Peter Kasurak. Canada’s Mechanized Infantry: The Evolution of a Combat Arm, 1920-2012. 251 pp., plus figs., bibl., index. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020. $32.95 (paperback). ISBN 978-0-7748-6273-8. Also available in e-book formats. https://www.ubcpress.ca/canadas-mechanized-infantry. Un article de la revue Scientia Canadensis (Photography: Science, Technology and Practice) diffusée par plateforme É...

An assurance case provides an argument that certain claims (usually concerning safety or other critical properties) are justified, based on given evidence concerning the context, design, and implementation of a system. An assurance case serves two purposes: reasoning and communication. For the first, the argument in the case should approach the standards of mathematical proof (though it may be ...

Computational reliability assessment in mechanized tunneling requires realistic numerical models accounting for the uncertainty of geotechnical and tunneling process parameters. For real-time prognoses, surrogate models are in general inevitable to substitute expensive complex numerical simulations. In this paper, different strategies for surrogate modeling in mechanized tunneling simulations a...

The present paper validates two alternative global sensitivity analysis methods, namely variance-based and elementary effect, for the purpose of detecting key subsoil parameters that influence the output of mechanized tunnel finite element simulation. In the elementary effect method, a strategy for considering the dependencies, that result from a set of constraints between different parameters,...

seed loss at harvesting time is one of the factors reducing seed yield in at farms. this study was carried out within a research farm in karaj to evaluate and select a proper pinto bean line for mechanized harvesting at two moisture contents during harvesting and their effect on seed yield and yield loss among three lines of pinto bean. the experiment was split-plot based on randomized complete...