many old damaged and undamaged building structures do not meet the criteria of modern seismic design codes. such structures need to be seismically enhanced. the main objective of this paper is to propose and validate the effectiveness of an upgrade scheme for non-seismic buildings using steel plate shear walls (spsw). the upgrade is carried out considering a probability-based drift-based criter...

â  using of prediction models is one of the methods of financial performance prediction. financial ratios are employed as predictive variable in prediction models. the main purpose of this study is to compare the incremental information content of accrual and cash ratios for prediction and evaluation of the financial performance of business entities by data mining models. in align with research...

today, innovation and change have been recognized as a necessity in organization, especially in manufacturing organizations of industrial societies. but in most developing countries, the role and importance of this subject has not yet been fully realized. roots of change management, certain concepts and studies done in innovation and change be investigated and analyzed. schools of individual pe...

There are various situations in which real-world problems can be modeled and solved as minimum flow problems. Sometimes, these situations, minor data changes may occur, leading to corresponding of the networks practical problems, such slight variations capacity or lower bound. For instance, bound an arc increase decrease time, leaving one with no other choice than finding new network flow. Give...

The seismic response assessment of rocking systems via Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA) is investigated, focusing on the issues that arise in analysis and postprocessing stages. Rocking IDA curves generally differ from those hysteretic structural due to (i) frequent appearance resurrections; (ii) their highly weaving non-monotonic behavior; (iii) overall high variability. Hence, including or ...