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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"A-Weighting"”.
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Adapting an LCD for weight generation in an electro-optic neural processor
… After this, the method used to generate the weighting image is explained thoroughly. The experimental evidence is gathered to show how the LCD can be used as a weighting system. Then based on the evidence gathered several recommendations are suggested to redesign the fiber plate and further …
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Sensitivity of Distress Rate to Observed Distress Levels
… pavement distress severities and extents with a weighting factor assigned for each distress. Until 2013, NMDOT conducted pavement evaluations manually and in 2012 revised how pavement distress data were collected and evaluated. The two pavement distress collection procedures that were altered the …
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Inference in tough places : essays on modeling and matching with applications to civil conflict
… essay introduces Kernel Balancing (KBAL), a weighting method that mitigates the risk of misspecification bias by establishing high-order balance between treated and control samples without balance testing or a specification search.
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Photoinduced, refractive-index gratings in germanium-doped two-mode, elliptical-core optical fibers
… structure to which it is attached or embedded. A weighting function is imparted to the fiber sensor by way of a chirped, two-mode grating written into the core, the chirp adopting the shape of a specific vibration-mode amplitude. This novel type of spatially-weighted, distributed fiber sensor is …
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Biopharmaceutic and Pharmacokinetic Studies of Sucrose Acetate Isobutyrate as an Excipient for Oral Drug Delivery.
… SAIB is widely used in the food industry as a weighting agent to disperse flavoring oils in primarily citrus-based soft drink beverages. Additionally, SAIB is currently being marketed by another company as a parenteral drug delivery system. The studies reported here focused on investigating …
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Fracture prediction in metal sheets
… plastic strain with the stress triaxiality as a weighting function is considered. Using the equations of plane stress von-Mises plasticity and the strain-to-stress mapping procedure, the BW fracture criterion is transformed to the spaces of the principal tensile strains and stresses in a sheet …
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Multi-objective evolutionary computation for the portfolio optimization problem with respect to environmental, social, and governance criteria
… surveys, was conducted and used to construct a weighting to normalize a given investor’s own survey responses and allow a single portfolio from the collection of the best portfolios to be matched to that investor. Two potential architectures were considered to build the proposed system: …
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Land use planning with multiobjective programming: a model for forest development in the hills of Nepal
… production and decreasing soil loss and cost. A weighting technique within the multiobjective framework was developed to facilitate land use planning as a socio-political decision making process. The application of the model was demonstrated with data from Phewatal watershed. The model generated …
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Reasoning for Public Transportation Systems Planning: Use of Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence
… which uses a hierarchical tree structure and a weighting scheme. The numerical examples in transit planning are developed for comparison. The proposed Belief Reasoning method has advantages over these traditional evaluation and reasoning methods in several ways. • Use of a reasoning map …
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Making the Scene: Vancouver's Cellar Club and Other Co-operative Jazz Clubs in Canada 1955–1964
… with Vancouver and its Cellar co-operative, a weighting based upon several factors including the amount of available evidence, its intersection with Vancouver’s arts community, and its unique relationship with jazz scenes on the American West Coast. The examinations of jazz co-operatives in …
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Statistical Methods For Resolving Intratumor Heterogeneity With Single-Cell Dna Sequencing
… in copy number aberrations. Additionally, a weighting procedure based on a probabilistic model of sequencing read counts (described in chapter 3) reduced the error rate of ploidy inference in high-ploidy samples. The lessons learned and methodology proposed in this work may be useful in …
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Application of a land use planning decision support tool in a public participatory process for sustainable forest management
… their preferences for six forest values using a weighting scheme. The DST developed an output for each forest value based on the participants' preferences. Upon review of the DST output, the participant had the opportunity to alter their initial preferences iteratively until a desirable output …
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Acoustic optimisation and prediction of sound propagation in turbofan engine ducts
… for a realistic<br/>bypass duct, and an A-weighting has been considered.<br/><br/>Far field noise levels predicted by using ANPRORAD analysis have been validated<br/>against measured data from rig and engine tests. The predicted results are in good agreement<br/>with the measured data when …
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The Cover Time of Random Walks on Graph
… with weighted random edge choices. We present a weighting scheme that has a smaller worst case cover time than a simple random walk. We give an upper bound for a random graph of given degree sequence weighted according to our scheme. We demonstrate that the speed-up (that is, the ratio of cover …
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Novel Methods for Extending Causal Inference to a Target Population
… the well-represented group is conducted using a weighting estimator, while a sensitivity analysis assesses the impact of unrepresented and underrepresented groups on the overall population-level ATE. The second part develops a semiparametric framework for generalizing causal effects under …
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Investigation of TQM implementation to the UAE public sector organisations.
… implementation, monitoring and evaluation. A weighting scoring scale was also formulated as a measurement tool, to facilitate the measurement of quality quotient in the UAEPSI. Furthermore the QAM was benchmarked against widely adopted quality and excellence models and its contribution to the …
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Re-weighting the Quality of Well-Being Scale and assessment of self-reported health status in Chinese Americans.
… selection into the study. Three instruments (a weighting booklet, the Quality of Well-Being Scale, and a demographic battery), each having an English and a Chinese version, were used. Results indicate that the reliability and validity of the booklet rating and QWB Scale were high in the …
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New Score Tests for Genetic Linkage Analysis in a Likelihood Framework
… suggesting a promising indicator to be used in a weighting scheme. Lastly, new score tests in the CL model framework are developed accounting for the non independence of multiple pairs within a pedigree. The performance of the score tests is evaluated and compared with those of other existing …
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Online reviews and consumers' willingness to pay: the role of uncertainty
… and valence influence a consumer’s WTP through a weighting function of outcome probability. Consumers with different preferences towards uncertainty will have different preferences toward review volume, and for some consumers, such preference can change depending on the review valence. Based on …
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Natural scene classification, annotation and retrieval. Developing different approaches for semantic scene modelling based on Bag of Visual Words.
… to scene classification by proposing a weighting approach, named keypoints density-based weighting method (KDW), to control the fusion of colour information and bag of visual words on spatial pyramid layout in a unified framework. Different configurations of BOW, integrated visual …
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