The civil construction industry is responsible for a large part of the world’s energy consumption; therefore, in recent years, sustainable practices this sector have become increasingly common to minimize environmental impacts during life cycle buildings. As result, new materials and more building techniques are being sought. In Portugal, rice husk an abundant agricultural waste with great pote...

one of the major environmental problems in the world, especially in iran is deficiency of water resources. this with respect to the entrance of wastewater (especially industrial wastewaters due to their toxic effects) into the water bodies emphasizes the importance of wastewater treatment. heavy metals such as cadmium, lead and vanadium are part of oil and hence are of the major pollutants prod...

We give a brief but complete account of all the essential facts concerning the Reed-Muller and punctured Reed-Muller codes. The treatment is new and includes an easy, direct proof of the fact that the punctured Reed-Muller codes are the codes of the projective geometries over the binary eld. We also establish the existence of two short exact sequences that lead to new proofs that the minimum-we...

The Schmidt–Sidorenko–Bossert scheme extends a low-rate Reed–Solomon code to an Interleaved Reed–Solomon code and achieves the decoding radius of Sudan’s original list decoding algorithm while the decoding result remains unambiguous. We adapt this result to the case of Generalized Reed– Solomon codes and calculate the parameters of the corresponding Interleaved Generalized Reed–Solomon code. Fu...

In this paper, we study the third weight of generalized Reed-Muller codes. Using results from [6], we prove under some restrictive condition that the third weight of generalized Reed-Muller codes depends on the third weight of generalized Reed-Muller codes of small order with two variables. In some cases, we are able to determine the third weight and the third weight codewords of generalized Re...

The paper describes a spectral method for combinational logic synthesis using the Walsh transform and the Reed-Muller form. A new algorithm is presented that allows us to obtain the mixed polarity Reed-Muller expansion of Boolean functions. The most popular minimisation (sub-minimisation) criterion of the Reed-Muller form is obtained by the exhaustive search of all the polarity vectors. This pa...

A reed, or more generally, a pressure-controlled valve, is the primary resonator for many wind instruments and vocal systems. In physical modeling synthesis, the method used for simulating the reed typically depends on whether an additional upstream or downstream pressure causes the corresponding side of the valve to open or close further. In this work, a generalized and configurable model of a...