the manning roughness coefficient is an important parameter in the design and evaluation of furrow irrigation. despite its importance, estimation of this parameter for surface irrigation is very difficult, particularly in furrow irrigation. in this study, an evalue model was used to estimate the manning roughness coefficient in furrow irrigation. the model was based on volume balance and develo...

In this paper, we study the maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) of expected frequencies under a loop order restriction in an I × J contingency table. Some properties of the MLEs are given and an algorithm for computing the MLEs is detailed. The proposed methods are illustrated by using the data from Wing (1962).

the aim of the present study was the estimation of (co) variance components and genetic parameters for body weight of moghani sheep, using random regression models based on b-splines functions. the data set included 9165 body weight records from 60 to 360 days of age from 2811 moghani sheep, collected between 1994 to 2013 from jafar-abad animal research and breeding institute, ardabil province,...

We study in this paper a posteriori error estimates for H-conforming numerical approximations of diffusion problems with a diffusion coefficient piecewise constant on the mesh cells but arbitrarily discontinuous across the interfaces between the cells. Our estimates give a global upper bound on the error measured either as the energy norm of the difference between the exact and approximate solu...

BACKGROUND To present an episodic random utility model that unifies time trade-off and discrete choice approaches in health state valuation. METHODS First, we introduce two alternative random utility models (RUMs) for health preferences: the episodic RUM and the more common instant RUM. For the interpretation of time trade-off (TTO) responses, we show that the episodic model implies a coeffic...

In this paper, we define new subclasses ${S}^{*}_{q}(alpha,Phi),$ ${M}_{q}(alpha,Phi)$ and ${L}_{q}(alpha,Phi)$ of analytic functions in the space of logistic sigmoid functions based on quasi--subordination and determine the initial coefficient estimates $|a_2|$ and $|a_3|$ and also determine the relevant connection to the classical Fekete--Szeg"o inequalities. Further, we discuss the improved ...

Premature delivery is the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States. Currently, premature delivery cannot be prevented and new treatments are difficult to develop due to the inability to diagnose symptoms prior to uterine contractions. Cervical ripening is a long period that precedes the active phase of uterine contractions and cervical dilation. The changes in the microstructure o...

The aim of the present study was the estimation of (co) variance components and genetic parameters for body weight of Moghani sheep, using random regression models based on B-Splines functions. The data set included 9165 body weight records from 60 to 360 days of age from 2811 Moghani sheep, collected between 1994 to 2013 from Jafar-Abad Animal Research and Breeding Institute, Ardabil province,...

A synthesis of a globally convergent numerical method for a coefficient inverse problem and the adaptivity technique is presented. First, the globally convergent method provides a good approximation for the unknown coefficient. Next, this approximation is refined via the adaptivity technique. The analytical effort is focused on a posteriori error estimates for the adaptivity. A numerical test i...

Error estimates are derived for the approximate identification of an unknown transmissivity coefficient in a partial differential equation describing a model problem in groundwater now. The approximation scheme considered determines the coefficient by least squares fitting of the observed pressure data.