1. Introduction The manufacturing yield and operating reliability of a complex system can be enhanced with three main approaches: i adding redundancies to vulnerable components; ii increasing the robustness of the weak components themselves; and iii simplifying the system configuration (Kuoet al., 2001; Ha and Kuo, 2005). Among the...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] True wisdom in strategy must be practical because strategy is a practical subject. Much of what appears to be wise and indeed is prudent as high theory is unhelpful to the poor warrior who actually has to do strategy, tactically and operationally. --Colin S. Gray (1)...
NEW YORK AFP — San Francisco 49ers kicker Joe Nedney was fined 7,500 dollars by the National Football League on Thursday for making an obscene gesture toward a spectator in a 31-10 loss to New Orleans. Nedney apologized for his raised middle finger after being heckled with obscenities by...
AsiaInfo Services 09-28-2007 Yucaipa to Buys into Xinhua Finance Media BEIJING, Sep 28, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Xinhua Finance Media Limited (NASDAQ: XFML), a subsidiary of Xinhua Finance Limited, announced on September 26 that US investment firm Yucaipa Cos. had...
3:10 to Yuma Sept. 7 In this remake of the 1957 Western, Christian Bale plays a down-on-his-luck farmer who tries to get legendary killer Ben Wade Russell Crowe on a train bound for federal prison. Also starring: Peter Fonda ...
PARIS AFP — Ana Ivanovic will have to go it alone when she goes up against hot favourite Justine Henin in the French Open final on Saturday. The 19-year-old Serb has made huge bounds this year since she started taking coaching advice from Sven Groenefeld winning the German Open...
BOUND BY LAW? By Keith Aoki, James Boyle, & Jennifer Jenkins. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain. 2006. Pp. 74. $5.95; available for free at http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/. INTRODUCTION Students of copyright law quickly learn that...
Editor's note: Out of bounds is a weekly feature in Sports Extra, in which Daily Herald Sports Writer Jen LaPorte sits down with someone from the Fox Valley sports community for an informal chat. Today's interview is with former Streamwood and Western Illinois University basketball standout...
KOCHI, Japan AFP — Michelle Wie missed the cut in yet another men's tournament disaster, coming to grief with a second straight troubled round at the 1.2 million-dollar Casio World Open. Wie fired 80 and finished 100th in a field of 101 with a two-round total of 17-over-par 161. The...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania AFP — Five-time Pro Bowl quarterback Donovan McNabb of the Philadelphia Eagles suffered a torn ACL in the second quarter of Sunday's 31-13 loss to the Tennessee Titans. Rolling to his right, McNabb was pushed out of bounds by defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch and landed awkwardly on...
[1] A. Abbasfar, K. Yao, and D. Divsalar, "Maximum-likelihood decoding analysis of accumulate-repeat-accumulate codes," in Proceedings IEEE 2004 Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2004), (Dallas, Texas, USA), pp. 514-519, November 29-December 3, 2004. [2] E. Agrell, "Voronoi regions for binary linear block codes," IEEE...
ATHENS AFP ? To go beyond their wildest Olympic dreams, United States women's gymnasts will have to stop going beyond the boundaries. Steps out of bounds proved costly for the reigning world champions in qualifying for Tuesday's Olympic team final, where they will face defending Olympic champion Romania in...
MUNICH, Germany AFP ? Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak left a private clinic bound for Cairo, two and a half weeks after arriving in Germany for treatment of a slipped disc, a spokesman said. "He left the clinic at about 1:00 pm (1100 GMT) by helicopter and will fly to...
In response to continuing weakness in economic activity, the Federal Reserve has lowered its target for the overnight federal funds rate from 6 ½ percent to 1 percent over the past two and one-half years. Recently, concern has been expressed in the news media and among academic economists and policymakers...
This paper explains a class of models of consumer purchasing behavior, each of which relates observed data on a consumer's requirements and budget constraint to subsequent purchasing tendencies. To price products, we aim at optimizing prices with respect to a sample of consumer data. We offer a bound on the...
KEVIN Y.K. NG [1,2] N.G.F. SANCHO [3] A hybrid 'dynamic programming/depth-first search' algorithm has been developed to solve non-linear integer programming problems arising in the reliability optimization of redundancy allocation. Initially, the technique solves the knapsack relaxation of the original mathematical programming problem using dynamic programming. Then, all...
Aug 7, 2001 The Age ABIX via COMTEX -- National Australia Bank has refuted claims that its shareholder payouts could be blocked. John Maconochie, who is involved in a long-running damages case against the Australian bank, has said that he will prevent any...
A Full-Service Homework Center Creating the Full-Service Homework Cener in Your Library is the title of the how-to that provides all the information your public librarian needs to become a real partner with you. We really, really like this 120-pager published by the American Library Association. It's a 7 x...
The success over the years in reducing inflation and, consequently, the average level of nominal interest rates has increased the likelihood that the nominal policy interest rate may become constrained by the zero lower bound. When that happens, a central bank can no longer stimulate aggregate demand by further interest-rate...
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