This paper describes an immune-inspired system based on an alternate theory about the self–nonself distinction theory, which defines the negative selection process as a mechanism of a fuzzy system based on the affinity between antigen and T-cells. This theory may provide a decision making tool which improves the generation of detectors or even define new data monitoring in order to detect an ex...

In this paper we study two different model reduction strategies for solving problems involving single phase flow in a porous medium containing faults or fractures whose location and properties are known. These faults are represented as interfaces of dimension N − 1 immersed in an N dimensional domain. Both approaches can handle various configurations of position and permeability of the faults, ...

Changes in the physicochemical conditions of process unit, even under control, may lead to what are generically referred to as faults. The cognition of causes is very important, because the system can be diagnosed and fault tolerated. In this article, we discuss and propose an artificial neural network that can detect the incipient and gradual faults either individually or mutually. The mai...

BACKGROUND The problem of atypical fractures, such as subtrochanteric or diaphyseal femoral fractures, associated with long-term treatment with bisphosphonates (BPs) has recently been given increasingly more attention. These fractures develop as stress fractures and are characterised by diaphyseal cortical thickening and a transverse or slightly oblique fracture line. The use of bisphosphonates...

The Mayoon landslide in the Hunza District is a slowly developed, non-catastrophic that has gained its importance last few years after rapid activation and fast slip rate. area characterized by high earthquake hazards (zone 3 with peak ground acceleration value of 2.4–3.2 m/s2) Building Code Pakistan due to frequent earth quakes. past activity displaced foliated rocks towards south responsible ...

Pinpoint is an application-generic framework for using statistical learning techniques to detect and localize likely application-level failures in component-based Internet services. Assuming that most of the system is working most of the time, Pinpoint looks for anomalies in low-level behaviors that are likely to reflect high-level application faults, and correlates these anomalies to their pot...

a considerable amount of energy is released in the form of shock wave from explosive charge detonation. shock wave energy is responsible for the creation of crushing and fracture zone around the blast hole. the rest of the shock wave energy is transferred to rock mass as ground vibration. ground vibration is conveyed to the adjacent structures by body and surface waves. geological structures li...