In a recent paper in this journal, Yang et al. [Feng Yang, Dexiang Wu,Liang Liang, Gongbing Bi & Desheng Dash Wu (2009), supply chainDEA:production possibility set and performance evaluation model] definedtwo types of supply chain production possibility set which were proved to beequivalent to each other. They also proposed a new model for evaluatingsupply chains. There are, however, some short...

The method of pseudo-static analysis has been widely used to perform seismic slope stability, in which a coefficient is represent the earthquake shaking effect. However, it important but difficult select magnitude coefficients, are inevitably subjected different levels uncertainties. This paper aimed study influences uncertainties on stability from perspective probabilistic sensitivity analysis...

BACKGROUND In healthy individuals slow temporal summation of pain or wind-up (WU) can be evoked by repetitive heat-pulses at frequencies of ≥.33 Hz. Previous WU studies have used various stimulus frequencies and intensities to characterize central sensitization of human subjects including fibromyalgia (FM) patients. However, many trials demonstrated considerable WU-variability including zero WU...

Computational modeling plays a significant role in the design of rockfill dams. Various constitutive soil parameters are used to such models, which often involve high uncertainties due complex structure dams comprising various zones different parameters. This study performs an uncertainty analysis and global sensitivity assess effect on behavior dam. A Finite Element code (Plaxis) is utilized f...