Knowledge of soil hydraulic properties is important for modeling hydrological processes and related contaminant transport. This study compared four methods in analyzing single-ring infiltrometer data to estimate the saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) and the water retention parameter (α)....

In the traditional egress model based on cellular automata, building spaces are divided into discrete grids, the size of which is usually as large as that of a pedestrian. In order to explore the influences of the grid size on the evacuation results, we studied the evacuation process using a...

In this paper we give an overview of the mostimportant characteristics of advanced implementations of interior point methods.

A description and analysis of China’s Farmer Specialized Cooperatives is presented. Data is presented regarding the historical development of farmer cooperatives in China, the membership composition of a sample of 66 farmer cooperatives in the Zhejiang province, and the various attributes...

K-shell X-ray emission was observed in the neutralization process of Ar16+ interacting with beryllium and molybdenum at slow speed (less than Bohr velocity). The K-shell X-ray emission came from the metastable component of Ar16+ beam with the configuration (1s2s) produced from electron cyclotron...

In this paper, a multicriterion ranking procedure based on distance between partial preorders is proposed. This method consists of two phases. In the first phase, the decision maker is asked to rank alternatives with a preorder (complete or partial) for each criterion and provide complete or...

In this paper a Superiority and Inferiority Ranking (SIR) method is proposed. This new method uses two types of information, the superiority and the inferiority information, to derive two types of flows, the superiority flow and the inferiority flow, by which the set of alternatives are ranked...

In this paper a Superiority and Inferiority Ranking (SIR) method is proposed. This new method uses two types of information, the superiority and the inferiority information, to derive two types of flows, the superiority flow and the inferiority flow, by which the set of alternatives are ranked...