In order to overcome these limitations, and also to include the effects of decay in the safety analysis, probabilistic methods, based on Monte-Carlo simulation are applied here to assess the safety of existing timber structures.
This was accomplished by generating a hypothesis that probabilities of decay of fruit structure obey the Weibull probabilistic model that has been used in the field of reliability engineering.
To maximize the number of reconstructed B decay channels, it utilizes a hierarchical reconstruction procedure and probabilistic calculus instead of classical selection cuts.
The proposed method called adaptive probabilistic neural network (APNN) uses the dynamic decay adjustment (DDA) algorithm to automatically calculate the smoothing parameter.
Whereas exponential distributions imply stochastic (probabilistic) state transitions characterized by a time constant of "decay" or exit from a particular state, a power law distribution implies a so-called scale-free (or fractal) process, with no characteristic time scale of measurement.
Uncertainty associated with the diffusion coefficient, residual water content and first-order decay coefficients is often not a significant issue with respect to the probabilistic outcome; thus, these variables may be treated as deterministic constants.
The probabilistic appearances of quantum events -- such as the spontaneous decay of a radioactive element, for example -- were mirages, he surmised, the result not of any propensity of the natural world toward statistics but rather of our incomplete knowledge of nature.
Popular belief (even among most physicists) holds that phenomena such as radioactive decay, photon emission and absorption, and many others are such that only a probabilistic description of them can be given.
Based on first-order probability theory, this paper presents a probabilistic procedure for design of timber poles in ground contact under attack of decay fungi.
Half-life is a probabilistic estimate of the amount of time required for half of the remaining substance to decay rather than an exact calculation.
