numerous techniques have been presented by different researchers to analyze piled raft. in order to analyze pile foundation, soil can be modeled as spring, continuous medium, or porous media. pile can also be modeled as spring or continuous medium. this study includes three main stages: a short description of different types of analysis methods of pile foundation, writing a computer program bas...

in order to mobilize shallow soil to participate in the interaction of piled raft foundation sufficiently, the concept of piled raft has been modified to new type of foundation named composite piled raft. in the system of composite piled raft, the short piles made of flexible materials is used to strengthen the shallow soft soil, while the long piles made of relatively rigid materials is used t...

This talk is meant as a wake-up call ... The foundation of the database field is, of course, the relational model. Sad to say, however, there are some in the database community—certainly in industry, and to some extent in academia also—who do not seem to be as familiar with that model as they ought to be; there are others who seem to think it is not very interesting or relevant to the day-today...

Windmill, machine that converts wind into useful energy. This energy is derived from the force of wind acting on oblique blades or sails that radiate from a shaft. The turning shaft may be connected to machinery used to generate electricity. The present paper makes an attempt to show the effect of wind and earthquake load on tubular type windmill and its foundation considering hard, medium and ...

Visual attention is a multi-faceted phenomenon, playing different roles in different situations and for different processing mechanisms. Regardless, attention is a mechanism that optimizes the search processes inherent in vision. This perspective leads to a sound theoretical foundation for studies of attention in both machine and in the brain. The development of this foundation and the many way...

This paper explores the use of Proteus, an architecture-independent language suitable for prototyping parallel and distributed programs. Proteus is a highlevel imperative notation based on sets and sequences with a single construct for the parallel composition of processes communicating through shared memory. Several di erent parallel algorithms for N-body simulation are presented in Proteus, i...

This paper describes how to incorporate sampled curvature information in a NewtonCG method and in a limited memory quasi-Newton method for statistical learning. The motivation for this work stems from supervised machine learning applications involving a very large number of training points. We follow a batch approach, also known in the stochastic optimization literature as a sample average appr...

OBJECTIVES The complexity of health technology assessment (HTA) has increased, in part because of its evolution through three distinct phases: the machine, the clinical outcomes, and the delivery models. However, the theoretical foundation for the field remains underdeveloped. METHODS It is high time for HTA to bring together aspects of conceptual and theoretical works from other fields to st...