BACKGROUND To reduce the number of non-geocoded cases researchers and organizations sometimes include cases geocoded to postal code centroids along with cases geocoded with the greater precision of a full street address. Some analysts then use the postal code to assign information to the cases from finer-level geographies such as a census tract. Assignment is commonly completed using either a p...

This study explores the impact of international relations on China’s energy security and supply/demand dynamics, specifically focusing new sources technological advancements. Given status as world’s largest consumer, achieving a balance between supply, demand, sustainable development is crucial. quantifies influence market, particularly uncertainties arising from geopolitical events tensions th...

The arrival of a negative customer to a queueing system causes one ordinary customer to be removed (or killed) if any is present. The arrival of a disaster, on the other hand, kills all the customers in the system if any. In this paper, we extend the queueing theory on negative arrivals and disasters to the discrete-time Geo=Geo=1 queueing system. Speci2cally, we 2nd the ergodicity condition an...

Medical innovations, in the form of new medication or other clinical practices, evolve and spread through health care systems, impacting on the quality and standards of health care provision, which is demonstrably heterogeneous by geography. Our aim is to investigate the potential for the diffusion of innovation to influence health inequality and overall levels of recommended care. We extend ex...

abstract ground water flow and skin is the most important phenomenon in the process streams are involved not only in the face of the whole earth, but also of the life of man on earth can. degradation of coastal erosion, lateral stability and continuity in iran and around the world each year destroys fertilized agricultural lands around the river, coastal installations, bridges, and is general h...

The first study for this dissertation develops a tax-adjusted cost-of-carry model for Australian stock index futures and estimates the value of the debt tax shield, cash dividends and imputation tax credits flowing from the basket stocks in the index. As discussed in the previous chapter, the study relaxes the assumption made in previous research that interest and dividends receive the same tax...

Die Anwendung Remote Task Control entstand in Zusammenarbeit der Firmen HORSCH und geo-konzept im Forschungsprojekt Geo Farm und ermöglicht eine durchgängig automatisierte Prozesskette von der Bereitstellung und Archivierung georeferenzierter Applikationskarten und Datenübertragung zur Landmaschine bis zur Ausführung und Dokumentation des variablen Applikationsprozesses im Feld. Das Projekt Geo...

Methods to improve bearing capacity of footing resting of collapsing soil can, in fact, take two approaches, improving soil strength properties and intrusion of reinforcing sorces into soil. The footing is modeled by a square steel plate 0.1 by 0.1 m. The footing is loaded as to have a stress of 40 kPa and settlement is receded in dry and in soaking conditions. Two depths of the geo-mesh reinfo...