In a rotating tumbler that is more than one-half filled with a granular material, a core of material forms that should ideally rotate with the tumbler. However, the core rotates slightly faster than the tumbler (precession) and decreases in size (erosion). The precession and erosion of the core provide a measure of the creeping granular motion that occurs beneath a continuously flowing flat sur...

Gravity current theory has applications to any geophysical phenomena involving the spreading of fluid on a horizontal interface. Many geological gravity currents (e.g., lava flows and mantle plume heads) are composed of cooling fluid with temperature-dependent viscosity. An axisymmetric gravity current theory accounting for these thermo-viscous effects is thus presented and explored here. Unlik...

This paper is concerned with nonparametric binomial regression. Two kernel-based binomial regression estimators and their bias-adjusted versions are proposed, whose kernels are weighted by the inverses of variance estimators of the observed proportion at each covariate. Asymptotic theories for deriving asymptotic mean squared errors (AMSEs) of proposed estimators are developed. Comparisons with...

Th is paper examines the impact of transport infrastructure, as an important determinant of transport costs, on trade between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s fi fteen largest trading partners. Th e estimation is based on a gravity model and panel data for the years 2005 to 2014. Transport costs have been estimated on the basis of distance, geography and quality of transport ...