Shingle material can appear as an excess usage due to defective production problems or at the end of their service life. Especially reuse shingle materials in bitumen has brought a different approach terms sustainability. In this study, utilization waste asphalt pavement were investigated. Mechanical properties hot mix and warm samples involving amount (1-6% by weight aggregate) evaluated. Foll...

We study the random composition of a small family of O(n) simple permutations on {0, 1}n. Specifically we ask how many randomly selected simple permutations need be composed to yield a permutation that is close to k-wise independent. We improve on the results of Gowers [12] and Hoory et al. [13] and show that up to a polylogarithmic factor, nk compositions of random permutations from this famil...

In this paper we address the decision of choosing a patient mix for a hospital that leads to the most beneficial treatment case mix. We illustrate how capacity, case mix and patient mix decisions are interrelated and how understanding this complex relationship is crucial for achieving the maximum benefit from the fee-for-service financing system. Although studies to determine the case mix that ...

Although considerations of discourse coherence and cognitive processing suggest that communicators should adopt consistent perspectives when describing spatial scenes, in many cases they switch perspectives. Ongoing research examining cognitive costs indicates that these are small and exacted in establishing a mental model of a scene but not in retrieving information from a well-known scene. A ...

A mix network by Wikstrom fails in correctness, provable privacy and soundness. Its claimed advantages in security and efficiency are compromised. The analysis in this paper illustrates that although the first two failures may be fixed by modifying the shuffling protocol, the last one is too serious to fix at a tolerable cost. Especially, an attack is proposed to show how easily soundness of th...

We introduce a methodology to formally verify MIX programs. It consists in annotating a MIX program with logical annotations and then to turn it into a set of purely sequential programs on which classical techniques can be applied. Contrary to other approaches of verification of unstructured programs, we do not impose the location of annotations but only the existence of at least one invariant ...

financial literacy of investors reduces uncertainty on future decisions and increases predictability of investment policies in financial markets. thus, the lack of clear information on financial markets is a determining factor in the arrival of domestic and foreign capitals and their quick exit in case of crisis. the lack of transparency and basic knowledge on decisions and failure to provide r...

this paper deals with the product mix problem using the concept of theory of constraints (toc). theory of constraints is one of the most efficient approaches which have been applied to solve the product mix problem heuristically. although there are numerous heuristic and meta-heuristics to solve this problem, finding the optimal solution in a reasonable time is still a challenging issue. in thi...

AIM OF THE STUDY To evaluate and compare the linear dimensional changes of the three representative polyvinyl siloxane (PVS) impression materials and to compare the accuracy of single mix with double mix impression technique. METHODOLOGY A study mold was prepared according to revised American Dental Association specification number 19 for nonaqueous elastic dental impression materials. Three ...

This paper introduces singular mix-valued logical networks and singular mix-valued logical control networks. Via semi-tensor product, a singular mix-valued logical network can be converted to an algebraic form. On this basis, the normalization problem and solvability are discussed. Then, fixed points and cycles of singular mix-valued logical networks are also studied. Furthermore, the optimal c...