Quantitative Assessment of Pores (An invited lecture).

Invited Lecture An Introduction to Cavitation Fundamentals

In this opening lecture I will summarize some of the fundamentals of cavitation in the hope that this will allow attendees greater insight into the more advanced lectures which follow. Whether your primary interest is in the turbomachinery field or in the biological and bioengineering contexts in which cavitation is important these fundamentals are important in understanding the observed phenom...

Invited Lecture: Narrative Summarization

The understanding and summarization of stories remains a challenge, in part because of the inability to adequately capture the ‘aboutness’ of information content. This can result in inappropriate content selection as well as summary incoherence. This talk sketches a general framework for narrative summarization that relies in part on explo itation of temporal information. I will show how this f...

Pactrims Invited Lecture / Ordinary Submission

assessment of the efficiency of s.p.g.c refineries using network dea

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

Assessment of Quantitative and Qualitative characteristics of Golestan Province Forests in an 11-year period (Iran)

The assessment of the quantitative and qualitative changes, the result of the impacts imposed by natural factors, and human interventions during specific sampling periods has a substantial influence on nature, management method and tending operation of every region’s forests. The present research was carried out in Golestan province forests (Iran) over an 11- year period and the obtained statis...