The main purpose of this study is to develop a Geospatial Information System (GIS) model with the ability to assess the seismic damage to pipelines for two well-known hazards, including ground shaking and ground failure simultaneously. The model that is developed and used in this study includes four main parts of database implementation, seismic hazard analysis, vulnerability assessment and sei...

Pipelines constitute the dominant inland transportation mode for crude oil and oil products. Lots of refined products such as gasoline, jet fuel and diesel are shipped from refineries and seaports to truck-loading terminals by multiproduct pipelines. Planning the operation of multiproduct pipelines is a very difficult task demanding efficient tools to get safe, on-time, low-cost and high-qualit...

In the structure theory of inverse semigroups, there are two approaches, basically from the 1970’s, to build up inverse semigroups from semilattices and groups via their semidirect products. These approaches are dual to each other in the sense that one produces any inverse semigroup from a semidirect product of a semilattice by a group by taking an idempotent separating homomorphic image of an ...

There are many results on the minimum distance of a cyclic code of the form that if a certain set T is a subset of the defining set of the code, then the minimum distance of the code is greater than some integer t. This includes the BCH, Hartmann-Tzeng, Roos, and shift bounds and generalizations of these (see below). In this paper we define certain projective varieties V (T, t) whose properties...

1130-1300: Optical I : Image Processing Pipelines (venue: Chandrasekhar Auditorium) Chair: R. Srianand Bhuvnesh Jain (U. Pennsylvania): Overview of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (15) Robert Lupton (Princeton U.): Optical scientific pipelines: the intestinal flora, and how not to reinvent it again (35) Adam Bolton (U. Utah): Beyond the Boxcar: Modern Calibration and Extraction of Optical S...

Some considerations relating to the design of the JWST Calibration pipelines are presented. Much of the code for calibrating the detectors can be shared among the instruments, and the fact that several observing modes are common to more than one instrument means that it makes sense to design the pipelines to calibrate observing modes rather than instruments.

Wax crystallisation and deposition from offshore reservoirs have been causing serious problems such as plugged pipelines and reduced production flow rates. This issue is receiving more attention from the researchers and for commercial applications due to the shift in trend from using offshore production facilities to pipelines utilization. The aim of this study is the implementation of the Avra...

XML languages are increasingly used for representations aimed to XML applications running on a variety of platforms. We have developed an architecture that automatically constructs combinations of XML processing pipelines that produce device specific representations. This is achieved by associating sets of elements and attributes of XML languages to processing pipelines according to platform ca...

BACKGROUND Drugs for the treatment of groups of pigs receiving liquid feed are frequently mixed into the feed and administered via the pipelines of the feeding installations. In-feed antimicrobials may select antimicrobial resistant strains among the bacteria which form the biofilm of these pipelines and are shed into the liquid feed. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS In order to evaluate the risk of sel...