a monte carlo program for qcd at lhc

... the available area generation capacity and the area load In the supported set, the available area generation capacity is smaller than the area load A "required load" is defined for each area in ... dependent area loads, load uncertainty (5% standard deviation) and no generating unit derated states Case 4: correlation between area loads, load uncertainty (5% standard deviation) and no generating ... indicate that considering correlation between area loads and generating unit derated states can produce an optimistic appraisal of multi-area generation system adequacy while considering area load...

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:35

... equation is exactly the same as [3] except that Z is an n x n lower triangular matrix and s is an n x vector of standard normal deviates generated via MonteCarlo simulation Therefore, the Monte- Carlo ... updating the variance-covariance matrix, thus may need less computer memory than other methods As a result, it may potentially handle large dimensional data sets For data that are not normally ... x vector of standard random normal deviates generated via MonteCarlo simulation, K is a known matrix with n rows and n - r columns Matrix K is chosen such that K X T (Patterson and Thompson,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... quickly transform carbohydrates to fat and fat to carbohydrates People can get just as fat eating carbs as they can eating fat In fact, unlike fat, carbohydrates stimulate your pancreas to secrete ... Low-Carb Eating Atkins knew that the old saying “you are what you eat” is misleading When it comes to fat, cholesterol, and carbohydrates, you really aren’t what you eat Your body can quickly transform ... with a rise in popularity of vegetarianism and a period of rampant inflation of meat and dairy product prices The result was an abrupt shift in eating patterns away from eggs, red meat, and dairy...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 15:20

... rarely daydream about it Unpleasant fantasies of being chased, attacked, or humiliated are paradoxical What kind of wishes are these? They may represent an attempt to master a particular fear, ... stress that any patient with a dermatitis should first start therapy with a dermatologist Since the vast majority of dermatoses have an emotional component, whether as a cause, an aggravating factor, ... angry at the treatment? Not at all – but it was then that the warts had appeared Early in therapy, it became clear that George had never quite outgrown the common childhood fear that anger is dangerous:...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:21

... encodes attributes of the game world, such as available resources and city locations At each step of the game, a player executes an action a which causes the current state s to change to a new state ... of actions in a simulated game – e.g., simulations played against the game’s built-in AI Specifically, starting at state st , the algorithm repeatedly selects and executes actions, sampling state ... the branching factor is large it is usually beneficial to approximate the action-value function, so that the value of many related states and actions can be learned from a reasonably small number...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... Professions Programs (pharmacy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and nursing) created and implemented interactive youth-oriented health education programs and a participatory, hands-on health fair ... presentation content so that it was age appropriate for each group Additionally, at the beginning of each educational session, each group of health care professions students discussed the types of activities ... such as personal, moral, and career development; academic achievement; and ‘‘reflective civic participation.’’5 DISCUSSION Health fairs and educational sessions are one approach to educating...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21

... services for approximately 28,000 disadvantaged adult women The Allahabad district is located in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, and has an estimated population of 800,000 The CARE India ... collect information about all of the vocational training courses available in Allahabad The list contained courses that lasted from a week to almost a year and were conducted either by a government ... pills, and sterilization and the questions that they asked Additional peer educators who are able to read and write and had attended all the Paro sessions were selected by CARE India staff to reach...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 14:20

... economical approach would be to calculate correct alternatives from code numbers by some means This would greatly reduce the storage space assigned to this particular part of the program Secondly, ... instruction of a routine for processing the accumulated data in S (Fig ) E1(l) for an end-of-text symbol was ε, a stop order A program for processing the first equivalents was constructed but was found ... the program were carried out on the first equivalents As these were uniformly constructed, a greater simplicity was achieved than if the foreign language words or target language words had been...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20

... or “heartbeat” of a Monte Carlo simulation It is what generates the pseudo-random nature of Monte Carlo simulations thereby imitating the true stochastic or random nature of particle interactions ... that only one person could occupy a seat (This constraint is what makes the mathematical solution difficult but is easy to simulate using Monte Carlo methods.) The important role that Monte Carlo ... Monte Carlo vs deterministic/analytic approaches The other inescapable reality is that computers are getting faster and cheaper at an geometric rate This is known as Moore’s Law4 A demonstration...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 16:23

