estimation of water demand in the different sectors, spatially in the urban areas is an important subject that it has considered by scientists and economic researchers’. water shortage and related challenges are most important problems of cities. this study was done according to stonegray function and consumer behavior in microeconomic theory. lineline, log line, loglog and some kinds of econom...

The concept of a poverty function is introduced, modelling the shortfall of household consumption from the poverty line as a function of reduced form determinants such as human capital and land holdings. The model is estimated using a tobit and data from Uganda. Parameters from the model are found to be similar to those from consumption functions, indicating that the poor receive comparable rat...

Detrimental effects of acute and chronic alcohol (ethanol) consumption on human physiology are well documented in the literature. These adversely influence neural, metabolic, cardiovascular, and thermoregulatory functions. However, the side effects of ethanol consumption on hormonal fluctuations and subsequent related skeletal muscle alterations have received less attention and as such are not ...

This paper investigates the effects of the membership function to the object grasping for a three fingered gripper system. The performance of three famously used membership functions is compared to identify their behavior in lifting a defined object shape. MATLAB Simulink and SimMechanics toolboxes are used to examine the performance. Our preliminary results proposed that the Gaussian membershi...

We show how to characterize the energy consumption of individual operating system (OS) functions in the mC/OS-II real time kernel running on an ARM7TDMI-based embedded system. We then derive a strategy for saving energy based on locking more energy-consuming kernel routines of mC/OS-II into the cache and reassigning cache locations to reduce cache contention between frequently invoked kernel fu...

Detrimental effects of acute and chronic alcohol (ethanol) consumption on human physiology are well documented in the literature. These adversely influence neural, metabolic, cardiovascular, and thermoregulatory functions. However, the side effects of ethanol consumption on hormonal fluctuations and subsequent related skeletal muscle alterations have received less attention and as such are not ...

We study an altruistic growth model with production uncertainty viewed as an inter-generational stochastic game. Each generation derives utility from its own consumption and consumption of all successors. The existence of stationary Markov perfect equilib-ria is proved under general assumptions on utility functions for the generations and for non-atomic transition probabilities.

Different from many previous energy-efficient scheduling studies, this paper explores energy-efficient multiprocessor scheduling of periodic real-time tasks with different power consumption functions. When the goal is on the minimization of energy consumption, we propose a 1.412approximation algorithm in the derivation of a feasible schedule. A series of simulation experiments was done for the ...

In order to be able to minimise the energy consumption of an application program, information about the specific energy consumption is required. Modern Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) measure their current power consumption and the driver makes the value available to the application every 20 ms. However, for evaluating the energy consumption of GPU kernel functions, such a sampling inte...

Acute consumption of ethyl alcohol affects a variety of visual functions. However, there have been few systematic attempts to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying these effects. Here, we employed the Westheimer paradigm to investigate the hypothesis that alcohol reduces lateral inhibition within human "perceptive fields", the psychophysical analogue of physiological receptive fields. We...