the main goal of this study was to investigate the way of affecting of water in production of cucumber. from aspect of econometrics, mutual relationships of production function and expenses have been analyzed in which translog cost function has been used. this function has been estimated using the conditional input demand functions, the shefard theorem, chemical fertilizer, animal fertilizer, l...

While cloud computing has enabled applications to be designed as elastic cloud services, there is a lack of tools and techniques for monitoring and analysing their elasticity at multiple levels, from the service level to the underlying virtual infrastructure. In this paper, we focus on monitoring and evaluating elasticity of cloud services, crucial for supporting users and automatic elasticity ...

2014 Conditions are considered for the loss of stability of a spherical interface. An arbitrary interface is characterized by the force factors, such as surface tension, first and second moments, moduli of elasticity and cutting forces. In a deformed state the conditions of internal interface equilibrium are assumed to be satisfied. General expressions are obtained for the stability criterion w...

Elastography can noninvasively map the elasticity distribution in biological tissue, which can potentially be used to reveal disease conditions. In this Letter, we have demonstrated photoacoustic elastography by using a linear-array photoacoustic computed tomography system. The feasibility of photoacoustic elastography was first demonstrated by imaging the strains of single-layer and bilayer ge...

Geographically distributed cloud platforms are well suited for serving a geographically diverse user base. However traditional cloud provisioning mechanisms that make local scaling decisions are not adequate for delivering best possible performance for modern web applications that observe both temporal and spatial workload fluctuations. In this paper, we propose GeoScale, a system that provides...

The classical linear elasticity theory is based on the assumption that the size of the displacement gradient tensor is small. In many engineering applications, although the basic assumption is violated due to, e.g., corner singularities, the linear elasticity system is still used to approximate the reality. In this paper, we give a-posteriori error analysis for the eeect of the linearization on...