This paper describes the design, construction and early performance of a retaining structure close to a subway tunnel in Barcelona. The excavation, about 16 m deep, was carried out in 2001 during the construction of a new hospital, and involved a rectangular area with the longer side (170 m) almost parallel to the tunnel. The design had to fulfil two requirements: first, the influence of the ex...

PURPOSE The identification, retrieval, and critical evaluation of biomedical literature to inform the development of future research efforts are discussed. SUMMARY A literature search should be designed with the consideration of the desired scope of the information, discipline, or therapeutic area; the nature of the publication or presentation; the ease of full-text documents; and the frequen...

This paper describes our diversity featured retrieval system which are built for the task of ImageCLEFPhoto 2008. Two existing tools are used: Solr and Carrot. We have experimented with different settings of the system to see how the performance changes. The results suggest that the system can indeed increase diversity of the retrieved results and keep the precision about the same.

ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA 90.1 Energy Standard for Buildings except Low-Rise Residential Buildings is the benchmark code of U.S. local regulations. In addition to provide a set of minimum mandatory requirements for energy-using components (prescriptive approach), the standard includes in the Appendix G a more flexible path to attest performances significantly better than code minimum (performance-based...

1 Abstract In this paper we discuss issues that emerge in the attempt to integrate effectively techniques coming from Adaptive Hypermedia (AH) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) in order to reuse existing information to compose intelligent information presentations. In the solution we propose, NLG allows the generation of the most dynamic parts of the presentation i.e., with the selection of...