The existence and non-existence of trend-resistant repeated measurement designs are investigated. Two families of efficient/optimal repeated measurement designs which are very popular among experimenters are shown to be trend-resistant or trend-resistant with respect to treatments.

Recent improvements in HVAC control networking technologies together with an improved understanding of the nature of cooling loads in buildings offer enormous potential improvements in the cost effectiveness of district cooling plants. By carefully coordinating the district cooling plant design with a digital controls network to the loads served, the following economic advantages over tradition...

Most current statistical methods developed for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) based on inbred line designs apply to crosses from two inbred lines. Analysis of QTL in these crosses is restricted by the parental genetic differences between lines. Crosses from multiple inbred lines or multiple families are common in plant and animal breeding programmes, and can be used to increase the effic...

in order to locate qtls controlling some agronomic traits associated to drought stress and to determine their relationships with grain yield, an experiment was conducted at the research farm, college of agriculture, university of zabol in 2011. the experiment was arranged in two complete block designs with 3 replications. 72 barley double haploid lines including their parents (steptoe×morex) we...

Traditionally, process engineers often face the possibility of FEED and detailed engineering designs exceeding limits due to unforeseen circumstances, for example, with complex control systems, operational philosophies and procedures. Potential problems during plant start-up, emergency shutdown and various turndown conditions may not be identified in advance due to insufficient information on p...

Model checkers for program verification have enjoyed considerable success in recent years. In the control systems domain, however, they suffer from an inability to account for the physical environment. For control systems, simulation is the most widely used approach for validating system designs. We present a new technique that uses a software model checker to perform a systematic simulation of...