Tests of univariate and bivariate stochastic ageing

Concepts of ageing describe how a population of units or systems improves or deteriorates with age. Many classes of life distributions are categorized and defined in the literature according to their ageing properties. An important aspect of such classifications is that the exponential distribution is nearly always a member of each class. The notion of stochastic ageing is important in any reliability analysis, and many test statistics have been developed for testing exponentiality against various ageing alternatives. This paper is an overview of these developments. The author begins with a table of ageing classes together with key references, followed by a brief discussion on the characterization of exponentiality. Test procedures are summarized, and followed by the main review. Tests of exponentiality against other alternatives are explained for randomly censored data. Finally, tests of multivariate ageing properties are listed. Some of the life classes have been derived more recently and, as far as is known, no test statistics have been proposed. On the other hand, several tests are available for some classes. Relative efficiency of a test is discussed whenever appropriate     

Ultrahigh and controllable drain current peak-to-valley ratio innegative resistance field-effect transistors with a strained InGaAschannel

Negative resistance field-effect transistor (NERFET) devices using either strained InGaAs or unstrained GaAs channel layers have been fabricated. The strained InGaAs channel NERFET's show strong negative differential resistance and large drain current peak-to-valley ratio. The peak-to-valley ratio of the InGaAs channel NERFET is more than 3000 at room temperature and larger than one million (10⁶) at 77 K. The peak-to-valley ratio is controllable by adjusting the collector voltage     

不锈钢网架(壳)技术及其应用

本文总结了多年来不锈钢网架的研究成果 ,并介绍了部分不锈钢网架的工程应用     

学习新版建筑工程施工质量验收规范的体会

结合新版建筑工程施工质量验收规范的学习和施工实践 ,介绍了新版标准与旧标准的差异和特点 ,并就如何贯彻实施新标准、准确掌握检验批等问题作了分析 ,提出了执行中的相关注意事项。     

用科学发展观推进水利“十个转变”

树立和落实科学发展观，除不断深化对科学发展观的科学性、必然性和战略性、指导性的认识，不断增强坚持和落实科学发展观的自觉性和坚定性外，更重要的是要将科学发展观付诸实践，见诸行动，贯穿到促进经济社会发展和推动改革开放的各项工作中去，在实践中将科学发展观转化为强大的物质力量。水利行业贯彻和落实科学发展观，关键在于认清形势，立足实际，把握重点，明确方向，在扎实推进“十个转变”上下功夫。     

A graphic approach to performance analysis of multistage linear interference canceller in long-code CDMA systems

The signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio performance of the multistage linear parallel and successive interference cancellers (LPIC and LSIC) in a long-code code-division multiple-access system is analyzed using a graphical approach. The decision statistic is modeled as a Gaussian random variable, whose mean and variance can be expressed as functions of moments of R for the LPIC and L for the LSIC, respectively, where R is the correlation matrix of signature sequences and L is the strict lower triangular part of R. Since the complexity of calculating these moments increases rapidly with the growth of the stage index, a graphical representation of moments is developed to facilitate the computation. Propositions are presented to relate the moment calculation problem to several well-known problems in graph theory, i.e., the coloring, the graph decomposition, the biconnected component finding, and the Euler tour problems. It is shown that the derived analytic results match well with simulation results.     

Nonlinear dynamic characteristics of piezoelectric bending actuators under strong applied electric field

Dynamic characteristics of piezoelectric bending actuators under low and high electric fields are studied using the asymptotic theory of nonstationary vibrations. The proposed nonlinear model predicts the changes in fundamental resonant frequencies of the piezoelectric cantilever. The predicted resonance amplitude of the tip deflections of the piezoelectric actuators, which increases with the increase in the magnitude of the electric field, well agrees with the experimental results. Additionally, the decrease in the mechanical quality factor with the increase in the electric field, the tip deflection of piezoelectric actuators near resonance frequency,and the amplitude of the tip deflection at the fundamental vibration tone under an applied electric field varying with time have also been obtained using the present model.     

On the performance of the CREL system

This paper presents the performance results of a comprehensive approach to the parallel execution of rule systems. It describes the semantics of a Concurrent Rule Execution Language, CREL, and the architecture of the system that compiles and executes CREL programs. The system has been designed to avoid run-time overhead by performing extensive compile-time analysis and by parallelizing compilation. Static dependency analysis, based on serializability, coupled with a set of optimizing transforms, partitions the program into subsets, called clusters. Clusters execute independently of each other and communicate though asynchronous message passing. At run time two additional sources of parallelism are exploited—run-time consistency checking allowing multiple rules to fire, and match-level parallelism. The CREL system is implemented on a Sequent Symmetry shared-memory computer. This paper presents the results of a factorial experiment that isolates and evaluates each source of parallelism in the CREL system and each possible combination of those methods. The results suggest that multiple-rule firing is the single most important source of parallelism in CREL programs and that the use of static dependency analysis based on serializability is instrumental to effectively exploit parallelism.     

Bayesian Availability Using Gamma Distributed Priors

Classical statistical estimation techniques have limited usage in predicting system availability when a system, e.g., a computer or telecommunications system, is highly reliable. A Bayesian solution is suggested in this paper. Gamma priors, which are rich in shapes, are assigned to the scale parameters of a gamma distributed component on-time and off-time. Estimation of the gamma priors follows engineer's past experiences for reliability modeling. Both steady-state and instantaneous availabilities are derived using Bayes Theorem. An illustration highlights the assessment and evaluation of the proposed availability measure.