The generation of earthquakes at depths exceeding 60 km remains debated, as rocks such are anticipated to be ductile. Seismological investigations have revealed a variety rupture characteristics that distinguishable between shallow (0–60 km), intermediate-depth (60–300 km) and deep-focus (300–700 earthquakes, but it is unclear whether different physical mechanisms controlling earthquake rupture...

Intensive energy penalty caused by CO2 separation process is a critical obstacle for retrofitting power plant with carbon capture technology. Therefore, the concept of utilizing solar to assist solvent regeneration post-combustion proposed recently as promising pathway compensate efficiency reduction derived from process. However, feasibility solar-assisted technologies largely depends on types...

background: application of plant extracts as mosquito control strategy was practiced from centuries. these are easily available, non-toxic, biodegradable and exhibit broad-spectrum target specific activities against larval stages of mosquitoes. method: different potential parts of locally grown plants, seeds of nutmeg ( myristica fragrans ), peel of musambi ( citrus sinensis ), leaves of babuna...

Service descriptions play a crucial role in Service-oriented Computing (SOC), e.g., for service discovery, service selection, service composition, etc. However, it has been observed that service providers – the main source of service descriptions – typically release poor service descriptions, i.e., mostly technical-oriented descriptions. Several approaches have been proposed to tackle this prob...

This paper is concerned with the economical comparison between two commonly used configurations for double layer grids and determining their optimum span-depth ratio. Two ranges of spans as small and big sizes with certain bays of equal length in two directions and various types of element grouping are considered for each type of square grids. In order to carry out a precise comparison between ...

a fault-tolerant control (ftc) methodology has been presented for nonlinear processes being imposed by control input constraints. the proposed methodology uses a combination of feedback linearization and model predictive control (flmpc) schemes. the resulting constraints in the transformed process will be dependent on the actual evolving states, making their incorporation in the design context ...