To conserve ecological connectivity (the ability to support animal movement, gene flow, range shifts, and other ecological and evolutionary processes that require large areas), conservation professionals need coarse-grained maps to serve as decision-support tools or vision statements and fine-grained maps to prescribe site-specific interventions. To date, research has focused primarily on fine-...

An elasto-viscoplastic constitutive model was previously developed and successfully used to describe the anisotropic time-dependent response of short fiber reinforced thermoplastics. It is demonstrated that when it applied systems with a higher level anisotropy, apparent anisotropy rate-dependent yield stress deviates from Hill parameters are define it. This becomes more if increased. The origi...

The question of extending limit analysis to materials with a non-associated flow rule is an old but important one. Many frictional soils, such as sands and drained clays, do not display the large volume change upon shearing that is predicted by an associated flow rule, thus calling into question the collapse loads that are found from the classical limit theorems. This question is important in p...

To deal with severe drought when water supply is insufficient hedging rule, based on hedging rule curve, is proposed. In general, in discrete hedging rules, the rationing factors have changed from a zone to another zone at once. Accordingly, this paper is an attempt to improve the conventional hedging rule to control the changes of rationing factors. In this regard, the simulation model has emp...

In [4] we presented a new approach to data analysis based on flow distribution study in a flow network, called here a flow graph. The introduced flow graph differs from that proposed by Ford and Fulkerson [1], Branches of the flow graph are interpreted as decision rules, whereas the flow graph is supposed to describe a decision algorithm. Hence, we propose to model decision processes as flow gr...