Depth of frost penetration is one of the main indices in agriculture, civil and transportation engineering. Soil temperature is a function of several factors including: topography, solar radiation, air temperature, moisture content and other physical properties of soil such as thermal capacity, coefficient of heat conductivity, and specific heat. The main objective of the present paper is to de...

A class of semismooth Newton methods for unilaterally constrained variational problems modelling cracks under a non-penetration condition are introduced and investigated. On the continuous level, a penalization technique is applied which allows to argue generalized differentiability of the nonlinear mapping associated to its first order optimality characterization. It is shown that the correspo...

Background and Aim: Tubular penetration of root canal sealers prevents filling material displacement and overgrowth of microorganisms in dentinal tubules. The aim of this study was to compare the tubular penetration of AH26, EasySeal, and SureSeal sealers in single-rooted teeth using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Materials and Methods: Fifty human single-rooted teeth were included in thi...

one of the most valid and efficient models of long rod projectile penetration in homogeneous targets is tate and alekseevskii’s (a&t;) model. based on tate’s model, the present research tries to calculate the optimum speeds to achieve the maximum penetration depth in the homogeneous targets. the proposed collision speed-penetration depth diagrams are developed using tate’s model. in this way, v...

Most physicians today treat a variety of patients within their practices where a variety of insurance arrangements co-exist. In this paper, we propose several theoretical explanations for physician treatment patterns when the patient population is heterogeneous at the practice level. Data from the 1993-1996 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) are used to test how practice-level mana...

Investigations of propagation into, and within, buildings at 900, J800 and 2300 MHz have been undertaken. The composite Rayleigh-plus-log-normal distribution successfully modelled the measured cumulative distributions of all measurements. The average measured penetration loss at ground floor level was found to be 14.2, 13.4 and 12.8 dB respectively at 900, 1800 and 2300 MHz. The rate of change ...