Starting from some recent results presented by Isaic – Maniu and Vodă (2008) regarding the Product Life – Cycle (PLC), we propose here an alternative statistical distribution in order to describe all four phases of a product life span. This distribution is the so-called ALPHA distribution...

Weak electric signals termed as “Pressure Stimulated Currents, PSC” are generated and detected while cement based materials are found under mechanical load, related to the creation of cracks and the consequent evolution of cracks’ network in the bulk of the specimen. During the experiment...

The mesoscale meteorological/distributed hydrological model chain WRF/DHSVM was calibrated for simulation of extreme flood events in Uzh River basin in Ukrainian Carpathians. The flood event which happened in July 2008 was successfully reproduced by using final analysis meteorological input data...

Motivated by the significant influence of trade allowance on store operation and the efficiency of shelf-space allocation, this article develops a model for optimizing category-level shelf-space management. A category shelf-space allocation framework with trade allowance is presented and a...

Whilst statistics take up a prominent place in the social science research toolkit, some old problems that have been associated there with have not been fully resolved. These problems include bias through the inclusion of irrelevant variation and the exclusion of relevant variation, which may...