This paper describes the application of a continuous daily water balance model called SWAT(Soil and Water Assessment Tool) for the conterminous U.S. The local water balance is represented by four control volumes; (1) snow, (2) soil profile, (3) shallow aquifer, and (4) deep aquifer. The components of the water balance are simulated using "storage" models and readily available input parameters. ...

This paper develops a flexible GIS-based methodology for evaluating the potential locations of terminal park-and-ride facilities along urban rail lines. The methodology differs from political-based approaches and traditional travel demand modeling in its use of an objective measure of accessibility to gage the suitability of a site. The methodology begins by constructing an index of derived dem...

A rchaeological discoveries of traumatic injuries in primitive hominid skulls strongly hint that our species has a long history of violence [1]. Despite repeated attempts throughout history, including efforts to eliminate violence through the imposition of criminal sanctions, we have yet to dispel our violent nature. Consequently, criminal violence remains a common feature of most societies. As...

A reed-type shock gage is an instrument designed to measure the motion of a structure subjected to applied shock. It consists of a series of uniform cantilever beams each of which has a concentrated mass at one end and is clamped to the instrument frame at the other end. The natural frequencies of these beams or reeds are chosen so as to span the range of major frequency components of shock mot...

As Web-based interaction and transaction become an indispensable element of everyday corporate and commerce activity, Internet service providers are increasingly pressured by their customers to provide the capability of guaranteeing a certain level of quality in the Internet service they offer. In this work we propose a general implementation framework to provide quality of service (QoS) guaran...

due to deep, complex and everlasting interaction between precipitation and climatic elements-factors, there are changes and varieties in both time and space dimensions. so that climate experts and related scientists take their attentions to this phenomenon. an approach to do this kind of investigations is to describe spatial variations based on spatial statistics. in this paper the main object ...

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the performance integrated hydrological model, MIKE SHE in a small watershed analyze effect two different precipitation sources on model outputs (groundwater elevation and surface water flows). was calibrated validated with observed groundwater elevations flows measured at United States Geological Survey (USGS) gage stations basin. calibration for...