... Title : Psychophysiological Detection of Deception Accuracy Rates Obtained Using the Test for Espionage and Sabotage. ...

... Detection of Deception Accuracy Rates Obtained Using the Counterintelligence Scope Polygraph and the Test for Espionage and Sabotage ...

In order to obtain information to study the effects of incoming qaulity and inspection rate on inspector accuracy, eight subjects inspected printed circuits for defects, at various combinations of incoming quality and inspection rate. The results obtained...

Researchers obtained very surprising results, from the discovery of quiet earthquakes to imaging ground water withdrawal rates. These new high accuracy, ...

... TES, security screening, DLC, directed lie control, detection of deception, espionage, 47 ... obtained using the Test for Espionage and Sabotage ...

... Title : ACCURACY OF MEAN GRAVITY ANOMALIES OBTAINED FROM POINT AND PROFILE MEASUREMENTS,. Corporate ...

An analytic expression for the rate of resonance production of the mesonic molecules dt..mu.. and for its temperataure dependence is obtained. The accuracy of the results obtained is approx.1/..nu.., where ..nu.. is the number of vibrational excitation of the produced mesonic molecular complex.

Taking account of the diurnal rotation and the oblateness of the earth, the average relative rate difference is calculated for an arbitrary inclination of the satellite orbit. For eccentricities less than 0.1, an accuracy of order 10/sup -14/ is obtained. (auth)

Carbon dioxide (CO2) sensors are often deployed in commercial buildings to obtain CO2 data that are used to automatically modulate rates of outdoor air supply. The goal is to keep ventilation rates at or above design requirements and to save energy by avo...

A national data set of artificial inseminations in US Holsteins was used to obtain genetic evaluations for conception rate (CR). This objective of this study was to investigate the feasibility and resulting accuracy from using all available phenotypic, pedigree and genomic information. Evaluations w...

It is shown that stable mathematical solutions exist at high extraction rates. Both approximate and exact solutions (within computer accuracy) are derived. In order to obtain these results in practice it is necessary for the wall Reynolds Number, based on...

A measurement of the lifetime and capture rate of negative muons in various elements is reported. The timing system was calibrated in terms of the accurately known positive muon lifetime. The values obtained are in reasonable agreement with previous experimental data, and have a comparable accuracy. (auth)

Accuracy of recall of the number of sexual partners individuals had over a period of one month, three months, six months and one year was studied in a group of 285 young, single, heterosexual adults. Self-reports of the number of partners were obtained on a weekly basis and then compared with recall of behavior over longer time periods that overlapped the ...

When consciousness is examined using subjective ratings, the extent to which processing is conscious or unconscious is often estimated by calculating task performance at the subjective threshold or by calculating the correlation between accuracy and awareness. However, both these methods have certain limitations. In the present article, we propose ...

Iii order to obtain greater accuracy in studies of autorotative performance, ... rates of descent should include the weight-supporting effect of the fuselage parasite-drag force and .... MAN/SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SUPPORT (6686) [x] ...

Iii order to obtain greater accuracy in studies of autorotative performance, ... rates of descent should include the weight-supporting effect of the fuselage parasite-drag force and .... MAN/SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SUPPORT (6714) [x] ...

Fringe-rate residuals from observations with the Goldstack interferometer (d/Lambda = 100 million at 3.8cm) have been analyzed. The positions for eleven sources, and the baseline, are obtained to an accuracy of about 0.2 second. Five sources are coinciden...

The least-squares method is applied to the analysis of gamma scintillation spectra, the calculations being performed on a computer. Analytical results are obtained rapidly, the accuracy being consistent with the calculated precision. The method is particularly suited to routine analysis at low counting rates. (auth)

Abstract - Teamwork has become an integral part of modern engineering practice. Likewise, teaching students to work effectively in teams has become an important component of engineering education. However, evaluating individual student contributions to team development and performance has been difficult. This paper explores the use of peer ratings for evaluation of individual ...

... Accession Number : AD0434379. Title : ACCURACY OF METEOROLOGICAL DATA OBTAINED BY TRACKING THE ROBIN WITH MPS-19 RADAR. ...

... Title : CONCERNING THE ACCURACY OF AIR TEMPERATURE LAPSE RATE AND HUMIDITY GRADIENT MEASUREMENTS,. ...

... Title : AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ACCURACY OF MEASUREMENT OF GYRO WANDER RATE ON THE BLACK KNIGHT STABILIZED PLATFORM ...

... Accession Number : ADA187963. Title : Social Security: Payment Accuracy Rates Are Overstated. Corporate Author : GENERAL ...

The results of an air traffic control surveillance accuracy and update rate study are presented. The

... of Accuracy Rates Between Detection of Deception Examinations Using the Polygraph and the Computer Voice Stress Analyzer in a Mock Crime ...

A method is presented that allows any solution for the pressure effects associated with production at constant rate to be converted into a solution for producing rate when well pressure is constant. The method, which is suitable for computer application, involves expansion of the pressure solution for constant production rate into a ...

This paper investigates the effect of the geometry and the impedance of an obstacle on the accuracy of the linear sampling method for a two-dimensional acoustic inverse obstacle scattering problem with an impedance boundary condition. Our theoretical results show the dependence of the blowup rate of the so-called indicator function of the linear sampling ...

This paper presents the first clinical results for validating the accuracy of respiratory rate obtained for hospitalized patients using a non-contact, low power 2.4 GHz Doppler radar system. Twenty-four patients were measured in this study. The respiratory rate accuracy was benchmarked against ...

... that higher commands evaluate (1) separate inven- tory accuracy rates for scheduled and unscheduled inventories and (2) inventory accuracy rates ...

Music performance places stringent temporal and cognitive demands on individuals that should yield large speed/accuracy tradeoffs. Skilled piano performance, however, shows consistently high accuracy across a wide variety of rates. Movement amplitude may affect the speed/accuracy tradeoff, so that high ...

Simple and economical measurement of air change rates can be achieved with a passive-type tracer gas doser and sampler. However, this is made more complex by the fact many buildings are not a single fully mixed zone. This means many measurements are required to obtain information on ventilation conditions. In this study, we evaluated the uncertainty of ...

