Load balancing plays a critical role in efficiently dispatching jobs parallel-server systems such as cloud networks and data centers. A fundamental challenge the design of load algorithms is to achieve an optimal trade-off between delay performance implementation overhead (e.g. communication or memory usage). This has primarily been studied so far from angle amount required asymptotically perfo...

background: serial measurement of  hepatitis b virus (hbv) dna levels in the liver and its relation with liver damage and serum hbv dna levels are guide to begin and/or end a treatment course. this study evaluated the relationship between liver hepatitis b dna viral load with liver histology in patients with chronic hepatitis b (hbv). methods:  thirty patients with chronic anti-hbe positive hep...

The anterior load-displacement behavior of the human knee with an intact ACL is characterized by a very low stiffness region initially and a high stiffness region that develops as anterior load is increased. Although this behavior has been well recognized for some time, a method for quantitatively describing the behavior in these two regions based on limits of motion at specific values of anter...

At the moment, Moshanir loading code which has been provided by Tavanir Company in 1998 is used for loading transmission line towers. Also ASCE52 are applied for designing these structures. In the above Moshanir loading code, loading parameters such as, maximum yearly ice thickness, maximum monthly ice thickness, maximum yearly wind speed and maximum monthly wind speed have been considered as ...

This paper is devoted to probability-statistical analysis of Jackson opened and closed networks. A problem of an estimation of product limit distributions parameters using load coefficients of network nodes is solved. Cooperative effects in aggregated opened and closed networks are investigated and optimization procedures of their limit deterministic characteristics are constructed. Formulas of...

Forming limit diagrams (FLDs) are calculated based on both the Marciniak and Kuczynski (M-K)  model and the analysis proposed by Jones and Gillis (J-G). J-G analysis consisted of plastic deformation approximation by three deformation phases. These phases consisted of homogeneous deformation up to the maximum load (Phase I), deformation localization under constant load (phase II) and local necki...

directional simulation, among techniques for reliability analysis of engineering structures, is well known. in this context, directional simulation in load space, because of the considerable advantages of lower dimension of working space, is of considerable interest. as is expected due to structural resistance variability, the location of the relevant limit state(s) is no longer constant and mu...