non-fourier heat transfer analysis of functionally graded (fg) spherical shells subjected to the radiative-convective boundary conditions at their inner and outer surfaces are presented. it is assumed that the material properties have continuous variations along the thickness direction. the incremental differential quadrature method (idqm) as an accurate and computationally efficient numerical ...

growth analysis is a valuable method in the quantitative analysis of crop growth, development and crop production. there are many regression models to describe the sigmoid growth patterns. by considering that, the parameters of non-linear regression models have physiological meanings, they are preferable relation to linear regression models. the aim of this study was to collect and evaluate the...

Stability analysis is one of the most important fields of study in the Islamic banking and finance industry. For measuring stability in Islamic banking, we introduced, for the first time, an Islamic banking stability index (IBS) during 2013 to 2016 which use all CAMEL factors and so seems to be more comprehensive than Z-score stability index which dominantly used in the existing literatures. To...

In this research a comprehensive finite element program was developed in order to carry out an elasto perfectly plastic analysis of geogrid reinforcement of a model pavement. Qualitative agreement is seen between the numerical results and experiment. The results indicate the influence of geogrid in reduction of vertical deformation of pavements. It is also seen that for strong subgrade, the opt...

Usually, in make-to-order environments which work only in response to the customer’s orders, manufacturers for maximizing the profits should offer the best price and delivery time for an order considering the existing capacity and the customer’s sensitivity to both the factors. In this paper, an integrated approach for pricing, delivery time setting and scheduling of new arrival orders are prop...

A non-linear multi-window method for generating a time-varying spectrum of non-stationary signals in noise is presented. The timevarying spectrum is computed from an optimally weighted average of multiple Hermite windowed spectrograms. The weights are determined using linear least squares estimation with respect to a reference time-frequency distribution. A masking operation is also used to red...

This paper introduces a method for performing fully Bayesian inference for non-linear conditional autoregressive continuous-time models, based on a finite skeleton of observations. Our approach uses MCMC and involves imputing data from times at which observations are not made. It uses a reparameterisation technique for the missing data, and due to the non-Markovian nature of the models, it is n...

The paper describes a project to apply the particle system (PS) approach to structural engineering problems. The PS approach is widely used in computer graphics and animation to simulate physical phenomena such as deformable objects and collisions. The study finds that although the PS approach is less efficient than conventional finite element analysis, its ability to model unstable structures ...