The predicament in which we find ourselves today is that many professionals lack a sufficient grounding in formal methods, tools and techniques to enable them to make an appropriate selection for different kinds of problem. This can mean that complexity remains unrecognized and ambiguous problem situations are addressed as if they were clear and straightforward, resulting in inadequate solutions t

One of the goals pursued in the present research was to understand the nuclear phenomena (such as rotational bands, their backbending and termination, deformation, pairing correlations, etc.) using different views provided by different nuclear models. The employed models complement each other: spherical shell model provided the laboratory frame description, the intrinsic frame description was prov

The increasingcost for System-on-Chip (SOC) testing is mainly due to the hugetest data volumes that lead to long test application time andrequire large automatic test equipment (ATE) memory. Testcompression and test sharing have been proposed to reduce the testdata volume, while test infrastructure and concurrent testscheduling have been developed to reduce the test application time.In this work w

Multimodal transportation in the European continent is an integral part of cross border trade and in particular the use of sea and river carriers. The phenomenon of short sea shipping has reached a level of importance of which all European states must take cognisance. One of the policies associated with this issue is the development of the motorways of the sea. While Ukraine is not yet a part of t

On December 6-7, 2010, the International Desalination Association (IDA) presented its first Environmental Symposium, “Desalination and the Gulf: The Relationship between the Environment and Meeting the Region’s Water Needs.”Held in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain under the Patronage of H.E. Eng. FahmiBin Ali Aljowder, Minister for Electricity and Water Affairs, this event was theresult of 12 months of

We examine consumer certainty of future preferences and overconfidence in predicting future preferences. We explore how preference certainty and overconfidence impact the option value to revise today’s decisions in the future. We design a laboratory experiment that creates a controlled choice environment, in which a subject's choice set (over food snacks) is known and constant over time, and the t

The influence of extensive sedum-moss vegetated roofs on runoff water pollution loads was studied for four full scale installations located in southern Sweden. The aim of the study was to ascertain whether the vegetated roof behaves as a sink or a source of pollutants on annual basis. The pollution loads from vegetated roofs was also compared with the pollution loads from two non-vegetated roofs l

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