Many RC frames built without seismic provisions between the ’50’s and ’70’s need structural upgrade in order to match the minimum requirements of new building codes. Generally, the critical region of the strengthening design is represented by the beam-column connection. The strength hierarchy governs the upgrade requiring to protect the column and the panel so that the formation of a plastic hi...

This thesis work is performed at School of Engineering within the subject area of Production System: Production Development and Management. The work is part of the university's two-year master degree. The authors are responsible for the given opinions, conclusions and results. Summary Nowadays in a turbulent market, developing and launching a new product is one of most competitive strategies im...

the aim of this study was to analyze the impact of organizational learning and marketing metrics on the marketing performance in the elon plast company of kermanshah province. it is a functional purpose study with descriptive – survey method. the statistical population includes 100 employees of elon plast company in kermanshah province. a sample of 80 people was chosen using cochran formula. da...

the coordination and alignment between the corporate, business and functional strategies cause to raise organizational efficiency. this article based on strategic reference points theory, intends to illuminate how the alignment of human resources , ethical decision making and organizational culture strategies affect firm performance. data for this study were collected from research organization...

In the design of engineered artifacts, it is hypothesized that computations must be performed. Informal specifications must be converted into formal functional requirements and informal descriptions must be converted into formal parameterizations, so that performance can be computed. Such performance evaluations are developed for general set based mappings. The development includes, for example...

Integrating heterogeneous software systems becomes increasingly important. It requires combining existing components to form new applications. Such new applications are required to satisfy non-functional properties, such as performance. Design-time performance prediction of new applications built from existing components helps to compare design decisions before actually implementing them to the...

In complex real-time control systems such as autonomous mobile robotic systems, the use of development tools for the design, analysis and validation of robotic applications is highly desirable, specially to improve the robot performances and to avoid early software and hardware design faults. This paper presents a framework for developing real-time mobile robotic applications. The main feature ...

 Background: Lower limbs antigravity muscles weakness and decreased functional ability have significant role in falling. The aim of this study was to find the effects of aging on muscle strength and functional ability, determining the range of decreasing strength and functional ability and relationship between them in healthy women. Methods: Across-section study was performed on 101 healthy wom...