BACKGROUND No consensus has been reached how to measure the effectiveness of climate change mitigation in the land-use sector and how to prioritize land use accordingly. We used the long-term cumulative and average sectorial C stocks in biomass, soil and products, C stock changes, the substitution of fossil energy and of energy-intensive products, and net present value (NPV) as evaluation crite...

the effect of steel plate thickness on the repair effectiveness of rc beam is presented in this paper. a total of four beams were tested, one beam repaired by cfrp with a thickness of 1.2 mm and used as a control beam, and three beams repaired by a steel plate. steel plates with a thickness of 2 mm, 3 mm, and 4 mm were used in repairing the beams. the maximum load-carrying capacity, deflection ...

Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Science in Technology to be presented with due permission for public examination and debate in Auditorium S4 at the Helsinki University of Technology (Espoo, Finland) on the 26 th of May, 2000, at 12 o'clock noon. I wish to express my gratitude to Hans-Olav Hide, Arnstein Wee, and my other colleagues at Multi-Fluid/Roxar, who gave me the opportunity to w...

A study of 90 eyes in 72 diabetic patients with peripheral retinal neovascularisation treated by photocoagulation indicated that the subsequent development of further peripheral or disc new vessels is infrequent if panretinal photocoagulation is the initial treatment procedure. Focal or sectorial treatment may be considered only if a small area of neovascularisation is present initially and pro...

Isolated degenerate elementary singular points (saddle nodes) of germs of holomorphic vector fields in (C2, 0) are studied. An analytic classification of them is obtained; it is shown that the analytic classification has two times more moduli (numeric and functional) than the orbital analytic classification. A theorem on sectorial normalization is proved.

The purpose of the present notes is to examine following issues related Chernoff estimate: (1) For contractions on a Banach space we modify $\sqrt{n}$-estimate and apply it in proof product formula for $C_0$-semigroups \textit{strong} operator topology. (2) We use idea {probabilistic} approach, proving estimate strong topology, uplift \textit{operator-norm} \textit{quasi-sectorial} contraction ...

In this paper we investigate some practical aspects concerning the use of the Restricted-Denominator (RD) rational Arnoldi method for the computation of the core functions of exponential integrators for parabolic problems. We derive some useful a-posteriori bounds together with some hints for a suitable implementation inside the integrators. Numerical experiments arising from the discretization...

The aim of this work is to study the notion of the gradient observability on a subregion ω of the evolution domain Ω for a class of semilinear hyperbolic systems. We show, under some hypothesis, that the gradient reconstruction is achieved following sectorial approach combined with fixed point techniques. The obtained results lead to an algorithm which can be implemented numerically.

Two patients with sectorial optic atrophy and homonymous, horizontal sectoranopia are described. Neuroradiological investigations localised the visual pathway lesion to the lateral geniculate body. The peculiar nature of the field defect and the optic atrophy appeared explicable in terms of ischaemia in the territory of the lateral choroidal artery.