Decorticate spasticity in the squirrel monkey was chosen as a convenient laboratory model of spasticity capable of quantitative assessment upon which to evaluate various currently popular clinical spasmolytic measures. The effects of a wide variety of cortical lesions were studied involving primary and supplementary motor, premotor and parietal cortex unilaterally and bilaterally, measuring mus...

In this paper, we consider a BMAP/G/1 retrial queue with a server subject to breakdowns and repairs, where the life time of the server is exponential and the repair time is general. We use the supplementary variable method, which combines with the matrix-analytic method and the censoring technique, to study the system. We apply the RG-factorization of a level-dependent continuous-time Markov ch...

A retrial queue with general retrial times, modified vacation policy and Bernoulli feedback is analyzed in this paper. If the server is busy or on vacation, an arriving customer either enters on orbit with probability b, or balks with probability 1-b. Otherwise the service of the arriving customer commences immediately. At the service completion epoch, the test customer may either enter the orb...

We consider a tandem queue with two stations. The first station is an s-server queue with Poisson arrivals and exponential service times. After terminating his service in the first station, a customer enters the second station to require service at a single server, while in the meantime he is blocking his server in station 1 until he completes service in station 2, whereupon the server in stati...

Abstract: We analyze a discrete-time single-server queueing system whose arrival stream is a Bernoulli process and service times are generally distributed. An extension of the N -policy is considered: the server remains idle till the queue length becomes 1 i ≥ with probability i θ . After the idle (vacation) period, the server needs a random amount of startup time before serving. Moreover, afte...

The supplementary material is divided into these sections. Section A details the design of stochastic power EP methods and presents relationships between SEP and SVI. Section B extends the discussion of distributed algorithms and SEP’s applicability to latent variable models. Section C provides experimental details of the Bayesian neural network experiments and presents further emprical evaluca...

This paper models a complex system to analyse its reliability characteristics. The system has two possible modes-normal and failed with two types of repair facilities-major and minor. The system can fail due to failure of any units which can fail in n-mutually exclusive ways or common cause failure. Each component of the system has a constant failure rate. The system can be repaired with two di...