This paper develops upon the work by Kaplan and Kress [7], which considered the operational effectiveness of suicide bomber (SB) detector schemes. Here, we consider the optimal placement of detectors in a threat area where the potential targets are known. The threat area is divided into grids for the purpose of our analysis and can have several entrances. We assume that a SB will explode at a p...

The term "TNT Equivalence" is used throughout the explosives and related industries to compare the effects of the output of a given explosive to that of TNT. This is done for technical design reasons in scaling calculations such as for the prediction of blast waves, craters, and structural response, and is also used as a basis for government regulations controlling the shipping, handling and st...

We determine the limiting behavior of near–integrated first–order random coefficient autoregressive RCA(1) time series. It is shown that the asymptotics of the finite dimensional distributions crucially depends on how the critical value 1 is approached, which determines whether the process is near–stationary, has a unit–root or is mildly explosive. In a second part, we derive the limit distribu...

physical properties are often required for designing post harvest handling and processing equipment for agricultural products. persimmon (khormandy cultivar) is rich in vitamin a, calcium, potassium, tannic acid and antioxidant phenolic compounds. in this study changes in the physical properties of persimmon fruit during storage were studied. properties such as fruit dimensions, mass, geometric...