This study presents a development of multi-layer perceptron (MLP) model to spatially estimate and analyze the variability effective cohesion for residual soils that are commonly associated with rainfall-induced slope failures in Singapore. A number soil data were collected from various construction sites, set qualified Nanyang Technological University (NTU) utilized determine criterion selectio...

The in-situ release of fine particles in a porous medium resulting from changes in the colloidal character of fines induced by changes in the electrolytic condition of the permeating fluid and its effects on processes related to enhanced oil recovery (EOR) are examined. Experimental results show that high pH and low salinity cause fines to be released which, in turn, causes a drastic decline in...

Bumb and Hoede have shown that a cooperative game can be split into two games, the reward game and the fine game, by considering the sign of quantities c v S in the c-diagram of the game. One can then define a solution x for the original game as x = x r − x f , where x r is a solution for the reward game and x f is a solution for the fine game. Due to the distinction of cooperation rewards and ...

A potential problem with local enforcement of national legislation is the varying level of application the decentralized structure may create. To study the severity of this problem, induced by mismatching local and national incentives, I look at the enforcement of the Swedish Environmental Code which is a national legislation enforced on the local level. I measure enforcement in terms of enviro...

Bumb and Hoede have shown that a cooperative game can be split into two games, the reward game and the fine game, by considering the sign of quantities cS in the c-diagram of the game. One can then define a solution x for the original game as x = xr − xf , where xr is a solution for the reward game and xf is a solution for the fine game. Due to the distinction of cooperation rewards and fines, ...

Subjects’ identification of briefly presented target fines can sometimes be facilitated by including noninformative lines of context in the display Ithe object-fine effect}. Previous explanations for this effect have claimed that stimulus properties such as three-dimensionality, connectedness, structural relevance, fine-masking, or fixation-point detail, allow fine-in-context stimuli to be proc...

In this paper we describe a new approach for the detection of fine structures in an image. This approach is based on the computation of the topological gradient associated to a cost function defined from a regularization of the data (possibly noisy). We get this approximation by solving a fourth order PDE. The study of the topological sensitivity is made both in the cases of a circular inclusio...