Abstract: Some numerical models treat masses of rock as assemblages of isolated blocks, whereas others treat them as continuous material. It needs to be determined at what level a rock is cut into assemblages of discrete blocks by ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a nonlinear space dimension reduction method named Optimized Generative Topographic Mapping (OGTM). The Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM) method relies on the training sample set to capture the ...

Abstract: To select and improve techniques capable of eco-restoration and reconstruction of soils, it is vital to determine the impacts of different engineered eco-restoration techniques on communities of soil microbes. For this ...