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This work introduces the coastal geo-engineering issues for a suitable selection and geomaterial characterisation of quarries. The development of the research had two main phases: (i) the field survey, applied cartography and inspection of maritime structures and (ii) the geological and geotechnical quarry assessment. This study reports results from the second phase which comprises the evaluation of quarries and the identification of potential areas for the extraction of armourstone with quality and availability to supply maritime structures. It was proposed a zoning of the NW Portugal region and taken into account some features like the land use, urban and settlement plans, geological setting, geotechnical and geomechanical description/typification of the rock masses. 459 quarries were identified, georeferenced and distributed in a total area of 14.010km2. More than 200 sites were selected, characterised and included in the GIS database project with interactive support (e.g. hyperlinks for the datasheets, photos or essential information). A total area of 4,1% was calculated, including relevant geological conditions and comprising existent quarries (active/inactive) or new places (suitable or predictable areas). A multidisciplinary perspective must be adopted providing a cost-effective method useful to the incorporation of important concepts (durability and integrity) in geo-monitoring coastal plans and highlighting GIS coastal projects.

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Numerical study is provided of the methods for solving the facility location problem when the clients choose some suppliers by their own preferences. Various formulations of this problem as an integer linear programming problem are considered. The authors implement a cutting plane method based on the earlier proposed family of valid inequalities which arises from connection with the problem for a pair of matrices. The results of numerical experiment are presented for testing this method. An optimal solution is obtained by the two versions of the branch and cut method with the suggested cutting plane method. The simulated annealing method is proposed for obtaining the upper bounds of the optimal solution used in exact methods. Numerical experiment approves the efficiency of the implemented approach in comparison with the previously available methods. © 2010 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.

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The effects of density dependence of the symmetry energy on the collective modes and dynamical instabilities of cold and warm nuclear and stellar matter are studied in the framework of relativistic mean-field hadron models. The existence of the collective isovector and possibly an isoscalar collective mode above saturation density is discussed. It is shown that soft equations of state do not allow for a high-density isoscalar collective mode; however, if the symmetry energy is hard enough, an isovector mode will not disappear at high densities. The crust-core transition density and pressure are obtained as a function of temperature for beta-equilibrium matter with and without neutrino trapping. Estimations of the size of the clusters formed in the nonhomogeneous phase, as well as the corresponding growth rates and distillation effect, are made. It is shown that cluster sizes increase with temperature, that the distillation effect close to the inner edge of the crust-core transition is very sensitive to the symmetry energy, and that, within a dynamical instability calculation, the pasta phase exists in warm compact stars up to 10-12 MeV.

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In this paper, the use of Adaptive Neural-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) to study the design of Short-Term Load Forecasting (STLF) systems for the east of Iran was explored. This paper forecasts consumed load by using multi ANFIS. Entries of the presented model are into the multi ANFIS including the date of the day, temperature maximum and minimum, climate condition and the previous days consumed load and its exit is forecasting of power load consumption of every season. Previous days contain 2,7,14 day before, and 2, 3, 4 day before. The results show that temperature and the features of 2, 7 and 14 day ago have an important role in load forecast. © 2010 IEEE.

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This paper proposes a method, based on a genetic algorithm, to generate smoth manipulator trajectories in a multi-objective perspective. The method uses terms proportional to the integral of the squared displacements in order to eliminate the jerk movement. In this work, the algorithm, based on NSGA-II and maximin sorting schemes, considers manipulators of two, three and four rotational axis (2R, 3R, 4R). The efficiency of the algorithm is evaluated, namely the extension of the front and the dispersion along the front. The effectiveness and capacity of the proposed approach are shown through simulations tests.

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This article presents a framework to an Industrial Engineering and Management Science course from School of Management and Industrial Studies using Autonomous Ground Vehicles (AGV) to supply materials to a production line as an experimental setup for the students to acquire knowledge in the production robotics area. The students must be capable to understand and put into good use several concepts that will be of utmost importance in their professional life such as critical decisions regarding the study, development and implementation of a production line. The main focus is a production line using AGVs, where the students are required to address several topics such as: sensors actuators, controllers and an high level management and optimization software. The presented framework brings to the robotics teaching community methodologies that allow students from different backgrounds, that normally don't experiment with the robotics concepts in practice due to the big gap between theory and practice, to go straight to "making" robotics. Our aim was to suppress the minimum start point level thus allowing any student to fully experience robotics with little background knowledge.