Rényi’s residual entropy: A quantile approach

In the present paper, we introduce a quantile based Rényi’s entropy function and its residual version. We study certain properties and applications of the measure. Unlike the residual Rényi’s entropy function, the quantile version uniquely determines the distribution

Cumulative Approach to Customer Satisfaction with Respect to Compact Segment Car Users

Earlier studies on measurement of customer satisfaction are based on either transaction specific or overall approaches. The transaction specific approach evaluates customer satisfaction with single components in the whole purchase process but the overall satisfaction was based on all the encounters or experiences to the customer throughout the purchase process. Consumers will comment on particular events of their purchase process when asked about transaction-specific satisfaction and they will comment their overall impression and general experiences in overall satisfaction (Bitner & Hubbert 1994) Through a critical review on the literature, it has been identified a new approaches to customer satisfaction, say, cumulative approaches that can be more useful than overall and transaction specific approaches for strategic decision making (Fornell et al 1996). The cumulative approach to customer satisfaction doesn’t study earlier due to the difficulty in operationalization of the concept. But the influencers of customer satisfaction are context specific and the prevailing models doesn’t give the sources of variations in the satisfaction, the importance of cumulative approaches to customer satisfaction has emerges that lights to a new research. The current study has focused to explore the influencers of overall customer satisfaction to form individual elements that can be used to identify the cumulative customer satisfaction.

Destructive and non-destructive measurements of residual crop residue and phosphorus effects on growth and composition of herbaceous fallow species in the Sahel

Little is known about the residual effects of crop residue (CR) and phosphorus (P) application on the fallow vegetation following repeated cultivation of pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] in the Sahel. The objective of this study, therefore, was (i) to measure residual effects of CR, mulched at annual rates of 0, 500, 1000 and 2000 kg CR ha^-1, broadcast P at 0 and 13 kg P ha^-1 and P placement at 0, 1, 3, 5 and 7 kg P ha^-1 on the herbaceous dry matter (HDM) 2 years after the end of the experiment and (ii) to test a remote sensing method for the quantitative estimation of HDM. Compared with unmulched plots, a doubling of HDM was measured in plots that had received at least 500 kg CR ha^-1. Previous broadcast P application led to HDM increases of 14% compared with unfertilised control plots, whereas no residual effects of P placement were detected. Crop residue and P treatments caused significant shifts in flora composition. Digital analysis of colour photographs taken of the fallow vegetation and the bare soil revealed that the number of normalised green band pixels averaged per plot was highly correlated with HDM (r=0.86) and that red band pixels were related to differences in soil surface crusting. Given the traditional use of fallow vegetation as fodder, the results strongly suggest that for the integrated farming systems of the West African Sahel, residual effects of soil amendments on the fallow vegetation should be included in any comprehensive analysis of treatment effects on the agro-pastoral system.

Recuperació de metalls en l’aigua residual de la indústria galvànica mitjançant l’electròlisi i l’energia solar

Proposta del procés d’electròlisi com a mètode de recuperació de metalls pesants presents en les aigües de rentat de la indústria galvànica i l’obtenció de l’energia necessària a través de l’energia solar fotovoltaica

Transmission delays in residual computation

The design of control, estimation or diagnosis algorithms most often assumes that all available process variables represent the system state at the same instant of time. However, this is never true in current network systems, because of the unknown deterministic or stochastic transmission delays introduced by the communication network. During the diagnosing stage, this will often generate false alarms. Under nominal operation, the different transmission delays associated with the variables that appear in the computation form produce discrepancies of the residuals from zero. A technique aiming at the minimisation of the resulting false alarms rate, that is based on the explicit modelling of communication delays and on their best-case estimation is proposed

Modelos did??cticos fabricados con material residual

Material did??ctico que recoge la elaboraci??n de diversos aparatos utilizando material residual. Se han fabricado modelos did??cticos para el control ambiental, la observaci??n y muestreo de especies animales, el cultivo de especies vegetales y el aprovechamiento de la energ??a. Los objetivos del trabajo son: desarrollar destreza manual en el ??rea de Pretecnolog??a, comprender mejor diversos fen??menos naturales y su medida y educar a nivel ambiental.

