This important, self-contained reference deals with structural life assessment (SLA) and structural health monitoring (SHM) in a combined form. SLA periodically evaluates the state and condition of a structural system and provides recommendations for possible maintenance actions or the end of structural service life....

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2010 in the subject Engineering - Artificial Intelligence, grade: PhD, Korea University, Seoul (College of Engineering - Dept of Industrial Systems and Information Engineering), course: Intelligence Control and Artificial Intelligence, language: English, abstract: Fuzzy Logic (FL) is a particular area of...

Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания (издательство "Istanbl Matba'a-i Kitaphane Cihn", 1907 год), созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания....

Ya Sin Reader is an intermediate Arabic Grammar Text. The goal of this text is to impart intermediate topics of grammar analysis to the learner. The topics selected are derived from the 36th Chapter of the Holy Quran: Surah Yasin. What is unique about this text is its illustration of Arabic Grammar via diagramming....

This study was carried out within the framework of multi-criteria decsion analysis approch Analytic Hierarchy Process by integrating with Geographic Information System (GIS).This reasearch work can be applied in all kind of pulic facilities planning determining any kind of suitable sites. This is a sustainable development planning method applied....

The work consists of five chapters, an introduction and a conclusion.The first chapter is intended to be an intensive discussion of Bertolt Brecht\"s life and works, his Marxist doctrine,and the assailable chasm between his theory and theater. The second chapter is a historical background of both John Arden\"s and Edward Bond\"s lives and works....

Every writer includes some incidents or characters in his writings. Sometimes on purpose, and sometimes they just force themselves into his work of art. That is absolutely natural as the writer writes about \\\"life\\\"....

An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a bioelectrical signal which records the heart’s electrical activity versus time. It is an important diagnostic tool for assessing heart functions. In this book, pattern recognition techniques are used for the interpretation of an ECG signal....

This work was a dream that came true. It all began when I was in my training year as a house officer after finishing my medical education, I thought of all the blues and stresses that pass by me during my years in the university and thought if it was not this way I could have achieved more and lived happily....

We present an overview of the coagulation system in liver disease with emphasis on the limitations of the current clinical paradigm and the need for a critical re-evaluation of the current tenets governing clinical practice....

The study was carried out within the DAAD programme “Tropical Forestry Management” at the Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products, TU-Dresden, Germany. The underlying empirical methodological research, including a half-year field survey has been executed between 2003 and 2005 and has led to a M.Sc. degree of the author....

Lindane (gamma hexachlorohexane) is the most toxic of all the isomers of hexachlorohexane and has powerful insecticidal properties and it is used for the control of insects of field crops and pests in houses. One of the main routes of human exposure is food contamination where its residues has been found in water, milk, cooking oil and fisH....

Doxorubicin (DOX) is an anticancer drug, used to cure lung cancer in spite of its side effect on the heart. The present study assessed the efficacy of black seed (BS) in treatment of the induced pathological alterations in heart of white albino mice following the injection with the anticancer drug DOX....

Recently, series compensation is widely used in transmission. However, this creates several problems to conventional protection approaches.This book presents a comprehensive distance and overcurrent protection approach for series compensated transmission line using support vector machine (SVM)....

Phasor measurement units (PMUs) are considered as a promising tool for future monitoring, protection and control of power systems. One of the applications of phasor measurements is state estimation. The first step in state estimation is to gather measured data from different substations in a power network....