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The National Academies' Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications (BMSA) is a primary interface between the research enterprise and federal agencies that rely on the mathematical sciences. The Board provides objective and authoritative advice on how best to apply the tools of...
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1991 was continued rapid growth for the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) as it broadened its interdisciplinary research into the organization, evolution and operation of complex systems and sought deeply the principles underlying their dynamic behavior. Research on complex systems--the focus of work at...
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secondary data base, meaning that information contained therein is derived entirely from other primary sources. It uses dBase …
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simulation was used to develop the system survivability distribution from the component distributions using a system model that … applied by computer simulation; and (3) neither test data nor adequate knowledge of the physics are known, in which case, one … performance of this communications network is developed, as well as the survivability distributions for the nodes and links based …
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Twenty tests for normality were compared for the purpose of detecting mixtures of two normal components with unequal means but equal variance. The purpose of this study was to determine the power of tests specifically designed to detect mixtures, i.e., the likelihood ratio and Engelman-Hartigan...
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The efficiency of the design-to-analysis process for translating solid-model-based design data to computational analysis model data plays a central role in the application of computational analysis to engineering design and certification. A review of the literature from within Sandia as well as...
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It is critical in every government, research, and industrial organization that accurate and timely financial information be made available at all levels so that, project and business decisions can be made within funding constraints. The FaME prototype implemented at Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
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also allows to quantify their effect in the response/behavior/performance of the system. In such a framework the … performance function(s) of interest are also random and optimization of the system with respect to the design variables has to be … the performance with respect to the uncertain and design variables. The proposed algorithm is directly parallelizable and …
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Performance. The Strategic Value section of the questionnaire consists of 5 questions that can be answered with a 5 point Likert … needs. The Project Performance section of the questionnaire consists of 9 questions that can be answered with a 5 point … Likert scale response. These questions determine PNNL performance in meeting customer expectations. Many approaches could be …
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a standard code of accounts; and streamlines performance reporting and cost collection. Technical requirements drive the …
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