Valoración de la audición residual en pacientes postimplante coclear mediante audiometría y potenciales evocados auditivos de estado estable

Resumen en inglés. Resumen basado en el de la publicación

Bolonya i la Pedagogia residual

Resumen basado en el de la publicaci??n

Estudi de la viabilitat de l’aprofitament de biomassa residual amb implantació d’una planta de cogeneració al sector del Pla de Baix de Domeny

L’estudi pretén incorporar el residu de fusta i poda com a combustible en una planta de cogeneració al sector del Pla de Baix de Domeny, per obtenir un benefici econòmic amb la venda d’energia elèctrica generada i utilitzar l’energia tèrmica residual per a la calefacció i l’aigua calenta sanitària dels habitatges. S’han analitzat els habitatges, els residus de biomassa i els diferents tipus de cogeneració. I s’ha proposat una cogeneració amb el cicle orgànic de Rankine, utilitzant l’estella de residus de fusta i poda per a 1219 habitatges del Pla de Baix de Domeny i s’ha estudiat la viabilitat econòmica

Acción de protección: garantía jurisdiccional directa y no residual. ¿La ordinarización de la acción de protección?

La Constitución de la República vigente trae consigo una serie de modificaciones sustanciales en relación a la Constitución Política de 1998. Una de ellas, acorde con el nuevo modelo de Estado que rige al Ecuador, el Estado constitucional de derechos, es la implementación de la nueva acción de protección, garantía jurisdiccional de derechos constitucionales sustituta de la antigua acción de amparo constitucional. En efecto, la acción de protección, a diferencia de la acción de amparo, aparece como un proceso de conocimiento, declarativo, ampliamente reparatorio y no residual. Por tratarse de una garantía novedosa en el ámbito jurídico ecuatoriano, la presente tesis en su parte inicial procura poner de manifiesto las diferencias y semejanzas entre la antigua acción de amparo constitucional y la nueva acción de protección, con el fin de aportar al ejercicio y consolidación de esta nueva garantía jurisdiccional. Posteriormente, una vez constatadas dichas diferencias, se tendrá por justificada la necesidad de una regulación o delimitación que salvaguarde a ésta nueva garantía de aquellos vicios que corrompieron y desnaturalizaron a la acción de amparo en el pasado. Para ello, en base a un estudio de jurisdicciones constitucionales comparadas, se sugiere y analiza la implementación de una serie de filtros de forma y de fondo, tendientes a evitar un proceso de ordinarización de la acción de protección, y que guarden armonía y compatibilidad con el paradigma del Estado constitucional. Finalmente, se destaca el rol fundamental que debe desempeñar el legislador dentro del proceso de elaboración de la nueva Ley de Garantías y Control Constitucional. Su deber se reduce a utilizar técnicas legislativas proporcionales y respetuosas con los preceptos constitucionales que rigen a la acción de protección. Caso contrario, el producto de su actividad se tornaría inconstitucional y atentatorio a la voluntad del constituyente, que no fue otra que fortalecer al garantismo y no limitarlo.

Estimating the spatial scales of regionalized variables by nested sampling, hierarchical analysis of variance and residual maximum likelihood

The variogram is essential for local estimation and mapping of any variable by kriging. The variogram itself must usually be estimated from sample data. The sampling density is a compromise between precision and cost, but it must be sufficiently dense to encompass the principal spatial sources of variance. A nested, multi-stage, sampling with separating distances increasing in geometric progression from stage to stage will do that. The data may then be analyzed by a hierarchical analysis of variance to estimate the components of variance for every stage, and hence lag. By accumulating the components starting from the shortest lag one obtains a rough variogram for modest effort. For balanced designs the analysis of variance is optimal; for unbalanced ones, however, these estimators are not necessarily the best, and the analysis by residual maximum likelihood (REML) will usually be preferable. The paper summarizes the underlying theory and illustrates its application with data from three surveys, one in which the design had four stages and was balanced and two implemented with unbalanced designs to economize when there were more stages. A Fortran program is available for the analysis of variance, and code for the REML analysis is listed in the paper. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.