In this short video contribution, I share and explore an insight emerging from ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in Southeast Europe. This is part of a broader anthropological research project alongside combat veterans number nationalities (and ethnicities) Former Yugoslavia, including Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo. The brief accompanying abstract opens with series po...

This paper designs a reliability distribution network with limited capacity under partial and complete facility disruptions. To increase the reliability of the distribution network, a new mixed integer linear programing model is developed by considering multiple mitigation strategies including diversification, fortification, and transshipment. The distribution network constitutes of reliable di...

‎we consider a linear programming problem in a general form and suppose that all coefficients may vary in some prescribed intervals‎. ‎contrary to classical models‎, ‎where parameters can attain any value from the interval domains independently‎, ‎we study problems with linear dependencies between the parameters‎. ‎we present a class of problems that are easily solved by reduction to the classi...

akin type (asymmetric) reverse osmosis membranes undergo an irreversible osmotic dehydration upon coming into contact (skin side) with salt solutions. the extent of consequent changes (in appearance; decrease in linear dimension, water flux and salt rejection) are dependent on the salt concentration. these observations are correlated with the expected morphological changes taking place during d...

we present an improved version of a full nesterov-todd step infeasible interior-point method for linear complementarityproblem over symmetric cone (bull. iranian math. soc.,40(3), 541-564, (2014)). in the earlier version, each iteration consistedof one so-called feasibility step and a few -at most three -centering steps. here, each iteration consists of only a feasibilitystep. thus, the new alg...

We used an effective electrochemical sensor for the determination of imipramine at pH 7.2 using a carbon nanocomposite electrode. The electrode has been designed by incorporation of montmorillonite nanoclay into the carbon ionic liquid electrode. The high sensitivity of 1.714 μA (μM)-1, two linear calibration ranges of 0.1–2 μM and 2-40 μM, and detection limit of 19 nM were achieved. The relati...

In this paper, by conditioning on the matrix variate normal distribution (MVND) the construction of the matrix t-type family is considered, thus providing a new perspective of this family. Some important statistical characteristics are given. The presented t-type family is an extension to the work of Dickey [8]. A Bayes estimator for the column covariance matrix &Sigma of MVND is derived under ...