Finding new families of distributions has become a popular tool in statistical research. In this article, we introduce a new flexible four-parameter discrete model based on the Marshall-Olkin approach, namely, the discrete Kumaraswamy Marshall-Olkin exponential distribution. The proposed distribution can be viewed as another generalization of the geometric distribution and enfolds some importan...

1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A. 2 National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Program, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elenronica, Universitfi di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy 4 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ES-43, Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama, U.S.A. 5 Universi...

Piirila P1*, Smith HJ2, Hodgson U3 and Sovijärvi AR1 1Unit of Clinical Physiology, Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, HUS Medical, Imaging Centre, Helsinki University Central Hospital and Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland 2Research in Respiratory Diagnostics, Bahrendorfer Str. 3, 12555 Berlin, Germany 3Heart and Lung Centre Helsinki, Helsinki University Central Hospita...

Dominique Barjot, ReÂmi Baudouõ È and DanieÁle Voldman, eds., Les Reconstructions en Europe (1945±1949) (Paris: Editions Complexe, 1997), 342 pp., FF175, ISBN 2-870-27693-1. Matthias Kipping and Ove Bjarnar, eds., The Americanisation of European Business: The Marshall Plan and the Transfer of US Management Models (London: Routledge, 1998), 235 pp., £50.00, ISBN 0-415-17191-1. Jeffry M. Diefendo...

in petrochemical industry, the production of polyvinyl chloride (pvc) is accompanied by formation of heavy end wastes which consist of a mixture of di and multichloro compounds as kind of materials which are generated in ethylene dichloride (edc) purifcation. a high quantity of chloro compounds found in the heavy end waste allows it to be polymerized with alkaline polysulfdes to form polysulfde...

The new book, FLIES, tells us a lot about what gnats and their relatives have to tell us about nature, would we but listen attentively. The author, Stephen Marshall, began his biological interests in beetles and then somehow went to the dark side, FLIES. This reviewer began his career in beetles and stayed put; that is what qualifies him as a reviewer of this simply superb book Steve Marshall h...

Rutting is one of the major distresses in the flexible pavements, which is heavily influenced by the asphalt mixtures properties at high temperatures. There are several methods for the characterization of the rutting resistance of asphalt mixtures. Flow number is one of the most important parameters that can be used for the evaluation of rutting. The flow number is measured by the dynamic creep...