Modeling first failure

Ebook "Chemical reactions: Basic theory and computing" begins with the problem of determining the chemical reaction properties by first decomposing complex processes into their elementary components. Next, the problem of two colliding mass points is investigated and relationships between initial conditions and collision outcomes are discussed. The failure of classical approaches to match experimental information is discussed and a quantum formulation of the calculation of the properties of two colliding bodies is provided.

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Ebook "Stem cells in animal species: From pre-clinic to biodiversity" focuses on stem cell research and disease modeling in non-murine species. The book is divided into three parts: Stem Cells for Pre-Clinical Models, Stem Cells in Non-Conventional Species, and Stem Cell Banking for the Future. The first section presents an overview of the different pre-clinical stem cell models recently created in animal species, including the porcine model for heart failure, iPSC in large animal species, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and canine embryo-derived stem cells and modeling for human diseases.

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Part 1 of ebook "Introduction to maintenance engineering: Modeling, optimization, and management" has presents the following content: classification of engineered objects; performance of engineered objects; maintenance; evolution of maintenance; maintenance engineering and technology; reliability and maintenance modeling; system degradation and failure; maintenance – basic concepts; life cycle of engineered objects;...

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This paper aims to first present a review of studies on numerical modeling and seismic response analysis of above ground steel liquid storage tanks. On that basis, a procedure for estimating dynamic parameters associated with simplified models for anchored and unanchored conditions together with calculation methods of seismic responses and damage states of tanks are presented.

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We employ three different measures of performance: return on equity (ROE) which is defined as earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) divided by book value of shareholders‟ equity; return on sales (ROS), calculated as EBIT divided by total turnover; and Tobin‟s Q. 3 The latter indicator is calculated as the ratio of the firm‟s market capitalization to book value of equity. 4 We analyse the effect of IED using two definitions of variable IEit. First, we employ a dummy variable which takes the value of 1 if at least one non-executive director is also...

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Governmental entities may also be dependent on expected disbursements from foreign governments, multilateral agencies and others abroad to reduce principal and interest arrearage on their debt. The commitment on the part of these governments, agencies and others to make such disbursements may be conditioned on a governmental entity's implementation of economic reforms and/or economic performance and the timely service of such debtor's obligations.

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The ultimate key to ensuring financial stability lies in the design of compatible international mechanisms that ensure the effective oversight and orderly resolution of banks at both national and global levels. Such a mechanism would reduce financial stability concerns of home and host countries regarding specific legal structures and allow banks to organize themselves in ways that fit their business models best.

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A public bad bank must be in a position to address numerous challenges. First, the transparent removal of troubled assets is necessary in order to ensure that the rescued bank has real prospects for a fresh start. Second, the costs of the bailout for the taxpayer should be minimized. Third, no incentives or new opportunities for opportunistic behavior in the future should be created. To do this, the implemented bad bank model should limit the potential for “hold-up” problems while emphasizing to shareholders and executives that entrepreneurial failure is a real possibility..

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We need a prompt corrective action and orderly closure rule for large investment banks along the lines of what we have for banks in FIDICIA, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991. The assumption used to be that failure of a large bank would be much more costly for the economy than failure of a large nonbank, but that assumption has become less and less defensible.6 Nonbanks now provide a larger share of financial intermediation in the United States than banks. Large nonbanks are big players in derivative markets.

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The purpose of this essay is to show how credit markets influence development and to argue that the impact of improvements in credit markets is quantitatively significant. The essay first establishes the fact that access to credit is limited, emphasizing the magnitudes. It then goes on to the potential importance of financial sector development, again quantifying the impact. Toward the end of the essay there is a discussion of the merits of different interventions.

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A primary justification for government intervention has been the failure of private agricultural insurance markets (see, for example, Appel, Lord, and Harrington, 1999; Hazell, Pomerada, and Valdez, 1986; Goodwin and Smith, 1995). In a 1922 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) bulletin, Valgren describes the disastrous experiences of fire insurance companies that offered crop insurance in the Dakotas and Montana in 1917 and the early 1920s. Severe droughts caused widespread crop losses in those states.

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the first step in most formal software development processes is requirements analysis, followed by testing to determine value modeling, implementation, and failure elimination (debugging). there exist a lot of differing approaches for each of those tasks. one approach popular for requirements analysis is use case analysis. nowadays many programmers use forms of agile software development where the various stages of formal software development are more integrated together into short cycles that take a few weeks rather than years. there are many approaches to the software development process....

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