Natural or induced floods are of increasing concern to watermanagers and civil protection services for three main reasons.Firstly, a continuous and 'unconscious' increase of socialpressure in the flooding valleys amplifies flood vulnerabilitiesand consequently natural or induced flood risk....

The influence of a nonconservative force proportional to the velocity acting on a system described by the Boltzmann equation is analyzed. When this force is the only external action on the system, an H-theorem is proved, showing that the distribution function tends towards a Maxwellian with a...

The nonequilibrium entropy of a dilute gas under uniform shear flow is analyzed in terms of an expansion in powers of the shear rate. To this end, the Boltzmann equation for Maxwell molecules is exactly solved to super-Burnett order, the next two orders being also partially obtained. This allows...

This paper describes a new modeling toolkit for comparing the performance and electrical efficiency of AC, DC and hybrid AC/DC distribution systems for buildings, Building Electrical Efficiency Analysis Model (BEEAM). To account for harmonics in currents or voltages arising from nonlinear...

Purpose: The dynamic capabilities (DC) literature focuses primarily on top managers. Although recent studies have drawn attention to middle management's (MM) relevance, these professionals have not been the focus of much attention in the DC literature. The purpose of this paper is to...