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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Rate function"”.
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The time-course of physiological variation in rate function and acid-base disturbance in the domestic pig subjected to thermal stress
Basic physiological rates and blood characteristics were time-course measured during three 48 hour heat-stress (35 $\pm$ 2$\sp\circ$C) periods (HS). Function variation was also monitored during a 48 hour thermoneutral recovery (25 $\pm$ 2$\sp\circ$C) period (TN).
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Energy transfer from wind to waves
The growth rate function is necessary to determine the energy transfer from wind to waves. Analytically, the growth rate function is determined from the Phillips model, for which the mean velocity profile over water surface is important. The analytical model of Phillips using logarithmic form of …
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Large deviation theory for queueing systems
… server in the empty queue is working with a same rate as if the queue is not empty. Therefore, each Y<sub>i</sub>(t) can be expressed as the difference of the accumulated number of customers who came to station i and the accumulated number of services, done in station, i, up to time t. Then the …
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Value of heterogeneous information in stochastically congestible facilities
… in which each population chooses a departure rate function over time to minimize its expected cost based on its private belief about the state and the behavior of the other population. We provide a full equilibrium characterization for the complete range of values of link reliability, incident …
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Some aspects of empirical likelihood
… 2, Basics of Large Deviation Theory, we illustrate the basic idea of large deviation theory and briefly review the history of its development. As a preparation, some of the important theorems which we will employ in the following chapters are also introduced.<br/>In chapter 3, Asymptotic …
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Kac's process and some probabilistic aspects of the Boltzmann equation
… Tanaka-style coupling for a well-chosen distance function on $\mathbb{R}^d$, which allows us to exploit a negative Povzner-type term. This leads to a proof of propagation of chaos and a new uniqueness and stability result for the corresponding Boltzmann equation, assuming only that the initial …
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STOCHASTIC MODELS IN POPULATION DYNAMICS.
… dynamics with a variety of birth and death rate functions. A general model is constructed considering a fundamental growth rate function of the population while allowing random births and deaths in the population. Four stochastic discrete delay models and two non-delay models using the …
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A study of some life testing distributions
… which has the property of possessing a failure rate function which can be U-shaped or exponentially increasing depending on the value of the shape parameter. In addition, this article considers generalized least squares type estimators for location-scale distributions, then uses these estimators …
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The Reflected Quasipotential: Characterization and Exploration
… to a spatial scaling parameter) with V(x) as the rate function. The Skorokhod Problem is an essential device in the construction and analysis of reflected Brownian motion and our value function V(x). Here we characterize V(x) as a solution to a partial differential equation H(DV(x))=0 in the …
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Space-time rupture properties of large earthquakes
… at low frequencies. Inversions for the moment-rate functions of these events yield compound event sequences where the derivative of the moment-rate function is 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller during the slow event than during the ordinary fast event. The smoothness of the moment-rate function …
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Low complexity quantized controllers for LTI systems : peak-to-peak performance guarantees
… performing noise attenuation via a finite-rate digital channel. In the first part of the thesis, we introduce the structure of the control system as well as the encoder and decoder used to transmit the required control signals along the digital channel. The performances of the proposed …
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Applications of Stein's method and large deviations principle's in mean-field O(N) models
… of results coming from the limit theorems with rates of convergence, and phase transition behavior for classical XY model. In the second part, we will generalize our results to mean-field classical $N$-vector models, for integers $N \ge 2$. We will use the theory of large deviations and Stein's …
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Auditory brainstem and middle-latency responses with optimized stimuli: experiments and models
… to the processing of the stimulus-dependent rate function in the auditory nerve. Predicted potential patterns using clicks and chirps at different levels and stimulation rates are compared with corresponding experimental data. The main characteristics of the data were reflected in the model …
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Heavy-Tailed Crack Distribution Families and Applications
… we discuss the asymptotic behavior of the hazard rate function of the generalized crack distribution. Student's t crack, Laplace crack, the generalized Gaussian crack distributions are proposed as illustrative examples for theorems and applications. A few model tting exercises are carried out …
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Experimental and modeling studies of formation of products of incomplete combustion and chlorocarbon incineration
… a reactor model and the reaction mechanism. Rate-of production analysis based on modeling results showed that there are different pathways for destruction of methylene chloride under fuel-lean and fuel-rich conditions. As shown by experimental results, destruction efficiency is lower at its …
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Speciation of inorganic aluminum solutions and modeling their kinetics and mechanisms of adsorption on selected solids
… and mechanisms of Al adsorption on Ca-saturated kaolinite, montmorillonite, and peat were studied using miscible displacement methods. Unneutralized and partially neutralized Al solutions (OH/Al=1.0) were leached through monomineralic columns and effluent analyzed for monomeric and …
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Wildfire impacts on western United States snowpack
… between the burned and unburned sites. Four separate snow measures are considered in this analysis and include annual maximum SWE, normalized annual maximum SWE, peak SWE date, and melt-out date. Wildfires have on average advanced melt-out (9 days) and maximum SWE dates (6 days) and reduced …
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Queueing Models for Large Scale Call Centers
… GI/GI/1+GI queue in heavy traffic which incorporates only the density the abandonment distribution at the origin, our result incorporate the entire abandonment distribution. This is accomplished by a scaling the hazard rate function of the abandonment distribution as the system moves into heavy …
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Water Wave Refraction with Non-Linear Theory
… seems to be caused mainly by the dissipation rate functions used in this model. Development of a new dissipation rate function is necessary for a better application of this model to shallow water region.</p>
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Emergent properties of heterogeneous decomposition networks
… system or the decay of mass in the system as a function of time. Historically, mass dynamics are predicted by a compartmental model consisting of various degradation processes. This approach provides a complete picture of mass in the model system, but includes extra information unnecessary for …
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