Photon counting detectors have to work at high count rates at synchrotron radiation sources. It is well known that at high count rates, counts may be lost because the time difference between the arrival of two X-rays in the detector can be too small to resolve each count. This is conventionally modelled in the paralyzable deadtime model. In a previous ...

The present study tested whether empathic accuracy and physiological linkage during an emotion recognition task are facilitated by a cultural match between rater and target (cultural advantage model) or unaffected (cultural equivalence model). Participants were 161 college students of African American, Chinese American, European American, or Mexican American ethnicity. To ...

Recent advances in imaging sensor technology make high frame-rate video capture practical. As demonstrated in previous work, this capability can be used to enhance the performance of many image and video processing applications. The idea is to use the high frame-rate capability to temporally oversample the scene and, thus, to obtain ...

Direct behavior ratings (DBRs) combine aspects of both systematic direct observation and behavior rating scales to create a feasible method for social behavior assessment within a problem-solving model. The purpose of the current study was to examine whether accuracy of DBRs was affected depending on the behaviors selected to be ...

The design of a solid propellant rocket motor requires the determination of a propellant's burning-rate and its dependency upon environmental parameters. The requirement that the burning-rate be physically measured, establishes the need for methods and equipment to obtain such data. A literature review reveals that no measurement has ...

The operating characteristics and base rate effects of tests and indexes in the Halstead Russell Neuropsychological Evaluation System-Revised (HRNES-R) were obtained to determine its accuracy in assessing brain damage. Since operating characteristics and base rate problems are not well understood they were ...

Ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) guided percutaneous needle biopsy of soft tissue lesions was performed in 39 patients. A correct diagnosis was obtained in 35 of 42 biopsies, with an overall accuracy rate of 83%. No false-positive diagnosis were obtained, and no complications related to the procedure were ...

ObjectiveThis article summarises 12 dietary-reporting methodological studies with children (six validation studies, one non-validation study, five secondary analyses studies of data from one or more of the six validation studies), identifies research gaps, and provides recommendations for (a) improving children�s recall accuracy and (b) details to specify in publications of ...

Highly accurate reaction rate constants may be extracted from data obtained in well-developed (laminar or turbulent) diffusive flow over a wide range of experimental conditions. In many cases, data obtained in the core of such a flow may be treated as if the flow were one dimensional, leaving only a small correction for radial ...

Drift tube-mass spectrometers are now used extensively to measure the rate coefficients of ion-molecule reactions. The accuracy which can be obtained in favorable cases is about ten percent, but if careful attention is not paid to a number of factors, ver...

This paper examines the usefulness of psychophysiological measurements in a biocooperative feedback loop that adjusts the difficulty of an upper extremity rehabilitation task. Psychophysiological measurements (heart rate, skin conductance, respiration, and skin temperature) were used both by themselves and in combination with task performance and biomechanics. Data fusion was ...

The performance of a Kalman filter that estimates core power in a pressurized water reactor was evaluated using data from the Loss of Fluid Test (LOFT) Reactor and linear error analysis techniques. The Kalman filter provides a more accurate core power estimate in real time than does the conventional method of power estimation. Accuracies of better than 0.75% of ...

... IN SYSTEM DATA RATES AND MEASUREMENT ACCURACIES ON PILOT PERFORMANCE IN THE HELICOPTER IFR FORMATION FLIGHT ...

The rates of the various elementary reactions of the type H + H/sub 2/ yields H/sub 2/ + H, involving ortho-para conversions or isotope exchanges, have been calculated by the absolute reaction rate theory, using new fundamental energy surface, but estimating the activation energy to fit experimental results. The transition compled in these ...

A novel scalable parallel algorithm, PTHB, is proposed to solve block-tridiagonal equations with strict block diagonal dominant based on the idea of Sun's about PTH method. By precision analysis, divide-conquer strategy is obtained ensuring the accuracy and optimal efficiency. PTHB provides an approximate solution that is equivalent to the exact solution ...

Background/ObjectivesValidation-study data were analyzed to investigate the effect of retention interval (time between the to-be-reported meal and interview) on accuracy of children's school-breakfast reports and school-lunch reports in 24-hour recalls, and to compare accuracy of children's school-breakfast reports for two breakfast locations (classroom; ...

law. Accuracy The Library does not vouch for the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of information obtained through the Internet. Accuracy of information is the...

Although much interest will focus upon the temporal behavior of observed deformation, the principal justification for the SCIGN array is that within a 5-year interval it will provide an accurate and detailed determination of the velocity field in the Los Angeles basin that can be used to identify the active faults and estimate their secular slip rates. Obviously, the ...

This paper discusses a data analysis by YURAGI for a heart rate non-constraining monitoring system Three signals are employed: primary signal is obtained by a mat-type sensor, which is placed between a bed and subject, the second one is obtained by an ultrasonic vibration senor attached to bed frame, and third one is Gaussian noise. We ...

This paper proposes a multiclassification algorithm using multilayer perceptron neural network models. It tries to boost two conflicting main objectives of multiclassifiers: a high correct classification rate level and a high classification rate for each class. This last objective is not usually optimized in classification, but is considered here given the ...

Boiling and spreading data obtained experimentally for LNG spills on water agreed fairly well with a postulated model modified to account for a reduction in liquid density because of gas bubbles in the liquid and a heat transfer rate of 25 kW/m/sup 2/. Initial spreading rates were about 165 ft (50 m)/s and dropped to zero as the spill ...

Mar 28, 2000 ... The first is dominated by the clock accuracy and should be expressed as a dimensionless rate. The second gives the `absolute' precision of ...

A comparison of the accuracy of several techniques recently developed for solving stiff differential

A comparison of the accuracy of several techniques recently developed for solving stiff differential

accuracy, and rate as well as robotic arm operational accuracy achieved by the ... operational accuracy achieved by the human-robot system. Section 2 sets the ...

In cardiac elastography, the regional strain and strain rate imaging is based on displacement estimation of tissue sections within the heart muscle carried out with various block-matching techniques (cross-correlation, sum of absolute differences, sum of squared differences, etc.). The accuracy of these techniques depends on a combination of ultrasonic ...

... Accession Number : ADA031331. Title : Geodetic Accuracies Obtainable from Measurements of First and Second Order Gravitational Gradients. ...

