water conveyance systems (wcss) are costly infrastructures in terms of materials, construction, maintenance and energy requirements. much attention has been given to the application of optimization methods to minimize the costs associated with such infrastructures. historically, traditional optimization techniques have been used, such as linear and non-linear programming. in this paper, applica...

Article history: Received 12 February 2011 Available online 15 March 2011 Utilizing a meta-analytical approach for testing moderating effects, the current study investigated organizational tenure as a moderator in the relation between affective organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). We observed that, across 40 studies (N=11,416 respondents), the effect size for...

this paper presents a macro model to predict unreinforced masonry structures in plane behavior. the model is based on the concept of multilaminate theory. in the past, the method has been used to model behavior of soil, disregarding the cohesion and the tensile strength. regarding its mathematical base, and the possibility of applying in other cases, this method is used to predict the ultimate ...

blown bitumen (110/10) was mixed with heavy vacuum slops (h.v.s), 60/70 penetration grade bitumen and recycled isotactic polypropylene (ipp) at different levels. the resulting resins were used to impregnate non-woven poly(ethylene terephthalate) fibers to form composites. the modulus and penetration grade of the resulting bituminous resins were determined. it was found that these bituminous res...

let $g$ be a non-abelian group and let $z(g)$ be the center of $g$. associate with $g$ there is agraph $gamma_g$ as follows: take $gsetminus z(g)$ as vertices of$gamma_g$ and joint two distinct vertices $x$ and $y$ whenever$yxneq yx$. $gamma_g$ is called the non-commuting graph of $g$. in recent years many interesting works have been done in non-commutative graph of groups. computing the clique...

we study the exponential decay of global solution for an n-dimensional thermo-elasticity systemin a bounded domain of ℜn . by using the multiplier technique and constructing an energy functional welladapted to the system, the exponential decay is proved.