The common consideration on economic model is that there is knowledge about the risk of occurrence of an assignable cause and the various cost parameters that does not always adequately describe what happens in practice. Hence, there is a need for more realistic assumptions to be incorporated. In order to reduce cost penalties for not knowing the true values of some parameters, this paper aims ...

abstract in order to optimize the water management in agriculture in semi arid and arid conditions water-salinity function should be evaluated. in order to evaluate salinity and deficit irrigation two experiments were conducted in 2008 and 2009. kochia was grown with six levels of saline water (1.5, 7, 14, 21, 28, and 35 ds/m) and three levels of applied water (25, 75, and 125 percent of the wa...

objectives: the purpose of current semi-experimental study was a survey on effect abstract  of 16 week walking on psychosocial functioning related to quality of life among 60 to 75 years old men. methods & materials: for this reason, short form of health-related quality of life questionnaire (sf-36) and geriatric depression scale (gds) had been distributed to the subjects at 2 times of pre-test...

THESEUS is an ESA space based project, which aims to explore the early universe by unveiling a complete census of Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) population in first billion years. This goal expected be realized combined observations its three instruments on board: Soft X-ray Imager (SXI), X and Gamma Imaging Spectrometer (XGIS), InfraRed Telescope (IRT). last one will identify, localise, study afterglow...

We study the optimal transport problem in the Euclidean space where the cost function is given by the value function associated with a Linear Quadratic minimization problem. Under appropriate assumptions, we generalize Brenier’s Theorem proving existence and uniqueness of an optimal transport map. In the controllable case, we show that the optimal transport map has to be the gradient of a conve...

In this paper a model based QFD (MB-QFD) is introduced, and the different representations for design analysis of complex systems are discussed. Sensitivity analysis is a useful tool for trade studies and to achieve an overview of the importance of different aspects of the design. The introduction of an hierarchical aggregated design influence matrix greatly improves the ability to handle large ...

Image dehazing is a useful technique which can eliminate the bad effect of haze on images and enhance the performances of image/video processing algorithms in the hazy weather. In this study, a single image dehazing method is proposed. The authors estimate the initial transmission properly based on latent region-segmentation and refine the estimated initial transmission by an objective function...

We present the $z\!\approx\!6$ type-1 quasar luminosity function (QLF) based on Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) survey. The PS1 sample includes 125 quasars at $z\approx5.7-6.2$ with $-28\lesssim M_{1450}\lesssim-25$. Complemented by 48 fainter from SHELLQs survey, we evaluate $z\approx6$ QLF over M_{1450}\lesssim-22$. Adopting a double power law an exponential evolution of density ($\Phi(z)\propto10^{k(z-6)}...

This paper investigates linear systems with polynomial dependence on time-invariant uncertainties constrained in the simplex via homogeneous parameter-dependent quadratic Lyapunov functions (HPD-QLFs). It is shown that a sufficient condition for establishing whether the system is either stable or unstable can be obtained by solving a generalized eigenvalue problem. Moreover, this condition is a...