In this paper, the authors deal with a complex network having n-identical units in series and two identical standby units for evaluation of its ability measures. The authors have been used supplementary variables technique to formulate the mathematical equations for various flow-states of fig-1(b). These mathematical equations have been solved by the application of Laplace transform. The Laplac...

we consider an m/g/1 queue with regular and optional phase vacation and withstate dependent arrival rate. the vacation policy is after completion of service if there are no customers in the system, the server takes vacation consisting of k -phases, each phase is generally distributed. here the first phase is compulsory where as the other phases are optional. for this model the supplementary var...

a total of 250 mothers were interviewed in kashan health centers in 1995 to obtain information on their knowledge, attitude, and practice (k.a.p) regarding supplementary feeding (sf) of their 6-24 month old children. the k, a and p regarding the kind of the first sf. were desirable in 29.2%, 72.8% and 31.6% of the mothers respectively. the corresponding percentages for the time of introduction ...

This online Supplement is organised as follows: Section A provides supplementary lemmas for the Appendix of the main paper. Section B provides a proof of Theorem 3. Section C provides a discussion of various results related to the case where both signal and noise variables are mixing. Section D presents lemmas related to mixing regressors. Section E provides lemmas for the case where the regres...

This article describes private supplementary health insurance holdings and average premiums paid by Medicare enrollees. Data were collected as part of the 1992 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS). Data show the number of persons with insurance and average premiums paid by type of insurance held--individually purchased policies, employer-sponsored policies, or both. Distributions are show...

In this paper it is argued that Hintikka’s game theoretical semantics for Independence Friendly logic does not formalize the intuitions about independent choices; it rather is a formalization of imperfect information. Furthermore it is shown that the logic has several strange properties (e.g. renaming of bound variables is not allowed). An alternative semantics is proposed which formalizes intu...

Several variants of a first-order simplification rule for nonnormal form tableaux using syntactic constraints are presented. These can be used as a framework for porting methods like unit resolution or hyper tableaux to non-normal form free variable tableaux.

An alternative approach to the semantics of definite descriptions was proposed by Heim in her dissertation [1982]. Heim assigns to pragmatics a larger part of the task of specifying the meaning of definite descriptions than the neo-Russellians do. In Heim’s theory, definite and indefinite NPs are semantically equivalent, and both introduce free variables. The truth conditions proposed by Heim f...