the current building codes provide limited prescriptive guidance on design for protection of buildings due to progressive collapse. progressive collapse is a situation in which a localized failure in a structure, caused by an abnormal load, such as explosions or other happenings. three procedures, often employed for determination of the structural response during progressive collapse i.e. linea...

Targeting behavior of vehicles in the battlefield (Target Analysis) is one of the most critical tasks in Computer Generated Forces (CGF) systems. This is simply because of many complex and ambiguous factors that can effect the targeting behavior of such systems in the real world. There has been many approaches including using Fuzzy Set Theory for Target Analysis. Target detection, and threat an...

BACKGROUND Optimal nutrition for patients in the intensive care unit has been proposed to be the provision of energy as determined by indirect calorimetry and the provision of protein of at least 1.2 g/kg. METHODS Prospective observational cohort study in a mixed medical-surgical intensive care unit in an academic hospital. In total, 886 consecutive mechanically ventilated patients were inclu...

Eukaryotic cells express small noncoding RNAs to silence target genes or regulate chromatin domains. MicroRNAs (miRNA) are endogenous small RNAs that are thought to each regulate multiple mRNA targets. To gain a deeper understanding of processes regulated by small noncoding RNAs, techniques are required to identify and detect them. This unit describes standard laboratory methods for and comment...

It is now possible to synthesise speech using HMMswith a comparable quality to unit-selection techniques. Generating speech from a model has many potential advantages over concatenating waveforms. The most exciting is model adaptation. It has been shown that supervised speaker adaptation can yield highquality synthetic voices with an order of magnitude less data than required to train a speaker...

This paper investigates two ways of improving synthesis quality: to maximise the length of selected units or to capitalise on phonemic context. For the former, it compares a synthesiser using a novel way of target specification and unit search with a standard unit selection synthesiser. For the latter, weights for phonemic context are set differently according to the distance of the phoneme con...

introduction: average glandular dose calculation in mammography with mo-rh target-filter and dose calculation for different situations is accurate and fast. material and methods: in this research, first of all, x-ray spectra of a mo target bombarded by a 28 kev electron beam with and without a rh filter were calculated using the mcnp code. then, we used the sobol-wu parameters to write a fortra...

The paper presents a unit selection-based speech synthesis approach for Chinese Mandarin. Unit selection-based approach generates speech by directly connecting pre-recorded speech units. In this approach, a corpus is used as a source unit inventory. A feature vector is defined to describe each unit. To generate speech, the feature vector of the target unit is first calculated. During synthesis,...

AIMS IMPROVE is an open-label, multinational, non-randomised, 26-week observational study designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of biphasic insulin aspart 30 (BIAsp 30) in routine clinical practice. Here, we report data for patients switching to BIAsp 30 from human premixed insulin. METHODS Patients (n = 3856) with type 2 diabetes previously receiving human premixed insulin with o...