the human population has been growing at least at the rate of 1.2% annually since 1960 reachingup to 6.4b in 2002 and more than 7.0b in 2012. in davao city, the annual population growth rate is running at 3.22%in year 1990, at 2.41% last 2007 and recently in 2013 at 2.36%. the alarming problem we confront today is thatthe increase in land area for human use does not expand in proportion to popu...

A novel and practical left-inverse system based neural networks dynamic decoupling and compensating (LISNNDDC) method is proposed for improving dynamic performance of generic nonlinear muti-dimension sensors (e.g. muti-axis force sensors) instead of well-used ones. Consequently, the proposed method is not only of prime theoretical interest but also, in practical implementation, can obtain bette...

Within developing countries, there is a digital divide between rural and urban areas. In order to overcome this division, we need to provide locally relevant Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services to these areas. Traditional software development methodologies are not suitable for developing software for rural and underserviced areas because they cannot take into account the uni...

Care homes are not institutions, They are people’s homes. They are not “healthcare establishments”, They provide nursing care as part of a range of personal care services. People living in care homes are not “patients”. People living in care homes have a right to expect clean, safe environments and care. People using a service have the right to make choices, including taking risk. People living...

Soft storey buildings are characterized by having a storey which has a lot of open spaces. This soft storey creates a major weak point in an earthquake. Since soft stories are classically associated with retail spaces and parking garages, they are often on the lower stories of a building, which means that when they collapse, they can take the whole building down with them, causing serious struc...

We take an optimization approach, inspired by [1], toward synthesizing control strategies for cooperative muti-agent systems. We successfully apply this approach to a subproblem derived from a new test-bed for studies in cooperative systems called the RoboFlag competition.

Muti-physics coupling technologies could achieve a more real simulation for Earth system. The complexity of such simulation is a difficult problem. This paper presents an efficient Earth system simulation framework based on CCA (Common Component Architecture) which is applied in large scale scientific computing put forward recently by America. Based on such component schema, this framework coul...

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Soft storey building is popular due to the functional and aesthetic purpose, despite its weakness in resisting seismic excitation. Nonlinear Static (Pushover) Analysis (POA) is a time saving and simple assessment procedure prosposed in Eurocode 8 (EC8). However, its reliability in designing structure still remains a question. At the first stage, seismic performance of several building models us...