This paper proposes a methodology for managing complex sewerage networks based on the concomitant use of two performance evaluation methods, namely, failure modes, effects, and criticality analysis (FMECA) analytical hierarchy process (AHP). The FMECA is used to determine risks structural failures making it possible establish these failures. AHP check relationship consistency between indicators...

Speed as a crucial phenomenon of modernism affects individual and collective life of human being and changes the traits of the places people live in. Increasing speed is the demand of the modern era, though on the other side in recent years there is a contrary incline towards slowing down different aspects of life. In view of this, the dualities in between social features of Speed up and slow d...

The study of the human mind has evolved over the course of many centuries. While modern neuroscience relies on objective, quantitative methods for measuring how mental events manifest as brain activity, ancient contemplative traditions have used first-person introspective practices to gain a greater understanding of the mind. It is now possible to combine these different approaches, hopefully i...

BACKGROUND Both calliper devices and digital photographic methods have been used to quantify foot arch height parameters. The purpose of this study was to compare the reliability of both a calliper device and digital photographic method in determining the arch height index (AHI). METHODS Twenty subjects underwent measurements of AHI on two separate days. On each day, AHI measurements during b...

Starting from a biochemical signalling pathway model expressed in a process algebra enriched with quantitative information we automatically derive both continuous-space and discrete-state representations suitable for numerical evaluation. We compare results obtained using implicit numerical differentiation formulae to those obtained using approximate stochastic simulation thereby exposing a fla...