Floods have become more severe and frequent as a result of climate change around the world, posing hazard to public safety economic development. This study investigates use distributed hydrological models in flash flood risk management small watershed Hazara, Pakistan, with goal improving Pakistan's early warning lead time. First, HEC-HMS model was built using geographic data river network's st...

Preliminary work on the development of measures appropriate for the safety domain is reported. Measures are expressed in the style of the Practical Software and Systems Measurement (PSM) approach, a programme sponsored by the US DoD. Proposed measures are integrated with the PSM measurement framework. Reported work has been informed by discussions within the PSM community and by concurrent work...

Prefabrication in construction industry can probably reduce the cost of waste. In this research, advantages and disadvantages prefabrication its eco-efficiency were identified; then development strategies reviewed. For purpose, questionnaires used to select proper sub-systems for prefabrication. The Delphi Snowball method was applied according experts 'opinion, these identified adopted. Then ef...

Broadly defined, macroeconomic forecasting is alive and well. Nonstructural forecasting, which is based largely on reduced-form correlations, has always been well and continues to improve. Structural forecasting, which aligns itself with economic theory and hence rises and falls with theory, receded following the decline of Keynesian theory. In recent years, however, powerful new dynamic stocha...

Safety cases offer a means for communicating information about the system safety among the system stakeholders. Recently, the requirement for a safety case has been considered by regulators for safety-critical systems. Adopting safety cases is necessarily dependent on the value added for regulatory authorities. In this work, we outline a structured approach for assessing the level of sufficienc...

Rotavirus morphogenesis involves the budding of subviral particles through the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) membrane of infected cells. During this process, particles acquire the outer capsid proteins and a transient envelope. Previous immunocytochemical and biochemical studies have suggested that a rotavirus nonstructural glycoprotein, NS28, encoded by genome segment 10, is a transmembran...