Constitutive models are fundamental blocks of modeling physical processes, where they connect conservation laws with the kinematics system. They often expressed in form linear or nonlinear systems ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Within regimes, however, it is challenging to characterize these constitutive models. For solids and geomaterials, relations that relate macroscopic stress stra...

Abstract. We present a deep neural network (DNN) that produces accurate predictions of observed surface soil moisture, applying meteorological data from climate model. The was trained on daily satellite retrievals moisture the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI). predictors precipitation, temperature and humidity were simulated with ECHAM/MESSy atmospheric chemistry–clim...

Literature has identified the need to study socially pervasive ICT “in context” in order to understand how user acceptability of innovation varies according to different inputs. This paper contributes to the existing body of knowledge on innovation studies and proposes a methodology – a conceptual model for representing dynamic contextual changes in longitudinal studies. As a theory development...

literature plays various roles, the major function being expressing reality through the forms of the novel and the short story. naguib mahfuz, one of the outstanding arab novelists, has special talents in this respect. he expresses social problems critically. the sexual crisis is one of the plights which is both discussed and challenged in his novels and short stories. he investigated sexual cr...

background esophageal cancer is highly prevalent among the turkman people in northeastern iran. in order to evaluate its etiology, there is an on-going prospective cohort study in this area involving approximately 50000 subjects over the age of 40 years. the majority of these subjects are illiterate, thus obtaining inâ­formed consent is very important and difficult. methods initially, we explai...

The problematic nature of informed consent to medical treatment and research, and its relation to autonomy, trust and clinical practice, has been addressed on many occasions and from a variety of ethical perspectives in the pages of the Journal of Medical Ethics. This paper gives an account of how discussion of these issues has developed and changed, by describing a number of significant contri...