for quantitative evaluation of liquid-to-solid transition of cholesterol in bile and the classical concept of nucleation defect in pathogenesis of gallstones are reviewed in the first part of this article. The rel...

Applying a strong static electric field to supersaturated aqueous glycine solutions resulted in the nucleation of the gamma polymorph. This is the first report of a strong dc field inducing the nucleation of a neutral solute in a supersaturated solution. We attribute this effect to the electric-field-induced orientation of the highly polar glycine molecules in large preexisting solute clusters,...

Diffusion couples combining a hcp Zr90Al10 supersaturated solid solution with a fcc Cu64Ni36 solid solution were annealed at 410 °C for different times. The reaction at the interface was investigated by transmission electron microscopy and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy. The investigations show the formation of a noncrystalline layer at the interface between the two solid solutions that g...

Abstract. Supersaturated experimental designs are often assessed by the E(s) criterion, and some methods have been found for constructing E(s)optimal designs. Another criterion for assessing experimental designs is discrepancy, of which there are several different kinds. The discrepancy measures how much the empirical distribution of the design points deviate from the uniform distribution. Here...

Amethodology is developed to add runs to existing supersaturated designs. The technique uses information from the analysis of the initial experiment to choose the best possible follow-up runs. After analysis of the initial data, factors are classified into one of three groups: primary, secondary, and potential. Runs are added to maximize a Bayesian D-optimality criterion to increase the informa...

Fractional factorial designs are classified into two broad types: regular designs and nonregular designs. Regular designs are constructed through defining relations among factors; they are introduced in Chapter 1 (Section 1.7) and fully described in Chapter 7. These designs have a simple alias structure in that any two factorial contrasts are either orthogonal or fully aliased. The run sizes ar...

[1] Aircraft-based measurements of aerosol composition, either bulk or single-particle, and both subsaturated and supersaturated hygroscopicity were made in the Los Angeles Basin and its outflows during May 2010 during the CalNex field study. Aerosol composition evolves from source-rich areas in the western Basin to downwind sites in the eastern Basin, evidenced by transition from an external t...

Sucrose solutions, with concentrations near or superior to saturation, present high potentialities for the candy and pastry industries. Creep measurements under small stresses were done to obtain the rheological properties of highly concentrated sucrose solutions, since such solutions could be in a metastable state and tend to crystallise. The viscosities of these solutions, from 70.0% to 85.2%...