BACKGROUND The growing interest in measuring blood free testosterone (FT) is constrained by the unsuitability of the laborious reference methods for wider adoption in routine diagnostic laboratories. Various alternative derived testosterone measures have been proposed to estimate FT from either additional assay steps or calculations using total testosterone (TT) and sex hormone-binding globulin...

Bacillus subtilus, a mineral precipitating microorganism, when introduced into concrete produces calcium carbonate crystals which seals the micro cracks and pores in the concrete. This process imparts high strength and durability to bacteria treated concrete along with enhancement in other mechanical properties. In order to study one such mechanical property, the stress-strain behavior of bacte...

In this study, artificial neural network was used to predict the surface tension of 20 hydrocarbon mixtures. Experimental data was divided into two parts (70% for training and 30% for testing). Optimal configuration of the network was obtained with minimization of prediction error on testing data. The accuracy of our proposed model was compared with four well-known empirical equations. The arti...

Abstract Application of numerical models is useful in coastal sediment studies; however, it is essential to calibrate the models in an appropriate method. Empirical equations, historical satellite imagery and other coastal data and evidence are proposed for the models calibration in the vicinity of coastal indicators around the site of projects. In this study, coastal sediment process of K...

Net radiation is a key component of the energy balance, whose estimation accuracy has an impact on energy flux estimates from satellite data. In typical remote sensing evapotranspiration (ET) algorithms, the outgoing shortwave and longwave components of net radiation are obtained from remote sensing data, while the incoming shortwave ( S) and longwave ( L) components are typically estimated fro...

The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is one of the most commonly used methods to compare the diagnostic performances of two or more laboratory or diagnostic tests. In this thesis, we propose semi-empirical likelihood based confidence intervals for ROC curves of two populations, where one population is parametric while the other one is non-parametric and both populations have missin...

Rheological Properties Such as Viscosity (η), Shear Stress (τ), and Torque (M) of the mixtures of (HTPB) with Octagon (HMX), Hexogen (RDX), and 2, 6 Diamino-4-Phenyl-1, 3, 5 Triazine (DAPTA) mixtures were measured. The experimental design was arranged for three factors at two levels (High and low levels). Temperature of the mixture (°C), Speed of the stirrer (rpm), Mixing Time (minutes) have be...

Ourmain goal here is to discuss perspectives of applications based on solving underdetermined systems of linear equations (SLE). This discussion will include interconnection of underdetermined SLE with global problems of Information Theory and with data measuring and representation. The preference will be given to the description of the hypothetic destination point of the undertaken efforts, th...

In this note we give a proof of the Wilks theorem for the empirical likelihood ratio for the right censored data, when the hypothesis are formulated in terms of p estimating equations or mean functions. In particular we show that the empirical likelihood ratio test statistic is equal to a quadratic form similar to a Hotelling’s T 2 statistic, plus a small error.

We derive from kinetic theory, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics the minimal continuum-level equations governing the flow of a binary, non-electrolytic mixture in an isotropic porous medium with osmotic effects. For dilute mixtures, these equations are linear and in this limit provide a theoretical basis for the widely used semi-empirical relations of Kedem & Katchalsky (Kedem & Katchalsky 195...