Simulation optimization is required if one wants to find the best steady-state values of important process variables.
Long-pulse spallation sources will offer a very high time-integrated neutron flux similar to that of the best steady-state sources.
The saturated soil hydraulic conductivity, Ks, and the soil water sorptivity, S, were estimated for each infiltration run with the BEST-steady algorithm.
For one site (PAL, sandy-loam soil), BEST-steady provided the lowest RMSD value (0.0893 cm3cm−3) among the considered algorithms, but the water retention was systematically overestimated as a consequence of a relatively higher difference between field and lab saturated soil water contents.
A specific calibration performed for β and γ highlighted that: i) the water retention estimations by BEST-slope were more sensitive to β than those obtained by BEST-intercept and BEST-steady; ii) with the exception of PAL soil, the lowest RMSD values were obtained with BEST-slope.
Remove the high-tech boom, and the area is at best holding steady.
So on Saturday, they both did their best to steady their teammates's nerves.
Despite their efforts, however, New Jersey's plover population is at best holding steady, even though the bird's numbers have increased in other states.
In getting it, he has become a cool guy to the next generation, exploring his cross-dressing comic self and, best, working steady, drumming his heart and hands out.
But that is what Baxter achieves here in his portrait of a recently married couple — neurotic, cantankerous Saul Bernstein, who has taken a job teaching high school in rural Michigan, and his wife, Patsy, who does her best to steady him.
In the March 19 , 2004 issue of Science dedicated to drug discovery Phil Szuromi, Valda Vinson, and Eliot Marshall wrote: "In recent years, the number of new drugs approved annually by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has at best stayed steady, despite large increases in R&D investment".
