Flood risk reduction strategies play an important role in flood management (FRM) and these are being co-designed with the engagement of stakeholder through multiple consultations co-designing sessions. Effective participation stakeholders interactive work sessions requires fast accurate modeling systems a user-friendly interface, which can simulate impact due to various measures selected by als...

The efficiency of part lactation test day (TD) records in first parity for the genetic evaluation of bulls and cows using a random regression model (RRM) and a fixed regression model (FRM) was studied, modelling the random and fixed lactation curves by Legendre polynomials. The data set consisted of 9 242 783 TD records for first lactation milk yield of 1 134 042 Holstein Friesian heifers. The ...

This paper establishes two new connections between the familiar function ring functor ${mathfrak R}$ on the category ${bf CRFrm}$ of completely regular frames and the category {bf CR}${mathbf sigma}${bf Frm} of completely regular $sigma$-frames as well as their counterparts for the analogous functor ${mathfrak Z}$ on the category {bf ODFrm} of 0-dimensional frames, given by the integer-valued f...

Abstract. Rolling is a well-established forming process for producing finished or semi-finished products in various industries. Although highly automated, most rolling processes are designed manually by experts based on their knowledge, specialized heuristics and analytical models numerical simulations. This manual design approach does not lead to an optimization accounting multiple objectives....

An optimization technique for designing cosine-modulated filter banks using the frequency-response masking approach is proposed. In the given method, we perform minimization in the least-squares and minimax senses, subject to direct and aliasing transfer-function constraints. For optimization, a quasi-Newton algorithm with line search is used, based on sequential quadratic programming. Simplifi...

Neutron Larmor diffraction investigation of the rare-earth pyrochlores R2Ti2O7 (R = Tb, Dy, Ho) M. Ruminy,1,* F. Groitl,1,2 T. Keller,3,4 and T. Fennell1,† 1Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland 2Laboratory for Quantum Magnetism, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Switzerland 3Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörp...

We propose and investigate experimentally a tunable and stable fiber laser with single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) and power-equalized output based on a two-stage erbium amplifier and a saturable-absorber filter. Two-stage amplifier consists of an erbium-doped waveguide amplifier (EDWA) and erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) to generate a flatter amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) source for con...