Seismic Retrofitting of Large Resort Hotel without Interrupting Facility Operating

Infectious diarrhea in tourists staying in a resort hotel.

An outbreak of infectious diarrhea with 70 laboratory-confirmed cases (58 with Giardia lamblia) and 107 probable cases occurred in U.K. tourists who stayed in a hotel in Greece. After a cluster of six cases in persons who had stayed at the hotel was reported, the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre began active case ascertainment. This outbreak illustrates the value of an approach to surve...

Research on Base Isolation for Seismic Retrofitting of Adjacent Structures Connected with a Large Floor

Received: December 19, 2016 Revised: February 06, 2017 Accepted: March 20, 2017 Abstract: Introduction: Seismic isolation has been proven to be an efficient approach to seismic retrofitting of structures based on the concept of reducing the seismic forces by lengthening the structural fundamental vibration period. However, superstructures may collide with each other under seismic excitation as ...

Seismic Retrofitting of Steel and Composite Building Structures

Seismic retrofitting of non-engineered masonry in rural Nepal

One of the greatest causes of casualties in major earthquakes around the world is the collapse of non-engineered masonry buildings (those built without engineering input). Yet by definition non-engineered structures remain largely outside of the scope of modern engineering research, meaning that the majority of those at risk often remain so. A further barrier to realising research in this field...

Retrofitting Quality of Service into a Time-Sharing Operating System

Theoretical aspects of proportional share schedulers have received considerable attention recently. We contribute practical considerations on how to retro t such schedulers into mainstream time-sharing systems. In particular, we propose /reserv, a uniform API for hierarchical proportional resource sharing. The central idea in /reserv is associating resource reservations with references to share...