The behavioral response of piglets in a backtest early in life seems indicative of their coping strategy at a later age. Coping characteristics may depend on the interaction between backtest classification and housing conditions. We studied whether growth rate and partitioning of energy in adult gilts were related to response in the backtest early in life, and to housing in groups or individual...

This article looks at quantitative measures of conformity degree of received and transmitted information messages, selected depending on message nature, and defines main approaches to assessment of information systems interference immunity. Author analyzed peculiarities of information receiving depending on signals purposes on stages of signal detection, sorting out of signals and message recov...

In this paper a control system has been designed to improve traffic conditions in car following maneuver. There are different methods to design a control system. In this paper design approach is based on the Fuzzy sliding mode control (FSMC) system. The aim of designing FSMC system is to achieve safe and desire longitudinal distance and less lateral displacement. In orde...

concrete shear walls are the most prevalent structural systems resisting lateral loads due to earthquakes in high-rise buildings. very large in-plane stiffness of shear walls provides an excellent drift control in the structure. however, structural damages and early code shortcomings threaten the efficiency of existing structural walls against earthquake. recently, fiber reinforced polymer (frp...

Southern and southeastern Kazakhstan is a region of intraplate seismicity characterized by several destructive earthquakes. Almaty, the largest metropolis in this region, has many structures with different construction materials seismic-resistant systems. Among them, residential buildings constructed Soviet Union era (before 1990s) may possess low seismic resisting capacities due to limited des...

Horizontal stirrups are normally required in reinforced concrete (RC) beam-column joints (BCJs) for resisting shear forces seismic design. For RC moment-resisting frames subjected to a high lateral load, large number of needed joint cores. This may cause reinforcement congestion, leading construction difficulty and insufficient compaction, which can result poor performance. In this study, novel...