... it is an appealing alternative in case the actual distribution defies an analytical representation The rationale behind the particle filtering approach is that as long as we generate enough samples ... the fact that a decision on ak can be made based on readily available information at time instant k, that is, the received samples r1:k Detectors that exploit “future” received information are ... This approximation is valid as long as |θk − θk−1 | Hence, the linearized channel model can only be invoked if σδ is small, and an accurate phase estimate θk−1 is available Problem Formulation and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... Laboratory database, available at the CIS website, at Johns Hopkins University An artificial target template representing a military vehicle is added to the simulated image sequence The simulated ... kinematic and aspect states at frame n − Aspect change model Motion model Assume that, at any given frame, for any aspect state zn , the clutter-free target image lies within a bounded rectangle ... Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol 94, no 446, pp 590–599, 1999 [20] M Isard and A Blake, “Condensation—conditional density propagation for visual tracking,” International Journal...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... reported here) were qualitatively similar to those based on observed data at week 24 While the relationship among variables could vary by treatment, analyzing the data separately by treatment groups ... Interpersonal Values associated with directed pathways are standardized path coefficients; values over the double-arrowed arches are correlations; asterisks indicate statistical significance at *p < ... motivation, curiosity, anhedonia, time utilization, capacity for empathy, and capacity for engagement and interaction The final subdomain used was the Interpersonal Relations [QLS Interpersonal],...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... pilot program has gained a national reputation for successful rehabilitation and could be the seed for a new era in Chinese drug offender rehabilitation using a gentler approach that could be a stepping ... programs and a selection bias due to the voluntary adherence to the Yulu Shequ program and the compulsory attendance of the basic rehabilitation program, no other comparator to evaluate relapse rates ... “voluntary” patients cannot afford to go to a voluntary rehabilitation institution because they have to pay for it out-of-pocket The average cost of attending voluntary rehabilitation is about...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... article as: Van Dyck et al.: Mediators of physical activity change in a behavioral modification program for type diabetes patients International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity ... in physical activity behaviors) before and after adjustment for the mediator (change in psychosocial variables) For each potential mediator, this test was repeated (single mediation analysis) ... questionnaire was chosen because it specifically assesses motivation towards participation in physical activities This is a validated questionnaire consisting of five scales: amotivation, external...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2014, 08:17

... reveals that there is a close relationship between B22 and protein 13    Chapter Literature Review crystallization At crystallization conditions, B22 is negative and falls within a relatively narrow ... protein concentration), and a “fluid-solid” phase separation (crystallization) Protein phase separations have a wide range of applications in chemical and biological processes, such as protein threedimensional ... virial coefficient B22 versus NaK tartrate concentration for thaumatin at pH 6.5 and 22°C Adapted from Wilson (2003) As an empirical rule, the crystallization window cannot be applied to all...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:06

... model for a fixed parameter value It is well-known that for IS, the relative variance of the likelihood estimate typically grows at an exponential rate in the time parameter (here this is associated ... means the variance decreases as the sample size N increases, i.e a large N leads MC to a small variance and the rate is O(N −1 ) Similarly, the variance of πn (xn ) also decreases at the rate ... theoretical results associated to the SMC estimate of the permanent, establishing its convergence We also analyze the relative variance of the estimate, associated to an ideal algorithm (related...

Ngày tải lên: 22/09/2015, 15:18

... non-scattered domain (both spatial as well as frequency domain) Nevertheless, what are rather fascinating are that the 38 pattern of photons passed through at ObPout is preserved in the pattern ... equation is an approximation based on the assumption that scattering dominates the processes, that the scattering events are totally isotropic in nature, that the volume is far from the boundary ... phase space; thus making a positive gradient trace This indicates photons that hit the focal plane at a much larger coordinate relative to the focus point have larger deviation angle (µ x magnitude...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 13:41

... model for a fixed parameter value It is well-known that for IS, the relative variance of the likelihood estimate typically grows at an exponential rate in the time parameter (here this is associated ... which means the variance decreases as the sample size N increases, i.e a large N leads to a small variance and the rate is O(N −1 ) Similarly, the variance of πnMC (xn ) also decreases at the rate ... theoretical results associated to the SMC estimate of the permanent, establishing its convergence We also analyze the relative variance of the estimate, associated to an ideal algorithm (related...

Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2015, 17:03