The latter simply assigns a state-reward of 1 to all states in the model and it is useful to analyze the total expected time before an event occurs.
The decision upheld a new state law that would assign a state board to arbitrate labor disputes with the city's police and firefighters, and to consider wage disparities with richer suburban departments and those in other cities.
Homelessness in Hawaii has become so pervasive that the governor has assigned a state employee to work full time at getting people off the beaches and into transitional housing.
In their letter, Mr. Hevesi's lawyers accused the Ethics Commission of withholding key details from its report that they said would have cast doubt on the commission's conclusion that there was no security threat to justify Mr. Hevesi's decision to assign a state driver to his ailing wife, Carol, for more than three years.
Both factorial and coupled HMM structures assign a state sequence to each stream and allow asynchrony between sequences [14].
She outlined some steps the agency would take, including sending hundreds of Marine guards to US missions abroad and assigning a state department official to oversee "high threat posts".
For 248 users, we were unable to assign a state, leaving us with a total of 4,016 active users in Brazil for which we were able to obtain state information.
A network representation of a signaling pathway, like the one in Fig. 1, can be converted into a discrete dynamic network model by assigning a state variable σi and a regulatory function fi to each node i.
Then from her knowledge of the protocol (initial singlet state) she can assign a state $S_{bz}=-1/2$ to Bob's particle and use this (as a pre-probability) to assign a probability to the outcome of a measurement of $S_{bz}$.
Here, the basic component spaces are indexed by Comp, the states of each component are taken from States (with different components using maybe only a few of the elements of States), and the global states of the system are global valuations, that is, functions that assign a state to each basic component Comp.
