Due to the large number of aging hydraulic turbines in North America, rehabilitation is a growing market as these have low efficiency compared modern ones. Computational Fluid Dynamics identifies components with poor performance. The models often used industry are based on individually analyzing sub-components turbine instead full simulations due computational and time limitations. An industria...

a School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3QL, UK b Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK c Department of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK d INSTAAR and Department of Geological Sciences, Univer...

1 School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Road, Bristol, BS8 1SS, UK 2 School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Grant Institute, King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JW, UK * now at: Landmark Information Group, 5-7 Abbey Court, Eagle Way, Sowton, Exeter, EX2 7HY, UK Received: 26 September 2007 – Accepted: 9 October 2007 – Published: 26 October 200...

A method of improving information about injuries sustained in road traffic accidents is described. It was achieved by combining data from the police with that from the accident and emergency department in such a way that patient confidentiality was preserved. This improved data base shows that present estimates of the number of injuries sustained on the road are too low and that assessments of ...

1 Smithsonian Institution, National Zoological Park, Conservation & Research Center, 1500 Remount Road, Front Royal, VA 22630, USA; 2 Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; 3 Department of Natural Resources Conservation, 160 Holdsworth Way, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9285, USA; 4 Wildlife Conservation Soci...

1 School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Road, Bristol, BS8 1SS, UK 2 School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Grant Institute, King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JW, UK * now at: Landmark Information Group, 5-7 Abbey Court, Eagle Way, Sowton, Exeter, EX2 7HY, UK Received: 26 September 2007 – Accepted: 9 October 2007 – Published: 26 October 200...

Several in-place rehabilitation techniques have been used before placing an Asphalt Concrete (AC) overlay on Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) pavements in attempts to minimize reflection cracking. Among these techniques, "rubblization" of PCC has been recognized to be the most utilized procedure for the mitigation of reflection cracking in US. This paper presents the practices on the use of rubbl...

objectives: to locate the road emergency stations in fars province based on using spatial multi-criteria decision making (delphi method).    methods: in this study, the criteria affecting the location of road emergency stations have been identified through delphi method and their importance was determined using analytical hierarchical process (ahp). with regard to the importance of the criteria...