To ensure that a drug product will meet standards for identity, strength and stability as specified in the United States Pharmacopedia and National Formulary (USP/NF), it needs to pass a number of tests such as the content uniformity test and dissolution test at various stages of the manufacturing process. The sponsors usually have in-house specification limits based on some lower bounds of the...

Dietary planning is supposed to mediate between intentions and dietary behaviors. However, if a person lacks self-efficacy, this mediation might fail. A cross-sectional study in Costa Rica and a longitudinal study in South Korea were designed to examine the moderating role of self-efficacy in the intention– planning–behavior relationship. Intentions, planning, self-efficacy, dietary behaviors, ...

We characterize the complexity of a number of basic optimization problems for unit disk graphs speciied hierarchically as in BOW83, LW87a, Le88, LW92]. Both PSPACE-hardness results and polynomial time approximations are presented for most of the problems considered. These problems include minimum vertex coloring, maximum independent set, minimum clique cover, minimum dominating set and minimum ...

For a set X of vertices of a graph fulfilling local connectedness conditions the existence of a cycle containing X is proved. AMS classification: 05C38, 05C45, 05C35

The author has published a necessary and sufficient condition for a fmite loopless graph to have a spanning subgraph with a specified positive valency at each vertex (see [8,9). In the present paper it is contended that the condition can be made more useful as a tool of graph theory by imposing a maximality condition. 1. The condition for an I-factor Let G be a finite graph. Loops and multiple ...

A comparison of concrete containing recycled concrete coarse aggregates and natural coarse aggregates subjected to high strain, low cycle compressive fatigue is presented. Using a strain based feedback control loop, concrete cylinders are compressed at 15µε/s to a specified strain then unloaded to zero stress for 10 cycles. After cycling, all samples are loaded to a strain of 0.008. Direct conc...

• The first step is to divide the attributes in a table into specified (the ones specified by the query) and the unspecified attributes (the ones not specified by the query). • Every tuple in the database is considered a document and correlation between different attributes in the tuple are found. Correlations are often ignored in high dimensional and sparsely populated data spaces in IR but th...

In this paper we present a framework called PPSB for combining reinforcement learning and planning to solve sequential decision problems. Our aim is to show that reinforcement learning and planning complement each other well, in that each can take advantage of the strengths of the other. PPSB uses partial action specifications to decompose sequential decision problems into tasks that serve as a...