A new design concept is introduced to control the near-wall integration between the hot-gas boundary layer and the cooling jets in order to enhance the adiabatic film cooling effectiveness of the gas turbine blades. In this new approach, another film cooling port, having a very low blowing ratio, which prevents formation of the counter-rotating vortex pare, is applied just upstream of the main ...

Two general classes of multiple decision functions, where each member of the first class strongly controls the family-wise error rate (FWER), while each member of the second class strongly controls the false discovery rate (FDR), are described. These classes offer the possibility that optimal multiple decision functions with respect to a pre-specified Type II error criterion, such as the missed...

In phase II platform trials, 'many-to-one' comparisons are performed when K experimental treatments are compared with a common control to identify the most promising treatment(s) to be selected for Phase III trials. However, when sample sizes are limited, such as when the disease of interest is rare, only a single Phase II/III trial addressing both treatment selection and confirmatory efficacy ...

Gene expression microarrays have been the vanguard of new analytic approaches in high-dimensional biology. Draft sequences of several genomes coupled with new technologies allow study of the influences and responses of entire genomes rather than isolated genes. This has opened a new realm of highly dimensional biology where questions involve multiplicity at unprecedented scales: thousands of ge...

data envelope analysis (dea) is an approach to estimate the relative efficiency of decision making units (dmus). several studies were conducted in order to prioritize efficient units and some useful models such as cross-efficiency matrix (cem) were presented.  besides, a number of dea models with interval data have been developed and ranking dmus with such data was solved. however, presenting a...

We prove a version of the Ray-Chaudhuri–Wilson and Frankl–Wilson theorems for k-wise intersections and also generalize a classical code-theoretic result of Delsarte for k-wise Hamming distances. A set of code-words a; a; . . . ; ak of length n have k-wise Hamming-distance ‘; if there are exactly ‘ such coordinates, where not all of their coordinates coincide (alternatively, exactly n ‘ of their...

We prove a version of the Ray-Chaudhuri{Wilson and Frankl-Wilson theorems for kwise intersections and also generalize a classical code-theoretic result of Delsarte for k-wise Hamming distances. A set of code-words a1; a2; : : : ; ak of length n have k-wise Hamming-distance `, if there are exactly ` such coordinates, where not all of their coordinates coincide (alternatively, exactly n ` of thei...

Secure, reliable position and time information is indispensable for many civil GPS applications such as guiding aircraft, tracking freight, synchronizing power grids and cellular networks, and time-stamping financial transactions. This paper introduces a signal authentication architecture based on a network of cooperative receivers. A receiver in the network correlates its received military P(Y...