i. Thermo-physiological comfort: achieving a comfortable thermal and humid condition in which the thermo-regulating capacity, the thermal insulation and the moisture-regulating capacity of the garment are considered as a function of environmental conditions (climate) and the working conditions (level of effort). Thermo-physiological comfort is strongly affected by the fabric, the style and the ...

A new calculus of nuclear liquid-gas phase transition in the standard thermostatistics is applied to the generalized thermo-statistics. Because the phase equilibrium is de…ned in terms of intensive temperature and conjugate extensive entropy, we have to solve higher-order simultaneous nonlinear equations than those in the standard thermo-statistics. The features of phase transition are essentia...

In this work, a phenomenological model (PM) is used to simulate the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) of GdMn1-xCrxO3 (0 ≤x ≤0.4) (GMCO) samples through modelling experimental isofield thermo-magnetization curves. The results showed that MCE GMCO depends strongly on Cr content, achieving conventional for low content (level doping x ≤ 0.3). However, higher sample has an inverse MCE. behaviour in indic...

In this paper we get the explicit condition number formulas for the W–weighted Drazin inverse of a rectangular matrix using the Schur decomposition and the spectral norm. We characterize the spectral norm and the Frobenius norm of the relative condition number of the W– weighted Drazin inverse, and the level-2 condition number of the W– weighted Drazin inverse. The sensitivity for the W–weighte...

Abstract With the rapid growth of world population, it is essential to increase agricultural productivity feed growing population. Over past decades, many methods have been used crop yields. Despite success in boosting yield through these methods, global food production still needs be increased on par with increasing population and its dynamic consumption patterns. Additionally, given prevailin...

The accuracy of leak detection and calibration of pipe networks by means of the inverse transient analysis (ITA) is highly affected by the number and location of the measurement sites. This study introduces a conceptual decision-making model, the Decision Table Method (DTM), for the measurement site design of pipe networks with the aim of inverse transient analysis. Through the Decision Table M...

In this paper we obtain the formula for computing the condition number of a complex matrix, which is related to the outer generalized inverse of a given matrix. We use the Schur decomposition of a matrix. We characterize the spectral norm and the Frobenius norm of the relative condition number of the generalized inverse, and the level-2 condition number of the generalized inverse. The sensitivi...

In this note we present a critical review of the some of the positive features as well as some of the shortcomings of the generalized sensitivity functions (GSF) of Thomaseth-Cobelli in comparison to traditional sensitivity functions (TSF). We do this from a computational perspective of ordinary least squares estimation or inverse problems using two illustrative examples: the Verhulst-Pearl log...