The paper analyses how vegetation prevents the triggering of rainfall-induced shallow landslides by using G-XSLIP platform, which is based on G-SLIP model, i.e., SLIP model updated with parameters for root reinforcement and rain interception due to canopy. applied an area in Gioiosa Marea (Sicily, Italy), where 9 th September 2016 occurred, depositing state road SS 113. demonstrate that these p...

The performance of a type of fuzzy sliding mode control is researched by considering the nonlinear characteristic of a missile-target interception problem to obtain a robust interception process. The variable boundary layer by using fuzzy logic is proposed to reduce the chattering around the switching surface then is applied to the interception model which was derived. The performances of the s...

Various models have been developed to simulate rainfall interception by vegetation but their formulations and applications rely on a number of assumptions parameter estimation procedures. The aim this study is examine the effect different model derivation approaches performance Rutter, Gash Liu models. Rutter model, in contrast other two daily models, was applied both an hourly basis. Hourly da...

While graphs are normally defined in terms of the 2-place relation of adjacency, we take the 3-place relation of interception as the basic primitive of the definition. The paper views graphs as an economic scheme for encoding interception relations, and establishes an axiomatic characterization of relations that lend themselves to representation in terms of graph interception, thus providing a ...

Developing applications that support evolution in a seamless way is not an easy task; in an early design stage, some concepts may be confused or some potential functionality not foreseen, resulting in bad separations of concerns. In this kind of designs, future changes may imply huge modifications if a highquality object-oriented model is the desired product. In theory, object oriented programm...

This study was designed to define the characteristics of eye-hand coordination in a task requiring the interception of a moving target. It also assessed the extent to which the motion of the target was predicted and the strategies subjects used to determine when to initiate target interception. Target trajectories were constructed from sums of sines in the horizontal and vertical dimensions. Su...