The ductile fracture of crystalline materials is a classical subject in mechanics of materials which still presents important challenges. It is driven by the process of growth and coalescence of voids and thus calls for constitutive models of the plastic response of porous crystalline materials. In this context, the consideration of the anisotropy, related to the single crystal response and the...

The mode coupling theory (MCT) of glasses, while offering an incomplete description of glass transition physics, represents the only established route to first-principles prediction of rheological behavior in nonergodic materials such as colloidal glasses. However, the constitutive equations derivable from MCT are somewhat intractable, hindering their practical use and also their interpretation...

Due to the great demand for buffalo milk by-products the interest in technical-scientific information about this species is increasing. Our objective was to propose selection criteria for milk yield in buffaloes based on total milk yield, 305-day milk yield (M305), and test-day milk yield. A total of 3,888 lactations from 1,630 Murrah (Bubalus bubalis) cows recorded between 1987 and 2001, from ...

There has been considerable work on determining a suitable method to accomplish a satisfactory ordering of a group of objects, when there are multiple evaluation criteria. A weighted index can be used to combine the opinion of all stakeholders to obtain a criterion for ranking the objects. Data from 21 watersheds of the Atlantic Slope Consortium (ASC) has been examined with the goal of determin...

This research paper uses partially historical corn yields of each county over five states as training set for calibrating alternative yield models including single parametric distributions, nonparametric distributions, semiparametric distributions, mixing models, and other nontraditional models. The calibrated models are applied to predict the yield of the most recent eight years in historical ...

The nautical bottom (i.e., the level at which contact with a ship's keel causes either damage or unacceptable effects on controllability and manoeuvrability of ship) should be associated to measurable physical characteristic. Bulk density is typically used as criterion for by many ports worldwide. However, rheological properties particularly yield stress mud are eventually more suitable paramet...

In several places in this book we have examined the capabilities of various models of parallel distributed processing. We have considered models that are guaranteed to do one thing or another-to learn , say, up to some criterion of optimality or to settle into global states with probabilities proportional to the goodness of the states. In later chapters , we describe various models of psycholog...

Most of the popular Transactional Memory (TM) algorithms are known to be safe because they satisfy opacity, the well-known correctness criterion for TM algorithms. Recently, it has been shown that they are even more conservative, and that they satisfy TMS2, a strictly stronger property than opacity. This paper investigates the theoretical and practical implications of relaxing those algorithms ...

confined masonry buildings are used in rural and urban areas of iran. they performed almost satisfactoryduring past moderate earthquakes of iran. there is not a methodology in iranian seismic code (standard 2800-3rdedition) to estimate their capacities quantitatively. in line with removing this constraint, an attempt is made to studyin-plane behavior of two squared confined masonry walls with a...