Markov-modulated fluid queues are popular stochastic processes frequently used for modelling real-life applications. An important performance measure to evaluate in these applications is their steady-state behaviour, which is determined by the stationary density. Computing it requires solving a (nonsymmetric) M-matrix algebraic Riccati equation, and indeed computing the stationary density is th...

Psychology in The Netherlands, The Nijmegen Papers, edited by M. Brouwer, J. van Ginneken, A. Hagendoorn, and .l-D Meloen. Amsterdam: Mola Russa. · Meloen, J;,O., L. Hagendoorn, Q. Raaijmakers, and L. Visser, L 1988. Authorlt~rlanlsm and the Revival of Political Racism: Rea.ss.essments In The Netherlands of the Reliability and Validity of the Concept of Authoritarianism by Adorno et al." Politi...

There are few experimental results to date describing the crack-propagation threshold behavior of short fatigue cracks under multiaxial loading conditions. To address this need, in the present study, the variation in mixed-mode, high-cycle fatigue-crack growth thresholds with crack size and shape are reported for a Ti-6Al-4V turbine blade alloy, heat treated to two widely different microstructu...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Keywords: Aerial control systems Aerial vehicles Spontaneous speech Robustness Reliability and ergonomics of aerial control systems Speech human–computer interfaces This paper proposes several speech technology improvements for increasing robustness, reliability and ergonomics in speech interfaces for controlling aerial vehicles. These improvements consist ...

Salmon have an amazing ability to migrate thousands kilometers from the open ocean to their natal stream for reproduction after several years of oceanic feeding migration. It is now widely accepted that some specific factors of the natal stream are imprinted to particular nervous systems of juvenile salmon during downstream migration, and that adult salmon evoke these factors to recognize the n...

Sin ce our goa l was to dete rm ine character istic difference s betwee n Brom us richardsonii a nd B. cilia /us. a d iscr iminate analysis (DA), princ ipal components ana lysis (PC A), mult idimen s ional sca ling (M DS) , bivar iate ana lysis , and an amplified fragm ent len gth polym orphism s (AFL P) ana lys is were und ert ake n o n 93 herbar ium speci mens and 31 field-coll ec ted popul a...

f~rmed by an algorith m (detailed below) under which th e degrees no, nl , ... nt of the Pi (x) decrease monotonically. We denote degree drop by d i = ni nj _ 1 ~ 1; we distinguish the lead ing and maximum coefficien t magnitudes of the Pi (x) by Ci = I p\/) I and gi ~ I pI!') I; we deno te the norms of the P;(x) by ej = (~(p\,:»2) 1/2; and we distinguish the degree of the initia l Po(x) by N =...

modern leukemia and lymphoma sequencing standards, is an improvement in signal-to-noise ratio for Hodgkin lymphoma given the incredible rarity of the Reed-Sternberg cell in its background nest of inflammatory infiltrate. Previous studies relying on laser capture microdissection could also increase the signal-to-noise ratio, but at the cost of time, effort, and still-low cell numbers. This work ...