Old precast buildings are often characterized by poor detailing that may hamper the structural performance, particularly in case of earthquakes. This is essentially related to: (i) a limited past knowledge seismic design and behaviour, also reflected building codes; (ii) evolution zonation Italian territory. The aim this work to assess probabilistic vulnerability with respect usability preventi...

Methods for analysis of fluid-structure interaction using high fidelity simulations are critically reviewed. First, a literature review of modern numerical techniques for simulation of aeroelastic phenomena is presented. The review focuses on methods contained within the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) framework for coupling computational fluid dynamics codes to computational structural mec...

Interoperable cross-border clinical data exchange is an ambitious goal with several challenges, the most prominent ones being the structural differences in the EHR standards and the different terminologies used for semantic encodings of the data elements used in the EHRs. In this article, we address the structural interoperability problem of the EHRs by adapting the UN/CEFACT Core Component Tec...

the binary and ternary codes spanned by the rows of the point by block incidence matrices of some 2-designs and their complementary and orthogonal designs are studied. a new method is also introduced to study optimal codes.

The share of manufacturing in output follows an inverted U shape over the course of development. However, both the timing and the magnitude of structural change differ substantially across countries. I show a simple open economy model of structural change can explain why countries with lower aggregate productivity industrialize more slowly and start de-industrialization at a lower share of manu...

we present an approach to design of fault tolerant computing systems. in this paper, a technique is employed that enable the combination of several codes, in order to obtain flexibility in the design of error correcting codes. code combining techniques are very effective, which one of these codes are turbo codes. the algorithm-based fault tolerance techniques that to detect errors rely on the c...

Recently, codes over some special finite rings especially chain rings have been studied. More recently, codes over finite non-chain rings have been also considered. Study on codes over such rings or rings in general is motivated by the existence of some special maps called Gray maps whose images give codes over fields. Quantum error-correcting (QEC) codes play a crucial role in protecting quantum ...

This paper focuses on the computing of the thresholds for iterative equalization and decoding of partial response channel, such as what are of interest in high density magnetic recording. Extensive simulations on the performance of turbo codes, low density parity check (LDPC) codes and single-parity check turbo product codes (TPC/SPC) over partial response channels reveal very encouraging bit e...