Non-probabilistic reliability based multidisciplinary design optimization (NRBMDO) offers a powerful tool for making reliable decisions with the consideration of uncertain-but-bounded uncertainties for complex engineering systems.
Some run clear as glass one year, only to clog with glacial silt the next, making reliable fishing here a risky proposition.
While this may seem another "prescient" solution, what, exactly, is our $40 billion-a-year intelligence apparatus for, if not making reliable predictions?
Nissan's biggest problem was that it has been making reliable but boring cars, which customers shunned in favour of more attractive Hondas (in Japan) or Volkswagens (in Europe).
Such jobs often fall to administrative employees rather than information technology specialists, and it is not uncommon for glitches to occur, thus preventing companies from making reliable backups as frequently as their policies require.
Military and intelligence officers who had staked their careers on making reliable Pashtun friends were unlikely to launch more than a few token assaults on the Pak-Afghan borderlands, which even the British Indian Army couldn't subdue.
In their brief, the American Library Association and the other challengers to the law told the court that the record compiled in the lower court showed that, given the "rapid growth and dynamic nature of the Internet," filtering software now available was "inherently incapable" of making reliable distinctions among Web sites.
For example, in the past scientists have recorded delays of 30 to 50 years between the arrival of a plant and its widespread infestation as a weed, making reliable predictions of the long-term likelihood of threats like superweeds extremely difficult.
The UK's economy is dominated by housing bubbles because British capitalists have found few other ways of making reliable profits, with industry decimated and "services" failing to make up the gap; this, an orthodox Marxist might argue, is a consequence of the falling rate of profit, leading to a search for secure investments.
Co-author Professor Andy Shepherd, also at UCL said: "Understanding what controls the amount of Arctic sea ice takes us one step closer to making reliable predictions of how long it will last, which is important because it is a key component of Earth's climate system".
Compared to nonoverlapped regions, making reliable binary decisions in overlapped regions is considerably more difficult.
