compared to quartz sand, the shear behavior of carbonate sand differs in  appearance, origin, and kind. carbonate sand is found mainly in the northern coast of the persian gulf and the oman sea. in this research, a comparison is made between the shear behavior of carbonate sand retrieved from the eastern region of the chabahar port, located north of the oman sea, and quartz sand obtained from f...

A Bloom filter has been widely utilized to represent a set of items because it is a simple space-efficient randomized data structure. In this paper, we propose a new structure to support the representation of items with multiple attributes based on Bloom filters. The structure is composed of Parallel Bloom Filters (PBF) and a hash table to support the accurate and efficient representation and q...

This paper introduces an attribute selection task as a way to characterize the inherent meaning of property-denoting adjectives in adjective-noun phrases, such as e.g. hot in hot summer denoting the attribute TEMPERATURE, rather than TASTE. We formulate this task in a vector space model that represents adjectives and nouns as vectors in a semantic space defined over possible attributes. The vec...

Irregularities are inherent to virtually all fibers, including the conventional textile fibers, the high-performance brittle fibers and newly developed nano-fibers. These irregularities can fall into two main categories: dimensional or geometrical irregularity (external) and structural irregularity (internal). For natural fibers such as wool, diameter variation along fiber length is atypical ex...

When the Akebono (EXOS-D) satellite passed through the plasmasphere, a series of lightning whistlers was observed by its analog wideband receiver (WBA). Recently, we developed an intelligent algorithm to detect lightning whistlers from WBA data. In this study, we analyzed two typical events representing the clear dispersion characteristics of lightning whistlers along the trajectory of Akebono....

Various alternatives to the PRAM model have been proposed in recent literature. This paper deenes the notion of cost consistency, and shows that many previous PRAM-type models lack this important attribute. An alternative model of parallel computation, called the Pa-rameterized PRAM, is then introduced. This model is shown to be fully general, in the sense that many other PRAM models may be de-...

Data is handled everyday by information systems and its inherent quality is a fundamental aspect to operational and support business activities. However, inappropriate data quality may lead to economic and social problems within the organizational context. This paper addresses how to syntactically and semantically ensure data quality at information entity level. To do so, we define a business p...