PARTRIDGE, LLOYD D. Signabliunding characteristics of loadmoving skeletal muscle. Am. J. Physiol. 210(5): I 178-1191. 1966. -Modulated pulse rate signals were used to stimulate circulated cat triceps surae muscle-nerve preparations attached to inertial loads of physiological size. Effects of load size and signal frequency on movement amplitude and timing showed that load position, not muscle fo...

A time domain method is presented to identify the moving loads on the bridge deck from measuring strains. The bridge deck is modelled as a rectangular orthotropic plate. The vehicle is modelled as two axle loads moving on the bridge deck. Like all inverse problems, the identification is an ill-posed problem, so a regularization technique is employed to stabilize the solution. This paper gives a...

In  this  paper,  a  method  is  presented  for  damage  detection  of  bridges  using  the  Enhanced Colliding Bodies Optimization (ECBO)  utilizing time-domain responses. The finite element modeling of the structure is based on  the equation of motion under the moving load, and the flexural stiffness of the structure is determined by the acceleration responses obtained via sensors placed in d...

Recently, there have been an increasing interest in RFID system and RFID systems have been applied to various applications. Load balancing is a fundamental technique for providing scalability of systems by moving workload from overloaded nodes to under-loaded nodes. This paper presents an approach to adaptive load balancing for RFID middlewares. Workloads of RFID middlewares can have a consider...

There has been increasing demand for energy sustainable and lowcost operation in cloud computing. This paper proposes dynamic Geographical Load Balancing and energy buffering management (GLB) to achieve these goals which (i) shifts workload (particularly peak workload demand) toward Data centers that offer low utility rate or green energy at a time, and (ii) banks excess green and low-cost ener...

Many time series exhibit seasonal variations related to the daily, weekly or annual activity. In this paper a new immune inspired univariate method for forecasting time series with multiple seasonal periods is proposed. This method is based on the patterns of time series seasonal sequences: input ones representing sequences preceding the forecast and forecast ones representing the forecasted se...

Moving range queries over mobile objects are important in many location management applications. There have been quite a few research works in this area. However, all existing solutions assume an open space environment, which are either not applicable to spatial network environment or require nontrivial extensions. In this paper, we consider a new class of query called Dynamic Range Query. A dy...