Rainfall-induced landslides on steep slopes are a common feature in much of Italy’s mountain areas covered by shallow-pyroclastic deposits. Generally, these deposits are unsaturated and have a slope angle higher than 40°–50°; hence their stability is due to the positive effect of matric...

Proper well management requires the determination of characteristic hydraulic parameters of production wells such as well loss coefficient (C) and aquifer loss coefficient (B), which are conventionally determined by the graphical analysis ofstep-drawdowntest data. However, in the present study,...

Patriksson (2008) provided a then up-to-date survey on the continuous, separable, differentiable and convex resource allocation problem with a single resource constraint. Since the publication of that paper the interest in the problem has grown: several new applications have arisen where the...

This paper investigates the optimal dynamic paths of trade protection imposed on infant industries during the process of joining a free trade agreement. The framework is based on the dynamic learning-by-doing model developed in Melitz (2005), where industries are experiencing dynamic...

This study builds on the findings in Krawczyk (2008), where a 'cautious relaxed' utility measure is introduced in the solving of a dynamic portfolio management problem. The new measure provides distributions that are left skewed in contrast to the right skewed distributions previously found....

Fluid velocity distribution among microchannels plays important role on the reaction performances. In this work, the velocity distribution among microchannels with two different manifold structures is compared by a three-dimensional CFD model under two situations respectively, no reaction and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to derive semi-closed-form solutions to a wide variety of interest rate derivatives prices under stochastic volatility in affine-term structure models. Design/methodology/approach –The paper first derives the Frobenius series solution to the...

Water droplets on insulating material influence strongly the aging process of the material. The shape of the droplets signifies the state of the aging material. The present paper discusses a numerical procedure to calculate the droplet shape in an electric field generated by a constant voltage....

Technological change is one of the most important determinants of the technological structure of the firm. Unfortunately, this crucial factor is often unobserved and must therefore be approximated. It is also well recognized that firms are not necessarily located on their efficient production...