Abstract The paper presents results of a numerical investigation on load capacity the mixed bench and slab shallow foundations (often used in process modernization old, antique buildings, which are suffering from lack capacity). main trouble with use existing analytical approaches is non-unique foundation level slab, they could even be founded different geotechnical layers. Proposed model based...

Millipedes (Diplopoda), with a few notable exceptions, are poor dispersers, showing a very high degree of endemicity, not the least in mountains. The first samplings of the Mesovoid Shallow Substratum (MSS) of the higher altitudes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains (Baetic System, Southern Spain) have led to the discovery of a high number of millipedes, each of the species present showing a differe...

In this paper we examine the influence of dimensionality on natural language route directions in dialogue. Specifically, we show that giving route instructions in a quasi-3d environment leads to experiential descriptive accounts, as manifested by a higher proportion of location descriptions, lack of chunking, use of 1st person singular personal pronouns, and more frequent use of temporal and sp...

This paper describes the approach of the system that we built as part of the participation in ‘PAN 2015 Source Retrieval’ task. Chunking of documents based on paragraphs and efficient download filtering improved the overall performance of the system. Source Retrieval is an important task of a Plagiarism Detection system

Our approach for unsupervised extraction of prosodic structure in spontaneous speech consists of the four steps: chunking into interpausal units, syllable nucleus extraction, prosodic boundary detection, and pitch accent detection. The extraction is based on acoustic features derived from F0 parameterization, and on energy and segment duration features. Phrase boundaries and accents are detecte...

Significant amount of work has been devoted recently to develop learning techniques that can be used to generate partial (shallow) analysis of natural language sentences rather than a full parse. In this work we set out to evaluate whether this direction is worthwhile by comparing a learned shallow parser to one of the best learned full parsers on tasks both can perform — identifying phrases in...

The Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 was one of the greatest natural disasters; it was also the first internet-mediated natural disaster. Despite the presumed ubiquity and power of advanced technologies including satellites and the internet, no advance warning was given to the affected coastal populations by their governments or others. This article examines the conditions for the suppl...

The studied area includes Sulaimani, Erbil and Dohuk Governorates where Cretaceous rocks are well exposed in the High Folded Zone of North and Northeastern Iraq. This area is part of the northwestern boundary of Arabian platform near to Iranian border. In these governorates, the study tries to clarify the relations between deep and shallow stratigraphic units (formation or facies) during Cretac...

Shallow Soil Mixing (SSM) is a sister technology to Deep Soil Mixing (DSM) developed to more economically improve soils within ten meters of the surface. SSM was recently utilized to provide a foundation for large effluent storage tanks as well as to contain foundation soils in the event of liquefaction from an earthquake. Two large storage tanks were required to be built in a pulp mill. The on...