Statnamic load testing has been used extensively all over the world on bridges, high rise condominium structures, office towers, military facilities, Corps of Engineers flood control structures, water and wastewater facilities and various other commercial structures. Statnamic Load Testing is a recognized test method by the American Society for Testing and Materials designation number ASTM D738...

The time-varying demand and stochastic power generation from renewable distributed generating resources necessitate an exhaustive assessment of distribution feeder parameters for the purpose of longterm planning. This paper proposes a novel formulation of probabilistic load flow for distribution feeders with high penetration of renewable distributed generation. The dependency between the load d...

The physical transport of Escherichia coli in terrestrial environments may require control to prevent its dissemination from potential high-density sources, such as confined animal feedlot operations. Biobarriers, wherein convective flows carrying pathogens pass through a porous matrix with high retentive capacity, may present one such approach. Eight environmental E. coli isolates were selecte...

Efficient load balancing algorithms are the key to many efficient parallel applications. Until now, research in this area has mainly been focusing on homogeneous schemes. However, observations show that the convergence rate of diffusion algorithms can be improved using edge weighted graphs without deteriorating the flows quality. In this paper we consider common interconnection topologies and d...

Estimation of the load, particularly of the peak load, is basis for the system state estimation, and for technical, and economic calculations. This makes possible improvement in economic operation, maintenance of electrical equipment, and optimal planning and operating of electrical distribution systems. In the paper, starting from a fuzzy correlation model of the loads, a power flow analysis f...

We consider the issue of task assignment in a distributed system under heavy-tailed (ie. highly variable) workloads. A new adaptable approach called TAPTF (Task Assignment based on Prioritising Traffic Flows) is proposed, which improves performance under heavy-tailed workloads for certain classes of traffic. TAPTF controls the influx of tasks to each host, enables service differentiation throug...

Foodborne illnesses occur in both industrialized and developing countries, and may be increasing due to rapidly evolving food production practices. Yet some primary tools used to assess food safety are decades, if not centuries, old. To improve the time to result for food safety assessment a sensitive flow cytometer based system to detect microbial contamination was developed. By eliminating ba...

OBJECTIVE Insulin causes capillary recruitment in muscle and adipose tissue, but the metabolic and microvascular effects of insulin in the skin have not been studied in detail. The aim of this study was to measure glucose metabolism and microvascular blood flow in the skin during local insulin delivery and after an oral glucose load. METHODS Microdialysis catheters were inserted intracutanous...

Beyond the mere collection of computers, a network is the home of competing and cooperating execution flows. In this paper we show how to design network protocols based on molecule-like entities such that the corresponding execution flows can by analyzed as if they were chemical processes. Our goal is to create robust protocol implementations which are resilient to unreliable execution. We intr...

Predictions of suspended sediment load for Soolegan River, Iran using selected empirical equ-ations were made based on 355 data sets. Data include flow discharges from 3.11 m3/s to 43.81 m3/s, flow velocities from 0.22 m/s to 1.03 m/s, and flow depths from 0.5 to 1.03 m. Equations of Einstein (1950), Bagnold (1966), Toufalleti (1968), Brooks (1963), Chang-Simons-Richardson(1965),Lane-Kalinske (...