The study employed the finite element method to develop a validated theoretical model to investigate the distribution of thermal hoop stress around the teeth of a spur gear operating in a filler machine. Three cases of temperature distribution along the radius of a gear tooth were assumed and investigated. The outcome showed that the maximum effective stress occurs at the tip of the gear tooth ...

the objective of this study was to determine the relationship between body weight (bw) and heart girth (hg) in sardi and timahdite sheep in order to develop a prediction equation of bw from hg. the data used for this study included 476 records on bw and hg (227 in sardi and 249 in timahdite) collected on males and females of different ages in 33 private farms. the bw and the hg averaged 34.8 ± ...

Myocardial infarction leads to changes in the geometry (remodeling) of the left ventricle (LV) of the heart. The degree and type of remodeling provides important diagnostic information for the therapeutic management of ischemic heart disease. In this paper, we present a novel analysis framework for characterizing remodeling after myocardial infarction, using LV shape descriptors derived from at...

Bite damage patterns have long been used to estimate shark species and body size, with somewhat limited success. The lack of Wt between damage patterns and shark size is partially due to variation in tooth size and shape within an individual. The ability to accurately predict body size from bite patterns is important for better understanding the ecological and behavioral underpinnings of shark ...

Motivated by the newly developed max-linear competing copula factor models and max-stable nonlinear time series models, we propose a new class of regression to take advantages easy interpretable features embedded in linear models. It can be seen that relation is special case relation. We develop an EM algorithm based maximum likelihood estimation procedure. The consistency asymptotics estimator...

Field observations form the basis of many scientific studies, especially in ecological and social sciences. Despite efforts to conduct such surveys a standardized way, can be prone systematic measurement errors. The removal variability introduced by observation process, if possible, greatly increase value this data. Existing non-parametric techniques for correcting errors assume linear additive...

accurate estimation of evaporation is important for design, planning and operation of water systems. in arid zones where water resources are scarce, the estimation of this loss becomes more interesting in the planning and management of irrigation practices. this paper investigates the ability of artificial neural networks (anns) technique to improve the accuracy of daily evaporation estimation....