An analytical method was developed for Ca determination in ultrapure water, concentrated acids and hydrogen peroxide by ICP-MS, using CH3F as reaction gas in the dynamic reaction cell (DRC) and isotopic dilution (ID) as strategy of calibration for improve the accuracy and allow interferencefree Ca determination.

An urban growth model using stochastic cellular simulation was developed with motivation to understand the consequence of zone management policies in lowland cities. The model could integrate the growth, decline, spread, intensification, and protected areas of the urban growth into a single generalization of both the Eden and the p-models. Calibration strategy was demonstrated using historical ...

Visuomotor adaptation has been thought to be an implicit process that results when a sensory-prediction error signal is used to update a forward model. A striking feature of human competence is the ability to receive verbal instructions and employ strategies to solve tasks; such explicit processes could be used during visuomotor adaptation. Here, we used a novel task design that allowed us to o...

Kuczera, George; Kavetski, Dmitri; Renard, Benjamin; Thyer, Mark Andrew A limited memory acceleration strategy for MCMC sampling in hierarchical Bayesian calibration of hydrological models Water Resources Research, 2010; 46, W07602:1-6 Copyright 2010 by the American Geophysical Union The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://onlinelibrary.wile...

in recent years, different damage indexes have been introduced in engineering literature. the most prominent one among other counterparts is the 1985 park and ang's damage index (dipa), which demonstrates well calibration against experimental results. hence, it has traditionally had broad application in the field of structural engineering. commonly, in dipa relevant parameters are assessed...

An instantaneous synthetic aperture radar (SAR) derived flood extent map helps retrieving the distributed conveyance parameters in one-dimensional flood routing models. These models are generally calibrated based on the sole use of ground data. This research aims to use earth observation (EO) data in order to establish a significant parameter retrieval strategy, providing an alternative model c...

BACKGROUND When planning to use a validated prediction model in new patients, adequate performance is not guaranteed. For example, changes in clinical practice over time or a different case mix than the original validation population may result in inaccurate risk predictions. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate how clinical information can direct updating a prediction model and development of a strategy...