Sanitation improvement is crucial in saving lives that are lost due to water contamination. Progress towards achieving full sanitation coverage is still slow in low-income informal settlements in most developing countries. Furthermore, resources are being wasted on installing facilities that are later misused or never used because they do not meet the local demand. Understanding demand for impr...

Industrialised economies are experiencing a decline in mortality alongside low fertility rates – situation that puts social security systems under severe pressure. Population ageing is associated not only with longer periods of pension claims but also smaller cohorts eventually entering the labour market. This threatens sustainability pay-as-you-go for implementing or further improving appropri...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the optimal earthquake intensity measures (IMs) for probabilistic seismic demand models (PSDMs) base-isolated nuclear power plant (NPP) structures. numerical model NPP structures developed using a lumped-mass stick model, in which bilinear employed simulate force-displacement relations base isolators. In study, 20 different IMs are considered and 90 grou...

The international standard IEEE 802.11 was developed recently in recognition of the increased demand for wireless local area networks. Its medium access control mechanism is described according to a variant of the Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) scheme. Although collisions cannot always be prevented, randomized exponential backoff rules are used in the retransmi...

In this paper, we give a kind of Cauchy 1-completeness in probabilistic quasi-uniform spaces by using 1-filters. Utilizingthe relationships among probabilistic quasi-uniformities, classical quasi-uniformities and Hutton [0, 1]-quasi-uniformities,we show the relationships between their completeness. In fuzzy quasi-metric spaces, we establish the relationshipsbetween the completeness of induced p...

Projecting the long-term trends in energy demand is an increasingly complex endeavor due to the uncertain emerging changes in factors such as climate and policy. The existing energy-economy paradigms used to characterize the long-term trends in the energy sector do not adequately account for climate variability and change. In this paper, we propose a multi-paradigm framework for estimating the ...

A firm wants to locate several multi-server facilities in a region where there is already a competitor operating. We propose a model for locating these facilities in such a way as to maximize market capture by the entering firm, when customers choose the facilities they patronize, by the travel time to the facility and the waiting time at the facility. Each customer can obtain the service or go...

This paper presents a new methodology, based on the probabilistic approach, for biorhythmic analysis to prevent aviation accidents. The methodology has been developed using the Gaussian distribution technique for reliability evaluation of the aviation system, keeping in mind the biorhythmic effects of the pilot. The normal distributed data of the US Air Force were tested and analysed based on t...