Growing use of recycled asphalt materials in pavement means the current volumetric-based Superpave mixture design may not address durability concerns arising from replacement a proportion virgin binder with ones. To this limitation, performance-based testing is introduced to supplement conventional volumetric assessing cracking performance mixtures. Louisiana Department Transportation and Devel...

We describe a branch-and-bound algorithm for computing an orthogonal grid drawing with the minimum number of bends of a biconnected pla-nar graph. Such algorithm is based on an eecient enumeration schema of the embeddings of a planar graph and on several new methods for computing lower bounds of the number of bends. We experiment such algorithm on a large test suite and compare the results with...

Abstruct: We extend a new stability test proposed recently for discrete system polynomials [l] to polynomials with complex coefficients. The method is based on a three-term recursion of a conjugate symmetric sequence of polynomials. The complex version has the same relative improved efficiency as the real version in comparison to the classical Schur-Cohn formulation for counting the number of z...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com on PTEs and Stein-type estimators for various linear models. In statistical inference, the use of prior information on other parameters in a statistical model, usually leads to improved inference on the parameter of interest. Prior information may he (i) known and deterministic which is then incorporated into the model in the form of constraints on ...