in present research, 17 centrifuge tests have been conducted to study the effect of various parameters such as the number of piles, the distance between piles, gradation and thickness of the granular layer on the load-settlement behavior of a pile raft system. the results showed the importance of granular layer to reduce the settlement of non-connected pile raft system when the roles of piles a...

OBJECTIVE To compare changes in interface pressures of three compression systems (four layer, two layer and short stretch) recorded over seven days in healthy volunteers in different positions: supine, sitting, active standing and working pressure during exercise. METHOD Twenty-four volunteers were bandaged with one of the three compression systems on both legs. Interface pressures were measu...

The material transportation capacity under emergency conditions is an important guarantee for the country to deal with war, epidemic outbreak, and other crisis situations. Under conditions, some nodes of system may fail work normally, which lead collapse whole system. Based on analyzing characteristics system, this article builds a three-layer interdependent network model uses improved M-L desc...

Ontology reuse is often predicated on agreement to the semantics wholly defined within an ontology document. But when faced with overly constrained semantics that one might partially reject, might one instead prefer reduced ontological commitment? In this paper, we describe how three layered ontology design promotes maximal reuse of domain ontologies by separating taxonomically organized domain...

Argumentation frameworks which are abstract are suitable for the study of independent properties of any specific aspect (e.g. arguments sceptical and credulous admissible) that are relevant for any argumentation context. However, its direct adoption on specific application contexts requires dealing with questions such as the argument structure, the argument categories, the conditions under whic...

We argue the case for a new paradigm for architecting structured P2P overlay networks, coined AESOP. AESOP consists of 3 layers: (i) an architecture, PLANES, that ensures significant performance speedups, assuming knowledge of altruistic peers; (ii) an accounting/auditing layer, AltSeAl, that identifies and validates altruistic peers; and (iii) SeAledPLANES, a layer that facilitates the coordin...