In general, any system may be at risk in a case of losing the critical facilities by natural disasters or terrorist attacks. This paper focuses on identifying the critical facilities and planning to reduce the effect of this event. A three-level model is suggested in the form of a defender-attacker-defender. It is assumed that the facilities are hierarchical and capable of nesting. Also, the at...

the alternative double bonds and conjugation in the polyene compounds are one of the main properties in these compounds. each carbon-carbon bonds in a polyene compound along the chain has appreciable double-bond character. the p-electrons are therefore not localized but are relatively free to move throughout the entire carbon skeleton as an one-dimensional box. the skeleton be considered as a r...

Three different heat treatments of aluminum alloy AA5052 were subjected to various levels of uniaxial plastic strain. The resulting surfaces were then evaluated using both scanning laser confocal microscopy (SLCM) and stylus profilometry. Three regression approaches were used to assess the quality of a linear and a curvilinear fit for the roughness data as a function of true plastic strain. Whi...

Composing of multi-pole models and simulation of dynamic responses of a technical chain system is considered in the paper. Part 1 of the paper discusses difficulties arising in using existing simulation tools. A methodology is proposed that seems to be free of most of these disadvantages. Modeling of electro-hydraulic servovalve is considered as an example of chain system. An intelligent simula...

A mathematical model has been simulated to describe natural in situ bioremediation of contaminated soil. The model equations consist of a system of three non-linear partial differential equations. Sensitivity analysis conducted by numerically solving them, has demonstrated the effect of initial contaminant concentration on the time and mechanism of remediation. The result of simulation indicate...

This paper builds a two-dimensional linear homeomorphic oculomotor plant mathematical model and assesses its ability to simulate person-specific oblique saccades on a two-dimensional plane. The proposed model is driven by a simplified pulse-step neuronal control signal and accounts in a linear form for the unique characteristics of the eye globe and the extraocular muscles responsible for horiz...

The performance comparison of the optimally weighted LS estimate and the linear minimum variance estimate for a linear model with random input is presented. In this case optimally weighted LS estimate is not a linear estimate of a parameter given input and observation anymore while linear minimum variance estimate still is. Under a certain conditions on variance matrix invertibility, we show th...

Production scheduling in underground mines is still a manual process, and achieving a truly optimal result through manual scheduling is impossible due to the complexity of the scheduling problems. Among the underground mining methods, sub-level caving is a common mining method with a high production rate for hard rock mining. There are limited studies about long-term production scheduling...

This paper represents the comparison between Negative Binomial Regression model and Generalized Poisson Regression model for over-dispersion count data. For this comparison, we used BDHS 2007 data in where the response variable is the total children ever born which is a count data. When the response variable is count, then Poisson Regression Model as a Generalized Linear Model is widely and pop...