Soil water characteristic curve (SWCC) is one of the most essential hydraulic properties that play fundamental role in various environmental issues and management. SWCC gives important information for movement, soil behavior, infiltration, drainage mechanism, affecting circle aquifer recharge. Since world’s freshwater withdrawals go irrigation uses, decoding beneficial, as it affects saving thr...

Construction and demolition waste are one of the major streams in world. Aggregates must be used significant quantities during road construction maintenance as base sub-base materials. Government local businesses promoting use recycled material old pavement andconstruction due to high cost virgin aggregates. Concrete, subgrade, railroad ballast materials can all made from concrete aggregate (RC...

The covariate-specific receiver operating characteristic curve is frequently used to evaluate the classification accuracy of a diagnostic test when it is associated with certain covariates. In this paper, we proposed a new procedure for estimating this curve based on a reformulation of the conventional location-scale model as well as the idea of composite quantile regression. Asymptotic normali...

ROC curve analysis is used widely in medicine as a method for evaluating the performance of diagnostic tests (3,5,6,10), but has been used recently in many agricultural applications (2,4,5,11,12). The ROC curve provides information regarding how often a test’s predictions are correct, and provides a graphical method for evaluating and discriminating between different diagnostic tests or modific...

Question. Given a connected curve C 0 , proper and smooth over a field K of characteristic p, given a subgroup H ⊂ Aut(C 0); can we lift the pair (C 0 , H) to characteristic zero? ((We shall see that the answer is " NO " in general; for cyclic groups we conjecture that the answer is " YES " .)) Example (1) (Roquette). Consider the normalization of the completion of the curve given by the affine...