Recycled glass is a mixture of different coloured glass particles with debris. It is the result of crushing the waste glass collected from residential and industrial areas. Construction and Demolition (C&D) materials such as concrete, excavation stone (basalt) and brick make up a significant proportion of the waste materials present in landfills in Australia. Substituting the quarry produced cr...

Two regional finite element (FE) models of a buried glass-fiber reinforced composite pipe have been developed at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The model replicates an arbitrary site whereby fuel is being transported through the 400 mm diameter line, and comprises of multiple components such as the valve pit, 45 degrees and 90 degrees pipe bends, and a service road consisting of th...

In this paper we investigate generalized topologies generated by a subbase of preorder relators and consider its application in the concept of the complement. We introduce the notion of principal generalized topologies obtained from the new type of open sets and study some of their important properties.

Strongly Unfoldable Cardinals Made Indestructible by Thomas A. Johnstone Advisor: Joel David Hamkins I provide indestructibility results for weakly compact, indescribable and strongly unfoldable cardinals. In order to make these large cardinals indestructible, I assume the existence of a strongly unfoldable cardinal κ, which is a hypothesis consistent with V = L. The main result shows that any ...

This paper contributes to the literature of pro-poor growth measurement by introducing a growth-rate consistency axiom. The axiom states that if one growth pattern is judged to be more pro-poor than another growth pattern at a given growth rate, then the pro-poor ranking between the two growth patterns should remain the same at a higher growth rate. We show that summary pro-poor measures such a...

4 Axioms of ZFC 7 4.1 Axiom of extensionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.2 Axiom of the empty set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.3 Axiom of unordered pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.4 Axiom of union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.5 Axiom of infinity . . ...

In this paper, we present a hypergraph-based inference method for conditional independence. Our method allows us to obtain several interesting results on graph combination. In particular, our hypergraph approach allows us to strengthen one result obtained in a conventional graph-based approach. We also introduce a new inference axiom, called combination, of which the contraction axiom is a spec...

1 Three Axioms for a Determinant Function Let d be a scalar-valued function on the space Mn×n of all n×n matrices. Let A1, A2, . . . , An be the n rows of an n×n matrix A. We will denote the value d(A) of A under the function d as d(A) = d(A1, A2, . . . , An), indicating that d is a scalar-valued function of n n-dimensional row vectors A1, A2, . . . , An. The scalar-valued function d is called ...