... CID No. 35 CResearch Note Accuracy of Meteorological Data Obtained by Tracking the ROBIN With MPS-19 Radar ... the ROBIN With MPS-19 Radar ...

... Corporate Author : MICHIGAN STATE UNIV EAST LANSING DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY. ... about ratees and on rating accuracy were explored in a ...

The results obtained from the solution of the expansion coefficient equations obtained in the preceding paper for the Walsh approximation are given for both one and two dimensions. Since the one-dimensional analysis was performed mainly to lay a foundation for the two-dimensional analysis, only a brief summary of the one-dimensional results is given. The ...

As a ultra-precise measurement apparatus, the heterodyne laser interferometer has been widely used in various industrial fields. However the nonlinearity caused by the nonorthogonality and the ellipticity of two-frequency input sources leads to imperfect displacement measurements. In this paper, the iterated adaptive fading Kalman filter algorithm is used to compensate the nonlinearity error. It ...

The process of determining the probable rejection rate for an orthophoto map sheet is discussed using as an example the generation of the 1:5000-scale map sheets being produced for the State of Vermont Mapping Program. There are inherent in the orthophoto generation process several error sources which are systematic functions of terrain type and positive on the photograph. For ...

Our experience with a microtechnique using /sup 99/mTc-DTPA for determination of glomerular filtraton rate in 172 children is presented. It is a simple finger-stick method carried out in a four-hour time period by trained nuclear medical personnel. The procedure meets all criteria for precise measurement of glomerular filtration rate, and the radiation ...

The performance and accuracy of the coal mine dust personal sampler was evaluated. Mechanical properties of the sampler, such as battery life and pump flow meter accuracy, were kept constant. Penetration curves were obtained using monodisperse aerosols of several diameters for three sampling flow rates and three ...

In this paper, a new geometry index of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observing networks, the volume of network V, is examined as an indicator of the errors in the Earth orientation parameters (EOP) obtained from VLBI observations. It has been shown that both EOP precision and accuracy can be well described by the power law ? = aV c in a wide ...

Although there have been great advances in the machining research, still there's not a total control of the process. FEM simulation is one of the most powerful methods in machining research, but the strong mechanical and thermal loads combined with great strain and strain rates make difficult to obtain accurate input parameters. With the aim of ...

Detectors with highly resistive electrodes, particularly resistive plate chambers (RPCs), have been studied extensively in recent years. Several authors considered the effect of rate on the detector response (efficiency) and a few also associated with the rate, in a rather qualitative manner, the charge per event, i.e., the current. Here, without loss of ...

The assumption that Young's modulus is strain-rate invariant is tested for 6061-T6 aluminium alloy and 1018 steel over 10 decades of strain-rate. For the same billets of material, 3 quasi-static strain-rates are investigated with foil strain gauges at room temperature. The ultrasonic sound speeds are measured and used to calculate the ...

A turbine flowmeter is employed in this study in connection with offshore oil field development, in order to measure simultaneously both the volumetric flow rates of air-water two-phase mixture. Though a conventional turbine flowmeter is generally used to measure the single-phase volumetric flow rate by obtaining the rotational rotor ...

Objective To determine the accuracy and consistency of fourth-graders' school breakfast and school lunch recalls obtained during 24-hour recalls and compared with observed intake. Design Children were interviewed using a multiple-pass protocol at school the morning after being observed eating school breakfast and school lunch. Subjects 104 children ...

The present study tested whether empathic accuracy and physiological linkage during an emotion recognition task are facilitated by a cultural match between rater and target (cultural advantage model) or unaffected (cultural equivalence model). Participants were 161 college students of African American, Chinese American, European American or Mexican American ethnicity. To ...

In difficult classification problems of the z-dimensional points into two groups giving 0-1 responses due to the messy data structure, it is more favorable to search for the denser regions for the response 1 points than to find the boundaries to separate the two groups. For such problems which can often be seen in customer databases, we have developed a bump hunting method using probabilistic and ...

... Accession Number : ADA183117. Title : The Effects of Rater Stress on Performance Rating Accuracy. Descriptive Note : Technical rept.,. ...

Accuracy of Smooth Pursuit Eye Movement and Perception Rate of a False Contour While Pursuing a Rapidly Moving Image

Cylindrical concrete and stainless steel blocks were irradiated one week by the cyclotron of Institute for Nuclear Study of University of Tokyo. Their gamma-ray activities were measured by a high-purity Ge( HPGe ) detector and simultaneously the residual exposure rates were measured by the GM survey-meter. Radionuclides and their gamma-ray activities were ...

An increase in frictional heat due to the increase in rotational speed and feed rate causes thermal deformation of machine tools, resulting in a decrease in machining accuracy. To establish a method for reducing thermally induced machining errors of machine tools, a method has been proposed to estimate the heat flux acting upon a machine tool body by ...

Satellite laser communication systems offer many advantages such as high data rate, small sized equipment, low consumption electric power and others. Recent successful demonstrations of laser communications have demonstrated the feasibility of some of the key aspects of this technology. Sub-microradian pointing, acquisition, and tracking (PAT) functions are key issue to ...

In this article, approximate analytical solution of chaotic Genesio system is acquired by the modified differential transform method (MDTM). The differential transform method (DTM) is mentioned in summary. MDTM can be obtained from DTM applied to Laplace, inverse Laplace transform and Pad� approximant. The MDTM is used to increase the accuracy and ...

The subject is a direct measurement of the activities of 133Ba sources by application of the theoretical count rate expressions recently developed by Novkovi? et al.The total uncertainties of the activity of the measured sources, obtained in two manners, are described in this paper. The presented method is successfully tested using a germanium spectrometer ...

During this first year, we have obtained CHR approval (December 2004) from the three step process (C.U., P.R.C. and C.H.R.) committees at UCSF. Patient enrollment will begin immediately after receiving CHR approval from D.O.D. The accuracy of aligning MRI...

but their quality and sampling rate depend on technical improvements and innovation in building magnetometers exploration, and marine research. Marine measurements are generally scalar and obtained with a sensor towed and 1971 (Regan et al. 1975; Cain 2007). The accuracy of the scalar magnetometer made possible maps

The rate of the semileptonic decay b{yields}cl{nu} is calculated with O({alpha}{sub s}{sup 2}) accuracy, as an expansion around the limit of equal masses of the b and c quarks. Recent results obtained around the limit of the c-quark much lighter than b are confirmed. Details of the new expansion method are described.

