progressive collapse is defined as the spread of an initial failure from element to element, eventually resulting in the collapse of an entire structure or a disproportionately large part of it. the current progressive collapse analyses and design methods in guidelines and codes focus on the alternate load path method. this method is suitable especially in the case of blast-induced progressive ...

This paper presents a reanalysis of a randomized clinical trial conducted by the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB, Bethesda, MD, USA). This trial found a significant benefit of combination chemotherapy followed by irradiation (CTRT) in comparison to radiotherapy alone (RT) for the treatment of nonsmall cell lung cancer. The validity of the results obtained and the decision to terminate taken ...

HPCTOOLKIT is an integrated suite of tools that supports measurement, analysis, attribution, and presentation of application performance for both sequential and parallel programs. HPCTOOLKIT can pinpoint and quantify scalability bottlenecks in fully-optimized parallel programs with a measurement overhead of only a few percent. Recently, new capabilities were added to HPCTOOLKIT for collecting c...

A method is presented for identifying primitive path-delay faults in non-scan sequential circuits and generating robust tests for all robustly testable primitive faults. It uses the concept of sensitizing cubes introduced in an earlier paper and a new, more efficient algorithm for generating them. Sensitizing cubes of the next state and output logic are used to obtain static sensitizing vectors...

Objective: Yield components and genetic contribution have the most important in final yield and breeding programs of crop plants. For this purpose, 20 varieties of grapevines with Russia origin were evaluated in Urmia and Takestan research station (under full irrigation and drought stress). Methods: Twenty grapevine genotypes were evaluated in Urmia and Takestan research station (under full irr...

Path recommendation plays an important role for learners to obtaining good action in e-learning environment. Without appropriate guiding service, learners might miss some resource and waste time. Therefore, how to provide visitors customized path becomes an important task for learners. To bridge the gap, this research uses sequential pattern mining for intelligent touring system to generate per...

A myriad of applications from different domains collects time series data for further analysis. In many of them, such as seismic datasets, the observed data is also associated to a space dimension, which corresponds, in fact, to spatial-time series. The analysis of these datasets is difficult due to both the continuous nature of the observed data and the relationship between spatial and time di...