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Improving the accuracy of soil moisture estimation is required for advancing irrigation scheduling and water conservation efforts. Central to this task are soil hydraulic parameters, which govern moisture dynamics but are rarely known…
Voids can be observed at various scales in ductile materials, frequently of sizes lower than the grain size, leading to porous single crystals materials. Two local deformation modes of porous ductile (single crystals) materials have been…
A minimalist stochastic model of primary soil salinity is proposed, in which the rate of soil salinization is determined by the balance between dry and wet salt deposition and the intermittent leaching events caused by rainfall events. The…
Crop yield is affected by various soil and environmental parameters and can vary significantly. Therefore, a crop yield estimation model which can predict pre-harvest yield is required for food security. The study is conducted on tea forms…
This paper mainly describes the development of a new type of regression model to predict the long-term expansion of concrete subjected to a sulfate-rich environment. The experimental data originated from a long-term (40+ years),…
A main objective in landslide research is to predict how far they will travel. Landslides are complex, and a complete understanding in principle requires accounting for numerous parameters. Here we engender a simplification by investigating…
The interconnectivity of the porous space is an important characteristic in the study of porous media and their transport properties. Hence we propose a way to quantify it and relate it with the intrinsic permeability of rocks. We propose a…
We propose a new prediction method for multivariate linear regression problems where the number of features is less than the sample size but the number of outcomes is extremely large. Many popular procedures, such as penalized regression…
Most of the damaging geo-hazards recorded in modern history are caused by soil swelling or expansion. Therefore, proper evaluation of a soils capacity to swell is very crucial for the achievement of a secure and safe foundation for civil…
Backbone curves are used to characterize nonlinear responses of structural elements by simplifying the cyclic force-deformation relationships. Accurate modeling of cyclic behavior can be achieved with a reliable backbone curve model. In…
We present the statistical method to study the interaction between a chosen protein and another molecule (e.g., both being components of lubricin found in synovial fluid) in a water environment. The research is performed on the example of…
The evolution of $V_\mathrm{P}/V_\mathrm{S}$ with increasing fluid-saturated porosity is computed for isotropic rocks containing spheroidal pores. $V_\mathrm{P}/V_\mathrm{S}$ is shown to either decrease or increase with increasing porosity,…
Superficial (two dimensional) crack patterns appear when a thin layer of material elastically attached to a substrate contracts. We study numerically the maturation process undergone by these crack patterns when they are allowed to adapt in…
Modeling fluid flow in dual-porosity media with bi-modal pore size distributions has practical applications to understanding transport in multi-scale systems such as natural soils. Dual-porosity media are typically formed of two domains:…
We study how much water can be retained without leaking through boundaries when each unit square of a two-dimensional lattice is randomly assigned a block of unit bottom area but with different heights from zero to $n-1$. As more blocks are…
Inverted solubility--a crystal melting upon cooling--is observed in a handful of proteins, such as carbomonoxy hemoglobin and $\gamma$D-crystallin. In human $\gamma$D-crystallin, the phenomenon is associated with the mutation of the…
The properties of water can have a strong dependence on the confinement. Here, we consider a water monolayer nanoconfined between hydrophobic parallel walls under conditions that prevent its crystallization. We investigate, by simulations…
The theoretical basis of the thermal response of the fluid-saturated porous materials in undrained condition is presented. It has been demonstrated that the thermal pressurization phenomenon is controlled by the discrepancy between the…
Shrunk sample covariance matrix is a factor model of a special form combining some (typically, style) risk factor(s) and principal components with a (block-)diagonal factor covariance matrix. As such, shrinkage, which essentially inherits…
Lacunarity is a measure often used to quantify the lack of translational invariance present in fractals and multifractal systems. The generalised dimensions, specially the first three, are also often used to describe various aspects of mass…