A new experimental set-up controlled by computer has been made to measure the pyroelectric charge of ferroelectric materials with a relatively high conductivity at slow rates of temperature variation. It allowed us to obtain the polarisation vs. temperature behaviour of PZT with various compositions in the whole range of temperatures with a high ...

In this paper, using the Parikh-Wilczek tunneling framework, we first calculate the emission rates of non-rotating BTZ black holes and rotating BTZ black holes to second order accuracy. Then, by assuming that the emission process satisfies an underlying unitary theory, we obtain the corrected entropy of the BTZ black holes. A log term ...

The Bethe logarithm is calculated for the S and P states of the helium atom. The calculations are based on variational expansion with randomly chosen exponents. The exponentially growing exponents in the variational basis set of the intermediate states were used to reach high convergence rate. This approach is similar to the strategy used by Drake and Goldman [Can. J. Phys. ...

In this Letter we present an Adomian's decomposition Method (shortly ADM) and the Sinc-Galerkin Method (shortly SGM) for numerical approximation traveling wave solutions of the Kawahara equation. We obtain the exact traveling wave solutions of the Kawahara equation for the initial conditions by using ADM. Then ADM yields the analytic approximate solution with fast convergence ...

The paper is concerned with the height accuracy of reference orbits obtained by a system composed of

... BY TRACKING SIMULATED TARGETS WITH THE UNAIDED JOYSTICK -- MARKER CONTROL MECHANISM ON THE EXPERIMENTAL TARGET ...

... two major areas, the accuracy obtainable in reading the charts in the Engineering Manual, and the fact that input to the ...

The performance of a reflection pulse oximeter and a transmission pulse oximeter was assessed during open-heart surgery when cardiac output, peripheral temperature, pulse pressure, and systolic pressure were low and vascular resistance was high. Before and after extracorporeal circulation (ECC) there was no difference in ability of the sensors to obtain readings and no ...

Spectral collocation methods have proven to be efficient discretization schemes for many aerodynamic and fluid mechanic problems. The high order accuracy and resolution shown by these methods allows one to obtain engineering accuracy solutions on coarse meshes, or alternatively, to obtain solutions with very small ...

Following training to match 2- and 8-sec durations of feederlight to red and green comparisons with a 0-sec baseline delay, pigeons were allowed to choose to take a memory test or to escape the memory test. The effects of sample omission, increases in retention interval, and variation in trial spacing on selection of the escape option and accuracy were studied. During initial ...

Drums of uranium waste should be disposed of in an economical and environmentally sound manner. The most accurate possible assays of the uranium masses in the drums are required for proper disposal. The accuracies of assays from a shuffler are affected by the type of matrix material in the drums. Non-hydrogenous matrices have little effect on neutron transport and ...

The effective ionization and recombination rate coefficients Ar XII--XVI were obtained by studying the modulation of line emission by sawtooth oscillations in the Texas Experimental tokamak (TEXT). Experimental data are matched with the simulation of argon ion emission by a one-dimensional code. The rate coefficients were determined ...

Discriminating accurate from mistaken eyewitness identifications is a major issue facing criminal justice systems. This study examined whether eyewitness confidence assists such decisions under a variety of conditions using a confidence-accuracy (CA) calibration approach. Participants (N = 1,200) viewed a simulated crime and attempted 2 separate identifications from 8-person ...

Discriminating accurate from mistaken eyewitness identifications is a major issue facing criminal justice systems. This study examined whether eyewitness confidence assists such decisions under a variety of conditions using a confidence-accuracy (CA) calibration approach. Participants (N = 1,200) viewed a simulated crime and attempted 2 separate identifications from 8-person ...

A set of semantically neutral sentences and derived pseudosentences was produced by two native European Portuguese speakers varying emotional prosody in order to portray anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise, and neutrality. Accuracy rates and reaction times in a forced-choice identification of these emotions as well as intensity judgments ...

The application of the RF-Furnace for direct analysis of solids or evaporated solutions by atomic emission and atomic absorption spectrometry is described. Various sample pretreatment procedures for environmental as well as inorganic samples are compared. Direct analysis of solids is possible but precision and accuracy are limited by the inhomogeneity of the solid microsample. ...

A class of Projected Discrete-Ordinates (PDO) methods is described for obtaining iterative solutions of discrete-ordinates problems with convergence rates comparable to those observed using Diffusion Synthetic Acceleration (DSA). The spatially discretized PDO solutions are generally not equal to the DSA solutions, but unlike DSA, which requires great care ...

The inherent limitations relevant to data extraction from raw input data obtained from particle or photon counting experiments are analyzed. The analysis is given in terms of the obtainable accuracy and resolution of the desired parameters describing the data source characteristics, such as particle energy and spatial distributions, ...

Two kinds of stochastic integrals, Ito integral and Stratonovich integral, are applied for solving Langevin equation. In the case of the simplified Langevin equation for over-damped motion, the fission rate obtained with Stratonovich integral is significantly larger than that with Ito integral. On the other hand, in the case where the random force acts on ...

Cyclic voltammetry is an electroanalytical technique for obtaining information about substances under analysis without the need for complex flow systems. However, classifying the information in voltammograms obtained using this technique is difficult. In this paper, we propose the use of fixed kernel regression as a method for extracting features from ...

The distorted wave and close coupling approximations were used to determine cross sections for electron collisional excitation of C/sup +2/ from its 2s/sup 2/ /sup 1/S ground state. The validity of the approximations is discussed and the results obtained are compared. Good agreement was obtained for the strong transitions. The ...

Ne/sup 20/ ions of 9 to 11 Mev obtained by the acceleration of doubly charged ions in the ORNL 5.5 Mv Van de Granff were used to study Coulomb excitation in light nuclei. Excitation of the following states was observed: Li/ sup 7/, 478 kev; Fla, 110 and 197 kev; Na/sup 23/, 440 kev. Absolute values for the reduced electromagnetic transition rates ...

