The study focused on evaluating the structural health and safety of Flores Hall Valencia Hall. parameters used were age building, carrying capacity or a number occupants, position location, geological hazard maps, including building adjacency current state members. researchers rapid visual screening in identifying observable hazards terms non – components utilized mixed method research. A check...

Due to the serious power shortage in Taiwan, many simple cycle gas turbine generation sets (GENSETs) that were originally designated to serve as peak load units are forced to operate continuously during the entire summer season. The retrofitting projects have been seriously considered to convert these GENSETs (which have the advantage of fast startup, but suffer from low power output and therma...

Introduction Retrofitting our current building stock and urban infrastructure is a vital part of meeting emissions reductions targets, using energy and resources in a more efficient way and creating sustainable lifestyles. However, one of the key barriers identified is a lack of appropriate modelling and decision support tools to aid long-term planning for sustainable urban retrofitting. In thi...

Many existing reinforced concrete structures were constructed with substandard characteristics. Low quality concrete, poor transverse reinforcement details and insufficient flexural strength are among the most common deficiencies. While substandard structures are in need of retrofitting, particularly in seismic areas, problems such as high costs and disturbance to occupants are major obstacles ...

System cost reductions and development of standardised plug-and-function systems are some of the most important goals for solar heating technology development. Retrofitting hot water boilers in single-family houses when installing solar collectors has the potential to significantly reduce both material and installation costs. In this study, the TRNSYS simulation models of the retrofitting solar...

The first, and often largest, step toward internationalization of an interactive application is translation of its output messages, prompts, etc. into the desired language. This is typically done with a ‘‘message catalog’’: the program supplies a key of some kind, which is looked up in the catalog to yield the appropriate translation. While this basic approach is impossible to avoid (given the ...

Shape memory alloys have two unique properties of shape effect (SME) and superelasticity (SE) that are the ability for large inelastic deformations recovery after heating stress removal (SE). In recent years, structural engineers used these materials in field civil engineering’s, such as applications SMAs repair, retrofitting, rehabilitation concrete structures, dampers, vibration isolation sys...

Urbanization itself accounts for a vast amount of energy and cities are centres of resource consumption and buildings can account for 40-60% of the urban energy usage which mostly relies on high Green-House-Gas (GHG) emitting fossil fuels. Climate change and other environmental concerns drive the policy initiatives to be renewable energy oriented. Increasing the share of renewable sources in th...

The notion of fair e-cash schemes was suggested and implemented in the last decade. It balances anonymity with the capability of tracing users and transactions in cases of crime or misbehavior. The issue was raised both, in the banking community and in the cryptographic literature. A number of systems were designed with an off-line fairness, where the tracing authorities get involved only when ...

Text and Knowledge Bases are complementary sources of information. Given the success of distributed word representations learned from text, several techniques to infuse additional information from sources like WordNet into word representations have been proposed. In this paper, we follow an alternative route. We learn word representations from text and WordNet independently, and then explore si...