The engineering properties of collapsible loess have significant uncertainty. Accurate prediction deformation is crucial for the safety construction in areas. Taking typical stratum as research object Xi’an, based on random field theory, combined with Monte Carlo strategy and modulus reduction method, stochastic finite element analysis self-weight collapsibility carried out to study influence s...

Market systems development (MSD) programmes aim to influence private actor behaviour promote markets that work better for the poor. This article aims inform theory-based evaluation (TBE) of such programmes, arguing a stronger analysis market change is needed. It proposes ‘behaviour framework’ (BCF), building on recent advances in TBE literature. These focus attention as contingent alignment cap...

this article investigates fluctuations in stocks prices at tehran stock exchange, assuming that investors' utility stems from fluctuations in value of stocks as well as consumption. thus, the two behavioral phenomena discussed in prospect theory, i. e. loss aversion and house money effect, were factored into consumption-based asset pricing model and investor's utility function, which ...

Findings: Two important distinctions emerged in evaluation roots in LMICs. The first is that much evaluation fits effectively on the Theory Tree as it is presented, with perhaps some nuance, but we see a collective rather than individual origin of the evaluation theory writings we have uncovered. The second is the nature of the formal evaluation work in LMICs; its practical origins are not yet ...

this paper presents the aerodynamic design and economical evaluation of a 200 kw site specific wind turbine for the province of semnan in iran. by designing site specific wind turbines, the cost of energy which is calculated out of the annual energy production and also the cost of manufacturing the rotor are minimized. the aerodynamic design is based on the well-known blade element momentum the...

Water flooding is a well-known secondary mechanism for improving oil recovery. Conventional approach to evaluate the performance of a water flooding process (e.g. breakthrough and post breakthrough behavior) is to establish a reliable geological reservoir model, upscale it, and then perform flow simulations. To evaluate the uncertainty in the breakthrough time or post breakthrough behavior, thi...

this study aimed to develop indicators for evaluating the implementation of the framework convention on tobacco control (fctc) in iran. we used the “grounded theory” framework. totally, 265 policy-makers, stakeholders, and community members were recruited by purposeful sampling in 2008. after analyzing the gathered data, 251 indicators, including 82 indicators as “applied indicators”, were deri...