Abstract: Masonry infill is considered as a non-structural element in all type of buildings where masonry use. But, masonry infill walls are mainly used to increase initial stiffness and strength of reinforced concrete (RC) frame buildings. This Open First storey is also termed as “Soft Storey”. The upper storeys have brick infilled wall panels with various opening percentage in it. In many cit...

according to the iranian code of practice for seismic resistant design of buildings, soft storey phenomenon happens in a storey when the lateral stiffness of the storey is lower than 70% of the stiffness of the upper storey, or if it is lower than 80% of the average stiffness of the three upper stories. in the combined structural systems containing moment frames and shear walls, it is possible ...

This paper focuses on the task of Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation whose goal is to generate a list POIs for target user based his or her history check-in records. Different from traditional tasks (e.g., movie recommendation), there are many factors, like temporal factor and geographical factor, which make great influence preference. Though existing POI methods tend model preference socia...

Franco Berrino*, Patrizia Pasanisi, Cristina Bellati, Elisabetta Venturelli, Vittorio Krogh, Antonio Mastroianni, Edoardo Berselli, Paola Muti and Giorgio Secreto Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy Unit of Laboratory Medicine, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy Medical Department, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy Department of S...

MC-CDMA provides the muti carrier adaptive communication model is defined in real time scenario. This communication model is applied to provide optimized communication under different channel impurities. In this work, a robust model is presented under different modulation methods and in fading channel. The analysis of work shows that the proposed QAM integrated model has provided the effective ...

Comment on: Logan SM, Luu BE, Storey KB. Turn down genes for WAT? Activation of antiapoptosis pathways protects white adipose tissue in metabolically depressed 13-lined ground squirrels. Mol Cell Biochem 2016; 416:47-62; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11010-016-2695-0; Logan SM, Tessier SN, Tye J, Storey KB. Response of the JAK-STAT pathway to mammalian hibernation in 13-lined ground squirrel stria...

Monitoring and automatic control of building environment is a crucial application of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) in which maximizing network lifetime is a key challenge. Previous research into the performance of a network in a building environment has been concerned with radio propagation within a single floor. We investigate the link quality distribution to obtain full coverage of signal str...

Buoyancy-driven displacement natural ventilation in a simple multi-storey building structure is investigated. The storeys are connected to a common atrium and top-down-chimneys, and the internal heat gains of the storeys are represented by localised point heat sources on each floor. The heat sources generate thermal plumes which entrain the surrounding air and transport warm air upwards. Simple...

Abstract—Buildings with floating column are highly undesirable built in seismically active areas. Many urban multi-storey buildings today have floating column buildings which are adopted to accommodate parking at ground floor or reception lobbies in the first storey. The earthquake forces developed at different floor levels in a building need to be brought down along the height to the ground by...

Plastic and microplastic pollution is a complex, muti-faceted challenge that has engaged broad alliance of stakeholder groups who are concerned with environmental, biotic human health [...]