Changes in dynamic properties of structures indicate occurrence of damages in the structures. In this paper, a new two stage algorithm for damage detection of large structure is introduced. A modified Residual Force Method is utilized to locate the damage regions in structures, especially barrel vaults, and then the enhanced Charged System Search (CSS) Algorithm is used to quantify the amount o...

Electric vehicle routing problems (E-VRPs) deal with a fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) to serve set customers while minimizing an operational criterion, for example, cost or time. The feasibility the routes is constrained by autonomy EVs, which may be recharged along route. Much E-VRP research neglects capacity charging stations (CSs) and thus implicitly assumes that unlimited number EVs can s...

We report on a case of Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) associated with the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies. The patient had a history of recurrent myocardial infarction and presented with acute ischemic cerebral disease. Eosinophilia with typical lung and skin lesions led us to diagnose the patient with CCS. We hypothesize that the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies significantly cont...

Chemosensory systems (CSS) are complex regulatory pathways capable of perceiving external signals and translating them into different cellular behaviors such as motility and development. In the δ-proteobacterium Myxococcus xanthus, chemosensing allows groups of cells to orient themselves and aggregate into specialized multicellular biofilms termed fruiting bodies. M. xanthus contains eight pred...

We present a new technique to prove termination of term rewrite systems, or more precise, constructor systems (CSs). In earlier work we introduced a transformation of well-moded logic programs into CSs, such that termination of the logic program follows from termination of the obtained CS. The technique to prove termination of CSs described in this paper is in particular suitable for, but not l...

BACKGROUND Recent studies linking radiation exposure from pediatric computed tomography (CT) to increased risks of leukemia and brain tumors lacked data to control for cancer susceptibility syndromes (CSS). These syndromes might be confounders because they are associated with an increased cancer risk and may increase the likelihood of CT scans performed in children. METHODS We identify CSS pr...

78 IEEE Control Systems Magazine The 2003 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CSS) Awards ceremony was held in the Napili Gardens of the Hyatt Hotel in Maui, Hawaii, next to the ocean on the beautiful evening of Thursday, 11 December 2003. President Cheryl Schrader welcomed everyone and introduced Panos Antsaklis, the chair of the Standing Committee on Awards, who briefly described the IEEE and ...