This study aims to enhance the body of knowledge available in relation to the mechanical performance of historical structures and the assessment of the expected service life of such structures. The reliability of non-destructive techniques (NDT) is examined, in particular in connection with the technique’s application to a historic Ottoman building located in Urla, Izmir, Turkey. NDT techniques...

This study aimed to find a better dosimetric parameter in predicting of radiation-induced lung toxicity (RILT) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) individually: ventilation(V), perfusion (Q) or computerized tomography (CT) based. V/Q single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) was performed within 1 week prior to radiotherapy (RT). All V/Q imaging data was integrated ...

In this article, we introduce a class of the generalized mixed additive, quadratic and quartic functional equations and obtain their common solutions. We also investigate the stability of such modified functional equations in the non-Archimedean normed spaces by a fixed point method.

Born-Infeld theory is formulated using an infinite set of gauge fields, along the lines of McClain, Wu and Yu. In this formulation electromagnetic duality is generated by a fully local functional. The resulting consistency problems are analyzed and the formulation is shown to be consistent. Email address: [email protected]. Supported by NFR.

Use of renewable energy sources for the purposes of electricity generation is increasing throughout the world. Connection of new generators, however, introduces significant challenges to power network operators and managers. The power system transient stab ility is affected by the grid connection of new generation units. The objective of this paper is to investigate asynchronous generator dynam...

Various filtering algorithms for publish/subscribe systems have been proposed. One distinguishing characteristic is their internal representation of Boolean subscriptions: They either require conversions into DNFs (canonical approaches) or are directly exploited in event filtering (non-canonical approaches). In this paper, we present a detailed analysis and comparison of the memory requirements...

Considering that current end to end communication services are not adapted for supporting efficiently distributed multimedia application, this paper introduces a new family of generic transport protocols directly instantiated from application layer quality of service requirements. This Generic Transport Protocol (GTP) has been successfully tested for video on demand systems and is one of the ma...