Robustness is the ability of maintaining the performance of the controlling system under certain parameter perturbations.
Flowers et al. (1990) attributed the ability of maintaining a high K Na ratio in the leaves to the secretion of toxic ions from the leaves.
These observations support the idea that paranoid delusions, even if persecutory, do not alter pervasively the ability of maintaining genuine relationships with some others, such as the treating psychiatrist, for instance.
The ability of maintaining remission in UC patients by a daily supply of 10 g of Plantago ovata seeds (also called psyllium or Ispaghula husk) was compared with daily treatment with 500 mg of mesalamine and a combination of the two [26] Twelve months of treatment failed to demonstrate any difference in clinical benefits between the three groups.
To understand the performance of a distribution network in the face of supply disruptions, it would be helpful for policy makers to quantitatively evaluate the robustness of the network, i.e., its ability of maintaining a supply demand balance on individual nodes.
By consistently treating the advection velocity in the conservative term and the velocity divergence in the source term by imposing a new additional criterion, specifically, that a multicomponent-fluid algorithm should have the ability of maintaining a pure single-fluid, we finally derive a new general algorithm that does not need any special treatment, and is very convenient to implement.
On the other hand, mutational robustness (Rm) accounts for the ability of maintaining the ensemble of structures (not only the MFE structure) after mutations in the sequence.
However, the intensity of such responses was heterogenous, as the ability of maintaining survival was equally possessed by NGF and MT2, whereas the induction of differentiation was expressed at definitely lower levels by the mimetic.
In addition, environmental robustness (Re) quantifies the ability of maintaining the ensemble of structures, as Rm, but after perturbations that model changes in the environment where the cell that expresses the pre-miRNAs lives.
Another advantage of the guidelines proposed here is the ability of maintaining erroneous assertions, for informing users about retracted results, while being able to discard them to produce summary interpretations.
