The aim of this paper is an investigation of damping properties of polyurethane materials that were produced from polyurethane foam granules. There were used polyurethane materials with different thickness and inertial masses. After measurements of damping vibration, the polyurethane samples were compared and recommended in reference to their damping properties. and Tématem tohoto příspěvku je vyšetření tlumících vlastností polyuretanových materiálů vyrobených z polyuretanových pěnových granulí. Byly použity polyuretanové materiály s různými tloušťkami a setrvačnými zátěžemi. Po provedení měření útlumů vibrací polyuretanových vzorků byly jednotlivé vzorky porovnány a doporučeny z hlediska jejich tlumících vlastností.
Knowledge of hydrological processes and water balance elements are important for climate adaptive water management as well as for introducing mitigation measures aiming to improve surface water quality. Mathematical models have the potential to estimate changes in hydrological processes under changing climatic or land use conditions. These models, indeed, need careful calibration and testing before being applied in decision making. The aim of this study was to compare the capability of five different hydrological models to predict the runoff and the soil water balance elements of a small catchment in Norway. The models were harmonised and calibrated against the same data set. In overall, a good agreement between the measured and simulated runoff was obtained for the different models when integrating the results over a week or longer periods. Model simulations indicate that forest appears to be very important for the water balance in the catchment, and that there is a lack of information on land use specific water balance elements. We concluded that joint application of hydrological models serves as a good background for ensemble modelling of water transport processes within a catchment and can highlight the uncertainty of models forecast.
In this paper, we show two applications of the Banach's Fixed-Point Theorem: first, to approximate the ultimate ruin probability in the classical risk model or Cramér-Lundberg model when claim sizes have some arbitrary continuous distribution and second, we propose an algorithm based in this theorem and some conditions to guarantee the continuity of the ruin probability with respect to the weak metric (Kantorovich). In risk theory literature, there is no methodology based in the Banach's Fixed-Point Theorem to calculate the ruin probability. Numerical results in this paper, guarantee a good approximation to the analytic solution of the ruin probability problem. Finally, we present numerical examples when claim sizes have distribution light and heavy-tailed.
The effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) inoculation and organic slow release fertilizer (OSRF) on photosynthesis, root phosphatase activity, nutrient acquisition, and growth of Ipomoea carnea N. von Jacquin ssp. fistulosa (K. Von Martinus ex J. Choisy) D. Austin (bush morning glory) was determined in a greenhouse study. The AMF treatments consisted of a commercial isolate of Glomus intraradices and a non-colonized (NonAMF) control. The OSRF was applied at 10, 30, and 100 % of the manufacturer's recommended rate. AMF plants had a higher net photosynthetic rate (PN), higher leaf elemental N, P, and K, and generally greater growth than NonAMF plants. Total colonization levels of AMF plants ranged from 27 % (100 % OSRF) to 79 % (30 % OSRF). Root acid phosphatase (ACP) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activities were generally higher in AMF than non-AMF plants. When compared to NonAMF at 100 % OSRF, AMF plants at 30 % OSRF had higher or comparable ACP and ALP activity, higher leaf elemental P, N, Fe, Cu, and Zn, and a greater PN (at the end of the experiment), leading to generally greater growth parameters with the lower fertility in AMF plants. We suggest that AMF increased nutrient acquisition from an organic fertilizer source by enhancing ACP and ALP activity thus facilitating P acquisition, increasing photosynthesis, and improving plant growth. and L. Amaya-Carpio ... [et al.].