Equivalent crack length based procedures were used to evaluate the evolution of strain energy release rates during the tests, avoiding the difficulty associated with monitoring crack length in high-cycle fatigue tests.
In order to increase the performances of the ADHDP algorithm, suitable Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based procedures are used to pretrain the weights of the Action and the Critic networks.
A validated CFD-based procedure was used to determine the hydrodynamic roughness from the measured pressure losses.
To define the taxonomic origin of contigs containing the identified cassettes, a BLASTX-based procedure was used (for details see Methods).
Children were not considered at risk for 2 weeks after treatment with Coartem® and 4 weeks after treatment with AQ plus SP. As preliminary analyses showed significant overdispersion in the number of episodes per child, a negative binomial model GEE model (based on XTNBREG procedure) was used for the analyses of incidence rates.
An iso-conversional method based on Friedman's procedure was used to calculate the reaction kinetic parameters from thermogravimetric analysis during asphaltene cracking and a set of activation energies and pre-exponential factor was obtained as the reaction progresses.
In each stage the same "top and tail" selection procedure was used, based on four traits.
To this effect, the factorial score calculation procedure was used based on the regression method.
For experience, the same procedure was used, based on whether the nurses were above or below the median years of experience of 11 years.
A step-down procedure was used based on the likelihood ratio test, and hazard ratios were calculated to estimate the magnitude and the direction of the effect.
When AMOVA analysis could not determine what number of partitioned groups is the most suitable, a spatial analysis of molecular variance (SAMOVA) based on a simulated annealing procedure was used to define the groups of populations [ 33].