The in-core detector system is the principal source of information for determining relative assembly powers, and maximum fuel rod powers in a reactor core. The detector signals are used in conjunction with pre-calculated factors, and appropriate normalizations, to obtain measured power values. Considerable reliance is placed on the accuracy of in-core ...

It is shown that the stability of the Henyey�Greenstein phase function allows the calculation rate of light propagation through strongly scattering objects to be drastically increased by using the same a priori information on interaction processes as in the initial formulation of the problem. The increase in the calculation rate is accompanied by a ...

Gas content determination is a critical procedure performed to evaluate the expected gas production rate and producible reserve potential of coal seam reservoirs. The results from a Gas Research Institute (GRI) research project indicate that gas content estimates obtained with many commonly used methods can be low by 50%. These low estimates result in ...

We propose a hybrid approach to treating atomic structure and rates in collisional-radiative models, combining the completeness of highly averaged models with the accuracy of detailed models. The hybrid scheme supplements a small subset of coronally accessible fine structure levels with a complete set of configuration- and superconfiguration-averaged ...

Some general features of multichannel filter radiometers operating in the UV region of the solar spectrum are reviewed with emphasis on calibration problems that are due to incomplete knowledge of responsivity in the UV-B region. An alternative calibration procedure that is able to generate a full UV spectrum obtained by a constrained inversion method is presented. ...

This report is an attempt at a comprehensive compilation of currently available theoretical data on electron impact excitation of carbon and oxygen ions. It is designed to be of use primarily to theoretical atomic physicists, allowing them a broader than usual view of how various approximations compare. We do not attempt to place an estimate on the accuracy to which any of the ...

An important parameter for consideration in the screening of solvents for an extractive distillation process is selectivity at infinite dilution. The higher the selectivity, the better the solvent. This paper assesses the accuracy of using selectivity as a basis for solvent screening in extractive distillation processes. Three types of binary mixtures that are usually ...

The method of intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation has been widely used to determine absolute B(E2;0{sub 1}{sup +}{yields}2{sub 1}{sup +}) quadrupole excitation strengths in exotic nuclei with even numbers of protons and neutrons. Transition rates measured with intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation are compared to their respective adopted values and for the example of {sup ...

The research investigated potential interactive effects of format and training on rating accuracy. Training was developed in accordance with the cognitive demands placed on raters by each of two rating formats: behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS) a...

The kinematics of fluid flow in the measuring unit of a rotational viscometer with variation in the rotational velocity by the exponential law has been considered. The asymptotic expression for calculation of the rate of shear and the dimensionless parameter determining the regime of steady-state flow have been obtained. Experimental check of this method ...

To evaluate the degree of accuracy of computational methods used in the shield design of spent fuel shipping casks, comparisons have been made between biological dose-rate calculations and measurements at the surface of a cask carrying three pressurized water reactor fuel assemblies. Neutron dose-rate measurements made with the ...

As a CO2 removing and recovering technology, the solid amine utilized as a vacuum desorbing type was developed. The evaluation experiments to measure fundamental characteristics of this material was conducted using the dry air and as the results, the high adsorbing rate, 10 wt pct for short period and 7 wt pct for long period was obtained and also 7 wt pct ...

We analyze over 500 million Twitter messages from an eight month period and find that tracking a small number of flu-related keywords allows us to forecast future influenza rates with high accuracy, obtaining a 95 % correlation with national health statistics. We then analyze the robustness of this approach to spurious keyword matches, ...

The local cooling rates of the components of a vibrated binary granular mixture in a steady state are investigated. The accuracy of the expression obtained by assuming a local homogeneous cooling state distribution of the gas is analyzed by comparing it with molecular dynamics simulation results. A good agreement is observed. Also, the ...

To find a commercially available DTPA preparation that could be used for the measurement of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), the plasma clearances of four different Tc-99m (Sn)DTPA preparations were compared with that of Cr-51 EDTA using a single-injection technique. One preparation yielded results identical to those obtained with Cr-51 EDTA, whereas the ...

A tracking system has been developed to provide real-time feedback of skin dose and dose rate during interventional fluoroscopic procedures. The dose tracking system (DTS) calculates the radiation dose rate to the patient's skin using the exposure technique parameters and exposure geometry obtained from the x-ray imaging system digital ...

A tracking system has been developed to provide real-time feedback of skin dose and dose rate during interventional fluoroscopic procedures. The dose tracking system (DTS) calculates the radiation dose rate to the patient�s skin using the exposure technique parameters and exposure geometry obtained from the x-ray imaging system ...

A tracking system has been developed to provide real-time feedback of skin dose and dose rate during interventional fluoroscopic procedures. The dose tracking system (DTS) calculates the radiation dose rate to the patient's skin using the exposure technique parameters and exposure geometry obtained from the x-ray imaging system digital ...

... Accession Number : ADA219447. Title : Work Performance Ratings: Cognitive Modeling and Feedback Principles in Rater Accuracy Training. ...

... Descriptors : *FLUORESCENCE, *CHEMICAL LASERS, MOLECULAR VIBRATION, COMPARISON, RATES, ACCURACY, QUENCHING, TIME ...

... ENERGY, TIME, LIMITATIONS, CONSUMPTION, MONITORS, RECALL ... RESPONSE, OXYGEN, ESTIMATES, INTENSITY, RATES, ACCURACY. ...

... rating reviewed for fairness, consistency, and accuracy. Former reserve members with greater than 20 years of total ...

... Descriptors : *CALIBRATION, *ALTIMETERS, PROBABILITY, ACCURACY, MANOMETERS, LOW RATE, LIQUIDS, DYNAMICS, PRESSURE. ...

... Title : ASSESSMENT OF THE SENSITIVITY OF CRACK GROWTH RATE CONSTANTS TO PREDICTIVE ACCURACY OF PART-THROUGH ...

... The five types of ratemeters chosen for project ... COUNTERS, CALIBRATION, SPECIFICATIONS, ERRORS, DETECTORS, DOSE RATE, GAMMA ...

The P{sub N} theory has been shown to be an asymptotic limit of transport theory for problems in optically thick planar-geometry media with low adsorption rates and highly anisotropic scattering. In this paper transport problems that lie outside the asymptotic regime of validity of P{sub N} theory are considered. Such problems occur in media that are either optically thin, or ...

