Linking microbial community composition with the corresponding ecosystem functions remains challenging. Because microbial communities can differ in their functional responses, this knowledge gap ...

The objectives of this chapter are to present the following: The five important and basic analytical functions in reliability engineering: (1) the probability density, (2) the failure rate, (3) the ...

When there are units in a system with multiple modes of function such as (1) normal, (2) failed open, and (3) failed short in the case of a resistor, or (1) normal, (2) failed open energized, (3) ...

How can five successful functions produce one unsuccessful enterprise? The instinctive answer is usually collaboration. We tell executives to “break silos”, “think enterprise” and “work ...