Abstract The United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides funding to state and local governments as well tribes territories (SLTTs) through its Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) grant program engage in flood risk management efforts. Although all communities are susceptible flooding, flooding does not impact equally. This article contributes FEMA's goal of addressing equity ...

The increasing penetration of embedded renewables makes forecasting net-load, consumption less generation, a significant and growing challenge. Here framework for producing probabilistic forecasts net-load is proposed with particular attention given to the tails predictive distributions, which are required managing risk associated low-probability events. Only small volumes data available in tai...

Load carrying capacity of flat double-layer space structures majorly depends on the structures' imperfections. Imperfections in initial curvature, length, and residual stress of members are all innately random and can affect the load-bearing capacity of the members and consequently that of the structure. The double-layer space trusses are susceptible to progressive collapse due to sudden buckli...

Consider the following load balancing problem. We are given a graph with arbitrary topology and an arbitrary load distribution on the nodes. In each time step, a node can send any amount of load to each neighbor in parallel. This problem is a simple formalization of dynamic load balancing problems arising in various applications on parallel and distributed machines. Earlier work on this problem...

After Northridge (1994) and Kobe (1995) earthquakes, several studies have been conducted to improve the seismic performance of steel structures. In this investigation, new steel moment-resisting connections (FSFN) developed by the authors, were studied by the non-linear numerical analysis. These connections were single-sided beam-to-column assemblies that are representative of exterior beam-to-...

Load balance mechanism does the vital role in high performance computing (HPC) and energy efficient computing (EEC). An effective load balance mechanism achieves high performance resource management. Several load management platform (e.g. Openstack, Nebula and Eucaluptus) available to simulate/perform status of algorithm. Load balance manager should be able to customize the resource management ...

In recent years, researchers have found that adiponectin (ANP) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and low serum concentrations of ANP are associated with AD. Higher plasma ANP level have a protective effect against the development of cognitive decline, suggesting that ANP may affect AD onset. Meanwhile, accumulating evidence supports the crucial role of ANP...