in the process of vermicomposting, the earthworms eisenia fetida have been exposed to various metals with different concentrations to study the effects on worms’ bioaccumulation. the study was carried within 14 days of exposure. five different chemical compounds in various concentrations were added as mixture solutions to the experimental containers. metals concentrations were measured in earth...

a meshless approach, collocation discrete least square (cdls) method, is extended in this paper, for solvingelasticity problems. in the present cdls method, the problem domain is discretized by distributed field nodes. the fieldnodes are used to construct the trial functions. the moving least-squares interpolant is employed to construct the trialfunctions. some collocation points that are indep...

a meshless method namely, discrete least square method (dlsm), is presented in the paper for the solution of free surface seepage problem. in this method computational domain is discredited by some nodes and then the set of simultaneous equations are built using moving least square (mls) shape functions and least square technique. the proposed method does not need any background mesh therefore ...

Global motion estimation is an important task in a variety of video processing applications, such as coding, segmentation, classificatiodindexing, and mosaicing. The main difficulty in global motion parameter estimation resides in the disturbances due to the independently moving objects. The Iterarive Leaf-Square Estimati’on (USE) technique [l] is commonly used in estimating a fourparameter mod...

Understanding crack growth behavior in engineering components subjected to cyclic fatigue loadings is necessary for design and maintenance purpose. Fatigue crack growth (FCG) rate strongly depends on the applied loading characteristics in a nonlinear manner, and when the mechanical loadings combine with environmental attacks, this dependency will be more complicated. Since, the experimental inv...