Morphology of individual microcalcifications is an important clinical factor in microcalcification clusters diagnosis. Accurate segmentation remains a difficult task due to microcalcifications small size, low contrast, fuzzy nature and low distinguishability from surrounding tissue. A novel application of active rays (polar transformed active contours) on B-spline wavelet representation is ...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) sensors are often deployed in commercial buildings to obtain CO2 data that are used to automatically modulate rates of outdoor air supply. The goal is to keep ventilation rates at or above design requirements and to save energy by avoiding ventilation rates exceeding design requirements. ...

Large-scale level-by-level calculations were carried out to obtain as accurate autoionization and dielectronic capture (DC) rates of Ni-like Au51+ and Cu-like Au50+ as possible by including adequate electron correlations. The accuracy is estimated to be better than 20% for strong autoionized levels. Our results of the dielectronic ...

Precision and accuracy are the limiting factors in extracting structural and dynamic information from experimental NOEs. In this study, error sources at all stages of such an analysis are identified and errors are estimated. The data set of H(N)-H(N) cross-relaxation rates obtained from triple-labeled ubiquitin presented in [B. ...

Precision and accuracy are the limiting factors in extracting structural and dynamic information from experimental NOEs. In this study, error sources at all stages of such an analysis are identified and errors are estimated. The data set of HN-HN cross-relaxation rates obtained from triple-labeled ubiquitin presented in [B. V�geli, ...

In this study, evaluation of direct behavior rating (DBR) occurred with regard to two primary areas: (a) accuracy of ratings with varied instrumentation (anchoring: proportional or absolute) and procedures (observation length: 5 min, 10 min, or 20 min) and (b) one-week test-retest reliability. Participants viewed video clips of a ...

The SD-GAP land cover accuracy assessment was determined for eastern South Dakota from one square mile aerial photography obtained through the Natural ... ...

The latest Goddard laser systems, and their use in the Earth Dynamic Program are described. The tracking accuracies obtained using actual field data are discussed. (GRA)

meter precision and 10-m ranging accuracy were achieved. ... accuracy achieved with precision ranging was marginally better than that obtained ...

... Such accuracy analysis is notably missing from the current ... to obtain accuracy in the variance of the ... Figure 8: Two different sections of the pliaitorn ...

BackgroundArrayed primer extension (APEX) is a microarray-based rapid minisequencing methodology that may have utility in 'personalized medicine' applications that involve genetic diagnostics of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). However, to date there have been few reports that objectively evaluate the assay completion rate, call rate and ...

The rates of rotational transitions for HCO+, the most abundant ion in interstellar space, induced by collision with helium are obtained for temperatures ranging from 10 to 80 K. The calculations are based on a new potential energy surface for the He-HCO+ interaction and on a scattering matrix whose accuracy was checked by pressure ...

Two sets of simple geometry benchmarks were analyzed using two independent Monte Carlo radiation transport codes to estimate the expected accuracies of both the spent fuel source terms and the neutron and gamma-ray transport for typical spent fuel storage/transport cask applications. The first set of dose rate measurements were performed at General ...

A mathematical model describing chemical kinetics of transesterification of palm-based methyl esters with trimethylolpropane has been developed. The model was developed by utilizing nonlinear regression method, which is an efficient and powerful way to determine rate constants for both forward and reverse reactions. A comparison with previous study which excludes the reverse ...

Data from three prototype instruments on the reinforcement corrosion rates of concrete bridge components were evaluated for accuracy and consistency. Two instruments applied the linear polarization technique, one with and one without current confinement, and third used superimposed current pulses of high and low frequencies with current confinement. ...

The main aim of this paper is to make a study of dose-rate distributions obtained around the 15 mm, radiation oncology physics and engineering services, Australia (ROPES) eye plaque loaded with 125I model 6711 radioactive seeds. In this study, we have carried out a comparison of the dose-rate distributions obtained ...

The main aim of this paper is to make a study of dose-rate distributions obtained around the 15 mm, radiation oncology physics and engineering services, Australia (ROPES) eye plaque loaded with {sup 125}I model 6711 radioactive seeds. In this study, we have carried out a comparison of the dose-rate distributions ...

We evaluated the accuracy of GPS-based TEC measurements by comparing the results with S/X dual frequency VLBI experimental data. The Global Ionosphere Maps (GIMs) generated by CODE (Center for Orbit Determination in Europe) is one of the most accurate and freely available GPS-derived ionosphere maps, so we evaluated the accuracy of the GIM/CODE maps. ...

Comparative emission and transmission brain tomograms were obtained in 209 patients to establish the diagnostic accuracy of a new emission tomographic scanner in detecting space-occupying disease in the brain. Concordant results were obtained in 169 patients (81%). Computed transmission tomography (transmission CT) yielded an overall ...

Quantitative volume flow rate measurements using the magnetic resonance imaging technique are studied in this dissertation because the volume flow rates have a special interest in the blood supply of the human body. The method of quantitative volume flow rate measurements is based on the phase contrast technique, which assumes a linear ...

A rule-based expert system using CLIPS programming language was created to classify body cavity effusions as transudates, modified transudates, exudates, chylous, and hemorrhagic effusions. The diagnostic accuracy of the rule-based system was compared with that produced by 2 machine-learning methods: Rosetta, a rough sets algorithm and RIPPER, a rule-induction method. Results ...

The purpose of this study is to test the accuracy of seven discriminant function equations that have been derived by Steyn and Is�an for sex determination using measurements of the femur and tibia of South Africans of European descent (SAED). While the validity of some of the discriminant functions has been assessed by the authors who derived them, no previous independent ...

A number of modern experiments require simultaneous measurement of charges on multiple channels at > MHz event rates with an accuracy of 100-1000 e(-) rms. One widely used data processing scheme relies on application of specific integrated circuits enabling multichannel analog peak detection asserted by an external trigger followed by a ...

A number of modern experiments require simultaneous measurement of charges on multiple channels at > MHz event rates with an accuracy of 100-1000 e^? rms. One widely used data processing scheme relies on application of specific integrated circuits enabling multichannel analog peak detection asserted by an external trigger followed ...

