The decay features of thirty-nine monuments built with granite stones and presenting diverse architectural characteristics, date of construction and environment characteristics (including exposition conditions, traffic intensity, etc) are compare in order to discuss decay patterns and susceptibility of granite types applied in architectural works. Decay patterns of biotite-rich medium to fine-g...

Probabilistic inversion is used to take expert uncertainty assessments about observable model outputs and build from them a distribution on the model parameters that captures the uncertainty expressed by the experts. In this paper we look at ways to use minimum information methods to do this, focussing in particular on the problem of ensuring consistency between expert assessments about differi...

Road transport has become by far the major source of environmental pollution and traffic congestion in urban areas. Though a lot of research has been done to investigate the functional relationship linking air quality and air pollution from transport, a further improvement in the knowing of this relationship is needed. The aim of this study was to analyze this relationship and to develop a more...

I h e efficiency of US agricultural production has increased through the use of machinery, biotechnology, and chemicals so that one farmer is now able to feed 100 Americans. During this past decade, however, many people, including those in the agricultural industry, have felt that more attention must be directed toward the preservation of the environment. Because agricultural practices such as ...

Fork-join and split-merge queueing systems are well-known abstractions of parallel systems in which each incoming task splits into subtasks that are processed by a set of parallel servers. A task exits the system when all of its subtasks have completed service. Two key metrics of interest in such systems are task response time and subtask dispersion. This paper presents a technique applicable t...

■ Abstract Various forms of atmospheric moist convection are reviewed through a consideration of three prevalent regimes: stratocumulus; trade-wind; and deep, precipitating, maritime convection. These regimes are chosen because they are structural components of the general circulation of the atmosphere and because they highlight distinguishing features of this polymorphous phenomenon. In partic...

We look at a game theoretic scenario in which an industrial firm has the option of voluntarily controlling the pollutants it originates. A regulating agency sets the tax rate on corporate profits as well as a Pigouvian pollution tax: preset percentages of projected cleanup cost which must be covered by the firm. The regulator spends tax revenue to cover the remaining percentage of cleanup costs...

air pollution is one of the major threats to environment in the present time. increase in degree of urbanization is a major cause of this air pollution. due to urbanization, vehicular activities are continuously increasing at a tremendous rate. mobile or vehicular pollution is predominantly degrading the air quality worldwide. thus, air quality management is necessary for dealing with this seve...