In the current engineering practices, buildings are commonly designed for an effective lifetime of 50 years. This lifetime can increase the cost of buildings with short lifetimes and can reduce the safety level of buildings with large lifetimes. In this paper, a “service-life factor” has been defined. Applying this factor into the nominal values of live, earthquake, wind, and snow loads, the ef...

It is almost impossible for a majority of the students to create the same environment at home that they have at school to prepare and review. To solve this problem, the authors have developed and tested a Live CD to distribute to students so they can do their work away from the school. Moreover, we developed some application software for children because of availably for not only the university...

The handling and treatment of data from automatic monitoring systems installed in civil infrastructures is by itself a hard and time consuming task in the search of structural behavior knowledge. This paper presents the implementation of an algorithm for detecting live load events and assessment of structural effects on monitored bridges. The events detection algorithm offer a set of results in...

Live video streaming service, which is common nowadays in the Internet, is supposed to be very challenging and demanding service in next-generation wireless networks. However, both limited quality of service (QoS) support and unstable quality of the air interface can restrain its wide deployment. In this paper we consider live video streaming over IEEE 802.11b wireless local area network (WLAN)...

It has been argued that the AASHTO LRFD design code for maximum live loads on highway bridges is overly conservative. In an attempt to determine the level of conservativeness, if any, the writers developed a methodology incorporating real-time visual data collection from traffic cameras coupled with structural strain response of girder bridges. Average daily truck traffic along with frequency o...

Non-intrusive appliance load monitoring is the process of disaggregating a household’s total electricity consumption into its contributing appliances. In this paper we propose an approach by which individual appliances can be iteratively separated from an aggregate load. Unlike existing approaches, our approach does not require training data to be collected by sub-metering individual appliances...

Active forces generated at kinetochores move chromosomes, and the dynamic spindle must robustly anchor kinetochore fibers (k-fibers) to bear this load. The mammalian spindle bears the load of chromosome movement far from poles, but we do not know where and how-physically and molecularly-this load distributes across the spindle. In part, this is because probing spindle mechanics in live cells is...

In the current engineering practices, buildings are commonly designed for an effective lifetime of 50 years. This lifetime can increase the cost of buildings with short lifetimes and can reduce the safety level of buildings with large lifetimes. In this paper, a “service-life factor” has been defined. Applying this factor into the nominal values of live, earthquake, wind, and snow loads, the ef...

Antibiotics are added to semen extenders to take care of heavy microbial load, however, their continuous use poses a constant threat of developing antibiotic resistance by the common microbes present in the semen. Our hypothesis was that natural honey, having antibacterial activity and rich in fructose could replace the use of antibiotics and fructose in the semen extender. Twenty-four ejaculat...

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