Instrumental and historical data on mainshocks for 13 seismogenic sources in western Anatolia have been used to apply a regional time- and magnitude-predictable model. Considering the interevent time between successive mainshocks, the following two predictive relations were computed: log T...</subscript>

What is the probability that all the gas in a box accumulates in the same half of this box? Though amusing, this question underlies the fundamental problem of density fluctuations at equilibrium, which has profound implementations in many physical fields. The currently accepted solutions are...

The article is concerned with pro-natalist policies, examining empirically their effectiveness. There are proposed four hypotheses: continuous decline of the birth rate; adaptive model; natural-rate hypothesis; crowding-out hypothesis. Nine countries are tested: Germany, Italy, Sweden and France...

The article is concerned with pro-natalist policies, examining empirically their effectiveness. There are proposed four hypotheses: 1. Continuous decline of the birthrate, 2. Adaptive model, 3. Natural-rate-hypothesis and 4. Crowding-out-hypothesis. Nine countries are tested: Germany, Italy,...

В статье предлагается классифицировать элементы системы адаптивности как изменения параметров внутренних и внешних свойств объекта с целью обеспечения...

The development of the adaptive approach to thermal comfort is reviewed from 1970 to 1995. It is argued that the adaptive approach is likely to yield useful standards for thermal comfort world-wide. These standards would take into account both climate and culture, and would need less energy than...

From a field survey of the thermal comfort of 100 office workers in Mingora and Peshawar, in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, it is shown that their responses conform to the Adaptive Model of thermal comfort. The people were comfortable at the seasonal mean indoor temperatures...

The ability to operate factory buildings as free running will be very useful in the context of saving energy needed for providing adequate thermal comfort for workers in warm humid tropical climatic conditions. The upper limits of thermally comfortable temperatures were established with comfort...