Today a growing number of companies have to progressionenormous amounts of statistics in a costefficientmode.The scientific community has exposed increasing interest in researching new high performance distributed computing platforms for accommodating and meeting the ever increasing computational and storage space requirements of grand challenge e-science applications. The Fault tolerance techn...

Humans have always wanted to know what the future holds in store for them. In earlier centuries, people often sought clues from sacred texts. Today, more secular approaches are increasingly used, although older persist. Modern methods prediction include trend extrapolation, Delphi method, mathematical modeling, and scenario analysis, including backcasting. Extrapolation was only possible when r...

Prediction of SCC risk of austenitic stainless steels in aqueous chloride solution and estimation of the time to failure as a result of SCC form important and complicated topics for study. Despite the many studies reported in the literature, a formulation or a reliable method for the prediction of time to failure as a result of SCC is yet to be developed. This paper is an effort to investigat...

i Abstract Nowadays, with increasing concern on environmental protection, energy crisis, and quality of life, in the context of the lighting industry, Solid-state Lighting (SSL) is considered as the next generation green lighting source, following the conventional lighting sources (like incandescent bulbs and fluorescent lamps). As a type of SSL, High Power White Light-emitting diodes (HPWLEDs)...

In this article, we consider the problem of predicting times to failure of units censored in multiple stages in a progressively censored sample from normal distribution. The best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP), the maximum likelihood predictor (MLP), a modified maximum likelihood predictor (MMLP), an approximate maximum likelihood predictor (AMLP), and the conditional median predictor (CMP) a...

Background: Fetal growth restriction is defined as the failure of the fetus to achieve its full growth potential. The present study aimed to investigate the application of first trimester screening in the prediction of small for gestational age (SGA).Methods: This cohort study was conducted on the consecutive and unselected women with singleton pregnancies undergoing routine first-trimester exa...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To evaluate the added value of MRI with respect to peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) and dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) for predicting femoral strength. MATERIAL AND METHODS Bone mineral density (BMD) of eighteen femur specimens was assessed with pQCT, DXA, and MRI (using ultrashort echo times (UTE) and the MicroView software). Subsequently biom...