Considering the current state of the art in cloud computing and virtualization, we are at a point in time in which one can develop complex elastic cloud systems. Such systems can have components/units hosted in virtual containers, inside virtual machines, using different cloud offerings (from IaaS to SaaS), potentially from multiple cloud providers. However, to build such systems, and manage th...

limitations in the design method used for the support systems of urban buildings make them vulnerable to damage by adjacent excavations. this paper examines a traditional system used to support excavation sites and adjacent buildings in which inclined struts are connected to the wall or foundation of the adjacent building. this method can be considered to be a type of shoring or underpinning. t...

The high blood rate that often occurs in arteries may play a role in artery failure and tortuosity which leads to blackouts, transitory ischemic attacks and other diseases. However, vibration and instability analysis of carotid arteries are lacking. The objective of this study is to investigate the vibration and instability of the carotid arteries conveying blood under axial tension with surrou...

BACKGROUND Hyperspectral reflectance and transmittance sensing as well as near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy were investigated as non-destructive tools for estimating blueberry firmness, elastic modulus and soluble solid content (SSC). Least squares-support vector machine models were established from these three spectra based on samples from three cultivars viz. Bluecrop, Duke and M2 and two harv...

The support vector machine (SVM) is the state-of-the-art classification method, and the doubly regularized SVM (DrSVM) is its important extension based on the elastic net penalty. DrSVM has been successfully applied in handling variable selection and while retaining (or discarding) correlated variables. However, it is challenging to solve this model. In this paper we develop an iterative l2-SVM...