A two-step probabilistic structural health monitoring approach is used to analyze the Phase II experimental benchmark studies sponsored by the IASC–ASCE Task Group on Structural Health Monitoring. This study involves damage detection and assessment of the test structure using experimental data generated by hammer impact and ambient vibrations. The two-step approach involves modal identification...

This review summarises most currently used indices to assess and monitor patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in clinical trials, long-term observational studies, and clinical care. Six SLE disease activity indices include the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group Index (BILAG), European Consensus Lupus Activity Measurement (ECLAM), Systemic Lupus Activity Measure (SLAM), Systemic Lu...

We determined efficacy of AV-1011 (a 50% anthraquinone product; Arkion Life Sciences, New Castle, Delaware) on drill-planted rice seed to reduce blackbird damage and determine residue levels of anthraquinone (AQ) in rice seeds and seedlings and in the mature rice crop under field enclosures at the University of Missouri-Delta Center farm near Portageville, Missouri. Red-winged blackbird (Agelai...

Appropriate damage assessment procedures are fundamental for making decisions regarding existing structures. For instance, to decide about corrective measures after an earthquake or to define risk management strategies. Damage assessment is one of the most challenging problems to solve due to difficulties in defining, assessing and modelling the variables involved and those associated with hand...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether prior silicone injection increases the risks associated with carbon dioxide laser resurfacing. DESIGN Laboratory determination of the effect of laser energy on liquid silicone; histologic evaluation of silicone-injected skin after lasing; and histologic demonstration of silicone deposits in all layers of dermis years after injection of silicone as filler fluid. ...

This paper presents a systemic Bayesian network (BN) based approach for dynamic risk assessment for adjacent buildings in tunnel construction. This approach consists of four steps in detail, namely, hazard analysis, BN learning and BN-based risk analysis. In the dynamic risk analysis framework, the predictive, sensitivity and diagnostic analysis techniques in the Bayesian inference are used to ...

Purpose Invasion of information systems through electronic media has become rampant with the outburst of Internet technologies and their applications. An information attack brings a system to unstable and inconsistent state [1], [3]. In such cases, the system under attack cannot differentiate an attacker from a legitimate user. Once the attacking transaction modifies some data in the database a...

This paper studies the joint damage assessment and recovery of the power infrastructure after a natural disaster has occurred. Earlier work in this area proposed an optimization algorithm for the recovery phase, assuming that the infrastructure damage was known precisely. This paper lifts this assumption which does not always hold in practice. It proposes three approaches to this problem: An on...