In this paper we consider cooperative transferable utility games with limited communication structure, called graph games. Agents are able to cooperate with each other only if they can communicate directly or indirectly with each other. For the class of acyclic graph games recently the average...

A numerical model for an anode-supported intermediate-temperature direct-internal-reforming planar solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) was developed. In this model, the volume-averaging method is applied to the flow passages in the SOFC by assuming that a porous material is inserted in the passages as...

The 12 March 2001 landslide at a slate quarry in Okayama, Japan killed three workers. Composite studies based on field surveys of the landslide slope, interviews with local residents and quarry workers, and inspections of hydrological and seismological data have been used to clarify the causes...

We have investigated electric field strengths in the Al<Subscript>x</Subscript>Ga<Subscript>1-x</Subscript>N layer, F<Subscript>AlGaN</Subscript>'s, of Al<Subscript>x</Subscript>Ga<Subscript>1-x</Subscript>N/GaN heterostructures with and without a GaN cap layer using photoreflectance (PR) spectroscopy. Franz-Keldysh oscillations (FKOs) from the Al<Subscript>x</Subscript>Ga<Subscript>1-x</Subscript>N layer are clearly observed in the PR spectra. It is...</subscript></subscript></subscript></subscript></subscript></subscript></subscript>