We evaluated the ability of three debris-flow runout models (RAMMS, FLO2D and D-Claw) to predict number damaged buildings in simulations 9 January 2019 Montecito, California, debrisflow event. Observations building damage after event were combined with OpenStreetMap footprints construct a database all potentially impacted buildings. At estimated volume, overpredict by factor 1.5–3.

The back-calculation technique for evaluating the anthropogenic CO2 (CANT) input corrects total inorganic carbon for the remineralization of organic matter and the dissolution of calcium carbonate, along with subtracting the pre-industrial equilibrium total inorganic carbon. This technique is mainly dependent on the estimation of the preformed values of total alkalinity, oxygen and partial pres...

As traditional neural network consumes a significant amount of computing resources during back propagation, Sun et al. (2017) propose a simple yet effective technique to alleviate this problem. In this technique, only a small subset of the full gradients are computed to update the model parameters. In this paper we extend this technique into the Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) to reduce calcu...

background: low back pain caused by work, ranked the second after cardiovascular diseases, are among the most common reasons of patients’ referral to the physicians in iran. this study aimed to determine the changes in back compressive force when measuring maximum acceptable weight of lift in iranian male students. methods: this experimental study was conducted in 2015 on 15 young male students...

Stability analysis for landfills of municipal solid waste can be conducted according to different analytical calculation methods. The conventional calculation method has been transferred from soil mechanics. The method was invented in the 1920s by Bishop. An advanced method was presented in the 1990s in Germany. It is basically an extended Bishop method which has been adjusted to some specific ...

Short-term projections of HIV/AIDS incidence are critical for assessing future healthcare needs of the society. This article reviews the back-calculation method as a means to reconstruct past pattern of HIV counts and to estimate future AIDS incidence. The major sources of uncertainties and difficulties in application of this method to AIDS data in India are pointed out. A methodology built aro...