Large deformation causing damage due to uplift force is generated in buried pipeline located in shallow trenches in marshes and saturated soils. In this paper, existing common methods of pipeline anchorage are discussed and considering advantages and disadvantages of these methods, a new method of pipeline anchorage are studied and presented. In this new developed method, geo-textile materials ...

This paper describes an innovative intelligent omnivision video system, that stitches the images of four cameras together, resulting in one seamless image. This way the system generates a 360 degree view of the scene. An additional automatically controlled pan-tilt-zoomcamera provides a high resolution view of user defined regions of interest (ROI). In addition to the fusion of multiple camera ...

Data processing pipelines are one of most common astronomical software. This kind of programs are chains of processes that transform raw data into valuable information. In this work a Python framework for astronomical pipeline generation is presented. It features a design pattern (Model-View-Controller) on top of a SQL Relational Database capable of handling custom data models, processing stage...

We propose, implement, and experimentally evaluate a runtime middleware to support high-throughput execution on hybrid cluster machines of large-scale analysis applications. A hybrid cluster machine consists of computation nodes which have multiple CPUs and general purpose graphics processing units (GPUs). Our work targets scientific analysis applications in which datasets are processed in appl...

The need for low-cost, real-time, image processing for automated inspection and other industrial applications has led to considerable effort being directed at many novel computer architectures. Two main avenues of work have become apparent: the use of powerful parallel architectures and the use of pipelined processors. The former while offering great flexibility, have, to date, been associated ...

Measurement of pipeline wall thickness is one of the main contents of nondestructive inspection on offshore oil pipeline. A novel approach based on the marginal spectrum of the Hilbert-Huang transform is proposed for ultrasonic echo signal processing. The demodulated ultrasonic echo signal contains the thickness information of pipeline wall, which is an approximately periodic signal. The margin...

FPSOs are useful in newly established offshore oil regions where there is no pipeline infrastructure in place, or in remote locations where building a pipeline is cost-prohibitive. In this study, hydrodynamic analysis of FPSO is inquired based Boundary Element Method (BEM) and wave forces/moments, added mass and damping coefficients of degrees of freedom are obtained by AQWA software. FPSO moor...

RNA-sequencing (RNA-Seq) has become the technology of choice for whole-transcriptome profiling. However, processing the millions of sequence reads generated requires considerable bioinformatics skills and computational resources. At each step of the processing pipeline many tools are available, each with specific advantages and disadvantages. While using a specific combination of tools might be...

Although there exist many high-performing text-mining tools to address literature biocuration (populating biomedical databases from the published literature), the challenge of delivering effective computational support for curation of large-scale biomedical databases is still unsolved. We describe a community-driven solution (the SciKnowMine Project) implemented using the Unstructured Informati...