We propose a new estimator of steady-state blocking probabilities for simulations of stochastic loss models that can be much more efficient than the natural estimator (ratio of losses to arrivals). The proposed estimator is a convex combination of the natural estimator and an indirect estimator based on the average number of customers in service, obtained from Little’s law (L = λW ). It exploit...

The purpose of this study was to compare traditional and swing blocking techniques on center of mass (COM) projectile motion and effective blocking area in nine healthy Division I female volleyball players. Two high-definition (1080 p) video cameras (60 Hz) were used to collect two-dimensional variables from two separate views. One was placed perpendicular to the plane of the net and the other ...

In this work, a thermo-mechanical (TM) numerical approach is presented and applied to investigate the stress-strain evolution of an alpine rock-slope located in Central Italian Alps (Sondrio Province). Along "Cimaganda" slope massive rockslide event occurred around 900 A.D. mobilizing estimated volume 7.5 Mm3 material, reaching bottom valley. Interest historic was raised again recent times, as ...

This report describes the design, implementation and analysis of a non-blocking halo exchange routine as an alternative to the blocking halo exchange routine in the lattice Boltzmann code Ludwig. The alternative non-blocking routine is implemented in such a way to allow workcommunication overlap. Detailed benchmarks in this report show that the non-blocking version is a good alternative with so...

This study examines whether readers of the paper and online versions of a national newspaper acquire different perceptions of the importance of political issues. Using data from a weeklong experiment in which subjects either read the print version of the New York Times, the online version of that paper, or received no special exposure, this study finds evidence that people exposed to the Times ...

Four experiments examine blocking of associative learning by human participants in a disease diagnosis procedure. The results indicate that after a cue is blocked, subsequent learning about the cue is attenuated. This attenuated learning after blocking is obtained for both standard blocking and for backward blocking. Attenuated learning after blocking cannot be accounted for by theories such as...

Communication protocols issues are one of the effective factors in communicated networks performance. One of challenging problem in CMT-SCTP which sends data by multipath concurrently is Receive Buffer Blocking. This problem has important role in data transmission speed in computer networks. In this paper, we propose a control method based on fuzzy logic so that can solve Receive Buffer Blockin...

Nuclear level densities and spin cut-off factors have been deduced for nuclei in the mass region 24‹A‹63,from a microscopic theory, which includes nuclear pairing interaction. Single particle levels for both Seeger and Nilsson potentials were used in the calcdations. Level densities extracted from the theory are compared with their conesponding experimental values, It is found that the overall...

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