A novel procedure for estimating the relative importance of uncertain parameters of complex FE model is presented. The method is specifically directed toward problems involving high-dimensional input parameter spaces, as they are encountered during uncertainty analysis of large scale, refined FE-models. In these cases one is commonly faced with thousands of uncertain parameters and traditional ...

Surface magnetic anomaly observed in UXO clearance is mainly dipolar and, as a result, the dipole is the only moment used regularly in UXO applications. The dipole moment contains intensity of magnetization information but lacks shape information. Unlike dipole, higher-order moments, such as quadrupole and octupole, encode asymmetry properties of magnetization distribution within buried targets...

This article advocates for the wider use of relative importance indices as a supplement to multiple regression analyses. The goal of such analyses is to partition explained variance among multiple predictors to better understand the role played by each predictor in a regression equation. Unfortunately, when predictors are correlated, typically relied upon metrics are flawed indicators of variab...

I read with interest the report by Kundu, et al., on diagnosis of enteric fever in children (1). It has been stated that complete blood count in enteric fever is unremarkable and the white blood cell count is normal in most cases and leukocytosis makes the diagnosis less probable. However, it has not been mentioned whether there is a help of relative granulocytosis in the diagnosis of enteric f...

This study investigates the relative importance of memory latency, memory bandwidth, and branch predictability in determining limits to processor performance. We use an aggressive simulation model with few other limits to study the performance of SPEC92 benchmarks. Our basic machine model assumes a dynamically scheduled processor with a 16536 entry instruction window. Up to 16536 instructions o...