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1. Introduction This note reports the results of the alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector [1] silicon tracker (Pixel and SCT) modules at the ATLAS Combined Test Beam data-taking (CTB) which took place at the CERN H8 beam-test facility in 2004. The purpose of the CTB was to study the combined performance of ATLAS. The setup represented a full barrel slice of the Inner Detector (ID), Calorimeter and Muon Spectrometer of the complete ATLAS detector and was instrumented with final prototypes....

Few applications of organizational behavior management (OBM) in the banking industry have been reported, despite evidence showing that work performance in many areas of a financial institution, and even bank profitability, can be improved with these methods (Abernathy, Duffy, & O'Brien, 1982; Roberts, 1983). However, given today's highly competitive financial services marketplace, it is imperative that banks optimize the performance of their human resources, especially in the area of ...

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to monitor short-term osteoarthrosis progress in relation to a recently introduced novel extracapsular method called the Tight Rope procedure and after Lateral Suture with nylon in cruciate-deficient dog stifle joints. Twelve dogs were included in the study. Treatment type was not randomised. Mediolateral radiographs from 12 stifle joint were evaluated preoperatively and six months after surgery. A modified scoring system for evaluation of osteoarthrot...

The International Conference on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) consists of a series of committees, mainly concerned with standardizing the range of toxicology tests needed for new pharmaceuticals. ICH S2B guidance was finalized in 1997 and adopted by the US, European and Japanese regulatory authorities shortly after. The guidance indicates that the expected standard battery of genotoxicity tests normally required for small ...

H IGH-DENSITY storage on magnetic disk drives requires increasing both the linear bit density and the track density on the recording medium. Currently, the recorded transitions, henceforth loosely referred to as the bits, are approximately ten times wider in the radial (cross-track) direction than they are in the circumferential (downtrack) direction. The National Storage Industry Consortium (NSIC) estimates that the bit aspect ratio (BAR) will approach one-to-one as the industry tries ...

In applied research the evaluation of the hypothesis under investigation can be obtained developing experiments in which different treatments are included. Results are generally submitted to statistical analysis of variance, testing a global null hypothesis H0 using the F test and comparing the means by mul- Modification for the Tukey test 429 Sci. Agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.), v.65, n.4, p.428-432, July/August 2008 tiple comparison procedures (Hochberg & Tamhane, 1987; Hsu, 1996). A co...

South America, long considered the ethnographically and linguistically “least known continent” [1], has in recent decades experienced a surge of descriptive and documentary linguistic research [2], [3]. The classification of the languages of this region, and especially those of Amazonia, has, in contrast, advanced little in the last 50 years [4], [5]. However, the increasing availability of lexical data on South American languages, as well as recent successes in applying computationa...

Over the past 15 years, energy storage technologies for vehicle traction systems have improved dramatically. This technology is finding its way into commercially viable hybrid, electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) prototype vehicles are being developed and tested at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Utilizing bi-directional power electronics can allow a vehicle to not only charge its batteries from the electric utility grid during charge but also c...

D ifferential item functioning (DIF) is a statistical term that describes a condition when the item response is dependent not only on the ability level of the subject but also on the value of some additional group membership variable. If DIF is present verification plays an important role in psychometric analysis of a test and is closely related to the problem of validity. Let Ui denote response to item i, θ be the level of ability that the test measures and G be the group ...

Solar radiation measurements as most time-series data suffer from interruptions. Gaps may occur due to loss of power, misalignment, failure of instruments, insufficient cleaning or other reasons. Quality check procedures identify such malfunctioning and mark untrustworthy data by flags. Even well maintained stations with good equipment usually show gaps. Duration of gaps can range from few minutes to several days. Depending on duration and type of missing parameters various procedures ca...

INTRODUCTION The flora of a given region is an important indicator of ~:he state of its environment, as a result of the region's rlatural history as well as of the land changes caused by ~nan. The latter generally result in the expansion of taxa associated with man (emerophilous plants--Linkola, 1919; Jalas, 1955) and in the decline of negatively affected taxa (emerophobous plants), most of which become rare or extinct. Rare species are usually associated with sporadically occu...

Adhesion phenomena, even in a space environment, have been extensively investigated in the literature ([1][2]), but their role on the release of objects to freefloating conditions in space applications has not been thoroughly studied yet. The in-orbit precise release of a body implies the separation of its contacting surfaces from the engaging surfaces that belong to some kind of caging device. As this separation involves the rupture of the unavoidable adhesive forces, an impulse ...

Keywords: classification, computerized testing, sequential Bayes, sequential probability ratio test Many testing applications focus on classifying examinees into one of two categories (e.g., pass/fail) rather than on obtaining an accurate estimate of level of ability. Examples of such applications include licensure and certification, college selection, and placement into entry-level or developmental college courses. With the increased availability of computers for the administration ...

To understand the physics of faulting and rupture propagation for the great M8-class Nankai earthquakes that recur approximately every 100 years, a comprehensive drilling project is underway: the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE; Tobin and Kinoshita, 2007), which is part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP). Stress levels along seismogenic faults must be eismogenic faults must be ismogenic faults must be known in order to understand processes control...

ntroduction As the world progresses, technological development has resulted in the availability of machinery, which translated into the development of a machine-based industry, resulting in increased emissions. The imposed travel restrictions worldwide in 2020 due to the COVID19 pandemic has resulted in a 6% reduction in energy demand compared to 2019 [1]. Despite the fact that the global energy-related CO2 emissions declined by 5.8% in 2020, they still remained at 31.5 Gt, which contribut...

People deal with diverse mathematical situations daily, all of which they have to learn to interpret so as to be able to comprehend and analyse the information they perceive (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics [NCTM] & National Association for the Education of Young Children [NAEYC], 2002). The world in which we live is a quantitative world, making it necessary to have adequate comprehension of mathematics to understand what happens around us. This is why Villarroel (2009) sta...

1. Introduction The ATLAS detector [1] is a general-purpose particle detector designed to study proton-proton interactions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN [2]. Its muon spectrometer is designed to trigger and identify muons produced in collisions and to measure their momenta [3]. Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) [4] and Thin Gap Chambers (TGC) [5] are used as fast trigger chambers in the barrel (|휂| < 1.05) 1 and endcap (1.05 < |휂| < 2.4) regions, respectively. Three ...

Part 1: Arc and gas welding of steels and arc welding of nickel and nickel alloys 1 Scope This document specifies how a preliminary welding procedure specification is qualified by welding procedure tests. This document applies to production welding, repair welding and build-up welding. This document defines the conditions for the execution of welding procedure tests and the range of qualification for welding procedures for all practical welding operations within the qualification of th...

Levels of stress hormones and stable isotope ratios in animal tissues are increasingly recognized as important tools in studies on the physiology and ecology of wildlife (e.g. Kempster et al., 2007; Barger and Kitaysky, 2011; Deschner et al., 2012; Bryan et al., 2013). Keratinous tissues, such as hair and feathers, offer the longest record of an animal’s circulating glucocorticoid (GC) concentrations (Bortolotti et al., 2009; Macbeth et al., 2010; Jenni-Eiermann et al., 2015). Steroids...