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Difference engine
Known as:
Difference machine
, Difference Engine No. 2
, Difference Engine No. II
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A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. The name derives from the method of divided…
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2016
2016
Dynamic Design of Thick Orthotropic Cantilever Plates with Consideration of Bimoments
M. Usarov
2016
Corpus ID: 59415077
The paper is devoted to dynamic design of thick orthotropic cantilever plates by applying the bimoment theory of plates, which…
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2014
2014
Unemployment and poverty halved by 2014
C. Meth
2014
Corpus ID: 155318583
iii Abbreviations and acronyms iv Preface v Introduction 1 Government ‘admits’ defeat? 1 International crisis spoils a good run 7…
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2008
2008
Modelación matemática con estructura de edad del riesgo de infección tuberculosa en la ciudad de Cali
E. de la Pava
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Oscar Fernández
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B. Salguero
2008
Corpus ID: 130658194
In this work we propose a model for tuberculosis infection based on a system of partial differential equations with age structure…
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2005
2005
ML Estimation Of The Parameters Of SDE's By Numerical Solution Of The Fokker-Planck Equation
A. Hurn
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J. Jeisman
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K. Lindsay
2005
Corpus ID: 13876282
Maximum likelihood (ML) estimates of the parameters of SDEs are consistent and asymptotically efficient, but unfortunately…
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2004
2004
Estimating time steps for the method of finite differences based on verification of the water balance
A. Reinhard
2004
Corpus ID: 129385904
Two often used methods of averaging hydraulic conductivity, which is a parameter in the differential form of Richards's equation…
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1997
1997
Three-Dimensional Aerodynamic Design Optimization Using Discrete Sensitivity Analysis and Parallel Computing
A. Oloso
1997
Corpus ID: 53748019
A hybrid automatic differentiation/incremental iterative method was implemented in the general purpose advanced computational…
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1992
1992
Charles Babbage’s Mini-Computer - Difference Engine No. 0
Nicholas Kenelm Taylor
1992
Corpus ID: 59876931
Doron Swade has described the difference engines of Charles Babbage as “mainframes” in comparison to the machinery being…
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1991
1991
SELF-ADAPTIVE SPACE AND TIME GRIDS IN DEVICE SIMULATION
G. Nanz
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W. Kausel
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S. Selberherr
1991
Corpus ID: 61904435
SUMMARY For the solution of the three basic semiconductor equations in two space dimensions fully self-adaptive grids are a…
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1984
1984
A unified method for calculating engine flows
R. Johns
1984
Corpus ID: 112406160
In recent years, Multidimensional Models (MDMs) have been developed for calculating the flow and other processes in engine…
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1969
1969
Mathematical modelling of intracranial hemodynamics by the method of finite differences
Kisliskov IuIa
1969
Corpus ID: 100403784