Fragility curves are very useful in quantifying the physical and economic damage of buildings that have undergone an earthquake. This paper presents the development of analytical fragility curves representative of mid-rise residential structures built with reinforced concrete, taking into account the specific structural characteristics of Algerian buildings. The derivation of the analytical fra...

Background: Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is a novel tumor ablation technique. IRE is associated with high electrical fields and is often reported in conjunction with thermal damage caused by Joule heating. For good response to surgery it is crucial to produce minimum thermal damage in both tumoral and healthy tissues named Non-Thermal Irreversible Electroporation(NTIRE). Non-thermal irrev...

This paper proposes a coupled thermal-hydrological-mechanical damage (THMD) model for the failure process of rock, in which coupling effects such as thermally induced rock deformation, water flow-induced thermal convection, and rock deformation-induced water flow are considered. The damage is considered to be the key factor that controls the THM coupling process and the heterogeneity of rock is...

The primary objective of damage detection is to ascertain with confidence if damage is present or not within a structure of interest. In this study, a damage classification problem is cast in the context of the statistical pattern recognition paradigm. First, a time prediction model, called an autoregressive and autoregressive with exogenous inputs (AR-ARX) model, is fit to a vibration signal m...

An analysis of mammalian cell radiation ± dose surIn studies concerning mechanisms that determine vival curves, based on the linear ± quadratic formalism, is shown radiosensitivities of mammalian cells, three di å erent to yield insights in the various components of damage that approaches can be distinguished which complement contribute to cell reproductive death . R B E ± LET relationships of ...

evaluating the population density and spatial pattern of infected trees are one of the important criteria for selecting the management method and epidemiology of forest diseases. this study aimed at assessing the damage intensity and spatial-temporal mortality patterns of oak in qoroq forest park, golestan province. the health of oak trees was evaluated in seven transects by using quarter-point...

this paper examines whether combining generalized hyperbolic skew-t distribution, recently introduced in the field of insurance, and extreme value theory (evt) could result in a modeling of loss function that could model central value as well as extreme value in appropriate manner. the data used in this study are the amount of property damage and bodily injury covered under automobile liability...

human serum paraoxonase (pon) associated with high density lipoprotein (hdl) , has been postulated to have a role in protecting low-density lipoprotein (ldl) against oxidative damage, which has led to the proposal that pon is an anti-atherogenic and anti-inflammatory enzyme. it has genetic polymorphism at the 191 (r ->q) and two alloenzymes a and b and three phenotypes a, b, and ab. we examined...