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[National Academies' Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Application] Final technical report

Scott T. Weidman - 2009

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 Annual report on scientific programs: A broad research program on the sciences of complexity

2008

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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Long-term Industrial Energy Forecasting (LIEF) model (18-sector version)

Ross, M.H.; Thimmapuram, P.; Fisher, R.E.; Maciorowski, W. - 2008

The new 18-sector Long-term Industrial Energy Forecasting (LIEF) model is designed for convenient study of future industrial energy consumption, taking into account the composition of production, energy prices, and certain kinds of policy initiatives. Electricity and aggregate fossil fuels are...

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The International Coal Statistics Data Base program maintenance guide

2008

secondary data base, meaning that information contained therein is derived entirely from other primary sources. It uses dBase …

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Methods for developing and validating survivability distributions

Williams, R.L. - 2008

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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Long-term Industrial Energy Forecasting (LIEF) model (18-sector version)

Ross, M.H.; Thimmapuram, P.; Fisher, R.E.; Maciorowski, W. - 2008

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Power to detect normal mixtures: Simulation results

Thode, H.C. Jr. - 2008

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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Design of Complex Systems in the presence of Large Uncertainties: a statistical approach

Koutsourelakis, P - 2008

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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Uncertainty Analysis of Nondestructive Assay Measurements of Nuclear Waste

Blackwood, Larry Gene; Harker, Yale Deon - 2009

reviews performance measures appropriate for the assessment of NDA uncertainty, describes characteristics of nuclear waste …

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Hanford isotope project strategic business analysis yttrium-90 (Y-90)

2009

The purpose of this analysis is to address the short-term direction for the Hanford yttrium-90 (Y-90) project. Hanford is the sole DOE producer of Y-90, and is the largest repository for its source in this country. The production of Y-90 is part of the DOE Isotope Production and Distribution (IP...

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