Traditional mobile phones have been used for alerting purposes by utilizing their SMS and cell broadcasting features. They do however not suit for demanding alerting and command purposes, for the observation of special forces, rescue officers and civilians, or for the post-evaluation of the operation. Current 3G and 4G/LTE smartphones can do all this, but the empirical evidence is missing. This...

Ines M. Hübler Department of General Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (Dated: November 28, 2004) Abstract When an isotropic object is accelerated by plane waves, its limiting speed is less or equal to the wave speed. We study the acceleration of anisotropic objects in classical wave-particle systems. We investigate objects with anisotropic mass dis...

Interest in the seakeeping loads of vessels has increased dramatically in recent years. In current design practice, methods for predicting seakeeping motions and loads are mainly in two categories, strip theory methods and 3Dpanel methods. Methods based on strip theory provide reasonable motion prediction and are computationally efficient. However, many strip theory methods provide only hull gi...

A variety of foreign-led economies has emerged in Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineties. This paper explains the emergence of the competition state in the region and analyzes its political support and institutional underpinning. While the structural power of transnational capital and integration into the European regulatory framework had major roles in steering the state into the comp...

An enhanced displacement feedback structural control procedure is presented for performance-based design in this paper. At first, a comparative study is implemented assessing three most common active control algorithms including state, acceleration, and displacement feedback controls. The advantage of the displacement feedback algorithm for active control of structures against earthquakes is de...

The design of earthquake-resistant buildings starts with defining the maximum lateral earthquake forces or their resultant. The amount of these forces depends on various factors, including coefficient of system behavior which depends on overstrength and its ductility. In this study, a method is presented for designing an earthquake-resistant system in which the distribution of lateral forces is...

This paper describes a shift in medical education away from pedagogic approaches to stigma and inequalities that emphasize cross-cultural understandings of individual patients, toward attention to forces that influence health outcomes at levels above individual interactions. It reviews existing structural approaches to stigma and health inequalities developed outside of medicine, and proposes c...

In this talk we will describe the problems that one encounters when one tries to connect string theory with particle phenomenology. Then, in order to have chiral matter describing quarks and leptons, we introduce the magnetized D branes. Finally, as an explicit example of a string extension of the Standard Model, we will describe the one constructed by Ibáñez, Marchesano and Rabadán. Work parti...

Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Food Services recently implemented a standardized menu at all static service locations. Within this new regime, CAF Food Services requires a standard against which they can measure labour performance and use to inform future rationalization of staffing. To start, a pilot study was conducted in February and March 2015 to collect labour performance data. In this paper,...