EMPIRICISM: HOW MUCH, HOW LITTLE

Empiricism: How much, how little

The practice of medicine was completely empirical in the beginning and the growth of technology added newer tools to the diagnostic kit.As the kit Beginner+ / Intermediate grew larger, there was a reciprocal diminution in the empiricism.The practice of medicine at the extremes of empiricism and evidence based medicine are not entirely desirable.Eve

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Design Optimization of a Gas Turbine Engine for Marine Applications: Off-Design Performance and Control System Considerations

This paper addresses a design optimization of a gas turbine (GT) for marine applications.A Advanced Wound Care - Impregnated Dressings gain-scheduling method incorporating a meta-heuristic optimization is proposed to optimize a thermodynamics-based model of a small GT engine.A comprehensive control system consisting of a proportional integral (PI)

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