Understanding the relationships between community composition, community structure and ecosystem function is challenging, particularly for microbially-mediated processes. The small size of ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002), Vol. 59, No. 2 (Aug., 1997), pp. 209-228 (20 pages) In this paper we derive expressions for the reliability functions of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A multivariate distribution for describing the life-lengths of the components of a system which operates in an environment that is different ...

If you’re a manufacturing plant manager, what don’t you want to see out to the production floor? Probably a significant number of things, but near the top of that list would probably be a large group ...

The thought of visiting a plating shop in the Midwest that’s been in business since the ‘50s likely conjures the idea of a dark and dank warehouse crammed full of old process tanks and bins of parts.