The primary background for the present study was a project to assist the authorities in Thailand with development of plans for how to deal with the future tsunami risk in both short and long term perspectives, in the wake of the devastating 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami. The study is focussed on defining and analyzing a number of possible future earthquake scenarios (m...

We discuss solution methods for inverse problems, in which the unknown parameters are connected to the measurements through a partial differential equation (PDE). Various features that commonly arise in these problems, such as inversions for a coefficient field, for the initial condition in a time-dependent problem, and for source terms are being studied in the context of three model problems. ...

Reservoir characterization plays an important role in different parts of an industrial project. The results from a reservoir characterization study give insight into rock and fluid properties which can optimize the choice of drilling locations and reduce risk and uncertainty. Delineating hydrocarbon bearing zones within a reservoir is the main objective of any seismic reservoir characterization...

Background Reducing rearfoot eversion is a commonly desired effect in clinical practice to prevent or treat musculoskeletal dysfunction. Interventions that pull the lower limb into external rotation may reduce rearfoot eversion. Objective This study investigated whether the use of external rotation elastic bands, of different levels of stiffness, will decrease rearfoot eversion during walking...

In the second part of this paper we study condition numbers with respect to componentwise perturbations in the input data for linear systems and for matrix inversion, and the distance to the nearest singular matrix. The structures under investigation are linear structures, namely symmetric, persymmetric, skewsymmetric, symmetric Toeplitz, general Toeplitz, circulant, Hankel, and persymmetric Ha...

introduction air pollution as one of the most important technological risks of contemporary era is mainly resulted from the emergence of large cities and fast growing industries. one of the main objectives of climatic and environmental studies is to survey atmospheric pollutions. tabriz is one of the metropolises where air pollution is a problem in it. of course, what is essential regarding the...

In this paper, we present a new estimation of the atmospheric refractivity profile combining the scattering signal (electromagnetic wave propagation loss) and the direct signal (phase delay). The refractivity profile is modeled using four parameters, i.e., the gradient of the refractivity profile (c1, c2) and the vertical altitude (h1, h2). We apply the NSGA-II (Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Al...

A stochastic approach to a recently proposed model of terminal current fluctuations is presented. Two kinds of boundary conditions suitable for noise simulations in semiconductor devices are proposed. The properties and the domain of application of the two models are investigated and the conclusions are drawn from numerical experiments.

It is important to improve estimates of large-scale carbon fluxes over the boreal forest because the responses of this biome to global change may influence the dynamics of atmospheric carbon dioxide in ways that may influence the magnitude of climate change. Two methods currently being used to estimate these fluxes are process-based modeling by terrestrial biosphere models (TBMs), and atmospher...

Russian psychiatry has a dramatic history, and until now has been at a transitional stage of development. It is facing problems not only common in world psychiatry, but also specific to eastern Europe, in particular Russia. Starting from the beginning of the 1990s, considerable changes have occurred in psychiatry, especially after 1992 when the law on psychiatric care and guarantees of citizens...