qomroud water conveyance tunnel (lot 1&2) with the length of 16 kilometers is considered as one of the greatest development and national projects in iran. since about 2 kilometers of tunnel pass through alluvium and the rest of the tunnel pass through various types of geological units, and due to the complexity of geological condition and variety of effective criteria, suitable selection of...

In this paper we evaluate progressive treemaps. Progressive refinement has a long tradition in image communication, but is a relatively new approach for information presentation. Besides technical benefits it also promises to provide advantages important for the conveyance of data properties. In this first user study in this domain, we focus on the additional value of progressive refinement for...

This paper uses simple hydro-economic optimization to investigate a wide range of regional water system management options for northern Baja California, Mexico. Hydro-economic optimization models, even with parsimonious model formulations, enable investigation of promising water management portfolios for supplying water to agricultural, environmental and urban users. CALVIN, a generalized hydro...

Changes in climate affect the hydrological regime of rivers worldwide and differ with geographic location basin characteristics. Such changes within a are captured flux water sediment at river mouths, which can impact coastal productivity development. Here, we model discharge yield Skeena River, significant British Columbia, Canada. We use HydroTrend 3.0, two global models (GCMs), representativ...

water conveyance systems (wcss) are costly infrastructures in terms of materials, construction, maintenance and energy requirements. much attention has been given to the application of optimization methods to minimize the costs associated with such infrastructures. historically, traditional optimization techniques have been used, such as linear and non-linear programming. in this paper, applica...

We investigated the relationship between movement and conveying emotion with moving images. We developed a software system for generating moving images in which movement is specified with moving effects consisting of a few elements. We prepared eight movements from the Vertex Noise moving effect, which consists of the three elements of speed, density, and strength, by giving each element differ...

The solid transportation problem considers the supply, the demand and the conveyance satisfying the transportation requirement in a cost-effective manner. This paper develops a method that is able to derive the fuzzy objective value of the fuzzy solid transportation problem when the cost coefficients, the supply and demand quantities, conveyance capacities are fuzzy numbers and additional const...

The hatching of cladoceran ephippia from a 15-cm long sediment core was investigated, and Ceriodaphnia quadrangula clones were isolated from different sediment layers. Bosmina microfossil data were also analyzed, and compared with the corresponding data from a Pb210 dated core, which allowed us to infer the age of the sediment layers. Using changes in Bosmina microfossil morphologies, we were, ...

The pollution level of Lake Bafa was investigated by collecting fish samples {Dicentrarchus labrax (sea bass), Liza ramada (mullet) and Anguilla anguilla (eel)}, surface sediment, and core samples. In all these samples, 210Po and 210Pb concentrations were estimated, and total annual dose rates were obtained for each species. Some heavy metal (Cr, Ni, Pb, Cd, Mn, Fe, and Zn) concentration levels...