W. Gao, H. Zhu, K. Giovanello, K. Smith, D. Shen, J. Gilmore, and W. Lin Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, Department of Biostatistics and BRIC, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Psychology and BRIC, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Radiology, University of Nort...

W. Gao, H. Zhu, K. Giovanello, K. Smith, D. Shen, J. Gilmore, and W. Lin Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, Department of Biostatistics and BRIC, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Psychology and BRIC, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Radiology, University of Nort...

Local waterlogging often occurs on the steep slopes of clayey–calcareous soils in southwestern France, causing nutrients and pollutants transfer to river bodies reduced ecosystems services. These developed Miocene molassic hill formation are generally impermeable with abundant traces hydromorphy heterogenous spatial distribution. This article aims describe hydrological functioning these soils, ...

Abstract Destructive landslides were triggered by the 6.7 M w Eastern Iburi earthquake that struck southern Hokkaido, Japan, on 6 September 2018. Heavy rainfall 4 in addition to intermittent around Tobu area saturated and weakened slope-forming materials (mostly altered volcanoclastic soils), making them susceptible failure because of earthquake’s strong ground motion. Most shallow exhibited lo...

Generally, the evaluation and assessment critical condition of rill formation are useful for a better understanding of soil erosion processes. The inherence characteristics of soils, which have much dynamic variations on the hill-slopes and are affected by rill formation, are the soil critical shear stress and soil erodibility factors. This study aims to assess experimental rill incision thre...

We propose a simple and semi-parametric estimator for the tail index of a regular varying elliptical random vector. Since, for univariate random variables, our estimator boils down to the Hill estimator and it inherits the simplicity and asymptotic properties, we name it after Bruce M. Hill. The estimator is based on the distance between an elliptical probability contour and the outer – or exce...

Enforced hill-climbing is an effective deterministic hillclimbing technique that deals with local optima using breadth-first search (a process called “basin flooding”). We propose and evaluate a stochastic generalization of enforced hill-climbing for online use in goal-oriented probabilistic planning problems. We assume a provided heuristic function estimating expected cost to the goal with fla...

A great deal has been written, especially since the war, on off street parking. You have heard of the crying need for more off street parking in order to meet the needs of shoppers and thereby avoid a process of decentralization. Many parking authorities have been established and millions of dollars of public money invested in park­ ing facilities to provide space for all comers on a completely...

Vimal K. Derebail, JulieAnne G. McGregor, Romulo E. Colindres, Harsharan K. Singh and Abhijit V. Kshirsagar Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; UNC Kidney Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel H...

This paper deals with completion of partial latin squares L = (lij) of order n with k cyclically generated diagonals (li+t,j+t = lij + t if lij is not empty; with calculations modulo n). There is special emphasis on cyclic completion. Here, we present results for k = 2, . . . , 7 and odd n ≤ 21, and we describe the computational method used (hill-climbing). Noncyclic completion is investigated ...