A statistical grain nucleation model was implemented as a part of a multiphase flow and solidification simulation code for metallic alloys. Three characteristic parameters control the solution accuracy of the nucleation model: the total grain density, the mean undercooling, and the standard deviation of the undercooling. These parameters were obtained ...

In soccer, the world's most popular ball game, there are no systems currently in use capable of measuring soccer ball speed and spin. This paper describes a novel image recognition system capable of obtaining accurate measurements of ball velocity, elevation, spin rate and spin axis. Two sequential images of a soccer ball, a fixed time interval apart, are ...

... atmospheric chemistry calculations involving reaction rates and solubility. ... Accuracy: Temperature accuracy is approximately 1 K within 3 km of the ...

... chemistry calculations involving reaction rates and solubility. ... Accuracy : Temperature accuracy is approximately 1 K within 3 km of the WB57, and ...

Comprehension accuracy, work time, and accuracy rate scores were determined for openbook tests of comprehension of hand translations and edited and unedited machine translations of representative areas of Russian scientific and technical documents in Phys...

A macrokinetic model for Pichia pastoris expressing recombinant human serum albumin is proposed. The model describes the balances of some key metabolites, ATP and NADH, during glycerol and methanol metabolism. In the glycerol growth phase, the metabolic pathways mainly include phosphorylation, glycolysis, tricarboxylic acid cycle, and respiratory chain. In the methanol growth phase, methanol is ...

Interactive computer-generated simulations that highlight psychological principles were investigated in this study in which 33 female and 19 male undergraduate college student volunteers of median age 21 matched line and circle sizes in six variations of Ponzo's illusion. Prior to working with the illusions, data were collected based on subjects' responses to control stimuli. Next, subjects were ...

In a scenario of aqueous transport from a high-level radioactive waste repository, the concentration of radionuclides in water in contact with the waste constitutes the source term for transport models, and as such represents a fundamental component of all performance assessment models. Many laboratory experiments have been done to characterize release rates and understand ...

Results are described of an analytical study of the accuracy and limitations of a technique that permits the mathematical extrapolation of near-field noise data to far-field conditions. The effects of the following variables on predictive accuracy of the ...

The accuracy with which a mobile lunar laser station can be located was the subject of a modeling study. The influence of the number and accuracy of fixed lunar ranging stations, the uncertainty in polar motion, and data loss due to weather and similar fa...

Many of the magnetostatic/electrostatic field problems encountered in aerospace engineering, such as plasma sheath simulation and ion neutralization process in space, are not confined to finite domain and non-interface problems, but characterized as open boundary and interface problems. Asymptotic boundary conditions (ABC) and immersed finite elements (IFE) are relatively new tools to handle open ...

Carbon dioxide (CO{sub 2}) sensors are often deployed in commercial buildings to obtain CO{sub 2} data that are used to automatically modulate rates of outdoor air supply. The goal is to keep ventilation rates at or above code requirements, but to also to save energy by avoiding over ventilation relative to code requirements. However, ...

Statistical procedures are developed to estimate accident occurrence rates from historical event records, to predict future rates and trends, and to estimate the accuracy of the rate estimates and predictions. Maximum likelihood estimation is applied to several learning models, and results are compared to earlier ...

Data obtained from tracer studies often consist of serial measurements after administration of radioisotope. Very little work has been published on how the error in the data affects the mathematical analysis. Computer simulation was here employed to produce data with error of different magnitude and form for each of several values of rate constant and ...

Economics, like behavioral psychology, is a science of behavior, albeit highly organized human behavior. The value of economic concepts for behavioral psychology rests on (1) their empirical validity when tested in the laboratory with individual subjects and (2) their uniqueness when compared to established behavioral concepts. Several fundamental concepts are introduced and illustrated by ...

Coriolis meter, despite being very accurate in single phase conditions, fails to accurately measure two-phase flows. It poses a complex fluid-structure interaction problem in case of two-phase operation; there is a scarcity of theoretical models available to predict the errors reported by Coriolis meter in aforementioned conditions, hence the need for experimental research. Experiments are ...

The QPANDA nodal models, which are embodied in the SIMULATE-3 code have been extensively tested and benchmarked. Comparisons to quarter-core PDQ depletion calculations demonstrate the high degree of accuracy with which power distributions are predicted. Even though SIMULATE-3 contains no user-adjusted normalizations. The QPANDA pin power reconstruction model is introduced, and ...

Research on deception detection in legal contexts has neglected the question of how the use of evidence can affect deception detection accuracy. In this study, police trainees (N=82) either were or were not trained in strategically using the evidence when interviewing lying or truth telling mock suspects (N=82). The trainees' strategies as well as liars' and truth tellers' ...

A multigrid diagonal implicit algorithm has been developed to solve the three-dimensional Euler equations of inviscid compressible flow on block-structured grids. An improved method of advancing the multigrid cycle has been examined with respect to convergence rates, accuracy, and efficiency. In this method, the multigrid cycle is advanced independently in ...

The accuracies which can be achieved in analog recording systems are for the most part tape limited. While reasonable variations in tape speed do not directly affect the accuracy, such variaticns result in improper tape tensioning, which in turn results in poor head-to-tape contact. The quality of the tape transport mechanism should be such that ...

Spin- and parity-dependent nuclear level densities (NLD) are widely used to predict reaction rates of interest for nuclear astrophysics, and nuclear-energy and medical-physics applications. Shell model techniques proved to be able to provide accurate NLDs for an increasing number of nuclei. Recently, we proposed an efficient methodology for obtaining NLDs ...

An adaptive approach is proposed for the problem of left ventricular ejection time (LVET) estimation using peripheral pressure waveform signals. The proposed algorithm, which makes use of 2 peripheral pressure measurements, makes it possible to adaptively estimate the LVET in response to different cardiovascular physiologic states. The algorithm builds on features obtained ...

A method of real-time heterodyne imaging interferometry using a three-phase correlation image sensor (3PCIS) is proposed. It simultaneously demodulates the amplitude and phase images of an incident interference pattern at an ordinary frame rate with good accuracy, thus overcoming the trade-off among measurement time, spatial resolution, and demodulation ...

