Most currently used e-Learning Systems do not often offer search functionality. Even if methods are provided to search for Learning Objects (LOs), they don’t usually utilize information about users’ interests stored in their profiles. Moreover, most of the search engines are only use query conformity to order the result list. User profiling methods are usually absent, as behaviour analysis meth...

BACKGROUND 2002 marked the first time that the rate of hospital spending in the United States out-paced the overall health care spending rate of growth since 1991. As hospital spending continues to grow and as reimbursement for hospital expenses has moved towards the prospective payment system, there is still increasing pressure to reduce costs. Hospitals have a major incentive to decrease reso...

For some electrostatic precipitators, profiled steel sheets are used as casing wall which is subjected to both bending and vertical compression. By nonlinear finite element method, the influences of structural parameters on load bearing capacity of profiled steel sheet wall were investigated. For the loading path, the uniform transversal pressure was applied firstly, and then the vertical compr...

the paper describes an investigation about the application of the new multiple-impedance discontinuities model for optimizing profile diffuser barriers. the new multiple-impedance discontinuities model is much faster than the numerical method, thus it is used in an optimization process. the a-weighted insertion loss was used for the traffic noise spectrum. the result of optimization, which is d...

Abstract The shear–driven, bilayer flow of two immiscible liquids sandwiched between a moving planar and stationary corrugated plate, in parallel alignment under Stokes conditions, is explored. motivation, partly inspired by biomimetic considerations, the use surface texturing/topography to reduce friction wear while increasing load carrying capacity lubrication problems. starting point associa...