The oil and gas industry has moved towards Load and Resistance Factor Design through API RP2A LRFD and the recently published international standard, ISO-19902, for design of fixed steel offshore structures. The ISO 19902 is intended to provide a harmonized design practice that offers a balanced structural fitness for the purpose, economy and safety. As part of an ongoing work, the reliability ...

liquidSVM is a package written in C++ that provides SVM-type solvers for various classification and regression tasks. Because of a fully integrated hyper-parameter selection, very carefully implemented solvers, multi-threading and GPU support, and several built-in data decomposition strategies it provides unprecedented speed for small training sizes as well as for data sets of tens of millions ...

research and developmentexpenditure (r&d;) in new literature plays an important role in economic growth. investment in r&d;, increases level of knowledge and enhanced knowledge, increase production efficiency and from efficiency channel economic growth improves. many studies have been done on the r&d; not used unit of data for this variable. this is due to a lack of labor and the level of inves...

In this paper new semi-empirical formulas are developed to evaluate the variation of both real and imaginary parts of soil complex permittivity with depth inside the earth's surface. Computed values using these models show good agreement with published measured values for soils of the same textures and same frequency band. Use of these models may serve to handle more accurate results especially...

Systems of planar electrodes arranged on dielectric or piezoelectric layers are applied in numerous sensors and transducers. In this paper electrostatics of such electrode systems is presented and exploited in the analysis of distributed piezoelectric transducer dedicated to surface elastometry of biological tissues characterized by large Poisson modulus. The fundamental Matlab R © code for ana...

We prove that the diagonally pivoted symmetric LR algorithm on a positive definite matrix is globally convergent. The “symmetric” or “Cholesky” LR iteration is a fairly old method of eigenreduction of a positive definite Hermitian matrix H. It reads H = H0 = R∗ 0R0 H1 = R0R 0 = R ∗ 1R1 .. (1) This process is linearly convergent [6], [5]. Recently, its singular value ’implicit’ equivalent R∗ k =...