District cooling system (DCS) is a mass-scale production of chilled water generated at a central and remote chiller plant. Through an underground piping network, the chilled water is delivered to serve a group of consumer buildings in a district area. DCS can offer both economical and environmental benefits. Because of the substantial capital investment and running energy involved, an optimal d...

This paper discusses the experimental set-up and procedures for the seismic testing and evaluation of a sprinkler system in hospital model. Concrete compression tests are ran to ensure compliance with ACI 355.2 anchor testing qualifications. Maximum shear strength of the anchor is found to include within the piping system model. Frame and piping system within the model is tested under input mot...

Alias leads the world in the automatic isometric generation of piping with their ̄ agship product, ISOGEN, which is available from many of the world’ s leading plant design vendors, including Intergraph, Rebis, Bentley, Tribon Solutions AB, Aquaconsult, CEA International, Profox, COADE and PRO-CAD. Alias’ s product portfolio includes SPOOLGEN, for the production and management of fabrication spo...

A lot of plumbings exist in factories and so on. It is difficult for humans to inspect them directly. Therefore, automated inspection by robots is desirable. However, many of existing inspection robots have to rotate the camera because a conventional camera can see only one direction while a piping has a cylindrical geometry. The use of an omni-directional camera is effective for the solution o...

Mollenberg-Betz was founded in 1910 by Henry J. Mollenberg and Jacob Betz as a machine shop serving nearby shipping, steel mills, and other industries. Early on, the founders were asked to design and install a refrigeration system for a dairy, and for several decades the company designed and manufactured custom refrigeration systems for a variety of industrial and commercial customers. During t...

The role of lysosomes in important cellular responses, including phagocytosis, cell surface repair, and autophagy underlies a number of human diseases. Furthermore, the role of the lysosomal surface in TORC1 signalling has revealed unexpected properties of these organelles. In this issue, Sridhar et al (2013) uncover an important role for PI(4)P for lysosome function under normal nutrient condi...

in this paper we investigate the mechanism of internal erosion caused in the right abutment of the shahghasem dam’s spillway. shahghasem dam is an earthen dam located in yasouj, in southwest of iran. a significant hole and pipe have been observed in the corner of the right abutment from upstream view. the foundation is marlstone, which has low cohesion and susceptible for internal erosion and p...

This paper deals with cross-linguistic variation in WH-pied-piping. In this paper, I claim that pied-piping is the result of the intermediate stages of WH-movement (i.e., the indirect feature checking movement of Chomsky (1998)) to the Spec of XP and the subsequent percolation of the WH-feature to the XP and that cross-linguistic variation in pied-piping can be explained in terms of various uni...

—Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) are primarily monogamous birds that usually raise only one brood per season, but rare instances of double brooding have been documented. Piping Plovers breeding in the northern Great Plains, USA were studied in two locations: the Missouri River near the Gavins Point Dam (20052013) and the lower Platte River (2008-2013). There were 25 confirmed instances of d...

[1] This paper presents, for the first time, evidence to show that Calluna species are one causative factor of piping in blanket peat catchments. Ground-penetrating radar survey on 960 plots illustrated that piping was prevalent throughout blanket peats. However, soil pipe occurrence was significantly higher where bare peat (149 pipes/km) or Calluna (87 pipes/km) were present compared to other ...