Based on 45 interviews and significant documentation, we explore the offshore outsourcing experiences of a US-based biotechnology company. This company offshore outsourced 21 IT projects to six suppliers in India. Senior managers and the official documents from the Program Management Office consistently reported that offshore outsourcing was successful in reducing the company’s IT costs. But in...

The atmospheric conditions that lead to strong offshore surface winds in Southern California, commonly referred to as Santa Ana winds, are investigated using the North American Regional Reanalysis and a 12-year, 6-km resolution regional climate simulation of Southern California. We first construct an index to characterize Santa Ana events based on offshore wind strength. This index is then used...

Abstract In this paper, structural characteristics are evaluated by displacement and frequency indicators that indicate the real-time health status of offshore platforms. This paper uses an accelerometer to collect dynamic response platform in event a ship collision. The main contributions research reflected three aspects. Firstly, based on Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) multiscale decompos...