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Naval Postgraduate School
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About: Naval Postgraduate School is a education organization based out in Monterey, California, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Tropical cyclone & Boundary layer. The organization has 5246 authors who have published 11614 publications receiving 298300 citations. The organization is also known as: NPS & U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
Topics: Tropical cyclone, Boundary layer, Optimal control, Vortex, Turbulence
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TL;DR: This paper considers a situation where the firm does not have an accurate demand forecast, but can only roughly estimate the customer arrival rate before the sale begins, and shows how this modified arrival rate estimation can be used to dynamically adjust the product price in order to maximize the expected total revenue.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the variation of seaward and shoreward infragravity energy fluxes across the shoaling and surf zones of a gently sloping sandy beach, related to forcing by groups of sea and swell, dissipation, and shoreline reflection.
Abstract: [1] The variation of seaward and shoreward infragravity energy fluxes across the shoaling and surf zones of a gently sloping sandy beach is estimated from field observations and related to forcing by groups of sea and swell, dissipation, and shoreline reflection. Data from collocated pressure and velocity sensors deployed between 1 and 6 m water depth are combined, using the assumption of cross-shore propagation, to decompose the infragravity wave field into shoreward and seaward propagating components. Seaward of the surf zone, shoreward propagating infragravity waves are amplified by nonlinear interactions with groups of sea and swell, and the shoreward infragravity energy flux increases in the onshore direction. In the surf zone, nonlinear phase coupling between infragravity waves and groups of sea and swell decreases, as does the shoreward infragravity energy flux, consistent with the cessation of nonlinear forcing and the increased importance of infragravity wave dissipation. Seaward propagating infragravity waves are not phase coupled to incident wave groups, and their energy levels suggest strong infragravity wave reflection near the shoreline. The cross-shore variation of the seaward energy flux is weaker than that of the shoreward flux, resulting in cross-shore variation of the squared infragravity reflection coefficient (ratio of seaward to shoreward energy flux) between about 0.4 and 1.5.
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TL;DR: In this article, a new approach to vibration reduction of a >exible spacecraft during attitude control by using pulse width pulse frequency (PWPF) modulator for thruster Cring and smart materials for active vibration suppression was presented.
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01 Jan 1988TL;DR: This chapter discusses Simulation Modeling, Modeling Aspect of Simulation, and the Properties of Pseudo-Random Variables.
Abstract: MODELING AND CRUDE SIMULATION Definition of Simulation Golden Rules and Principles of Simulation Modeling: Illustrative Examples and Problems The Modeling Aspect of Simulation Single-Server, Single-Input, First-In/First-Out (FIFO) Queue Multiple-Server, Single-Input Queue An Example from Statistics: The Trimmed t Statistic An Example from Engineering: Reliability of Series Systems A Military Problem: Proportional Navigation Comments on the Examples Crude (or Straightforward) Simulation and Monte Carlo Introduction: Pseudo-Random Numbers Crude Simulation Details of Crude Simulation A Worked Example: Passage of Ships Through a Mined Channel Generation of Random Permutations Uniform Pseudo-Random Variable Generation Introduction: Properties of Pseudo-Random Variables Historical Perspectives Current Algorithms Recommendations for Generators Computational Considerations The Testing of Pseudo-Random Number Generators Conclusions on Generating and Testing Pseudo-Random Number Generators SOPHISTICATED SIMULATION Descriptions and Quantifications of Univariate Samples: Numerical Summaries Introduction Sample Moments Percentiles, the Empirical Cumulative Distribution Function, and Goodness-of-Fit Tests Quantiles Descriptions and Quantifications of Univariate Samples: Graphical Summaries Introduction Numerical and Graphical Representations of the Probability Density Function Alternative Graphical Methods for Exploring Distributions Comparisons in Multifactor Simulations: Graphical and Formal Methods Introduction Graphical and Numerical Representation of Multifactor Simulation Experiments Specific Considerations for Statistical Simulation Summary and Computing Resources Assessing Variability in Univariate Samples: Sectioning, Jackknifing, and Bootstrapping Introduction Preliminaries Assessing Variability of Sample Means and Percentiles Sectioning to Assess Variability: Arbitrary Estimates from Non-Normal Samples Bias Elimination Variance Assessment with the Complete Jackknife Variance Assessment with the Bootstrap Simulation Studies of Confidence Interval Estimation Schemes Bivariate Random Variables: Definitions, Generation, and Graphical Analysis Introduction Specification and Properties of Bivariate Random Variables Numerical and Graphical Analyses for Bivariate Data The Bivariate Inverse Probability Integral Transform Ad Hoc and Model-Based Methods for Bivariate Random Variable Generation Variance Reduction Introduction Antithetic Variates: Induced Negative Correlation Control Variables Conditional Sampling Importance Sampling Stratified Sampling
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TL;DR: The threat to long-term U.S. security interests in this area is neither an economic problem nor a religious problem, nor a generic “tribal” problem as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The Pakistan-Afghanistan border area has become the most dangerous frontier
on earth, and the most challenging for the United States’ national security interests.
Critically, the portion of the border region that is home to extremist
groups such the Taliban and al-Qaida coincides almost exactly with the area
overwhelmingly dominated by the Pashtun tribes. The implications of this salient
fact—that most of Pakistan’s and Afghanistan’s violent religious extremism,
and with it much of the United States’ counterterrorism challenge, are
contained within a single ethnolinguistic group—have unfortunately not been
fully grasped by a governmental policy community that has long downplayed
cultural dynamics. The threat to long-term U.S. security interests in this area is
neither an economic problem, nor a religious problem, nor a generic “tribal” problem. It is a unique cultural problem. In both southern Afghanistan and the
tribal areas of Pakistan, rather than seeking to “extend the reach of the central
government,” which simply foments insurgency among a proto-insurgent
people, the United States and the international community should be doing
everything in their means to empower the tribal elders and restore balance to a
tribal/cultural system that has been disintegrating since the Soviet Union invaded
Afghanistan in 1979.
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Mingwei Chen | 108 | 536 | 51351 |
O. C. Zienkiewicz | 107 | 455 | 71204 |
Richard P. Bagozzi | 104 | 347 | 103667 |
Denise M. Rousseau | 84 | 218 | 50176 |
John Walsh | 81 | 756 | 25364 |
Ming C. Lin | 76 | 370 | 23466 |
Steven J. Ghan | 75 | 207 | 25650 |
Hui Zhang | 75 | 200 | 27206 |
Clare E. Collins | 71 | 560 | 21443 |
Christopher W. Fairall | 71 | 293 | 19756 |
Michael T. Montgomery | 68 | 258 | 14231 |
Tim Li | 67 | 383 | 16370 |
Thomas M. Antonsen | 65 | 888 | 17583 |
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann | 65 | 521 | 14850 |
Johnny C. L. Chan | 61 | 261 | 14886 |