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...

Pipelines transporting solid-liquid mixtures are of practical interest to the oil and pipe industry throughout the world. Such pipelines are known as slurry pipelines where the solid medium of the flow is commonly known as slurry. The optimal designing of such pipelines is of commercial interests for their widespread acceptance. A methodology has been evolved for the optimal sizing of a pipelin...

Science projects are increasingly investing in computational reproducibility. Constructing software pipelines to demonstrate reproducibility is also becoming increasingly common. To aid the process of constructing pipelines, science project members often adopt reproducible methods and tools. CDE is a software packaging tool for reproducible research that encapsulates source code, datasets and e...

Profile analysis of urban underground pipelines solely from 2D GIS data is very difficult because the two-dimensional geographic information system technologies do not quite meet all the utility's needs. The present study aims at developing a quick and practical method to automatically produce the utility’s profile using 3D GIS techniques. A 3D Urban Pipe Network Model (3DUPNM) about undergroun...

Mechanical pressure clamps are examples of innovative tools commonly used in the oil and gas industry for arresting leaks from damaged oil and gas pipelines. However, if leaks result from pipeline rupture, clamps are not usually recommended. It is therefore obvious that inspection of the leaking pipeline is very crucial in deciding the strategy for repair. For subsea pipelines where underwater ...

A subsea pipeline (also known as an offshore or submarine pipeline) is a that laid on the seabed inside specially constructed trench [...]

Suchmaschinen und Big-Data-Analytics-Anwendungen zielen darauf ab, ad-hoc relevante Informationen zu Anfragen zu finden. Häufig müssen dafür große Mengen natürlichsprachiger Texte verarbeitet werden. Um nicht nur potentiell relevante Texte, sondern direkt relevante Informationen zu ermitteln, werden Texte zunehmend tiefer analysiert. Dafür können theoretisch komplexe Pipelines mit zahlreichen A...

As an indispensable part of the lifeline for offshore gas and oil industry, submarine pipelines under long-term marine environmental loadings have historically been susceptible to earthquakes. This study investigates impact trench backfilling on residual liquefaction around a pipeline induced uplift combined action earthquake, ocean wave current loading. A fully coupled nonlinear effective stre...

Many question answering systems and related components have been developed in recent years. Since question answering involves several tasks and subtasks, common in many systems, existing components can be combined in various ways to build the tailored question answering pipelines. QAestro framework provides the tools to semantically describe question answering components and automatically gener...