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This technical note presents explicit formulas for calculating the response moments of stochastic systems by polynomial dimensional decomposition entailing independent random input with arbitrary probability measures. The numerical results indicate that the formulas provide accurate, convergent, and computationally efficient estimates of the second-moment properties. DOI: 10.1061/ ASCE EM.1943-...

M. Roxo-Rosa*, M. Oleastro and F. F. Vale Center for Biodiversity, Functional & Integrative Genomics (BioFIG), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal Departamento de Genética Humana, Instituto Nacional Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Av. Padre Cruz, 1649-016 Lisboa, Portugal Departamento de Doenças Infeciosas, Instituto Nacional Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge,...

We present a detailed description of our calculation of next-to-leading order QCD corrections to heavy quark production in e+e− collisions including mass effects. In particular, we study the observables Rbl 3 and D bl 2 in the E, EM, JADE and DURHAM jet-clustering algorithms and show how one can use these observables to obtain mb(mZ) from data at the Z peak. PACS number(s): 12.15.Ff,12.38.Bx,13...

In this research, a 2D laterally averaged model of hydrodynamics and water quality, CE-QUAL-W2, was applied to simulate water quality parameters in the Ilam reservoir. The water quality of Ilam reservoir was obtained between mesotrophic and eutrophic based on the measured data including chlorophyll a, total phosphorus and subsurface oxygen saturation. The CE-QUAL-W2 model was calibrated and ver...

OBJECTIVES The aim was (i) to evaluate the accuracy of equilibrium-phase high spatial resolution (EP) contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (CE-MRA) at 1.5T using a blood pool contrast agent for the preoperative evaluation of deep inferior epigastric artery perforator branches (DIEP), and (ii) to compare image quality with conventional first-pass CE-MRA. METHODS Twenty-three consec...

this paper estimates the trend of total energy subsidies from year 2003 (that is 16.68% of gdp) and running a model, predicts that energy subsidies will reach to 20% of gdp by 2019 if subsidies continue. also environmental damage costs of energy consumption have been entered the model (environmental cost-benefit analysis model: ecba model) in addition to the vast amounts of subsidies. so damage...

This article proposes a new performance index called Transit Service Indicator (TSI), which could be used as a comprehensive measure for quantifying the quality of service of a transit system. TSI integrates multiple performance measures (e.g., service frequency, hours of service, route coverage, and travel time components) within a systematic framework. It takes into account spatial and tempor...

Species distribution models (SDMs) are widespread in ecology and conservation biology, but their accuracy can be lowered by non-environmental (noisy) absences that are common in species occurrence data. Here we propose an iterative ensemble modelling (IEM) method to deal with noisy absences and hence improve the predictive reliability of ensemble modelling of species distributions. In the IEM a...