forest roads are directions in natural habitats that used to transport wood products, secondary forest products and recreation. constructing forest roads causes trees clearing with specified width thus lead to direct or indirect changes in forest ecosystems and forest environment. this study aims to assess the changes of diversity and richness indices in main and secondary forest roads in a par...

We give a short survey on methods for the enclosure of the solution set of a system of linear equations where the coefficients of the matrix and the right hand side depend on parameters varying within given intervals. Then we present a hybrid method for finding such an enclosure in the case that the dependency is polynomial or rational. A general-purpose parametric fixed-point iteration is comb...

monitoring of road traffic noise is becoming an important issue in modern cities due to the spreading of noise pollution and the extension of monitored areas. thus, the stratified spatial sampling is frequently applied to reduce the costs and provide adequate accuracy in order to obtain reliable noise maps. the definition of the strata in the sampling may refer to the legislative classification...

Several recent studies have shown that chickens, fish, and humans trained to find a reward in a corner of a rectangular enclosure with distinctive features rely more on the geometry of the enclosure in small enclosures and rely more on the features in large enclosures. Here, these results are modeled using a recent associative model of geometry learning [Miller, N.Y., Shettleworth, S.J., 2007. ...

We solve the problem of finding an enclosure for the range of a multivariate polynomial over a rectangular region by expanding the given polynomial into Bernstein polynomials. Then the coefficients of the expansion provide lower and upper bounds for the range and these bounds converge monotonically if the degree of the Bernstein polynomials is elevated. To obtain a faster improvement of the bou...

We present an efficient G surface reconstruction scheme for complex solid models used in FE simulations. A novel technique based on low geometric degree (biquartic) polynomial interpolation is proposed to construct a smooth surface on arbitrary unstructured(irregular) rectangular meshes. A suitable parametric representation of surface as well as local control of individual rectangular patches i...

The Dodewaard NPP was shut down in 1997 and is now in the decommissioning phase. All spent fuel has been removed from the plant and transferred to Sellafield, in the United Kingdom, for reprocessing. The last shipment of spent fuel from Dodewaard was made in April 2003. In May 2002 a license was granted to GKN, the operator of the NPP Dodewaard, to bring and keep the plant in a safe enclosure. ...