Nonlinear resonant ultrasound spectroscopy (NRUS) is a resonance-based technique exploiting the significant nonlinear behavior of damaged materials. In NRUS, the resonant frequency(ies) of an object is studied as a function of the excitation level. As the excitation level increases, the elastic nonlinearity is manifest by a shift in the resonance frequency. This study shows the feasibility of t...

A damage-based approach for the performance-based seismic assessment of reinforced concrete frame structures is proposed. A new methodology for structural damage assessment is developed that utilizes response information at the material level in each section fiber. The concept of the damage evolution is analyzed at the section level and the computed damage is calibrated with observed experiment...

C. Glaucoma assessment: determine type of glaucoma (i.e., OAG, PXF, angle closure) and access degree of optic nerve damage can be difficult because cataract may affect visual field testing, alter view of optic nerve and may even be an infrequent cause of glaucoma. Assessment of extent of glaucoma damage is critical for decision-making. Visual fields may “improve” after cataract surgery (Ang et al)

threat assessment in the computer networks of organizations can reduce damage caused by attacks and unexpected events. data fusion models such as the jdl model provide efficient and adequate sensors to gather the right information at the right time from the right components. this information then is refined and normalized to provide situational awareness and assess events that may be intended a...

Spasticity is the condition resulting of corticispinal damage as occurs in some neurological diseases. The aim of the article is to review the literature on assessment and treatment of spasticity and spastic limbs. The assessment and treatment methods are studied the study involves different method of mangement of spastic limbs in depth. Different method of evaluation of spasticity, including b...

C. Glaucoma assessment: determine type of glaucoma (i.e., OAG, PXF, angle closure) and access degree of optic nerve damage can be difficult because cataract may affect visual field testing, alter view of optic nerve and may even be an infrequent cause of glaucoma. Assessment of extent of glaucoma damage is critical for decision-making. Visual fields may “improve” after cataract surgery (Ang et al)

This paper extends some authors’ previous approaches to models and methods based on fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, for the seismic fragility updating and seismic damage evaluation, in their contributions to the IFIP 8 Conference (Krakow – 1998), SMiRT 16 (Washington DC – 2001) and SMiRT 18 (Beijing – 2005) Conferences. A short survey of such earlier and more recent proposals for applying fuzzy con...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular risk assessment in the clinical practice is mostly based on risk charts, such as Framingham risk score and Systemic Coronary Risk Estimation (SCORE). These enable clinicians to estimate the impact of cardiovascular risk factors and assess individual cardiovascular risk profile. Risk charts, however, do not take into account subclinical organ damage, which exerts indepe...

This paper presents the design and implementation of an on-the-fly damage assessment and repair tool for intrusion tolerant commercial database applications, called ODAM. ODAM is a COTS-DBMS-specific implementation of a general on-the-fly damage assessment and repair approach developed by P. Ammann, S. Jajodia, and P. Liu in [18]. The general approach, given a set of malicious transactions repo...