In order to better manage and monitor fluid flow and migration of chemicals in gas and liquid phases, a fundamental understanding and knowledge of the saturation dependency of permeability, diffusion and electrical conductivity in a porous medium is required. The initial fundamental formulations and recent research for characterization of transport properties in porous media are discussed. To i...

Population Health and Environment (PHE) strategies are argued to improve ecosystem and human health by addressing family size and its effects on natural resource use, food security, and reproductive health. This study investigates men's views on a PHE family planning (FP) programme delivered among the pastoral Samburu tribe in rural northern Kenya. Three focus group discussions and nine semi-st...

It is well known that the average redundancy rate of sample-based universal block codes is monotonically decreasing with the length of samples used for their construction. We show, that this is no longer true if samples and blocks of symbols to be compressed are produced by two different sources. In this case, the formula for the average redundancy receives an additional term which changes the ...

Recent results in quantization theory show that the convergence rate for the mean-squared expected distortion of the empirical risk minimizer strategy, for any fixed probability distribution satisfying some regularity conditions is O(1/n), where n is the sample size (see, e.g., [6] or [11]). However, the dependency of the average distortion on other parameters is not known. This paper offers mo...

Recent research in Umbria, Italy, has shown that landslide susceptibility is controlled by a process called path-dependency, which describes how past landslides control the locations of future landslides. To date, path-dependency only been characterised Italy. This raises question whether this occurs other geomorphic settings, and thus should be more universally included assessments. Therefore,...