Stability of reinforced slopes is almost always carried out using limit equilibrium methods and controlled by the shear strengths of the slope materials and the extension force of reinforcements. According to limit equilibrium methods, the stability of slopes is assessed by dividing the whole failure wedge into several vertical elements. In order to determine the safety&#10factor of the reinfor...

in this paper, we introduce fractional order of a planar fractional prey-predator system with a nonmonotonic functional response and anti-predator behaviour such that the adult preys can attack vulnerable predators. we analyze the existence and stability of all possibleequilibria. numerical simulations reveal that anti-predator behaviour notonly makes the coexistence of the prey and predator po...

This paper investigates the equilibrium consequences of a contractual market with moral hazard where multiple principals compete each other to offer incentive contracts to agents who choose unobservable ex post actions. We show the following limit theorems: First, when the trade–off between incentive and risk sharing causes the moral hazard problem on the side of agents, the full insurance cont...

For technical and economic success of miscible gas injection projects, an accurate laboratory measurement of Minimum Miscibility Pressure (MMP) at reservoir conditions is essential. On the other hand, compositional reservoir simulator is a useful tool in gas injection studies and prediction of MMP. The main goal of this paper is to describe a procedure to generate a three phase sequential t...

We study learning in Bayesian games (or games with differential information) with an arbitrary number of bounded rational players, i.e., players who choose approximate best response strategies [approximate Bayesian Nash Equilibrium (BNE) strategies] and who also are allowed to be completely irrational in some states of the world. We show that bounded rational players by repetition can reach a l...

The Very Large Array (VLA) Low-frequency Sky Survey (VLSS) has imaged 95% of the 3π sr of sky north of δ = −30◦ at a frequency of 74 MHz (4 meter wavelength). The resolution is 80 (FWHM) throughout, and the typical RMS noise level is 〈σ〉 ≈ 0.1 Jy/beam. The typical point-source detection limit is 0.7 Jy/beam and so far nearly 70,000 sources have been catalogued. This survey used the 74 MHz syste...

Plague (caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis) is a zoonotic reemerging infectious disease with reservoirs in rodent populations worldwide. Using one-half of a century of unique data (1949-1995) from Kazakhstan on plague dynamics, including data on the main rodent host reservoir (great gerbil), main vector (flea), human cases, and external (climate) conditions, we analyze the full ecoepidemio...

An agent model is described at full-scale with the U.S. private sector, consisting of some 120 million agents. Using data on the population of U.S. firms the model is calibrated to closely reproduce firm sizes, ages, growth rates, job tenure and labor flows, along with several other empirically-important facts. It consists of a coalition formation model in which the Nash equilibria are dynamica...

quantum-dot cellular automaton (qca) is a novel nanotechnology with a very different computational method in compared with cmos, whereas placement of electrons in cells indicates digital information. this nanotechnology with specifications such as fast speed, high parallel processing, small area, low power consumption and higher switching frequency becomes a promising candidate for cmos technol...