Precipitation data provide a crucial input for examining hydrological issues, including watershed management and mitigation of the effects floods, drought, landslides. However, they are collected frequently from scarce often insufficient network ground-based rain-gauge stations to generate continuous precipitation maps. Recently, maps derived satellite have not been sufficiently linked rain gau...

A quantile is a popular performance measure for stochastic system to evaluate its variability and risk. To reduce the risk, selecting actions that minimize tail quantiles of some loss distributions typically interest decision makers. When distribution observed via simulations, evaluating optimizing can be challenging, especially when simulations are expensive as it may cost large number simulat...

We study a dynamic coordination process in which agents are uncertain about the actions of their fellow agents, and anticipate strategically relevant information. Because of the uncertainty and learning, (ir)reversibility of actions has important strategic consequences. We find that the reversibility option can either enhance or hamper efficient coordination, and we characterize the direction o...

We extend Post’s programme to finite levels of the Ershov hierarchy of ∆2 sets, and characterise, in the spirit of Post [9], the degrees of the immune and hyperimmune d.c.e. sets. We also show that no properly d.c.e. set can be hh-immune, and indicate how to generalise these results to n-c.e. sets, n > 2.

For optical studies of boiling heat transfer process, it is essential that the refractive index and its dependence on temperature for the test liquid be known. In this work a simple set-up was built to measure the refractive index of Fluorinert Liquid PF-5060 with temperature compensation and temperature control. The pinhole laser light beam was used for determining the refraction angle. The re...

Weprovide a simple set of sufficient conditions for theweak convergence of discrete-time, discrete-state Galton–Watson branching processes with immigration to continuous-time, continuous-state branching processes with immigration.

We show that in the c.e. weak truth table degrees if b < c then there is an a which contains no hypersimple set and b < a < c. We also show that for every w < c in the c.e. wtt degrees such that w is hypersimple, there is a hypersimple a such that w < a < c. On the other hand we know that there are intervals which contain no hypersimple set.

estimating unsampled points for varying sampling intervals and densities was calculated (Webster et al., 1989). Pasturelands are inherently variable. It is this variability that makes The reflectance data measured in the Webster et al. sampling as well as characterizing an entire pasture difficult. Measurement of plant canopy reflectance with a ground-based radiometer (1989) study was optimal i...