Three different Swedish lightweight multistory buildings have been investigated with respect to the flanking transmission over an inner wall. Among the buildings analysed, one of them had been used by residents for three years and the two other were only just erected and being built respectively. A tapping machine and a Japanese ball were used as excitation sources so as to produce vibrations i...

The aims of this study were: i) to analyze age-related declines in swimming, cycling, and running performances for road-based and off-road triathlons, and ii) to compare age-related changes in these three disciplines between road-based and off-road triathlons. Swimming, cycling, running and total time performances of the top 5 males between 20 and 70 years of age (in 5 year intervals) were anal...

This paper presents a global methodology to build a nonlinear regression when the number of available samples is small compared to the number of inputs. The task is divided in two parts: selection of the best inputs and construction of the approximator. A first SOM is used to compute clean correlations between the inputs and the output. A second SOM is built to link the output to the selected i...

This paper presents a survey of segmentation handwritten cursive word images into individual characters. It provides a comprehensive review of segmentation rates and descriptions of test data for the approaches discussed. Techniques that used to decide segmentation points describe in detail. Then the performances are compared in two categories based on number of words and existence of learning ...

Time performances and time-based competition concepts are analysed, introducing three types of time-based competitors. A traditional and an innovative path towards time-based competition are then recognised, the former achievable by over-resource applying, while the latter by practices related to just-in-time and concurrent engineering. It is explained how making a "rm structurally faster leads...

Corporate environment changing with the advent of information technology and with diversified organization has been inquired to redesign to transform into an intelligent and innovative organization so that corporate vision and organizational goals in the subsystem of corporate are provided for being shared by multidisciplinary workers and other stakeholders, and corporate social responsibility ...

This paper reports on the knowledge for teaching mathematics of 294 pre-service primary teachers from seven Australian universities participating in a project aimed at establishing a culture of evidence-based improvement of teacher education. The project was funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Rasch measurement techniques were used to validate and obtain performance measures...

The paper highlights the design of automatic generation controllers through optimal control strategy, for an interconnected hydrothermal system using a new performance index that circumvents the need for a load demand estimator. The dynamic performances of these controllers are analysed and compared with those obtained through the usual performance index as that used by Fosha and Elgerd, consid...

“It’s not what you play, but how you play it”. The term “robotic performance” has traditionally been used to describe a musical performance that lacks expression and evokes no emotion from listeners. Indeed, current instrumentplaying robots have achieved high technical proficiency, but “perfect” performances of a piece are not necessarily considered musical. In this paper, we propose a Programm...

In this paper, an overview and a benchmark of some semi-active suspension control strategy performances is proposed. Based on a recent result of the authors, where the optimal semi-active performance trade-off was addressed, here, a complete benchmark to evaluate any controlled semi-active suspensions is proposed, and applied on different control approaches. The present paper aims at providing ...