In land reclamation projects, the vacuum preloading method has been widely used to strengthen dredged fills by removing water. However, during improvement process, clogging inevitably occurs in drains and soils, hindering water drainage causing inhomogeneous consolidation results. Therefore, it is essential evaluate effect of on behavior slurry at different radii. this study, analytical solutio...

Observers completed perceptual categorization tasks that included separate base-rate/payoff manipulations, corresponding simultaneous base-rate/payoff manipulations, and conflicting simultaneous base-rate/payoff manipulations. Performance was (a) closer to optimal for 2:1 than 3:1 base-rate/payoff ratios, and when base-rates, as opposed to payoffs were manipulated, and (b) was more in line with...

Classical planners have traditionally made the closed world assumption facts absent from the planner’s world model are false. Incompleteinformation planners make the open world assumption the truth value of a fact absent from the planner’s model is unknown, and must be sensed. The open world assumption leads to two difficulties: (1) H ow can the planner determine the scope of a universally quan...