quantum dot cellular automata (qca) is one of the important nano-level technologies for implementation of both combinational and sequential systems. qca have the potential to achieve low power dissipation and operate high speed at thz frequencies. however large probability of occurrence fabrication defects in qca, is a fundamental challenge to use this emerging technology. because of these vari...

Abstract. Bell towers are masonry slender structures prone to damage caused by vibrations due human activities, such as motor-vehicle traffic and operating machines in building sites, bells’ ringing and, of course, vulnerable strong induced earthquakes. Several studies with Operational Modal Analysis applications historical demonstrate that their modal properties typical recurrent depend mainly...

background and aims: the world is threatened by disease outbreak that reaches a public health emergency of international concern, studies to inform public and agencies for effective containment strategy are necessary. several studies provided vital information of the dynamics and control of ebola epidemic outbreak in west africa. methodologies and techniques in those researches have to be revie...

soil water content is one of the most important parameters for estimating irrigation frequency and providing the plant’s water requirement. since measurement of soil water content is both expensive and time consuming, water movement models are used to estimate these values. in this study, leachw model was used to estimate soil water content for two “dry” (20-29 aug) and “wet” (1-6 jul) periods ...

measuring sensitivity of hydraulic structures is considered as an approach for evaluation of water projects performance, due to lower distribution efficiency in irrigation and drainage project schemes. sensitivity analysis approach for irrigation structures is one of flow analysis methods which are developed in recent years in order to measure the behavior of flow in hydraulic structures in an ...

this paper presents new sensitivity-based methods for detection of structural damage using incomplete noisy modal data. these methods are based on the first-order derivative of modal parameters. changes of natural frequency do not usually provide spatial information on the structural damage. they are also not sensitive to the local damage. in this paper, a new sensitivity function is proposed u...