This study explored the seismic response of a house supporting base sides with polymeric displacement control material and by magnetically levitating foundation base. In this paper, we explore possibility efficacy seismic-isolated detached as described above from both shaking table experiment model three-dimensional finite element analysis. The showed stable its acceleration was significantly r...

Residential energy constitutes a significant portion of the total US energy consumption. Several researchers proposed energy-aware solutions for houses, promising significant energy and cost savings. However, it is important to evaluate the outcomes of these methods on larger scale, with hundreds of houses. This paper presents a human-activity based residential energy modeling framework, that c...

iranian historical houses constitute a significant part of the architectural heritage of the country both qualitatively and quantitatively though due research is not conducted on them. this study investigates t0he physical evolution of qajar house of baqeri in gorganand attempts to monitor life stream over its lifespan. the study also investigates the effect of external transformations on archi...

Image structure and color are those two cues that are most frequently used in image interpretation and computer vision tasks. However, both have weaknesses if applied separately. Fusing the information of different cues allows for compensating the deficits of one of them by exploiting the advantages and attributes of others, leading to more robust results. Here we propose an approach to hand de...

Software development organizations are adopting multiple improvement technologies to guide improvement efforts. A recent trend is the simultaneous adoption of CMMI and ISO models into a single environment originating multi-model process solutions. Some of these models address similar areas of concern and share similar quality goals. Reusing organizational implemented practices is an opportunity...

In December 2007, the Cinemateca Portuguesa (the Portuguese Film Museum) ended a yearlong programme dedicated to ‘national genres’ with a selection of 18 Portuguese fi lms not associated with any particular genre, but with the category of ‘Portuguese cinema’ itself . It seemed an odd choice, even if one took into account the very loose definit ion of ‘f i lm genre’ of the previous months – who ...

female- headed house holds as one of social harmful groups in front of various problems in life among exist conflict at family. the work roles cause doual roles which are important problem for wemen. in this research, effort to use from grounded theory method and done deep interview to 25 person from female- headed house holds refer to main problem of this women. results data analysis and parad...

Being sustainable and producing little waste products, the renewable energy knows a rapid deployment. Unfortunately, the intermittent characteristic of these energies makes them difficult to control. The influence of this aleatory character can be reduced with the coupling of two or more sources of renewable energy and secondly with a sound management of storage systems. This new configuration ...

In this paper a multi-agent architecture for intelligent Websites is presented and applied in insurance. The architecture has been designed and implemented using the compositional development method for multi-agent systems DESIRE. The agents within this architecture are based on a generic broker agent model. It is shown how it can be exploited to design an intelligent Website for insurance, dev...