Abstract Alkali-silica reaction (ASR) is a deleterious expansion phenomenon affecting concrete structures worldwide. It occurs when susceptible chemical composition of components present, and it particularly rampant in inherently humid environments. This exacerbated found mass such as dams foundations. The amount volumetric ASR strain used to be deemed nearly constant, however, recent advances ...

During the last few years, with decrease of their sizes and costs, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) became more feasible for use in general-purpose applications. As an important basis UAV applications, Air-to-Ground (A2G) radio propagation channel has gained attention modeling literature. However, whereas A2G is inherently dynamic (time-varying), majority available models do not consider such a ...

despite several authors having studied the strategic approach to environmental orientation and,considering that environmental proactivity is emerging in business strategy, it still remains unclear which realactions influence a firm’s environmental orientation. an empirical analysis of a sample of 126 spanish companies shows that firms’ actions are explained as training, information and divulgat...

This research paper uses partially historical corn yields of each county over five states as training set for calibrating alternative yield models including single parametric distributions, nonparametric distributions, semiparametric distributions, mixing models, and other nontraditional models. The calibrated models are applied to predict the yield of the most recent eight years in historical ...