Z. GHADAMPOUR, N. TALEBBEYDOKHTI, M. R. HASHEMI, A. H. NIKSERESHT AND S. P. NEILL Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shiraz University, I. R. of Iran Email: [email protected] Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Research and Sustainable Development Center, Shiraz University, I. R. of Iran Dept. of Water Engineering, Shiraz University, I. R. of Iran; S...

Purpose: To assess the assumption that differences exist between the traditional and publication-based PhD routes in terms of the thesis’ length and the scientific publications originating from it. Method: A retrospective comparative study on medical PhD theses offered by an online repository was performed. All free full-text medical PhD theses defended at United Kingdom institutions between 20...

A new method of constructing a series of partially balanced ternary (PBT) designs is presented. In the method, we have added the corresponding rows of incidence matrices of a BIB design and a PBIB design, both obtained from single initial block with at least one element in common between them. The BIB and PBIB designs above were obtained by method of differences. We have also constructed PBT de...

2014 CdTe crystals have been grown from a slowly cooled Te solution and with the travelling solvent method. The density of visible Te inclusions in the crystals has been investigated and it was found that inclusion-free material can be grown if the growing speed and the temperature gradient in the melt are kept within certain limits. REVUE DE PHYSIQUE APPLIQUÉE TOME 12, FÉVRIER 1977, PAGE

The spectacular collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which occurred in 1940, has attracted the attention of engineers, physicists, and mathematicians in the last 70 years. There have been many attempts to explain this amazing event. Nevertheless, none of these attempts gives a satisfactory and universally accepted explanation of the phenomena visible the day of the collapse. The purpose of th...

The generation of electricity from solar thermal source has continued to garner more attention due to the very attractive environmental performance, the applicability to small distributed users and as alternative to the fossil fuels power generation. Indeed, solar thermal energy, through the coupling with ORC systems, becomes fit for electric power generation as well and, with a proper thermal ...

A popular metaphor in recent years compares the process of writing a computer program to that of designing and building a bridge. The point of the metaphor is that it's not acceptable to debug a new bridge design by building the bridge, opening it to traffic, and waiting to see whether or not it collapses. People who use this metaphor argue that the analogous technique isn't acceptable in compu...