in this paper effect of pile-soil consideration in obtaining seismic response offshore structure is assessed due to earthquake loading. inducedseismic force is one of the most important excitations for the dynamic response of an offshore structure. according to api, seismic forces should be accounted in platform design for seismically active regions in order to determine the allowable seismic r...

The International Harmonized Research Activities Working Group (IHRA) on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) was established to coordinate, collaborate and exchange information on research aimed at optimizing the safety performance of ITS. This report describes some of the key activities in recent years. The working group has also started to publish a IHRA-ITS newsletter through INRETS that des...

UN/CEFACT’s Modeling Methodology (UMM) has been developed to analyze and design B2B business processes independent of the underlying exchange technology. It became the methodology of choice for developing ebXML business processes. Another technology for realizing B2B partnerships is Web Services. Currently, the business process execution languages (BPEL) seems to be the winner amongst the Web S...

Darkest Africa, the imagining of colonial fantasy, in many ways still lives on. Popular cultural representations of Africa often draw from the rich imagery of the un-charted, un-knowable ̳other‘ that Africa represents. When Capcom made the decision to set the latest instalment of its Resident Evil series in an imagined African country, it was merely looking for a new, unexplored setting, and th...

Reference Modeling has evolved as a strong discipline especially driven by the German speaking community. Great achievements have been made in finding ways to leverage the potentials of reuse in business modeling. However, the perception of reference modeling as such is still limited to a rather small group of scholars. This is surprising as the phenomenon of “re-use” is very much in the center...

The incidence of female urethral cancer is rare and accounts for 0.02% of all women’s cancers. It is dominated by epidermoid carcinoma, which most commonly develops in the distal portion of the urethra, extending to inguinal lymph nodes. The diagnosis is confirmed in the distal forms on the basis of uretrocystoscopy with biopsy. Abdominopelvic MRI allows to determine tumor extension as well as ...

La Ingeniería de Requisitos tiene como objetivo producir requisitos de alta calidad, poniendo especial interés en la completitud de los modelos elaborados. Establecer si la información elicitada y modelada es suficiente para construir un software que cubra las necesidades del cliente es una cuestión de difícil respuesta. Existen algunos intentos realizados en ese sentido, tal como una adaptació...

Before two businesses can engage in a business-tobusiness process an agreement about the process execution order and the business documents exchanged in the collaborative process must be found. Although several initiatives from different industries have started standardization initiatives for business documents a set of shortcomings still remain: (1) the different standards do not have a common...

1 Introducción El sistema de recuperación de información multilingüe LLajú aquí presentado viene a ser una implementación del modelo sugerido en [1], con la mejora en el cálculo de probabilidades de traducción a partir de SemCor tal como se describe en [2]. El sistema de recuperación que proponemos es capaz de recuperar artículos de las secciones de nacional e internacional de los sitios de “AB...