Description Generalized Additive Model fitting by ‘outer’ iteration, requires extra derivatives of the variance and link functions to be added to family objects. The first 3 functions add what is needed. …

Should frames with diagonal bracing or rigid shear walls be used, the columns will be prevented from sidesway and provided with some rotational restraint at their ends. For these situations, as illustrated …

Abstract Automakers are now developing alternatives to internal combustion engines (ICE), including hydrogen fuel cells and ICE-electric hybrids. Adoption dynamics for alternative vehicles are complex …

お黎に [おさきに] /before/ahead/previously/ お涟 [おまえ] /(fam) you (sing)/ お涟さん [おまえさん] /you/my dear/hey/ お练 [おぜん] /(uk) four-legged tray for festive food/ お聊摄さん [おじいさん] …

Five parts of a character table At the upper left is the symbol for the point group

Although much of what I say will touch significantly on the medium as a whole, I want to focus here on a single broad category of television pro- gramming-what TV Guide and the newspaper listings, with …

TIE2 is a receptor-like tyrosine kinase expressed al-most exclusively in endothelial cells and early hemo-poietic cells and required for the normal development of vascular structures during embryogenesis. …

Faggot, often shortened to fag, is a pejorative term and common slur used chiefly in North America against homosexual males.[3] Its pejorative use, broadly meaning a "repellent male", [4] has spread …

Sequence of events in four-stroke spark-ignition engine operating cycle. Cylinder pressure p (solid line, firing cycle; dashed line, motored cycle), cylinder volume V/Vmax, and mass fraction burned xb are …

Wave flow relations An expansion fan, sometimes also called a Prandtl-Meyer expansion wave, can be considered as a continuous sequence of infinitesimal Mach expansion waves. To analyze this …