We recently proposed a novel approach to converging electronic energies equivalent high-level coupled-cluster (CC) computations by combining the deterministic CC(P;Q) formalism with stochastic configuration interaction (CI) and CC Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) propagations. This article extends our initial study [J. E. Deustua, J. Shen, P. Piecuch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223003 (2017)], which focuse...

a chromium electroplating bath with the ability to produce homogenous mist was used to evaluate parameters influencing hexavalent chromium (cr+6) mist sampling methods. the results of 48 cr+6mist samples collected using the u.s. national institute for occupational safety and health method 7600showed that cr+6concentration was higher: (1) for sampling by closed-face filter cassettes than for sam...

Three-level clustered data commonly occur in social and behavioral research are prominently analyzed using multilevel modeling. The influence of the clustering on estimation results is assessed with intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs), which indicate fraction variance outcome located at each higher level. However, ICCs prone to bias due high r...

Motorola (1980) introduced the concept of six sigma as a quality philosophy and a management strategy, which when adopted in a system of organization will reduce wastages and increase the profit to the management results in enhancing the satisfaction of the customer. If this concept of Six Sigma is adopted in an organization it can results in 3.4 or lower number of defects per million opportuni...

Arthropods are critical ecosystem components due to their high diversity and sensitivity to perturbation. Furthermore, due to their ease of capture they are often the focus of environmental health surveys. There is much debate regarding the best sampling method to use in these surveys. Sweep netting and pan trapping are two sampling methods commonly used in agricultural arthropod surveys, but h...

Embedded smart cameras have limited processing power, memory and energy. In this paper, we introduce two methodologies to increase the energy-efficiency and the battery-life of an embedded smart camera by hardware-level operations when performing object detection and tracking. We use the CITRIC platform as our embedded smart camera. We first perform down-sampling at hardware-level on the micro-...

This paper describes the spatial and temporal distribution of Anopheles gambiae s.l. Giles in two Tanzanian villages based on data collected from a five-month intensive mosquito sampling programme and analysed using Taylor's power law. The degree of spatial aggregation of female A. gambiae in each village was similar to its corresponding temporal aggregation, indicating that in designing sampli...