Despite the fact that the streaming application domain is becoming increasingly widespread, few studies have focused specifically on the performance characteristics of stream programs. We introduce two models by which the scalability of stream programs can be predicted to some degree of accuracy. This is accomplished by testing a series of stream benchmarks on our numerical ...

We will present calculations of the atomic data needed to obtain the rates for dielectronic recombination (DR) from O- to F-like ions. These data include the energies of singly and doubly excited states, autoionization and radiative decay rates, and partial as well as total DR branching ratios and rates. Detailed ...

A numerical framework based on the generalized finite element method (GFEM) is developed to capture the coupled effects of thermomechanical deformations and thermal gradients on the regression rate of a heterogeneous solid propellant. The thermomechanical formulation is based on a multiplicative split of the deformation gradient and regression of the heterogeneous solid ...

Neutron activation rates are calculated from measured gamma-ray spectral data obtained from calibrated lithium drifted germanium (Ge(Li)) detectors. The calibration techniques, which include energy, efficiency, pulse height analyzer data reduction, and geometry factors, are discussed. Problems encountered when analyzing highly radioactive samples, ...

We combine new accurate calculations, asymptotic relations, and available experimental data to construct an H^- photodetachment cross section reliable for a large range of photon energies. In particular, account is taken of the series of auto-detaching shape and Feshbach resonances between 10.92 and 14.35 eV. The accuracy of the cross section is controlled by ensuring that it ...

Combining the simplified analysis and the more rigorous Laminar Inertial Turbulent (LIT) analysis of isochronal and modified isochronal tests, it has been shown that these tests are valid, within engineering accuracy, for all values of the inverse slope. A sequence of increasing rates produces less errors in a modified isochronal test than decreasing ...

This study describes the validation of a new electronic appetite rating system, and a statistical variance model for visual analogue scale (VAS) research. Thirty volunteers rated hunger, fullness, desire to eat, prospective intake, thirst and liking on 100mm paper VAS and on 70 mm electronic VAS presented on a Dell Pocket PC, after consuming breakfast, in ...

High-repetition-rate PIV measurements were performed in the trisonic wind tunnel facility at the Bundeswehr University Munich in order to investigate the boundary layer parameters on a generic rocket model and the recirculation area in the wake of the model at Mach numbers up to Mach = 2.6. The data are required for the validation of unsteady flow simulations. Because of the ...

Rarefied gas flow through an arbitrary cross section is analyzed by the finite element method. In this study, the collision model of Bhatnoger, Gross and Krook is invoked. A finite element analogue of Boltzman's equation is derived by application of the methods of weighted residuals. The distribution function is represented by a combination of Hermite polynomials and so-called ...

The secular motions of the node and the perihelion of Mercury are calculated from numerically integrated ephemerides, and compared to those already existing obtained from analytical studies and observational analysis. The differences in the analytical rates are found to be negligible compared to 0arcsec.2 per century, the estimated error of the present ...

Because of the increase demand for heat pipes, the establishment of standard methods for the performance test and the performance expression of the heat pipe was requested. Generally, the measurement method for the heat transfer rate of heat pipes is divided into two categories. That is, the heat transfer rate of heat pipe is measured by heat input to the ...

A low-cost and reliable system is presented which was developed for the gas leak rate measurement of the BIS-Monitored Drift Tubes (MDT) to be used for the Muon Spectrometer of the ATLAS experiment at LHC. In order to meet the ATLAS schedule, 100MDTs are tested simultaneously each time by the developed setup. The method used is based on the measurement of the gas pressure drop ...

For the design of sensor systems for flight test data acquisition, the determination of necessary accuracy of the sensors is important. In this report, one method is presented to calculate the sensor accuracy to obtain a specified state estimation accurac...

The report discusses the accuracy of the Social Security Administration payments to more than 33 million retirees, survivors, and dependents. The report also describes how the agency monitors its payment accuracy and reports to the Congress on its perform...

Attention plays a critical role in information processing. Its adequate functioning is required for correct development of complex cognitive abilities and regular scholastic progress. Children with attention deficits often have difficulties in reading, writing, and arithmetic. The present study investigated interactions among reading skills, overall scholastic performance as ...

The use of three remedies for errors in the measurement of ability that arise from differences in rater stringency is discussed. Models contrasted are: (1) Conventional; (2) Handicap; and (3) deterministic Rater Response Theory (RRT). General model requirements, power, bias of measures, computing cost, and complexity are contrasted. Contrasts are illustrated by application of the models to small ...

It is shown that above the temperature of maximum abundance, recombination rates into the excited states of He-like ions that are calculated using earlier, more approximate methods differ markedly from rates obtained from recent distorted-wave and R-Matrix calculations (unified recombination rate coefficients) for ...

Rotary blood pumps are expected to be used as an implantable ventricular assist device (VAD). In the VAD system, flow rate is important for monitoring of the state of a recipient and for automatic control to maintain appropriate blood perfusion. To obtain flow rate of the pump without any sensors, we proposed a method of estimating ...

Estimates of rain rate derived from a spaceborne weather radar will be most reliable over an intermediate range of values. In forming an area average of the rain rate, an alternative to the averaging of the high-resolution estimates, irrespective of their individual accuracies, is a multiple threshold approach. The method is based on ...

Digital photogrammetric methods were employed to assess the level of sexual dimorphism present in permanent maxillary molar cusp areas of black South Africans (130 males, 105 females). Odontometric standards were then developed for diagnosing sex, based on the cusp area data derived for these teeth. Results demonstrated that all cusp area measurements of both the first and second maxillary molars ...

An assessment of the accuracy of OH concentrations measured in a smog chamber by a calibrated laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) instrument has been made, in the course of 9 experiments performed to study the photo-oxidation of benzene, toluene, 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene, para-xylene, ortho-cresol and ethene at the European Photoreactor facility (EUPHORE). The LIF system was ...

An assessment of the accuracy of OH concentrations measured in a smog chamber by a calibrated laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) instrument has been made, in the course of 9 experiments performed to study the photo-oxidation of benzene, toluene, 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene, para-xylene, ortho-cresol and ethene at the European Photoreactor facility (EUPHORE). The LIF system was ...