plasters are produced from a light refractory material, mainly mgo (m.p. 2800ºc), a binder, and a void forming substance for insulating purposes. different oxides from the slag penetrate into these voids and provide low melting-point phases suchasrhodonite (mnsio3) (1290ºc), tephorite (mn2sio4) (1345ºc), merwinite (ca3mgsi2o8) (1575ºc), monticellite (camgsio4) (1490ºc), and enstatite (mgsio3) (...

Acknowledgment In the first place, I would like to record my gratitude to Patrick Sénac for his 3 years' supervision in the context of my PhD study, as well as giving me extraordinary opportunities to participate several projects throughout the research work. This thesis would not have been possible without his support and guidance. His truly scientist intuition has made him as a constant oasis...

This study presents a semi-analytical solution for the problem of leakage in an unconfined aquifer bounded below by an aquitard of finite or semi-infinite extent. The homogeneous anisotropic unconfined aquifer of infinite radial extent is pumped continuously at a constant rate from a well of infinitesimal radius. The aquitard is also homogeneous , anisotropic and of infinite radial extent. Flow...

Load balancing algorithms improve a program’s performance on unbalanced datasets, but can degrade performance on balanced datasets, because unnecessary load redistributions occur. This paper presents a cost-effective data-parallel load balancing algorithm which performs load redistributions only when the possible savings outweigh the redistribution costs. Experiments with a data-parallelpolygon...

A normed space $mathfrak{X}$ is said to have the fixed point property, if for each nonexpansive mapping $T : E longrightarrow E $ on a nonempty bounded closed convex subset $ E $ of $ mathfrak{X} $ has a fixed point. In this paper, we first show that if $ X $ is a locally compact Hausdorff space then the following are equivalent: (i) $X$ is infinite set, (ii) $C_0(X)$ is infinite dimensional, (...